merseajohn's Anigrand 1/144 Tie Defender

[JohnSimmons]

Hey guys, a real quickie for you. Its the excellent little resin Tie Defender from Anigrand, it comes with the 1/144 scale Imperial shuttle and is also 1/144. Details are pretty sharp for it's size ( though a little soft on the Cockpit 'ball').
Parts layout:

Not much flash to deal with and only little marks where it's been removed from the mold:

Dry fitted:

Primed with humbrol acrylic primer from the can:

Pics will get better, I'm just using my phone because I feel lazy today!! ;D

 

[TRM]

LOL...Impressive....tiny, but impressive!!! You will get me to build SCI-Fi if you keep this up!! ;D

 

[Igard]

Really nice! You're building up a little 1/144 fleet. Should look great in pursuit of the Falcon, or the other way around!

And T, I for one would love to see you build Sci-Fi, especially some of the Star Wars stuff!

 

[JohnSimmons]

Cheers Todd, Building a Sci Fi kit wouldnt be that bad surely lol! And Igard I've still plenty of 1/144's to do: Imp Shuttle, Tie Droid, Chris Clawcraft, Tie Predator etc ;D
Anyhoo got some Satin black on the solar panels:

And some TINY preshading lol:

 

[Grendels]

Your a building machine! A nice little kit from the looks of it.

 

[letsgobrowns82]

Looks great. Too small of a scale for my patience lol.

 

[Glorfindel]

There's no stopping you! Look out folks he's running off the tracks! Wait.....what, no lights! Tell me you can't fit a .005mm LED in those engines and in that cockpit. I'm sure MicroMart has a super mini melon ball scoop you can use to hallow out the cockpit ball. It's only $8.95 and $47.60 for shipping.

 

[Junkie]

Cool stuff. You'll be finished by friday!

 

[Quaralane]

Teeny tiny little thing

 

[nicholassagan]

Quick and dirty! Looking good!

 

[JohnSimmons]

Ha ha cheers guys, don't think I will be lighting it (I'll leave micro scale lighting projects to Nicholassagan!). Gotta little update, just showing how annoying the maskin is going to be! I've got 3 wings and both sides to do.....maybe this won't be done by Friday Scott! Work gets busy today so model work has to slow down

 

[Quaralane]

--blinks--
Yoiks, but that looks like it's not fun

 

[Igard]

--gets magnifying glass out to study that masking--

Yip, that looks like some fine work, Mr MerseaJohn.

 

[JohnSimmons]

Thanks guys. Got one side done!

This actually might take forever lol

 

[Glorfindel]

Nice freakin' mask job!
What, did you hire some mice to lay down that tape?

 

[Grendels]

Nice work.

 

[JohnSimmons]

Thanks G! And.....G! So my eyes hurt.

Got some light grey on:

And here's how they look without the masking tape:

Cockpit canopy is ridiculous

Should all be done by the end of the week (just in time for me to start a new model for the comp ;D)
Sorry the pics have been taken on my phone but works been really busy and I havnt had time to set up the 'studio' and get the decent camera out. The final pics will look ok though I hope.
Thanks for looking and as always comments welcome

 

[Igard]

Hey that looks like one of my missing contact lenses! ;D

Super patient job with the masking, this will look amazing when put together.

 

[JohnSimmons]

Cheers Igard!
Ok couldn't put this down here's the cockpit ball all weathered up (but not to much). That's it for tonight zzzzzz

 

[Quaralane]

in-freaking-credible