jvasilatos
Sr Member
I finally decided on a color scheme for the mystery part of the TIE Cockpit interior since I don't think there were any on the practical set in the film. All I have left to do now is trim the light sheet panels into the triangle light panels to be added against the rear wall as seen in the film. I burned out the power supply for the light sheet as I was trying to wire the electronics to power up with the LED engine lights as well as one engine light... ARGHHH... I had to tear out one LED from the engine nozzle enclosure to replace it. Lesson learned... figure out the electronics hookup with seperate lights so if it works, when you copy it to the model light setup you don't risk burning out hard to get to lights already installed.
You can see at the bottom of the next set of pictures how the cockpit will look next to a movie screencap of the cockpit and where the red panel lights will go. The side panels are just temporarily in place for these pictures, and when everything is finalized I am going to add hoses and other details to the inside before closing it up. I am also going to add those round ended cylinders that show in the screencaps protruding down from the front window frame into the shot on each side of the pilot. I also thought it would be neat to camouflage the electronics wiring with springs that look like hoses to also detail the inside. The battery power supply will go behind the cockpit since I had to replace the on-off swith with a parallel switch to accomodate the wiring setup. AND if it's possible, I may add a little piece of light sheet to that display triangle in the front window so it reflects light onto the front of the pilot.
Then the only other thing left will be the wings when I get the large styrene panels to sandwich between the black mesh wire panels and wing frames.
I know that the "hero" screen models did not have any clear plastic in the window frames, but since this is supposed to be an idealized display model with the inclusion of the custom cockpit, I added clear plastic to the front window frame and will do the same to the top and rear hatch windows.
I think I found the perfect "off the shelf" spray paint also that is a nice tossup between how the TIEs looked lit on screen in ANH and ESB, it is a Rustoluem Grey Primer with a cold hue to it that almost has a slight lean into blue, in person it looks great and like the ship as lit onscreen I think.
With Steve's cleanup of the ICONs model into something much more accurate, and my adding an interior cockpit, I am excited to display this. Next I am going to get Chris Kelley's Vader TIE to go along with it and incorporate the same type of cockpit and lighting details.
Anyway I hope everyone enjoys the pictures.
JV
You can see at the bottom of the next set of pictures how the cockpit will look next to a movie screencap of the cockpit and where the red panel lights will go. The side panels are just temporarily in place for these pictures, and when everything is finalized I am going to add hoses and other details to the inside before closing it up. I am also going to add those round ended cylinders that show in the screencaps protruding down from the front window frame into the shot on each side of the pilot. I also thought it would be neat to camouflage the electronics wiring with springs that look like hoses to also detail the inside. The battery power supply will go behind the cockpit since I had to replace the on-off swith with a parallel switch to accomodate the wiring setup. AND if it's possible, I may add a little piece of light sheet to that display triangle in the front window so it reflects light onto the front of the pilot.
Then the only other thing left will be the wings when I get the large styrene panels to sandwich between the black mesh wire panels and wing frames.
I know that the "hero" screen models did not have any clear plastic in the window frames, but since this is supposed to be an idealized display model with the inclusion of the custom cockpit, I added clear plastic to the front window frame and will do the same to the top and rear hatch windows.
I think I found the perfect "off the shelf" spray paint also that is a nice tossup between how the TIEs looked lit on screen in ANH and ESB, it is a Rustoluem Grey Primer with a cold hue to it that almost has a slight lean into blue, in person it looks great and like the ship as lit onscreen I think.
With Steve's cleanup of the ICONs model into something much more accurate, and my adding an interior cockpit, I am excited to display this. Next I am going to get Chris Kelley's Vader TIE to go along with it and incorporate the same type of cockpit and lighting details.
Anyway I hope everyone enjoys the pictures.
JV
