TIE Bomber (Finished!)

mikoyan99

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• May 14, 2014

• #21

Re: TIE Bomber from AMT TIE Advanced X-1 (Now Studio Scale)

Thanks for the offer, but I think I have all of the large components sorted.

Serious progress over the past few days - first batch of 3D printed parts printed, Darth Vader's TIE finally arrived, and i've finsihed machining the fuselage. I've takena mould of the fuselage, and i'll be casting it in polyurethane in the next few days.
-Matt

 

mikoyan99

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• May 17, 2014

• #22

Re: TIE Bomber from AMT TIE Advanced X-1 (Now Studio Scale)

More progress over the past few days; cast the second fuselage, and nearly finished smoothing the first batch of 3D printed parts:

That last piece has been nearly impossible to smooth. In general i've been using layers of tip-ex to get a smooth surface, sanding between coats. The cockpit detail isn't mine BTW, it's an original plastic part from the AMT kit. I cast the fuselage with a flat (ish) surface inside to allow that part to be glued into place.

The 3D printer in action:

-Matt

 

mikoyan99

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• May 18, 2014

• #23

Re: TIE Bomber from AMT TIE Advanced X-1 (Now Studio Scale)

More progress:

-Cast the 3D printed details
-Begun assembly of the wings.

The castings are a bit rougher than i'd hoped, thanks to the thin section on some of them, but they should be useable with a little sanding and filling. For future casts i'll cut more air holes to reduce the number of voids. I'll be printing the next lot of components on wednesday.
-Matt

 

Last edited: May 18, 2014

mikoyan99

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• May 19, 2014

• #24

Re: TIE Bomber from AMT TIE Advanced X-1 (Now Studio Scale)

Not much progress today, but the final batch of parts is ready for printing:

-Matt

 

mikoyan99

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• May 24, 2014

• #25

Re: TIE Bomber from AMT TIE Advanced X-1 (Now Studio Scale)

Some progress over the past few days, between exams.

I've started adding greeblies - altough this is a studio scale model, i'm not going for a 100% accurate reproduction. I haven't really got the budget to get the origibal kit parts, so i'm using scrap parts from old models and sprues for the same effect. That is at least in keeping with the philosophy of the original builders!
-Matt

 

mikoyan99

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• Jun 11, 2014

• #26

Re: TIE Bomber from AMT TIE Advanced X-1 (Now Studio Scale)

Got the rest of the 3D printed components:

Now need to smooth them, cast, and attach them to the bomber. Then it'll be sanding, fine detail and finally painting.
-Matt

 

mikoyan99

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• Jul 3, 2014

• #27

Re: TIE Bomber from AMT TIE Advanced X-1 (Now Studio Scale)

Bomber finally finished:

Painted with tamiya light grey, flat black, and subjected to diffusion weathering, a very light wash, and some laser burns using matches. We're going to be using it as a shooting model for a short film we're making, i'll post details here:
http://www.therpf.com/f79/mass-prod...film-project-214891/?highlight=mass+producing
when we've composited the first shots.
-Matt

Edit: mods, this may now be better suited to the SS model section if you happen across this post.

 

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bbmchl

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• Jul 7, 2014

• #28

Re: TIE Bomber from AMT TIE Advanced X-1 (Now Studio Scale)

Both models came out very well. Looking forward to updates in your other thread.

 

mikoyan99

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• Jul 29, 2014

• #29

Re: TIE Bomber from AMT TIE Advanced X-1 (Now Studio Scale)

bbmchl said:

Both models came out very well. Looking forward to updates in your other thread.

Click to expand...

Thanks, we're in final post production, shouldn't be long now.

I've had some spare time over the past few days, so I added the wing extensions to the bomber:

They're made from 15mm plasticard strip I cutout; the gaps were filled with superglue, epoxy and tip ex. If I did it again in future, i'd cut them out in one or two pices, but such is life. I need to do a smidge more tidying, but otherwise there now.

In a similar veign, I picked up the AMT TIE fighter kit as well, and built one of the fighters:

These are in 1/48th scale, so for an interesting size comparison:

(N1K "Rex" and MiG-21 "Fishbed")
-Matt

 

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bbmchl

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• Jul 29, 2014

• #30

More nice work. Should be fun seeing it all come together.