Rulebreakers Revell 1/48 Tie Fighter "88" series

[pengbuzz]

Hello,

i bought this Revell "1/65" Outland Tie Fighter. It was/is on sale on amazon for only 15 Bucks
For 15 Bucks its a great kit, and i can live with the wrong details here and there.
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1 Scale Discussion
this is a comparison i found online, i modified it and added more information to it
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so there are three main series
The "108", the "88" and the "75" series, but the pilot is always the same size, regardless of the "series believs"
In my observation the "108" series is correct, because the pilot has a good look trough the viewport. In "75" it looks straight into the fuselage, so no chances to see anything, where the "88" series offers a view trough the upper part of the viewport(wich opens the discussion about turning the viewport)
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not to scale, but u should get the idea, i tried making pictures but i cant get em sharp enough to lets you see something
the "108" also gives the pilot the chance to look up in the mirror, to see whats behind him on the screen
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I think 1 shows the rear faceing camera, 2 is the chaf dispenser, 3 is the flare dispencer and 4 looks like a ircm

I think scaleing around the viewport is good, but can get improved when taking the pilot too. On the most "planes" it doesnt mather much if its "108" or "88" but on the tie bomber, the pilot cant sit straight
* Finemolds made a beautifuler cockpit compared to the usual vanila thing, but the pilot looks too big - or the "plane" is to small
* Bandai tried to put the pilot lower, reminds me about the/this millenium falcon shot
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* AMT tried to make the pilot sit lower in a lovely beach chair where you can put your legs in the air and relax
* Revel doesnt even care, they put a 1/40 Pilot in, who is directly looking into the fuselage
i found a rebel pilot in 1/48 on thingy, i made a couple of "view checks" - looks great, but i also ordered a Hasegawa Ground crew in 1/48

2 Unboxing
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some sprues are doubled
a whole Tie Fighter was/is included and some retrofit parts for the new Outland Tie Fighter
a small comparison with the AMT Tie Intercepter from "75" series
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AMTs 1/32 is from the "108" series, but i could not find a shop in europe(not england) that has it in stock, or is willing to ship to my country

3 Build
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I built and painted it like the instructions says, nothing special, i liked the mold color, so i was only painting the solar panels black, and the cockpit and vieport dark grey/gray.
I tried masking off the wings with tape, but the results were terrible, no mather how good you tape it off, there will always be some clean up needed afterwards.
after painting, the outer wing goes only hardly on, because of the added color on the pins, so either mask the pins of or drill the holes a little wider

4 Retrofit coming soon
need to make pictures first

On the Solar Panels, what are you using to mask them?

 

[Analyzer]

An exception is the B-Wing model that used a known 1/32 scale figure that was converted (simple head-swap) and fit within a fully detailed cockpit, which establishes a stronger case for 1/32 being the scale of that model. However, for the TIE especially, the figure was not intended to be 'seen' and really only blocks the view of the armature.

So where would the scale being set 1/24 come from? It is actually an arbitrary value since scale was not important to the use/function of the studio filming miniatures.

Exactly

Studio Scale plays a bit loose with things and they are made as large as needed for a good looking filming model rather than adhering to any set scale. Sure they keep things in the ballpark, but also fudge things as needed
Take the A-Wing for example. there was this pilot (which makes the A-Wing a much larger ship if you scale from the pilot)

But then they also had an A-Wing with this way oversized pilot (had to wind up cutting the legs off to fit) which makes the ship a drastically smaller scale. THis pilot got used because it's head could be puppeteered and looked good on camera

IIRC the original Studio Scale Tie Fighters according to some article early on were built as 1/16 scale models. But I think they wound up putting 1/24 figures in them as it was "close enough" Likewise with the A-Wing, they had two different pilot figures. One was a much smaller figure

that is why the Bandai B-Wing pilot is so small for 1/72.

They kept the pilot proportional in size to fit the cockpit, but the whole scale went under the assumption of a 1/24 scale studio model. This resulted in a pilot figure that is really more like 1/80 or even as small as HO scale.

Same for the Bandai A-Wing, but going the other way. The pilot figure was kept proportional, but since the ship scale was changed, that made the pilot figure have to be a larger scale that is closer to 1/60 or so to remain proportional

I really wish they had done the opposite and scaled things from a 1/72 pilot in a truly proportional 1/72 cockpit

 

[Analyzer]

The almost finished wings(missing the t stripes inside)
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A size comparison of Outland(bigger) and Tie Fighter wing
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Wow, did not realize they were a different size. Explains a lot of the scaling discrepancies