My SS TIE Fighter

[Jkirkon]

Those are gorgeous. Your work on all of this is amazing.

 

[joberg]

Beauty all around

 

[swgeek]

With a bit of irony, I cast my last parts for my TIE fighter. They happen to be the new version of the very first parts I made for my TIE many years ago.

 

[joberg]

Beautiful mold once again I've noticed that your keys are almost completely round...no trouble "snapping" them into place?

 

[t2sides]

I continue to watch and salivate from the sidelines!!! This is really an incredibly amazing, gorgeous project!!! Keep up the Incredibly nice work - your swgeek name is Perfect for this project!!

 

[swgeek]

Stupid phone!

 

[Jkirkon]

I don’t know what else to say, other than your work is amazing!!

 

[swgeek]

Sorry, my stupid phone screwed up my previous post, so I had to redo it. Grrr!

Beautiful mold once again I've noticed that your keys are almost completely round...no trouble "snapping" them into place?

Thank you!
They are in fact round. they are (or were) 3/8" ball bearings. I glue them into a 1/4" hole so that most of the ball bearing is above the surface and then pour the rubber over them, creating a locking key. Since the rubber is pretty soft they just push right into the receptacle on the other side.

I continue to watch and salivate from the sidelines!!! This is really an incredibly amazing, gorgeous project!!! Keep up the Incredibly nice work - your swgeek name is Perfect for this project!!

Again, thank you Sean that is very high praise.

 

[Boutzo]

How are you situating your wingstars? Is it just one mold? If so how do you rotate them? 180 on the x or z axis?

 

[swgeek]

Yes, one mold. I'm rotating them vertically? You'd think for someone who does 3D work and works on a mill I'd know Z and X axes better. Haha!
I'm rotating them so that the bottom is the same on the inside and outside.

Sorry for the crappy picture, it probably doesn't show what I'm talking about well enough and I took it at work, so I had to crop out work stuff in the background.

 

[joberg]

Man, that's so sharp

 

[JSchneider]

Hey Jonathan. This looks amazing! And I am totally in awe of your molding and casting skills, and all the effort you've put into this. Very inspiring!

 

[swgeek]

Thank you Jason! That means a lot.

 

[StevenBills]

Man, that's gorgeous!

SB

 

[swgeek]

So I was assembling a wing yesterday, and as I got 5 of the 6 I beams on the edge of the wing I flipped it over to look at something and realized...I am now flipping the wingstars horizontally, D'oh! Oh well not a big deal. Looking at my references pictures they did it both ways.
I totally see why they switched the wing construction method for Empire, what a pain in the a**!! Cutting all the I beams around the wingstars sucks!
Here's where I am at. The T strip will go on later today.

 

[JSchneider]

Hey... that's where all the Koolshade went.... ; o) Looks awesome!

 

[Bjorn]

Well, it looks awesome Jonathan!

 

[testsqa]

I like the koolshade wings.

 

[eagle1]

Just gobsmacked by this build. Those wings are a thing of beauty Jonathon, well it all is...but those wings...wow!!.

 

[joberg]

Real Koolshade You're killing me man