| Star Wars TIE Predator This variant of the TIE family of spacecraft never appeared in any of the movies, only in some Star Wars comic books. A detailed description can be found at Star Wars Wikia. I got this kit from Scale Solutions, an Australian company that produces resin kits of (mostly) Star Wars subjects. This kit only consisted of three main parts - two wings and the main body. The resin casting was exceptional - a dense but workable resin, with no pinholes and some wire reinforcements in some areas. However, I found some problems with the kit. The casting picked up all the detail of the original master and unfortunately the master had some very rough sections - the panel lines were not well done and many of the joints were not finished very well. The biggest problem was that both wings were cast with a two part mold and the molds did not line up exactly. This lead to a very noticeable stepped seam all around the outer edge. In order to hide this I decided to machine a groove on each edge of the wing and fill in with a three piece, stepped edging. That's when I found the third problem with this kit, in that one of the wings was warped and the groove kind of wandered a bit. Base Kit(s): 1/72 scale Scale Solutions TIE Predator Finished: May 2011 Modifications/Additions: - milled a groove on upper and lower edge of wings and filled with three styrene strips - added 'greeblie bits' to rear of body for mechanical pieces to operate the wings. - routed out the front of pod to give the semblance of an interior - added front window, panel and interior pieces from a Fine Molds TIE Fighter - modified a Fine Molds TIE Fighter stand to mount the model - Tamiya XF-66 Light Gray was thinned and shot through an airbrush. - some XF-53 was brush painted for smaller details - the solar panels are Tamiya X-18 semi-gloss black, decanted and shot through an airbrush - black wash was added to bring out the details Click on Thumbnail to see detailed image. These images are 1024 x 768 and should load reasonably quickly, depending on your connection speed. |
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Evan Jones Sci-Fi Models
