TIE X-1

by Patrick Riley

quaralane@yahoo.com

 

SCALE: 1/72

INITIAL RELEASE: 2007

MEDIUM: Resin

RARITY: (2)

 

 

These are a few pics of my Fantastic Plastic 1/72 scale resin Tie X-1.  It was built pretty much straight out of the box and then painted to my own ideas of how it should look.

 

I started with a grey primer coat on the solar panels and the main body, prior to final assembly, setting the canopy aside for later.  I then painted the actual solar panels themselves by hand in black.  After that was done, I gave the assemblies a black wash followed by a drybrushing in silver to both weather it and bring out the detail.

 

I put the subassemblies together with superglue, and then glued the canopy on with Elmer's.  After the canopy had set, I hand-painted the frames in light grey.

 

She's an impressive little model, but...I only 'thought' the Ep 2 Jedi Starfighter was small. This one's not much bigger.