mijob's TIE Phantom

Hello everybody,

i hope you are all well.

I wanted to share this for quite some time but just could not find the time to sit down do it.

First things first.

THANK YOU

mijob and Remi Kristiansen for all the work you have done in designing this model.

THANK YOU

for sharing it with the world (...us )



Now to the build.

I basically followed mijobs instructions and used his templates as they came (almost, sorry mijob, i did some changes )

I combined the main body with the front and back parts into one,



and reinforced the walls with cardboard from cereal boxes (I use a lot of these, it's good material.)
I also exchanged the inner support structure with this one.



That's how it looks inserted.



I wanted to be sure it has a strong inner structure so it can withstand the pressure i put on it later when i glue the other parts on it. (i sometimes do press too much )

Continuing the build.




Support Structure (some cereal box strips) and Glue tabs.



Rear finished



I followed the same procedure for the front.
Main Body done.

Next

The Ion Engine

@mijob
Thank you mijob, i will. (in all three counts )

@ Rhaven Blaack
Thank you

This is my first TIE, i try my best

Thank you Revell-Fan.

Now on to the ION Engine.

Here are all the parts cut out and glued into rings.



All Rings assembled with the rest of the parts and the Greebles.





Almost done





That's it for the Engine. Hope you like it.

Next will be the wings.

Thank you

Thank you both for your kind words.

@mijob
why should it not going well ?? You designed it !!

Thank you Sir, much appreciated.

Next point on the menu,, Wings.

Let's take these,



and extract these out of it.



Then let's cut a lot of the white triangle like Parts



and glue them together to create the six halves of the wings.

After some curing we glue these also together to create the three Wing Bases.



At this point we are already at six layers per wing.
Now we have all the parts to finish them.



After 24h under a ton of books (OK, maybe not a ton) i got this result and I'm very happy about how they turned out.



For these i did not use my normal glue (white Elmer's like glue) but the solvent based UHU Glue.
It helps with the Warping or in this case with the NOT warping

Next will be the Laser Guns.

See you soon.

Thank you

Hello again,

Thank you all for your kind words.

I myself was surprised how these wings turned out, i did expect some warping but not that straight wings.

Will do every layered wing structure like i did these from now on.

Layer by Layer gluing with solvent based UHU Glue and curing for 24 hours under a lot of books. Let's see if i can repeat that.

Now on to the Lasers. I did not take pictures of the process, i followed mijobs instructions and glued all twelve layers of the gun as instructed.

After that i glued the outer hulls.





So far nothing complicated, just a lot of work.
The difficulty on these parts was not to get glue in the slot between the two halves were it is supposed to be glued later onto the wing.
I also had to be very careful to align everything nicely

What i changed were the tips. Here i chose another approach. I tried the thin rolls with paper, didn't work for me so i used Toothpicks





Playing around with watercolors to get the right tone. That's O.K. for me.



Cut to length



Removing a little piece from the wing to house the Laser tip.



Sliding over the Gun.



And that's it.



Here are all three wings.



The other three tips i wrapped around toothpicks, that was easier for me.



And after gluing them on too here is the result for all three wings with laser guns.



And the other side



That's it for now, next will be the Cloaking devices.

Thank you

Thank you very much mijob.
Yes, i try to use whatever works as long the results come out o.k.
Mostly toothpicks, Barbecue sticks, Paper straws and so on (the list is long).