Size of Studio Vader's TIE?

canofhumdingers

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I'm curious about how big the actual studio model of Darth Vader's TIE X-1 starfighter was. I'm especially curious about how big it was next to a studio X wing or y wing.

I ask because I've recently started collecting the F-toys 1/144 scale starships. Over all they are awesome & super detailed & the scale from vehicle to vehicle feels "about right". EXCEPT Vader's TIE. It's TINY!! I did some calculations and based on the official "real life" size the f toys ship is about an inch too short. That's significant when the whole ship is roughly an inch and a half long!

It'd be really awesome if someone had a pic of the actual filming models with the X-1 & an xwing sitting next to each other.

I wonder if F-toys got it right (the cockpit ball on the f-toys X-1 is the same size as the cockpit ball on the TIE Interceptor & the internal dimensions/proportions of the X-1 look correct) & the official size is way off, or it it's vice versa...
 
From what I know, some scales of the F-toys models and Fine Molds kits are not correct.
The 1:72 Millennium Falcon, tie-fighter and tie-interceptor are actually 1:96.
The 1:144 Millennium Falcon, tie-fighter, tie-interceptor, Darths Vaders tie-fighter and AT-AT are actually 1:192.
(This is based on the Millenium Falcon, tie-fighter and Darth Vaders tie-fighter models made for ANH being 1:24 and the AT-AT beeing 1:48.)
 
That's what I was afraid of. I knew the 1/72 falcon was supposedly off, but wasn't aware basically all the TIEs & the new smaller falcon were too. Oh well. They're still awesome little toys/models. & sitting them next to each other, the scales do look "close enough" seeing as they're fictional ships without 100% firm sizes anyway... except for Vader's TIE. It just looks tiny.

So does anyone know (or know where I can find) the dimensions of the actual studio prop of vader's TIE? Thanks.
 
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