Hi all,
I've had this in my collection for a while now and wanted to share some photos of it. This was the result of my desire to have a TIE Fighter in the same scale as the Kotobukiya cross-section X-Wing model (which based on the size of the figures that came with the kit would be approximately 1/38 scale).
I contacted Stinson Lenz on the RPF and he worked very hard on creating a 3d printable file of the TIE Fighter which included a miniature version of the full size cockpit set that was constructed for the movie.
Lots of trial and error getting the parts printed from shapeways resulted in the wings being printed in their basic White, Strong and Flexible plastic which is a bit "sand textured" but not bad when viewed from a few inches away. The main hull and all the detail parts were then printed using their Frosted Ultra Detail plastic.
As always, my good friend StevetheSwede came to the rescue and assembled and painted it and super detailed the kit by adding the missing parts onto it that couldn't be modelled in the computer. He added some lighting effects and some "artistic license" to hide the LED's inside the bespoke control panels. The TIE Fighter pilot was actually the figure from the Revell Easy Kit which had a hugely undersized ship compared to the figure but as luck would have it, the pilot figure from that kit was pretty much the same scale as the Kotobukiya figures that were supplied with the X-Wing.
Thanks for looking.
Chris
I've had this in my collection for a while now and wanted to share some photos of it. This was the result of my desire to have a TIE Fighter in the same scale as the Kotobukiya cross-section X-Wing model (which based on the size of the figures that came with the kit would be approximately 1/38 scale).
I contacted Stinson Lenz on the RPF and he worked very hard on creating a 3d printable file of the TIE Fighter which included a miniature version of the full size cockpit set that was constructed for the movie.
Lots of trial and error getting the parts printed from shapeways resulted in the wings being printed in their basic White, Strong and Flexible plastic which is a bit "sand textured" but not bad when viewed from a few inches away. The main hull and all the detail parts were then printed using their Frosted Ultra Detail plastic.
As always, my good friend StevetheSwede came to the rescue and assembled and painted it and super detailed the kit by adding the missing parts onto it that couldn't be modelled in the computer. He added some lighting effects and some "artistic license" to hide the LED's inside the bespoke control panels. The TIE Fighter pilot was actually the figure from the Revell Easy Kit which had a hugely undersized ship compared to the figure but as luck would have it, the pilot figure from that kit was pretty much the same scale as the Kotobukiya figures that were supplied with the X-Wing.
Thanks for looking.
Chris
Even lights up, wish I had this
