1/72 scale Tie Phantom from Star Wars Rebel Assault II PC game

[GCLAMBERT89]

The Rebel Assault II PC game was my very first introduction to the Star Wars universe, and since then the Tie Phantom has remained one of my favorite imperial ship designs. I had constructed a digital model for printing years ago but hadn’t gotten around to printing out all the parts until now. There are a few areas that need to be tweaked but overall everything fits together rather nicely with little to no gaps.

Here are some photos of the parts and assembly. I will be priming tomorrow.

 

[Millenniumf]

Oh wow! Can't wait to see this one under a nice coat of paint!

 

[GCLAMBERT89]

Here is the initial primer coat. It really brings out all the details and flaws. I’m going to try and sand down some areas where the layer lines are most visible

 

[jusdrewit]

Beautiful, nice work! I remember this game well from being a kid

 

[GCLAMBERT89]

Beautiful, nice work! I remember this game well from being a kid

Thanks! The acting in the cutscenes is a bit cheesy when looking back but it was a fun game and the quality of the cutscene graphics/compositing was pretty good for ‘95.

 

[GCLAMBERT89]

Painting is finished. It’s amazing how the ts-32 can appear grey and then suddenly look so bluish. I was a bit rushed so the brush work in some areas is pretty sloppy. The next build will look much better. Overall I am truly blown away! It looks like it jumped right out of the video game! Now I need to build a decent display stand for it.

I am currently modeling the interior of the cockpit, as the current print has nothing in there at all. Once that is printed, I can easily swap the current on out.

 

[Analyzer]

Excellent!

 

[TerranCmdr]

This is awesome! TIE Phantom was always one of my favorite TIEs as well. Any plans to release the files? Would love to print up one of my own.

 

[GCLAMBERT89]

Excellent!

Thanks!

This is awesome! TIE Phantom was always one of my favorite TIEs as well. Any plans to release the files? Would love to print up one of my own.

Thank you! Sorry to say I do not release my files, even for profit. But I am working on producing a very small number of kits available 1:72 scale (8 inches length) and a 1:48 scale (12 inches) depending on interest.

 

[TerranCmdr]

Totally understandable as a 3d creative myself. It's so hard to keep track of STLs once you release them.

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

I haven't seen an interest thread, but whenever you get to that point, I'd definitely be up for a 1:72. One more closer to having the full range of TIEs, and your work is absolutely first-rate.

 

[GCLAMBERT89]

I haven't seen an interest thread, but whenever you get to that point, I'd definitely be up for a 1:72. One more closer to having the full range of TIEs, and your work is absolutely first-rate.

appreciate your interest. It is currently in progress, but progress is moving slowly as of late. There WILL be updates to this, specifically to the cockpit.

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

Take your time. I mainly wanted to let you know.

 

[Wolfsburg]

I love it! I've always been surprised this one has never gotten any more attention than it has. In a lot of ways I think it looks better than the ever popular TIE Defender.

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

I remember in TIE Fighter, because of how overpowered the Defender was, dumping all shield and weapon energy into engines and screaming my fool head off trying to run the time course without crashing into it at great speed. The Defender was, I think, a good "lets see how far we can push this technology" demonstrator, but silly as a line-serving combat craft.

I'm a nerd and like to look to history for inspiration in the GFFA. Using Incom/Subpro's venerable Z-95 Headhunter -- and all its variations in its century-plus of service, I like to say the "Dagger-class" starfighter of, well, Starfighter was an earlier version of this ship, and that that throughline from before the Battle of Naboo to after the Battle of Yavin is all variants of the Sienar V38 -- some surviving examples of which were used as testbeds for the new cloaking device.

Because of that, I like to think of the non-cloaking version as the TIE Dagger, with the earlier ship getting revamped with SFS' modular Tactical Interdiction and Enforcement design philosophy that came with their reorganization under the Empire. And that, further, the other TIEs all have their own internal project codes in Sienar's records (V46, say for the Grand Inquisitor's TIE p1).

 

[Mandalorian444]

Wow, that is a great looking model. Brings back fun memories. I look forward to seeing how it looks once you finish the cockpit.