The talented Japanese 3D artist Kazushi Kobayashi has created the Chubu 01 – a line of beautiful mecha robot models described as something from “a parallel 50s where the robots are the most popular transport system”.

These pasel colored creations are considered so unique that the famous Tokyo Cultuart design shop in Tokyo selected them to be displayed in their Harajuku showroom.

Head over to the Hobbymedia.it for more photos of the Chubu 01 robots.

Thanks to Francesco!

Maybe it was the famous Banksy Dolk AT-AT wall painting that inspired someone to do it the other way around, and instead decorate a Hasbro model of the All Terrain Tactical Enforcer with graffiti.

Customized Hasbro Star Wars vehicle customized by professional Graffiti artists EASE and JK5 under the direction of SUCKADELIC. All tags are written in the Aurebesh language, a fictional letter system created for the in-world use for the 6 Star Wars films. The largest tag on the side of the vehicle spells the word REBEL. 16×18in.

The Graff-At is now on auction over at Christie’s.

Reader comment: Wille says,

Very cool but I think the grafitti-AT-AT you are referring to above actually was painted by the norwegian artist Dolk. Not Banksy. :)

(Suckadelic via Super Punch via Nerdcore)

This damaged and abandoned AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport), the four-legged transport and combat vehicle from Star Wars, was the winner in a recent model “wreck” contest held by Starship Modeler.

The 1/32 scale AT-AT was created by scratch modeler Dimitri Kaliviotis.

This entry is a heavily modified ATATRON kit. The ATATRON kit is a garage kit which is not commercially available but a few models have been made over the years. I managed to get hold of one because I was commissioned to put some finishing touches on the prototype model and to make the molds for it, so later I was given one of the castings as a “bonus gift”. However the ATATRON I got was one containing mostly reject cast pieces. So Instead of repairing the reject/miscasts I decided to use those imperfections in my favor.

(The Official Star Wars Blog via Nerdcore)