mattman Posted March 13, 2017 Posted March 13, 2017 Howdy All, I've been on a bit of a run of late with the TIE's. I have had the original 75095 for a while, and recently built one of the amazing Interceptor MOC's that have been posted around the place. I happened upon yet another cheapish copy of the set, so figured I have to make a third! The goal was to make something nice and neat, but with efficient use of the parts in the set. I had a play around with designs for TIE Advanced x1 and TIE Bomber, the wings are large and needed quite a lot of parts, but that alone was OK. The cockpits however are very very difficult to design around the stock 75095 ball cockpit and I came to the realisation there's almost no point using 75095 as a base for these designs - it just deviates too much. Also they are hard to design :P All credit to people who've MOC'ed these before! So I did some more digging about for other TIE variants, and stumbled across the TIE/D Droid/Done/Automated Starfighter (depending on which bit of legends you read apparently). Classic ball cockpit, smaller angled wings. The shape of the panels themselves present no real problem, a few extra parts for the grey trim on the edges and a few black plates but <$20 overall in parts. The angle posed a challenge - but I think it came off really well and in the end actually a pretty simple adaptation of the standard fitment of the panels (rotate 90 degrees, offset one pair of connectors by one stud). Of course no longer needing a cockpit "window" I needed to fix that too. A common representation seems to be a red "eye" of similar size, so I've just fixed in a 6x6 dark red inverted radar behind the standard window, using just a small mod to the normal cockpit attachment. Anyway - on to pictures! And with the others! Hope you all enjoy :) M. Quote
Moppo Posted March 13, 2017 Posted March 13, 2017 Great build! Always fun to see EU ships in Lego form. :) Quote
Leonardo da Bricki Posted March 14, 2017 Posted March 14, 2017 This excellent, very few of these have been made in Lego. Cool to see the various models lined up together. All you need now is a TIE Bomber. Quote
Ellisss_2 Posted March 14, 2017 Posted March 14, 2017 Hello, mattman! Your Tie/D looks fantastic, especially with it's famiIy. I can't imagine that this Tie is very aerodynamic though! I agree with Leonardo da Bricki create a Tie Bomber. Ellis. Quote
mattman Posted March 15, 2017 Author Posted March 15, 2017 A bomber would be cool, it was definitely on my shortlist, but it didn't end up using a whole lot from the 75095 set I had as a parts donor. If doing one I'd just build it all from scratch and order what I need. I've seen a couple of decent UCS Scale moc so will have to check those out :-) M. Quote
mcgrah Posted March 15, 2017 Posted March 15, 2017 (edited) On 13.03.2017 at 2:13 AM, mattman said: Hope you all enjoy :) M. I really like your collection - I was thinking what should I do next after building Interceptor and Defender - Automated Starfighter looks like a great project to complete the set ;) Great work! I really like the red eye :) Edited March 15, 2017 by mcgrah Quote
mattman Posted March 15, 2017 Author Posted March 15, 2017 19 minutes ago, mcgrah said: I really like your collection - I was thinking what should I do next after building Interceptor and Defender - Automated Starfighter looks like a great project to complete the set ;) Great work! I really like the red eye :) Cheers, your defender is stunning by the way too! My. Quote
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