For me one of my favourite craft in the Star Wars films is the Tie Fighter.The first clip I ever seen of Star Wars was the Millenium Falcon escaping from the Death Star and the Tie Fighters attacking. I just loved the design of the ship, those cool black helmets the pilots wore, and that unmistakable sound effect as the fighters flew by. And even though the following films in the original trilogy added new Imperial ships the standard Tie Fighter appeared in all 3 films as one of the main ships in the Imperial navy.
This is a model I made many years ago that I recently dug out and figured I'd do a picture with.
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Who doesn't like the tie fighter?! Even now the shape looks original. Great model!
Great Tie Fighter Andrew! I love the sound of them too. Didn't they use the sound of an elephant in there somewhere?
The Tie fighter was my favorite and as a kid, I couldn't wait to get one of the Tie fighter toys for my action figure collection. I was so bummed when I got it and it wasn't scaled right. The side panels were too small.
The Tie you made looks great.
cool as always!
Made many years ago?
Still holding up quite well from what I can see.
Agree, the tie fighter is great, in the movie and here.
A really neat picture. This would look great with a few more flying over the Death Star surface. Hey Jeff I like your Avatar pic :)
Hi Andrew,Nice blog! and nice tie fighter too. I was especially fond of the tie interceptor.
Beautiful! The TIe Fighter is one of my favs too!
Hey Andy...great image!! Ahh...the memories!!! keep em coming mate.
Cheers for the feedback ! I'll eventually get around to doing another pic of this model, probably a Death Star/outer space pic.
Great model and render, it also looks a bit like the 70's die cast one which I still have somewhere.
I made one in woodwork at school. Imagine trying to explain that to our 60 year old teacher.
COOL!!!! (Liberator would beat it hands down though!! MUW HAW HAW!!!!)
Yeah but the Liberator doesn't make that cool sound the Tie Fighter does !!
So cool! yay! :D
Yes, awesome. The sound was way cool and creepy.
This is an awesome model. Excellent detail.
Dig the new banner.
The Tie Fighter is my second favorite. My most favorite is the Millennium Falcon.
I think I've mentioned before, that whole bunch of ships from the original Star Wars trilogy are just so well designed, and a lot of the ships from around that whole cinema era !!
Loved the action figures as a kid .
The bad guys were always cooler looking though ......
Beautiful job man .
Ace model Andrew. It was the falcon for me. The shot when it goes around a cloud and flips over. Ooooh!
Have you seen these scans of old Top Trump cards?
http://www.pointlessmuseum.com/museum/spacecrafttoptrumpsindex.php
Waddingtons have rather cheekily used Vader's TIE fighter, called it a "Racing Falcon" and printed it upside down.
http://www.pointlessmuseum.com/museum/spacecrafttoptrumps007.php
And don't even get me started on what they've done with the Nostromo's refinery.
http://www.pointlessmuseum.com/museum/spacecrafttoptrumps007.php
Columbus Space Colony? If Jim Smash found out, he'd detonate.
Right, I'm off to see Jim Smash.
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Hey Fraser I used to have that set of Top Trumps, I remember the upside down refinery pic !! :)
Love this ship, great model.
That is incredibly realistic.
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