TIE Droid Raptor
Pylons sawed off the Scale Solutions ball
The Scale Solutions ball has a brass rod through it (to stop the completed model sagging with time), which made sanding it to shape a bit harder
I wanted to use the hub of the SS wings for the ball - here they are still attached.
And here they are cut from the resin wing
Hub glued to the side of the ball
View of the completed ball - the black lines are where the new Raptor wings will go
The Raptor Droid is supposed to have proton torpedo launchers where the TIE Droid has laser cannons - here the lasers have been removed and torpedo tubes made from styrene tubing
Ne wings attached
A glowing droid eye was simulated by spraying the eye with concentric circles of black, gunmetal and silver, all of which were overpainted with clear red
The completed light grey version
Re-masking for the repaint. This also gave me an opportunity to fix some issues that I didn't pick up 8 years ago...
Re-masking, front view
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30 July 2024, 05:22 -
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This is an old build, originally built in 2014 but with a repaint so it fits in better with my current TIE collection. It is based on a Scale Solutions TIE Droid kit with TIE Raptor wings from Multi-Verse Models. The TIE Droid and TIE Raptor both are both from the old Expanded Universe (comics and books respectively) but the combined droid raptor is a fan design. The MVM wings are designed for the Fine Molds TIE kits but fit the SS ball quite well. The 2014 version was painted a light grey but I've picked Haze Grey for the repaint.
