ANH "bullseye" TIE fighter

[Ozzman78]

Wanted to share 1 of the 2 TIE's from my AMT imperial TIE fighters kit. Painted in my interpretation of the ANH screen appearance. I painted its brother in ESB colors, will share that as soon as I take pics.

 

[builder101]

I think it look's great... I plan to do several tie's in the future and may go more light grey like this.. My fine Molds though I went with the haze grey and did not find the color to be real dark as I have read on some forum's. The detail look's good would love to compare or do a close up between this and the fine molds kit. What grey to you use if you don't mind me asking.

Awesome build!

Mike

 

[Boxster]

That really looks good!

B

 

[arohk]

very cool the color is really good most of the models used in a new hope were light grey.

 

[hook1169]

It turned out awesome! All these tie fighter builds are making me feel like I need to add a couple to my stash.!

 

[ModelMakerMike]

You know, for an AMT kit, it looks pretty good!

 

[JohnSimmons]

Yeah looks great, I've yet to try these AMT Tie's apparently there better than the 1/48 Fine Molds one, and at a fraction of the price and you get two it should be a no brainer lol

 

[YOULI]

This kit is definitely one of the coolest one from the AMT era. This Tie fighter is wrongly underestimated.

Good job on this one.

Did you used a Games workshop stand for it ? Any modification of any kind in your building process or is it straight from the box. Obviously you used some after-market decals...

Last question : can we consider the red buttons for the lasers are correct or would it be better to do it green or even with no color at all ?

 

[Ozzman78]

I think it look's great... I plan to do several tie's in the future and may go more light grey like this.. My fine Molds though I went with the haze grey and did not find the color to be real dark as I have read on some forum's. The detail look's good would love to compare or do a close up between this and the fine molds kit. What grey to you use if you don't mind me asking.

Awesome build!

Mike

This TIE is camo gray for the main, gunship gray for the window frame, aggressor gray for other bit (like the hatch). Thanks for looking, and I'm sure the fine molds is a far better kit.

 

[Ozzman78]

This kit is definitely one of the coolest one from the AMT era. This Tie fighter is wrongly underestimated.

Good job on this one.

Did you used a Games workshop stand for it ? Any modification of any kind in your building process or is it straight from the box. Obviously you used some after-market decals...

Last question : can we consider the red buttons for the lasers are correct or would it be better to do it green or even with no color at all ?

The base is custom, evergreen sheet filled with hydrocal, post is from the kit. The fighter is OOB, decals are from a old 1/72 warthog kit.

I did orange lasers per my reference photos. I'm no purest so rock green or red if you dig the look.

 

[Dark Kyp]

Really nice build, congrat's!!! ;D

 

[Splashcoat]

Wow! You sure made that old AMT kit shine. This inspires me to dig mine out of my stash and have a go.

 

[ulvdemon]

Is this the old kit that had two TIE's?

 

[Quaralane]

Definitely looking good here.
Makes me want to pull mine out

 

[Ozzman78]

Is this the old kit that had two TIE's?

Yes, I built up the other in ESB colors and used the death star base for my Red 5 and Red 3 dio.

Thanks to everyone for taking a look and the kind reviews. I'll keep em coming as I take pics.

 

[Jimi]

wow that looks like the finemolds kit, you've really done it justice

 

[Thundergod]

I really like the TIE with that lighter colour scheme . As people have said , the AMT kit is definitely under-rated and was definitely one of the best Star Wars models they produced . Nice job .