I built this kit a couple of months ago--it's a fun, quick build. I tried painting the windows with Tamiya gloss black, but the finish turned out quite lumpy and I hated the look. To fix it, I actually used the window stickers, but I cut out each pane individually from the frame, and applied only the black part of the sticker. I did this for both the front window and the narrow window slits on the top. It looked much better. Not glossy like a window, but much better than my lumpy paint job.
I love these videos. I laughed seeing the stickers get brushed aside with the rest of the garbage at the beginning. With all the raised areas they would have looked terrible anyway
Just the video I've been needing. I'm just getting (back) into modelling again, and this model is my first attempt... you make it look so easy... especially when you just threw on the black. Thin and paint in many layers...OK, I know how to do it right now. Thicker wasn't working around the edges when i tried it. Wish me luck.
As you know I can't build and paint models myself anymore, but I still really enjoy your vids. Have your vids on in the background whilst I'm working from home.
These Bandai kits are really engineering marvels! I put together the sand trooper and was just amazed at the quality of basically a snap together kit. It looks great and I'm planning on building some more. 😎✔✅👍👌
Love your videos! I didn't even know about the Bandai kits until you popped up on my youtube, now I can't get enough. Thanks, and keep up the good work :)
Just wanted to say really enjoy watching you builds as you talk through what you've doing and don't just have music playing for whole vid like some with no interaction. Keep safe and look forward to next build.
I'm really glad you posted this .. I'm currently working on the tie/tie advanced kit myself and really appreciate seeing you make it look so easy .. I took a different route for painting and it's become a labor intensive chore .. TIP: don't try masking on these tiny models Be well 🤘😎👍 PS: wait .. Babylon 5!!??
I really like that they do these smaller kits. Good price and short project can be a good change from doing really large pieces. Also leave room on a desk
I discovered spacemusic in college and bought several CDs, particulary the Hearts of Space collections. I really like the spacemusic you added to this video. Very relaxing to watch. I have had this video's tab open on my browser this entire time and I am finally getting around to watching it. You did a fantastic job as always. I'm just thinking that maybe it could've been better after airbrushing the black to just mask off the solar panels and then airbrush the blue gray? Regardless, this is beautiful work. I too was surprised at the molding defect on those panels, considering it's Bandai. I can only imagine that something happened to the molds during the tooling process and they considered the costs of retooling it and fell forward with it.
Thank you! The music is all from RUclips's music library, it's a limited collection but it's probably the most safe music to use that won't (shouldn't) be claimed by anyone else. Yeah looking back I could have done the solar panels the other way around, but I usually go for the option that doesn't require masking, which ironically can take longer lol.
The important thing to consider is these are dirt cheap. Less than $10 bucks and you get two extremely detailed and easy to assemble models with a stand.
This a great channel. It's very soothing to watch. I used to do models as a child, and I learned a valuable lesson. Model building IS NOT FOR PERFECTIONIST people. If you can not deal with "the small stuff" do not do models. Which is why I watch instead of doing. If I had one of those decals go off on me I would lose it.. Its a character flaw, I know, I am getting older, maybe I will try again. Just something I learned early in my life. Oh the models I had in the 70s I should of kept.. would be worth a lot.
More SW content. Awesome. On the subject Id like to see you do a custom paint job on another SW small scale model, maybe a Falcon or X Wing. Look forward to more, thanks for sharing.
I got this same kit just a couple of weeks ago alongside some others and, thinking about how you've been using them to great results, bought myself some Model Color Vallejo paints to replace some Tamiya ones I'd run out of. Planning on using Sky Grey or White Grey since the TIEs in the original film are very pale, almost white depending on the lighting. Also, after testing the White paint on a spare stormtrooper kit's armor pieces and getting promising results, I'm thinking I could actually be able to brush paint a trooper without having to buy a spray can for every build. These Vallejo paints are great! Anyway, this was a great project, Sam, and they turned out excellent! You should consider doing your own color schemes on the 1/144 ships and 1/12 troopers for future builds like you did with that Mandalorian Sniper a while ago.
I just purchased this kit. Didnt take it to this level of detailing! You are spot on with this recreation. I did do the X-wing fighter of this same set. Check it out on DMG scale models.
I have this set. I bought it last year. Yes - they did make this so that you have to spend more money to make a complete set of the three TIE Fighters. I am on the fence about building them as they are so small. I might recast one of these so that I have a compliment of the two TIE Fighters with Darth Vaders' Advanced X-1. These don't have to be painted as they're moulded in the colour of the original ILM filming miniatures. That discolouration on the wing is from silicone contamination. Whenever they have a short or mismoulded part where there isn't enough plastic to make an entire part they throw it into a grinder to be recycled so whatever silicone is in the original part is in the finished product that uses the regrind from it. Hence the shiny spots you see in it. I have worked in several plastic factories and this is what we did to reuse material that was either contaminated with silicone or dirt or had "shorts". I have the AMT version of the two TIE Fighters and it has these imperfections as well. I too have had the same problem getting rid of those reflections even with chemical solvent based paint. I had to use water based acrylic paint to solve this problem. I wish someone would make a better mould release agent so that this doesn't happen if the ram doesn't push enough plastic into the mould cavities and has to be reground. Thank you for sharing this with the rest of us to enjoy and share your experience.
I don't know if they sell the Tie interceptor in this scale. But I bought two kits to have two tie fighters beside Darth ship. Now what to do with extra Darth ship. Cut his wings reshape to have the slant, reverse the direction and leave off the rear area of the body and make my own tie interceptor. Wish I could show you all. How to do it. Sometimes you have to be inventive and kit bash. It looks awesome now I have a tie interceptor too.
Many thanks! I really enjoyed the presentation of this video, including the subtle background music :) Is it necessary to wash all parts with soapy water (followed by a rinse & dry) before applying primer ? And when painting large areas, how many coats of thinned paint would you recommend ?
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I generally only wash parts if they feel oily or greasy, which I've only experienced a couple of times. Usually that's the mould release agent on the sprues. If they feel "clean" then I don't bother washing them. I've never found it to be an issue. As for coats of paint, apply as many thin coats until you think it looks good!
Great build! I am going to try this kit. I have never used Vallejo paints. What ratio do you recommend for thinning the paint for spraying through the airbrush?
Nice work mate!! Was curious to see exactly how big they were. Was hoping they might work with the 15 inch amt/ ertl Star destroyer with fibre optics kit but they're probably still a bit too big to look in scale with it. 👍🙂
Nice upload, love the channel, still waiting on that Parthenon 😉 (Only tiny critique is the audio ambiance track, thought I was hearing things then it became distracting)
Can you place the Tie Fighter in the stand by itself by placing each "wing" into each of the slots intended for the additional Tie Fighter and move the arm around so it is the Advanced in front of the regular TIE?
oh these are 1/144th scale? i had no idea, that makes me a little more interested in them, to see how they scale with high grade gundam models. perhaps i can use the real grade pilot figures with these, make a little storm interceptor pilot to stand next to them
I very much appreciate the detail done here. Looking forward to the Babylon 5 models you mentioned. I’m just a bit curious about the strange or irry music during the video.
This is a great video! I love that you list all the color you use. Did you ever do the X-Wing 002 for this series ? Do you have an amazon shop or affiliate link ? you could put a link to all the paint .
Bit late to the party, but curious to ask, why not after the black basing mask off the panels and do the colour there after? Keeping the black as a sprayed finished as opposed to your painted finish?
Thanks for that, I have the collection of those star wars kits, great kits. When you re painted the ion engines with the dark grey, did you thin it? I also have the bandai Mecha Collie kits from Space Battleship Yamato 2199, consider doing these they are superb.
Like these Star Wars Bandai kits. I have two miniatures and the AT-ST. Great models with nice detail. It's too bad about the defects in these models. What would you say is your favorite Star Wars Bandai kit so far?
Awesome video just got finished with my TIE fighter last week your video really helped out on painting, but I was just wondering is there any way you know how I can put blasters coming out the front?
Hello I'm quite new to this hobby just bought my first model in decades yesterday...when you're doing your wash technique are you letting it set before wiping with thinner or are you using the thinner right away while the wash is still wet? Thanks!
I let it mostly dry until it's tacky to touch, then I wipe it away. I do this because it's easier to wipe before it's totally set and hardened. Wiping while it's still wet will just wipe it all away so you have to let it dry a little. And don't forget to apply the wash on a gloss coat! Hope it goes well. 🙂
Hi, love your video! Used it a bit to guide myself building my TIE Fighter and Advanced. Though I did find the slits on the stand are wide enough to fit the Fighter's width so it is capable of displaying just the Fighter should you just wanna display only the Fighter
Nice work, shame the display base is so gimmicky, I would have just made a simple display stand for each TIE fighter from brass rod and a small block of wood painted flat black. Now, the kit that I'm hoping Bandai makes next, one that is really needed, is the TIE BOMBER and the Imperial Probe Droid. Both are long overdue and with Bandai's capabilities they'd turn out great.
It's crazy they haven't gotten around to doing the TIE Bomber, Bespin Cloud Car, the Lambda-class shuttle as well as many other prequel and Clone Wars ships that would make for great models. It's a bummer they wasted many slots re-releasing Resistance X-wings, Falcons and astromech droids over and over.
If I bought one of these I would’ve made the tie Advance into a modified tie interceptor because me and I have a meeting at 1:44 scale tie interceptor yet
You should have airbrushed a couple of diluted black coats on the panels then dry brushed grey on the panel's fins and brushed grey on the support beams.
I love the work you do, but I'm still surprised that you haven't build any Gundam model kits. They should be much more fun as you can build them in any way you like. I personally have 70+
Excellent. So Darth Vader's ship is technically a QIE fighter (Quad Ion Engine) instead of a TIE fighter (Twin Ion Engine). Though perhaps it is two sets of twin-ion engines :)
Those imperfections in the wing panels aren't mold defects, they're an issue called flow lines, and ALL molded plastics have them. The only way to decrease them is to VERY strictly regulate the temperature of the barrel (where the molten plastic is injected into the mold) and the mold to make sure you're not losing too much heat when injecting. If the mold temp is too low, the plastic cools too fast, and the hotter plastic coming in leaves those swirly flow lines. If they're on a flat part, they can be dealt with by sanding the surface and buffing it back to its original sheen, but, as you found out, on textured surfaces such as that TIE Fighter solar panel it sticks out like a turd in the prom punch bowl.
Yeah Revell/Monogram did them back in the 90s. They're not easy to find, but you can see them pop up on auction websites like eBay. I found mine from a local auction website.
I didn't like the display stand. The base hides the wing panels. It also broke at the ball joint. They cheapened out on display stand. I made a new stand with the plastic that holds the parts and cardboard from the box painted black. Stand look great I made. Plus I drilled a hole in bottom of tie fighter. If you look at the inner side you can see they left a spot to do this. I also put red on glass to show Darth Vaders light in the cockpit. Just a bit. So ya the stands sucks build your own. Cheap of bandai to not supply two.
Nice but they have to much shine & that makes them look like little toys I use testors acrylic flat paint I thin it with water then do multiple coats the paint comes out absolutely super dry flat with no shine allowing these small ships to look more like movie props then toys
Bandai's product line of these SW 1/144 kits is so dumb. There are several ships that are missing from the line. No B-Wing, Tie Interceptor, or Tie Bomber. Furthermore, this Tie set is the dumbest thing of all. In order to get A New Hope's set of two Ties and Vader's Tie Advanced, you have to get two sets of this to get that second Tie, but then you're stuck with an extra Tie Advanced. The Tie Advanced should have been a single kit, and the Tie kit should have been two regular ties. The single kits should have been 5 or 6 bucks, and the singles 9 or 10. They could have also gone into the EU a bit and given us stuff like E-Wings and Tie Defenders. Disney and Bandai should really consider adding more to this line of 1/144 kits.
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Perfect timing! I just bought these from Hobby Lobby for $6.
Dan Rafferty lucky I can’t find any
Nice! I bought mine from Amazon.
$6? I got mine for $10
@@thebigmoist6937 HL always has a 40% coupon on their website and their models are often 40% off, too.
@@danrafferty4346 I used it on the X-wing earlier that week
I built this kit a couple of months ago--it's a fun, quick build. I tried painting the windows with Tamiya gloss black, but the finish turned out quite lumpy and I hated the look. To fix it, I actually used the window stickers, but I cut out each pane individually from the frame, and applied only the black part of the sticker. I did this for both the front window and the narrow window slits on the top. It looked much better. Not glossy like a window, but much better than my lumpy paint job.
Your channel is very comfy. I work as an artist and your content is perfect background noise/watching
Thank you! 😊
I love these videos. I laughed seeing the stickers get brushed aside with the rest of the garbage at the beginning. With all the raised areas they would have looked terrible anyway
Thanks! Yeah they're not a lot of use to me lol
This was the reason I looked up a video. I was like “how on earth would these look good?”
Wauw the Tie Advance looks indeed sweet in black!
Never realized.
Just the video I've been needing.
I'm just getting (back) into modelling again, and this model is my first attempt... you make it look so easy... especially when you just threw on the black. Thin and paint in many layers...OK, I know how to do it right now. Thicker wasn't working around the edges when i tried it.
Wish me luck.
Thanks! Yeah thin coats is the way to go. It takes longer and you won't see nice results until the end, but you'll get there!
As you know I can't build and paint models myself anymore, but I still really enjoy your vids.
Have your vids on in the background whilst I'm working from home.
Cheers! It is a little strange to imagine my voice in other people's homes while they work, but I do the same with other videos! 😃
These Bandai kits are really engineering marvels! I put together the sand trooper and was just amazed at the quality of basically a snap together kit. It looks great and I'm planning on building some more. 😎✔✅👍👌
Very cool!
Nice!.. I got a Tie Fighter Collectable (not a model kit) the other day and now you have given me some good ideas!.. cheers mate 👍🇳🇿
Love your videos! I didn't even know about the Bandai kits until you popped up on my youtube, now I can't get enough. Thanks, and keep up the good work :)
Thank you! Glad you like them. :)
Love your videos. My son and I watch and really enjoy the builds. Thanks!
Awesome, glad you like them!
Always fun watching you build and paint these awesome Star Wars kits!!
Thank you so much 😀
Love your stuff. Gotta say, watching you do the canopys, your freehand painting is better than my masking lol😄 keep it up mate!
Just wanted to say really enjoy watching you builds as you talk through what you've doing and don't just have music playing for whole vid like some with no interaction. Keep safe and look forward to next build.
Thank you, I appreciate that!
I needed these small scale ships and xwings. To go with my large star destroyer. So i have a fight scene. Looks great.
True hobby ASMR 😴 inadvertently relaxing.
Well done!
Thank you! 😊
"Acrylic thinner" so, you mean, like, Water???
These are Adorable!
Amazing Work!
Thanks!
Looks great man, happy to have you back
Cheers!
Always enjoy your stuff. I keep getting ideas for builds and dioramas. Thanks!
Thank you!
Great seeing more Star Wars stuff!
There's lots more to come!
I'm so excited to watch this video. I've got this model and haven't quite puzzled out how to get it painted well.
Nice! Hope it helped 😎
@@modelchili what type of brush were you using for this model. It looked like a fine tip but thick and high quality.
I find watching you paint is rather relaxing, kinda like ASMR for my eyeballs
Nice! 😁
I'm really glad you posted this .. I'm currently working on the tie/tie advanced kit myself and really appreciate seeing you make it look so easy .. I took a different route for painting and it's become a labor intensive chore .. TIP: don't try masking on these tiny models
Be well
🤘😎👍
PS: wait .. Babylon 5!!??
Thanks! Yep I'm building the station itself, hopefully won't be too far away. 😎
I really like that they do these smaller kits. Good price and short project can be a good change from doing really large pieces. Also leave room on a desk
I just bought this set. Thanks for posting!
Thanks for watching!
I discovered spacemusic in college and bought several CDs, particulary the Hearts of Space collections. I really like the spacemusic you added to this video. Very relaxing to watch. I have had this video's tab open on my browser this entire time and I am finally getting around to watching it. You did a fantastic job as always. I'm just thinking that maybe it could've been better after airbrushing the black to just mask off the solar panels and then airbrush the blue gray? Regardless, this is beautiful work. I too was surprised at the molding defect on those panels, considering it's Bandai. I can only imagine that something happened to the molds during the tooling process and they considered the costs of retooling it and fell forward with it.
Thank you! The music is all from RUclips's music library, it's a limited collection but it's probably the most safe music to use that won't (shouldn't) be claimed by anyone else. Yeah looking back I could have done the solar panels the other way around, but I usually go for the option that doesn't require masking, which ironically can take longer lol.
@@modelchili I mostly use retro video game music in my videos as it tends to fly under the radar.
Awesome build! I got the STAR WARS X-WING. BANDI 1/44 SCALE. Want to get some more!😁👍🏿
Thanks!
Dose the Tie Fighter not fit across the stand so it fits into both slots making it central to the stand with the advanced on the arm infront ?.
I was thinking the same thing
Yeah it can do, looks pretty clunky though.
The important thing to consider is these are dirt cheap. Less than $10 bucks and you get two extremely detailed and easy to assemble models with a stand.
Great build. Always chill out to your vIds!
I appreciate it!
6:18 too bad about the blemishes. didn't you wash the parts before you start?
great result though. I learned a lot. thank you!
Cheers! The blemishes were molded into the plastic, not much a wash would fix about that!
This a great channel. It's very soothing to watch. I used to do models as a child, and I learned a valuable lesson. Model building IS NOT FOR PERFECTIONIST people. If you can not deal with "the small stuff" do not do models. Which is why I watch instead of doing. If I had one of those decals go off on me I would lose it.. Its a character flaw, I know, I am getting older, maybe I will try again. Just something I learned early in my life. Oh the models I had in the 70s I should of kept.. would be worth a lot.
More SW content. Awesome. On the subject Id like to see you do a custom paint job on another SW small scale model, maybe a Falcon or X Wing. Look forward to more, thanks for sharing.
Thanks! I've got a Falcon and X-Wing coming, not sure how I'll do them yet!
Very cool. Great job mate
Love the background music
Absolutely love the little Bandai kits. I would like to see you do one on the Millennium Falcon kits 006 and 015 if you haven't already done so.
They're coming soon!
Cool, can't wait to see how you do them
I got this same kit just a couple of weeks ago alongside some others and, thinking about how you've been using them to great results, bought myself some Model Color Vallejo paints to replace some Tamiya ones I'd run out of. Planning on using Sky Grey or White Grey since the TIEs in the original film are very pale, almost white depending on the lighting.
Also, after testing the White paint on a spare stormtrooper kit's armor pieces and getting promising results, I'm thinking I could actually be able to brush paint a trooper without having to buy a spray can for every build. These Vallejo paints are great!
Anyway, this was a great project, Sam, and they turned out excellent! You should consider doing your own color schemes on the 1/144 ships and 1/12 troopers for future builds like you did with that Mandalorian Sniper a while ago.
Thank you! Seems like a few people have this kit ready to go, it was good timing!
I just purchased this kit. Didnt take it to this level of detailing! You are spot on with this recreation. I did do the X-wing fighter of this same set. Check it out on DMG scale models.
Thank you! I do have an X-Wing coming up. I checked out your build and left a comment. 🙂
I have this set. I bought it last year. Yes - they did make this so that you have to spend more money to make a complete set of the three TIE Fighters. I am on the fence about building them as they are so small. I might recast one of these so that I have a compliment of the two TIE Fighters with Darth Vaders' Advanced X-1. These don't have to be painted as they're moulded in the colour of the original ILM filming miniatures. That discolouration on the wing is from silicone contamination. Whenever they have a short or mismoulded part where there isn't enough plastic to make an entire part they throw it into a grinder to be recycled so whatever silicone is in the original part is in the finished product that uses the regrind from it. Hence the shiny spots you see in it. I have worked in several plastic factories and this is what we did to reuse material that was either contaminated with silicone or dirt or had "shorts". I have the AMT version of the two TIE Fighters and it has these imperfections as well. I too have had the same problem getting rid of those reflections even with chemical solvent based paint. I had to use water based acrylic paint to solve this problem. I wish someone would make a better mould release agent so that this doesn't happen if the ram doesn't push enough plastic into the mould cavities and has to be reground. Thank you for sharing this with the rest of us to enjoy and share your experience.
You should make a Emperors Guard TIE Interceptor
I don't know if they sell the Tie interceptor in this scale. But I bought two kits to have two tie fighters beside Darth ship. Now what to do with extra Darth ship. Cut his wings reshape to have the slant, reverse the direction and leave off the rear area of the body and make my own tie interceptor. Wish I could show you all. How to do it. Sometimes you have to be inventive and kit bash. It looks awesome now I have a tie interceptor too.
Many thanks! I really enjoyed the presentation of this video, including the subtle background music :)
Is it necessary to wash all parts with soapy water (followed by a rinse & dry) before applying primer ? And when painting large areas, how many coats of thinned paint would you recommend ?
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I generally only wash parts if they feel oily or greasy, which I've only experienced a couple of times. Usually that's the mould release agent on the sprues. If they feel "clean" then I don't bother washing them. I've never found it to be an issue. As for coats of paint, apply as many thin coats until you think it looks good!
what paint brushes do you use for such small detail?
That's what I want to know as well!
Great build! I am going to try this kit. I have never used Vallejo paints. What ratio do you recommend for thinning the paint for spraying through the airbrush?
Nice work mate!! Was curious to see exactly how big they were. Was hoping they might work with the 15 inch amt/ ertl Star destroyer with fibre optics kit but they're probably still a bit too big to look in scale with it. 👍🙂
Thanks!
Nice upload, love the channel, still waiting on that Parthenon 😉
(Only tiny critique is the audio ambiance track, thought I was hearing things then it became distracting)
Thanks! Ah yes, the Parthenon. 👀
I slso picked up the mandalorian ship same scale painting it now.
Can you place the Tie Fighter in the stand by itself by placing each "wing" into each of the slots intended for the additional Tie Fighter and move the arm around so it is the Advanced in front of the regular TIE?
It can fit that way. But, it doesn't look right. I went ahead and used two kits to get the two standard TIEs in back.
Yeah you can, but it doesn't look good.
oh these are 1/144th scale? i had no idea, that makes me a little more interested in them, to see how they scale with high grade gundam models. perhaps i can use the real grade pilot figures with these, make a little storm interceptor pilot to stand next to them
Yeah cool idea. :)
I very much appreciate the detail done here. Looking forward to the Babylon 5 models you mentioned. I’m just a bit curious about the strange or irry music during the video.
Babylon 5 build is already underway! The music is just a bit of ambient music added to the background.
i think you are meant to put the tie on the 2 slots. so both "wing" panel things are in each slot. and the advanced be swiveled in the middle.
This is a great video! I love that you list all the color you use. Did you ever do the X-Wing 002 for this series ?
Do you have an amazon shop or affiliate link ? you could put a link to all the paint .
What kind of glue do you use to stick painted surfaces together?
Great work. What brushes do you use for the details?
Bit late to the party, but curious to ask, why not after the black basing mask off the panels and do the colour there after? Keeping the black as a sprayed finished as opposed to your painted finish?
What colours did you use ? I’m a beginner. Can I paint using just brushes as no experience using airbrush
Thanks for that, I have the collection of those star wars kits, great kits.
When you re painted the ion engines with the dark grey, did you thin it?
I also have the bandai Mecha Collie kits from Space Battleship Yamato 2199, consider doing these they are superb.
Thanks! No I don't usually thin the Model Air paints as they are pre-thinned, except when I'm brushing over large areas.
Did you wash the parts to get rid of the mold release before painting?
Like these Star Wars Bandai kits. I have two miniatures and the AT-ST. Great models with nice detail. It's too bad about the defects in these models. What would you say is your favorite Star Wars Bandai kit so far?
Probably the 1/5000 Star Destroyer.
@@modelchili that one is great. Just love the simple, yet menacing look of the Star Destroyer. Such great design.
Awesome video just got finished with my TIE fighter last week your video really helped out on painting, but I was just wondering is there any way you know how I can put blasters coming out the front?
Thanks! Do you mean the blaster bolts coming out? I'd use little pieces of stretch sprue, then paint them light green.
@@modelchili ok I'll try that, thank you
My example has the same defects in the plastic on the TIE wings. Disappointing but they are cheap kits. The TIE Advance looks sweet.
Hello I'm quite new to this hobby just bought my first model in decades yesterday...when you're doing your wash technique are you letting it set before wiping with thinner or are you using the thinner right away while the wash is still wet?
Thanks!
I let it mostly dry until it's tacky to touch, then I wipe it away. I do this because it's easier to wipe before it's totally set and hardened. Wiping while it's still wet will just wipe it all away so you have to let it dry a little. And don't forget to apply the wash on a gloss coat! Hope it goes well. 🙂
@@modelchili
Gloss coat...ok yeah thanks!
Hi, love your video! Used it a bit to guide myself building my TIE Fighter and Advanced. Though I did find the slits on the stand are wide enough to fit the Fighter's width so it is capable of displaying just the Fighter should you just wanna display only the Fighter
Cheers, glad you enjoyed it!
Cool model. The items you talked about are not that bad,
Can I clarify if I also use Tamiya TS-80 for the coat before the wash? Thanks.
A wash would be pretty hard to clean up over a flat coat. I always apply washes over paint or clear coat TS-13.
@@modelchili Thanks so much for your reply, love your works!
Nice work, shame the display base is so gimmicky, I would have just made a simple display stand for each TIE fighter from brass rod and a small block of wood painted flat black.
Now, the kit that I'm hoping Bandai makes next, one that is really needed, is the TIE BOMBER and the Imperial Probe Droid. Both are long overdue and with Bandai's capabilities they'd turn out great.
It's crazy they haven't gotten around to doing the TIE Bomber, Bespin Cloud Car, the Lambda-class shuttle as well as many other prequel and Clone Wars ships that would make for great models. It's a bummer they wasted many slots re-releasing Resistance X-wings, Falcons and astromech droids over and over.
Yeah agreed, some more ships would be nice.
Never a fan of the cloud car, but definitely on board for the rest👍
Some gloss clear hand brushed onto the front windows wouldn't be a waste
I did think about that. It would be more realistic, but not how the studio models looked. I could go one way or the other.
@@modelchili Depends on your goals in the end for sure. A very nice looking build in any case.
How small is the box! Never mind the actual models!
If I bought one of these I would’ve made the tie Advance into a modified tie interceptor because me and I have a meeting at 1:44 scale tie interceptor yet
You should have airbrushed a couple of diluted black coats on the panels then dry brushed grey on the panel's fins and brushed grey on the support beams.
When I get mine done I'll try to put them with the 144 Falcon :)
Nice!
well done as usual : )
I love the work you do, but I'm still surprised that you haven't build any Gundam model kits. They should be much more fun as you can build them in any way you like. I personally have 70+
They do look interesting, it's just a subject I'm not familiar with, I wouldn't even know where to start!
It's Gundam, there is no need to know where it comes from. Just customize them in any way you like, like star wars and gundam kitbash.
I do think it’s a shame they don’t do an X and Y wing in the same scale in a two pack. Would be great to have the whole trench run setup
I can watch this forever
That's a lot of TIE Fighter!
These videos sorta sound if Bob Ross made model kits, nice and relaxing
Glad you like them!
I would love to see more battle droid models
Nice video
Thanks!
Excellent. So Darth Vader's ship is technically a QIE fighter (Quad Ion Engine) instead of a TIE fighter (Twin Ion Engine). Though perhaps it is two sets of twin-ion engines :)
lol maybe!
Браво!
I would like to see some Babylon 5 builds.
I think re-glossing the glass would have pushed it right over the tippy-top!
You have to wash the pieces with soap and warm water before you paint, that's probably why the panels came out a little gnarly.
Not always. If the parts don't feel oily I don't usually wash them. The panels were molded that way, so washing wouldn't have helped unfortunately.
Made to be in scale with 1/144 scale millennium falcon also from BANDAI
BanDai does seem to be cheaping out on the bases cos I have the same base on my miniature scale Andromeda Class Battle Carrier from Yamato 2202 XD
Looks good. Shame about the ghosting.
Those imperfections in the wing panels aren't mold defects, they're an issue called flow lines, and ALL molded plastics have them. The only way to decrease them is to VERY strictly regulate the temperature of the barrel (where the molten plastic is injected into the mold) and the mold to make sure you're not losing too much heat when injecting. If the mold temp is too low, the plastic cools too fast, and the hotter plastic coming in leaves those swirly flow lines. If they're on a flat part, they can be dealt with by sanding the surface and buffing it back to its original sheen, but, as you found out, on textured surfaces such as that TIE Fighter solar panel it sticks out like a turd in the prom punch bowl.
interesting to see a bandai kit that basically requires painting
Do B5 kits actually exist? I've been looking for years.
Yeah Revell/Monogram did them back in the 90s. They're not easy to find, but you can see them pop up on auction websites like eBay. I found mine from a local auction website.
@@modelchili nice. I'll have to keep an eye open. I'd kill for a narn cruiser kit.
I didn't like the display stand. The base hides the wing panels. It also broke at the ball joint. They cheapened out on display stand. I made a new stand with the plastic that holds the parts and cardboard from the box painted black. Stand look great I made. Plus I drilled a hole in bottom of tie fighter. If you look at the inner side you can see they left a spot to do this. I also put red on glass to show Darth Vaders light in the cockpit. Just a bit. So ya the stands sucks build your own. Cheap of bandai to not supply two.
Nice but they have to much shine & that makes them look like little toys I use testors acrylic flat paint I thin it with water then do multiple coats the paint comes out absolutely super dry flat with no shine allowing these small ships to look more like movie props then toys
not suppose to cut the sprues like thta
I don't like the stand, the 2 models are ok though
finally attempted using masking tape with this model and my airbrush lines looked great somehow
Yeah, 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/8.
Bandai's product line of these SW 1/144 kits is so dumb. There are several ships that are missing from the line. No B-Wing, Tie Interceptor, or Tie Bomber. Furthermore, this Tie set is the dumbest thing of all. In order to get A New Hope's set of two Ties and Vader's Tie Advanced, you have to get two sets of this to get that second Tie, but then you're stuck with an extra Tie Advanced. The Tie Advanced should have been a single kit, and the Tie kit should have been two regular ties. The single kits should have been 5 or 6 bucks, and the singles 9 or 10. They could have also gone into the EU a bit and given us stuff like E-Wings and Tie Defenders. Disney and Bandai should really consider adding more to this line of 1/144 kits.
You know what i would?.....Put some more advertising in your video. Sick of ADVERTISING. Lost interest. Sorry