Tie/ D Interceptor Variant Scratch-Build

I have never made a Tie Fighter so I was looking through the Essential
guide book and saw this design. I liked it a lot and just happened to have
a half of a globe laying around from an old toy. SO that's the story and motivation, it's around 2.4 X's bigger than the MPC Tie Interceptor kit, but
the ball is smaller than the Studio Scale Standard Tie's ball when formed.

From the Essentials book


Up on the former I only had half of the globe so I had to form
it in 3mm Polystyrene.



Formed....


Little rough needing some sanding around the
equator......


Sanded and smoothed out a bit.....


Scale shot with MPC Tie Interceptor

Sweet!

Michael, It's cool and good size.

Nice, great start. cool that your scratching it instead of gluing some resin together. but i would expect nothing less.

Just like Grandma's scratch made cookies no artificial ingredients or resin Lol.

Starving right now Ray don't talk about food!

I was snooping around in my Saturn 5 parts stash,
and I came up with a different look for it. I am going
for a shroud look where the pylon connects to the hull,
the parts fit just about perfect! Plus they get me off the
hook of making all the connective stuff from the pylon to
the hull! LOL Although I will make some it can be much less
which I like!

Here are the parts I had to open them
up to fit the 3/4 PVC pylon I am using.



For the rear part I had to again do the same thing
dremel it away then flat sand to create the lip
I was looking for.

Great build,but damn I was hopeing to see how you made the pylons like on the standard Tie.Very nice build.

Dave

dirtydave said:

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Great build,but damn I was hopeing to see how you made the pylons like on the standard Tie.Very nice build.

Dave

Sorry Dave.....LOL
Thats where I am going to be putting the cannons...not
going to be enough room for all that....but something I will make!

It's damn cool ! Cant's wait to see the detailing.

Looking sharp, 3d-builder! : )

Especially at the pointy end.

Man you still haven't made that bottom hatch? Lol!

looking good, those wings look better than the squared version.

Thanks Guys a little diffuser sheet for the raised applications
on the wing got a lot ahhh more to go!

Nothing like the smell of melting diffuser and
the sound of the dremel!

Excellent!!! Great work man!

This is nice. The force is strong with this one.

Looks almost like an early concept sketch come to life. I like it!

Yeah man. This is going to be cool. Gotta love the tie fighters.

Thanks guys much appreciated

Got the wing finished and the panels framed
up....going to have IED bounty hunter cast
me a set.




I had some gaps around the Saturn V parts put some
quarter round took care of that pretty good.

Great work Mike keep it up .