Cheers guys.

Bruce, there is no scale given on the kit, but according to Starwarsmodels, its 1/51st.

Nuc, is that kit any good. From what i read on that same site, the TIE was the old MPC kit and was released before this TIE fighter one.

PB, i agree, i think its going to make a nice display.

Bob, goes together nicely, no filler needed so far and some nice detail.

Great start, Bish. I've never seen that kit before--I like the twofer! Should be more of those.

Bruce, nice job on the TIE. A lot better than my attempt.

Bish, good start on your TIEs. I had to take a good look at the cockpit pieces, they are the same parts for my TIE Defender. I guess I now know what they used for the masters.

Great start on the TIEs, Bish! What scale are they?

Cheers G. The AMT TIE In is one i never got. Might have to try and find one of those.

Looks cool Bish. I built the AMT TiE Intercepter way back in the day but never the older model. I remember it being a decent if not overly complex kit.

Here is my second entry, the AMT TIE Fighters. It has 2 TIE's and a section of Death Star for a display base.

So i started with the pits, putting the few pieces together and painting.

And added some painted detail to the side panels.

With the pilots painted, the cockpit's were completed.

These were then fitted into the pods which were put together and masked off.

These have now been primed and the solar panels were painted. So i am now in the process of msking those off. But its just taken best part of 90mins to do both sides of one wing, so might take a couple of days.

So thats all for now.

Thanks, Bish!

GB badge reposted.

Yes, good point. I'll do that tomorrow night, thanks for the heads up. I had not even noticed the first post had lost its pics. Cheers.

Bish,

When you have time, can you upload a new group badge for this GB?

Thanks!

Thank you for the great comments, guys! 

Bish, I will most likely be entering your next Star Wars GB. Although, I've made myself a rule to only enter one GB at a time form now on! LOL!

Bruce: She looks friggin' fantastic! Great job!!!

Fan-tas-tic finish, Bruce! That's definitely a shelf trophy. :-) 

PB

Reallky nice job there Bruce, love how you have finished that. I do like those FM kits, even the 72nd ones have some great detail.

Thanks for taking part, i have you on the front page. And hopefuly see you again in the next one.

Gentleman,

I'm calling the TIE Fighter done!

I purchased the Paragrafix TIE Fighter PE set, and I really think it made the detail pop out. I used MM Light Grey for the base coat and MM Neutral Grey on the Command Pod details. I used Tamiya XF69 NATO Black for the Solar Array Panels. 

I want to thank Bish for running this GB again. I really enjoy these Star Wars GBs, they are the only ones I seem to finish!

And here are the pictures:

As always, comments and critiques are welcome.

Thanks, PB!

Pre-shading is spot on, Bruce! That's gonna look great when finished.

PB

Thanks Bruce, i like the colour of that.

Bish,

The paint call out in the Fine Mold's directions was for Light Grey FS36492 and I used Neutral Grey for darker grey details throughout the pod. 

Bruce, can't remember if you mention it earlier. What colour did you paint the main body. I am trying to find a decent grey or mix but can't settle on anything.

Thanks, guys! I hope to have it finished by this weekend.

I do like that Bruce, nicely weathered.

Yeah, that's fantastic Bruce!

As promised pictures of the very dirty TIE Fighter:

Command Pod Front:

Command Pod Aft:

And one of the Solar Array panels:

I have to finish the laser guns, attach the top hatch and the front window. Then do a little more weathering. 

Bob: That looks sharp, cool that you're kit-bashing the detail the same way the ILM guys did on the real thing. 

Bruce: Hope Imgur works out. I switched to ImageShack and it's lightyears better than PhotoBucket.