Hasbro Tie Interceptor Elite conversion

GTImotion

Active Member

• Jan 15, 2017

• #101

joberg said:

Looking good overall, but I find the weathering a bit too heavy. It just doesn't do justice to your amazing job at putting all of those greeblies together (my 2 cents)

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joberg, Thank you very much :thumbsup I really appreciated your input. You are right, on the pictures the weathering seem to be heavy .but believe me. it doesn't look as heavy in person. I don't know if is my crappy cell phone picture, lighting or my monitor. anyways I'll try to dust off my camera and snap some better pictures.

 

joberg

Legendary Member

• Jan 16, 2017

• #102

Looking forward to it GTImotion!

 

GTImotion

Active Member

• Jan 16, 2017

• #103

Blood stripes

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Side note: white balance is off, picture taken with a cell phone htc making they grey look white and under exposing the dark shading

 

GTImotion

Active Member

• Jan 16, 2017

• #104

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joberg

Legendary Member

• Jan 17, 2017

• #105

Canons are looking mighty good!!

 

GTImotion

Active Member

• Jan 17, 2017

• #106

Thanks Joberg.:thumbsup

Back with more updates guys. I painted some kill marks :cool


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joberg

Legendary Member

• Jan 18, 2017

• #107

The kills are a nice add-on

 

GTImotion

Active Member

• Jan 23, 2017

• #108

This is probably going to be the last picture tease of the Elite Tie Interceptor build.
Installed the Koolshade to the back of the reactor

Stay tune for a proper photoshoot session along with video finale.

 

joberg

Legendary Member

• Jan 24, 2017

• #109

Jumping in anticipation

 

gedmac66

Sr Member

• Feb 11, 2018

• #110

Hello came to this thread after seeing the one you’ve got going now with Vader’s Tie . Fantastic , informative build . Thanks for sharing .
Wondering if you’re still planning to post the updated photos and video regarding this ship ?

:cheersGed

 

GTImotion

Active Member

• Feb 11, 2018

• #111

gedmac66 said:

Hello came to this thread after seeing the one you’ve got going now with Vader’s Tie . Fantastic , informative build . Thanks for sharing .
Wondering if you’re still planning to post the updated photos and video regarding this ship ?

:cheersGed

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My apologies to everyone following the thread. I failed to upload those pictures and video of the tie interceptor. I thought I did but now I know I didn't.

Here are few pics for you guys, I know they are not the best pictures. but they should do till stops raining.

Here is the Tie Interceptor with a 3.75" Tie Pilot

Back side of the tie interceptor

I also did a slideshow showing the full conversion https://youtu.be/yP4XxADIMGU

 

gedmac66

Sr Member

• Feb 11, 2018

• #112

WOW !!! , what a transformation from toy to incredibly detailed Model ! So envious of your skills

Congratulations , and thanks again for sharing your beautiful build .

:cheersGed

 

GTImotion

Active Member

• Feb 11, 2018

• #113

gedmac66 said:

WOW !!! , what a transformation from toy to incredibly detailed Model ! So envious of your skills

Congratulations , and thanks again for sharing your beautiful build .

:cheersGed

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Thank you!
If I can do it you can too. Actually is not that hard it just takes time and lots of patience.

 

Padawan311

Sr Member

RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Jan 17, 2020

• #114

Wow! Incredible work! Very inspiring! Any tips for working with the Hasbro plastic?

 

GTImotion

Active Member

• Jan 17, 2020

• #115

Padawan311 said:

Wow! Incredible work! Very inspiring! Any tips for working with the Hasbro plastic?

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In the case of the Hasbro Tie Interceptor the ship is made out of tree different types of plastic the main ball body fuselage, the hatch and the wings. The main ball body is the easiest to work with since is made out of a plastic that is compatible with Tamiya, Testor cements this makes it easy to work with styrene stock with no issues. One thing that I did that I did not show in this thread prior any work was prepping the plastic by washing all parts with soapy water an alcohol to help remove any oils or silicone that might prevent the cement to work.

The wing is made out of some kind of flexible soft plastic, this plastic will need to be sanded or roughed out for the cement to work if you do not sand down the surface the cement will not stick to it.

Now the worse of the worse is the hatch which is made out of some kind of plastic with high silicone content this makes the hatch very flexible and slippery and it doesn't matter if you sand the surface down it will not take any cement, glue or even super glue, for this reason I decided to cast my own parts.

I hope this helps