I'm finally getting around to starting my TIE Advanced thread.
As with all of my Studio Scale builds, I want to thank everyone who has done the hard work before me to ID the kits and share the information here. I also want to thank those individuals who have helped me directly to find those really hard to find ID's and kits. Thank you!
On with the build.
The first part I started with on this build that wasn't from my TIE Fighter project, was the wings.
I did a lot of work on the computer trying to figure out the dimensions of everything and laser cut the acrylic for the wings. I couldn't find any acrylic that wasn't metric, no matter what the acrylic shop said. After cutting and gluing the wing parts together I compensated for the incorrect acrylic thickness with .015 and .02 sheet styrene.
Next was cutting up TIE wing stars for the interior central detail piece and exterior and interior vertical ribs. After that I glued on the Panther G parts and sheet styrene.
I could never find the correct light diffusion for the solar panels, so I modeled them in Rhino and printed them. I printed one master big enough for the largest of the solar panels (most of the panels are different sizes from inside to outside and from one wing to the other.) I then molded the master and cast all the solar panels, trimming each one to the correct size.
And cat for scale.
Next was the pylons (or what I call pylons). Again, I modeled these in Rhino and laser cut the parts out of .03" styrene. As with most of my builds, it took me three tries to get them (what I hope is) right.
This is where it stands now. Most of the parts are just on temporarily.
As with all of my Studio Scale builds, I want to thank everyone who has done the hard work before me to ID the kits and share the information here. I also want to thank those individuals who have helped me directly to find those really hard to find ID's and kits. Thank you!
On with the build.
The first part I started with on this build that wasn't from my TIE Fighter project, was the wings.
I did a lot of work on the computer trying to figure out the dimensions of everything and laser cut the acrylic for the wings. I couldn't find any acrylic that wasn't metric, no matter what the acrylic shop said. After cutting and gluing the wing parts together I compensated for the incorrect acrylic thickness with .015 and .02 sheet styrene.
Next was cutting up TIE wing stars for the interior central detail piece and exterior and interior vertical ribs. After that I glued on the Panther G parts and sheet styrene.
I could never find the correct light diffusion for the solar panels, so I modeled them in Rhino and printed them. I printed one master big enough for the largest of the solar panels (most of the panels are different sizes from inside to outside and from one wing to the other.) I then molded the master and cast all the solar panels, trimming each one to the correct size.
And cat for scale.
Next was the pylons (or what I call pylons). Again, I modeled these in Rhino and laser cut the parts out of .03" styrene. As with most of my builds, it took me three tries to get them (what I hope is) right.
This is where it stands now. Most of the parts are just on temporarily.
