Global Scale Modeller

Revell First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter - The Big One.

OOB build of this very large kit.

Cockpit Ball

Ok, so back onto this build now.

Detail on this kit is good, the fit reasonable but the plastic and the way it's produced is bad.

Cheap feel to the plastic and absolutely covered in plastic dust out of the box.

But it's gonna get a paint job so onwards and upwards.

The inside of the cockpit was given an oil wash and cleaned up.

The chair was an awful brown colour so looking at the smaller version of this model by Revell (a far better kit), the chair is grey.

I glued the chair assembly together, cleaned up the seams and painted with a tamiya light grey. The rest of the cockpit parts were added and touched up where required.






The rest of the cockpit was assembled and the top hatch glass masked off and fitted into hatch.



Top hatch and rear window masked off. The hinge bar on the top hatch was on the wrong way in the photo but was fixed before fitting.



Inner cockpit assembly fitted into one half of the main body.



The front cockpit glass was masked off.



The pre-painted glass had runs and thick paint in some areas so it was sanded off.



Then the glass was fitted into the front half of the main body.



Then the main body assembly was glued and clamped together.



Due to some large gaps, styrene gloop was added all around the seams and left to cure for a couple of days. The seams were then sanded smooth.



Onto the wing panels. These were cleaned up and assembled and the all the parts were washed thoroughly to remove all the dust etc.

Then the a wing panel was photocopied 1:1 4 times.



This was then marked inside the edge of the panels and then cut out to make a mask.



Then multiple panels were masked using the paper masks and tamiya masking tape.

Priming and Painting

First off after the masking was finished, was to get it primed.

For this I used halfords grey primer from a rattlecan. The tamiya paint pot was used for scale.




Then it was onto the base colour. I opted for Tamiya XF-85, rubber black to give a different black tone to the paint.



Then it was time to mask up for the red marking on the hull. I used tamiya tape, frog tape and white tack.





This was painted with tamiya XF-7, flat red. With the black base coat, I thinned the paint 70/30 with x-20-a and layered the paint to get a type of pre-shaded effect. This worked but the photo's don't show it well.









To finish off, the cockpit glass front needed to be painted XF-19, light grey. The glass was masked off first then hit with paint.





With the painting all done, I need to gloss coat ready for some subtle weathering.

Weathering and completion

Ok, seem to have lost some photos so bit of a jump here.

I laid down a couple coats of klear and let that cure overnight.

Then I used a grey clay wash all over to provide a subtle weathering effect as I didn't want factory fresh look but a TIE that had been in the field a little.

The wash was all cleaned up, masking removed and appropriate touch ups made. I dry brushed the engine exhausts with mr metal dark iron.

The kit stand is the most flimsy, wobbly piece of cack I've seen in a kit.

All done.

Excellent build!! Is there a scale listed for this kit? It looks 1/48, but it's hard to tell.