Ola Guys
A long time ago I purchased three Star Wars spaceships in Full PE from the Steelcraft Brand. With the MPC Tie Interceptor on the way I decided to take a crack at the Full PE Tie Interceptor to get into the swing of things.
Well these were the kits I bought. There is no scale listed on either the Tie Fighter as the Interceptor. The Star destroyer is in scale 1:20.000
Anyway... Back to the Interceptor. This is what you get inside the tin.
It has not much parts but at this scale it proved to be quite a challenge. The PE is quite thick and does not fold all that easy. I could have annealed it first but I decided not to do that as that tends the metal to change color and I love the shiny metal in this case. I started with the characteristic wings of the Interceptor. Consisting of 4 parts each. More parts were added to that later.
In the meantime my MPC Interceptor arrived. And for a fun size comparison. Here is the PE wing on top of the MPC wing.
After that I still had a bunch of PE left. Some parts I had not even a clue of where they needed to go. It did not help much that the instruction sheet of the kit was of a Tie Fighter that did not mention any of the parts on the fret.
Then it was time to start assembling the Cockpitbubble and the wingstruts. My god that cockpit was a challenge. But after an evenings worth of new cursewords it was done. The Cockpit and the struts consist of 7 parts. Then some 8 parts added additional detail. It was also an evening in which not much was Photographed. And I only have one picture of the finished result.
And to give an even better idea of size. Here it is alongside it's bigger styrene brother.
It will not be painted. I like it as it is now all steel. I'm planning to add some spaceimagery on the top of the base and paint the rod black.
A long time ago I purchased three Star Wars spaceships in Full PE from the Steelcraft Brand. With the MPC Tie Interceptor on the way I decided to take a crack at the Full PE Tie Interceptor to get into the swing of things.
Well these were the kits I bought. There is no scale listed on either the Tie Fighter as the Interceptor. The Star destroyer is in scale 1:20.000
Anyway... Back to the Interceptor. This is what you get inside the tin.
It has not much parts but at this scale it proved to be quite a challenge. The PE is quite thick and does not fold all that easy. I could have annealed it first but I decided not to do that as that tends the metal to change color and I love the shiny metal in this case. I started with the characteristic wings of the Interceptor. Consisting of 4 parts each. More parts were added to that later.
In the meantime my MPC Interceptor arrived. And for a fun size comparison. Here is the PE wing on top of the MPC wing.
After that I still had a bunch of PE left. Some parts I had not even a clue of where they needed to go. It did not help much that the instruction sheet of the kit was of a Tie Fighter that did not mention any of the parts on the fret.
Then it was time to start assembling the Cockpitbubble and the wingstruts. My god that cockpit was a challenge. But after an evenings worth of new cursewords it was done. The Cockpit and the struts consist of 7 parts. Then some 8 parts added additional detail. It was also an evening in which not much was Photographed. And I only have one picture of the finished result.
And to give an even better idea of size. Here it is alongside it's bigger styrene brother.
It will not be painted. I like it as it is now all steel. I'm planning to add some spaceimagery on the top of the base and paint the rod black.
this is tiny but very wicked, super detail stuff.
