Revell Star Wars: The Mandalorian Outland TIE fighter review model -- Behind the Scenes
Hi!
My review of the Revell Germany Outlands TIE fighter hits FineScale.com this Thursday, so I thought I'd show you some shots from while I was building it. Probably like many of you, I take shots during my build to share with a couple of friends in a group text. We can share ideas about the build, advice when we run into challenges, or complain when something goes wrong. But it is nice to have a record of the build, even if it's just for the short term. So, here are the shots I took while putting the review sample together.
The figure had a hole in its chest.
Filled it with Green Stuff two-part putty.
Ordered Archive-X paints to get the colors just right. We've been wondering about these paints here at the FSM offices, so this was a perfect opportunity to use them.
Various cockpit parts getting paint, detail paint, and decals. Angle sucked for the lighting, but no one was ever going to see these anyway, right?
Test-fitting the cockpit parts before glue.
Spoiler alert! Some of the engineering concessions in the kit disappointed me--like these attachment points for the top hatch hinge squarely in the middle of the window slits.
The Outland TIE wings fold, so to allow you to model them folded, the kit provides them in halves. You'll need clamps.
TIE fuselage together with masked and painted front window.
More masking and then ILM Stormy Seas for the iconic TIE fighter blue gray.
Anyone familiar with TIE fighters no they require some complicated masking for areas of gray and dark gray on the fuselage. That's what I was doing here.
The gray areas revealed!
More gray areas revealed! There were smaller spots that I went in and brush-painted with the various Archive-X colors.
Wings, of course. I hit them with the 1975 Engine Black and then went over it with a couple of light (and uneven) coats of Tamiya semigloss just to help protect it a bit from the masking to come.
There was a lot of this.
More ILM Stormy Seas in the paint booth.
Not too shabby! There were just a couple of areas where I had bleed that needing touchups. Then some light pinwashes. You can see the fuselage in the background standing on its tripod landing gear. It's a review model, so not going all out with weathering or finishing.
And there it is, all assembled. You can see the studio shots of the Outland TIE fighter and my full thoughts and advice for building it in the review that goes up this Thursday, Jan. 12.
Hope this was at least entertaining!