2023 AMT Studio Series Tie Fighter Build Video 1
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- This is a large 13 inch tall Studio Series Tie Fighter by AMT. ORDER NOW AT CultTVMan!: www.culttvmans...
All new model kit for 2023.
In this video I took a day and just started building to see how far I can get.
I was able to complete the wings and cockpit done, and this video will really show you some of the ins and outs of the model kit.
Yes, the rear lights were lit on the studio miniatures. 5MM LEDs were used which were common back then. You can use red 3MM LEDs and just sand the domes off flat in place of the clear part. That's what I did for the build up on the box and as seen at Wonderfest. I also lit up the guns and the floor.
Great Tie Fighter kit👍👍👍👍👍👍.
The way I've been building TIE Fighter wings since the Finemolds kits were released is to paint the panels black, then masking the black parts and gluing the frames on, then completing assembly and painting the TIE Fighter Blue color. The reason is that pre-painting all the hull colors before attaching them when the entire subject is one homogeneous gray makes it very difficult to ensure all the parts are the same color, even when spray-bombing. There are always going to be areas that don't get painted evenly, and when you assemble the parts, the darker areas will butt up against lighter areas and become obvious after assembly. On your build, the sides of the outer frame pieces are darker than the spokes, at least on camera.
this is the way ...
Wow she's looking good
Its really weird seeing the TIE Fighter models not having a clear window in the rear. In some early tech manuals, that bulk on the rear was labeled the entry hatch, and that hexagon was it´s rear window (the top window was not used as a door like in some later models). MPC/ERTLs 90s TIE Interceptor follows that and actually have not only a window there, but the rear door itself can be opened aswell. The part 27, that you can see on your manual is there used as the door hinge, for lifting the door up.
Not sure, why some models threat it as a reactor or even an engine ^.^
Just picked a video to comment on I've been going through some of your videos love the content from a startrek fan lol
That is a gorgeous kit. I gotta have one, no doubt about it. :)
For some reason I see the pilot very small, I may be wrong, but due to the size of the hatch and the design I see it small, exelent video thanks for share,
@9:10... Noooo! Glue all the panels together first without any of the frames. Then paint the black wing panels as a unit. Paint the frames separately THEN glue them to the painted wings. You're doing it the hard way! LOL!
According to the "tech manual": The hexagonal thing inside the egg behind the pilot is in fact a view screen, not a window. The back of the TIE Fighter has a camera which is shown on the interior view screen. There are likewise cameras at the exterior of either wing with corresponding view screens inside. The panel at the back on the exterior (according to the tech manual) is opaque and has something to do with the engine system, but is not an engine itself.
The Tie Advanced is smaller than the average tie at 6.4m in Length where the tie fighter is 7.2m. So the scales are correct
I hope there are more that come out in the same scale
Hi yes Jamie hood said they will do a 1,32 x.wing tie interceptor
@@Ilikemc_donalds Oh nice! Hopefully they're popular enough to do several of them, it'd be nice to have a fleet!
@@ryancole29 Hi yes I think the tie fighter will be a big seller
Just watched Star Wars on demand they filmed Darth Vader at a upwards view so the light is coming through the top and same for tie fighter
Kit looks seriously amazing! Warping - not so much.
Yes. I know I’m a year late but If I’m not mistaken TIE fighters always have what looks to be red glow coming from the floor. I could be wrong,
Those are not thrusters those are the Twin Ion Engines. The square panel in the center of the back of the T.I.E. fighter is a ionization reactor not a Ion engine.
Great vid.. BUT I have to say.. the panel lines on the model could be crisper.. I feels very toy like.
The six sided panel on the back of the cockpit wall and the same 6 sided shape in the center of the back tie fighter IS the read window. The Twin Ion Engines are the two red lit lights on either side of the back hatch. Those are thrusters not lights
Nice building work. Maybe focus your vids on that and not so much on what's accurate or not. Those screen models weren't all the same. So it really doesn't matter.
Can't help but think that BANDAI should make a 1/32 of this. I'm also thinking the 'egg' should have been clear so as to light it closer to the actual interior. At least give the modeler something to work with, lighting-wise.
Any signs of after market and lighting kits for this for the electrically challenged?
@ 11:50, correct. Those two centre cylinder things should not be there. That's a hold-over from the first release of the kit from the late 1990s.
The window looking thing in the back of the tie, is actually supposed to be like a heat dispersion grill for the actual ion engines . Google tie fighter engine thats why the ion exit ports flank either side of it!
You sure that isn't just a post-hoc fan explanation for it?
We need a 1/32 scale Darth Vader Tie Advance fighter!! Not the old one that is like 1/38 scale.
12:27 -- Have you considered the "rear window" was NEVER a rear window but might be a natural plug-in point for the mounting bars they used for the screen-used shooting miniature? (wrote this before you mentioned mounting rod @14:05; they covered these up with screw-on panels on the models. The Refit Enterprise had 3-4 mounting rod points and wasn't an ILM model. The ILM guys always did complain about models they had to use which they hadn't built!)
Just throwing that out there!
It looks suspiciously like a mounting point to me!
I think Bandai took advantage of this to create base attachment points for their TIE Fighter releases, too.
It actually was supposed to be a rear window in the beginning. You can see it as such in the old concept art where the entire back "cone" is hinged and intended to be a boarding hatch, plus in the film you can see the trench through it during the battle. It wasn't till we started analyzing it that it was discovered that the porthole doesn't line up with the back of the cockpit ball very well. This doesn't mean that it isn't a mounting point for the filming model; you can see the mounting block in the filming miniature through the aft window. But the entire hatch would come off to mount it onto a rod that would attach to the filming stand. Later sources would call this a heat dissipation grille, but in the beginning it was a window.
I believe there's a decal for that area. It's black. Go figure @@millenniumf1138
DANGIT!!! I said I would never give disney any more of my money!....BUT I gotta have this model! I will be scratchbuilding a cockpit though as I alsways hated the huge empty space in there! I mean, what do the panels attach to? were are the engines? if they didn't need all that space, why didn't they save on materials and make the "ball" smaller? HOLY CRAP! I'm a SW rivet counter! lol
Just tell yourself you're supporting a MODEL company (Polar Lights/Round 2) and NOT the Rat!
I don't care for the Mouse much, either, but smaller hobbies/businesses still deserve support.
PL/R2 does a very good job with most of its products. It's a company that should be supported.
They're hitting it out of the park with the re-releases and new models so far!
The Bandai kits were nice but they were TOO small in many cases and too expensive for the size. There are also too many reports to ignore about the weakness of the styrene plastic of these kits and the fact that the plastic reacts terribly (melts, breaks over time) to many paints.
These kits are arguably better size-wise and in strength. If you need to accuratize, it's not that hard. PL/R2 has gone at least halfway and made it easier to improve the kits, too.
I'm impressed. PL/R2 did much better than I thought they would!
Kinda going a little off-topic here but can someone help me out? I'm trying to find out what the retail price would be for this kit 🤔