UCS TIE Drone

[Walter Kovacs]

Getting to the end of my MOCs. At least the ones that the design is completed.

When I went inot the design of the TIE Drone, I had very little planned out. The one thing I thought I'd use got scrapped early. Despite this, the design came together really quickly, and is in my opinion one of my best.

First, an Overall image. Unlike the other TIE models I've designed, the wings on the TIE Drone are much smaller, and use far less pieces. Added to that, the center of gravity is actually somewhat over the top of the pylon end, instead ov being cantilevered off the end. I'll certainly have to test it, but I think this is one TIE where I don't have to worry about the wing weight. Overall I think the shape came out really well.

Here's a close-up of the Front. Getting the bars to run across the windscreen was the biggest challenge during the design. I went through at least a dozen attempts until I found a setup that a) worked and b) looked good.

Here's a shot without the windscreen. It gives a good view of the drone inside the cockpit. The cockpit could use a lot more mechanical and electronic greebs, but it's not bad the way it is. Maybe a few hoses would improve things greatly? (If your wondering why only the windscreen is gone, I did all of the images off of an existing .pov file I had. It was easy to find and comment out the windscreen. Not easy at all to find and comment out each piece in the bars.)

A Top View, just to give a better idea about the overall shape.

A Back View. I have to give credit here, the back design was lovingly copied from Reto Geiger's UCS TIE Fighter. I thought I'd give it a try, and I think the result turned out all right.

The complete Gallery can be found here.

As always, comments and criticisms are certainly accepted. As usual the model can use some tweaks, but is overall fairly solid.

[Asuka]

A fine work, with perfect proportions and well detailed. I like especially the smooth look of the craft from above, the smart front

and the neat back section as well.

I´m not completely sure about it´s interior, though.... it seems like your drone´s simply replacing the pilot, but isn´t it only a drone´s

brain that´s used in them? I personally would imagine an interior that´s fully filled with technic in a way completely different to any

human controlled TIE.... and from the pics I know the cockpit windshield behind these bars looks more like some red sphere....

[Walter Kovacs]

Yeah, the cockpit interior was the part I spent the least amount of time on. It could use some work.

It's too bad those 10 x 10 x 4 Windscreens don't come in Trans red (or even solid red). They do come in Trans Blue, though. I wonder if that might look better?

[Asuka]

Perhaps, yes.... but maybe something different like that could work too....

There´s even a more rare solid red one of these similar ones....

But of course they´re only 6x6....

[Vaders_son]

Nice design, I like the cockpit ball very much. It's the best of all your Tie-models I think.

But I too think, that there's only a drone's brain inside the cockpit. This can be positive as there would be more space to fill with technic stuff as Asuka already pointed out.

Best regards, Benny