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Scharnvirk — SFS TIE/sa bomber
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Published: 2018-03-28 13:26:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 700; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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Next TIE series craft in the line, the TIE Bomber is similar in size to other ships, but almost twice the piece count. The MOC was incredibly fun to build, being very asymmetrical and with plenty of challenges like the bomb bay. I hope you like it!This also is a commissioned build and instructions are available. You can see the YT presentation movie with store link here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCNpy2PEBhc&t=310s
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Great use of the curved slopes to fill the gaps between the 4 main panels on the aft end of each fuselage.
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The most impressive feature to me is that these ships stay together when jostled lol. It's hard to do that when dealing with lots of fiddly bits, so good job.
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Thanks!
All in all TIEs are easy to make tough, because of their very simple shape without crazy angles. If panels were angled in relation to the "core beam", or the sphere would have some nastier shape, it would be way, way harder. The bomber? In this scale? It is literally a brick. Its panels fold when dropping only because I designed them to safely detach their braces, otherwise parts would snap in half!
I have also designed an A-Wing. In theory, one unibody shape with little fins, right? And yet it barely stayed together. I swear you could sneeze in the same room it was standing and something would fall off!
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I have the real lego set of this its so ugly! XD
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They are ugly, but you need to understand they were designed in ugly times.
Back then, you could not design a set with two pieces of the same type in the same colour. This means, if you had 1x2 plates in grey, you could not have 1x3 plates in grey, because - presumably - this would lead to kids having trouble assembling the sets. Amount of parts per set was also super limited in favour of bigger parts (for the same reason) and finally, total amount of parts was also limited, this time because this were indeed ugly times where LEGO was held together only by their technic and bionicle line. Star Wars eventually gained traction, too, but it took a while.
I remember though, when I had my first catalog with Star Wars set - literally first SW sets, with the X-Wing, Y-Wing + Vader's TIE, Naboo N1 and the A-Wing - I LOVED them all. I couldn't afford any single set but I loved them and replicated them as closely as possible with whatever pieces I got.
When a set ends up ugly, it is almost never designer's fault. It is because of corpoworld rules...
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The X wings were pretty nice but the tie fighters were so ugly, good thing they look a lot better now ie kylos tie fighter!
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