TIE Fighter | Revell Star Wars 1:110 Scale Model Kit | Full Series.
so here we are today with the revel star wars tie fighter the original tie
fighter and we're gonna in this part of the
video part one we're just gonna construct
the tie fighter and we'll do a little bit of painting
also so as we will like paint inside the cockpit and do some a little bit of
paint washing on the cockpit also as you will
see in the video so just getting everything prepared
we've got some files got a knife craft knife there to cut the
pieces the plastic away from the frame
or resin parts or whatever you want to call it so
right so just setting up where things are we got our instructions there
i've got them in my hand here also i don't know if anybody gets any benefit
out of these videos um maybe i'll just go straight to the paint
job in the future but um i tend to just stick it up anyway so
anyway we just cut out parts what parts we cut out we've got we've
got a pilot of course a tie fighter pilot
which is number one the chair and number two and the base number three
and uh just cleaning out the nozzle there of
um the glue and a handy trick if it gets blocked out because it's quite a thin
little tube that comes out of this particular glue
thingy and i use a guitar string just to stick through the
hole and that clears out all the glue and it's quite handy glue gun things
it's quite a thin tube that the glue goes
down and so therefore you just get like little
splashes of glue just where you want them on small models
so where are we right we've got another part there which is
the tie fighter controls and that goes into the front of the cockpit
which is number five and number four let me just find enough our pieces there
oh there's a transfer that goes on to the cockpit window
i tend not to use them i find those really hard to get on because i did a
thai interceptor if anybody's been watching this channel
i stick up the odd model video from time to time and i put a tie interceptor up
plus boba fett slave one but the transfers i found a
bit fiddly in some places especially on the cockpit because
cockpit window is a bit curved of course so i i will probably paint that in
myself instead of putting the transfer on
and that'll be in the next part of the video
let's get our pieces together we just painted the pilots
and i've been using i'm not following the paints that recommended it in the
instructions i'm just just using what i got here
i quite fancy using a metallic cast iron which just gives a little bit of a
metallic look on the black and you can see i'll just
paint the base up there as well just get that out of the way
put that at one side so that's the same color i'm using there which is the cast
iron black
which gives you good coverage as well so it's all like give a few
um coats where we need it in the solid places and what i'm doing now is
watering down the paint as it's a
an acrylic paint you see that just got a little tub thingy
oops just to tuck the microphone there and just walking that down
to put some washes on the cockpit so just applying with a paintbrush there
and wiping away with a cotton ball bud or q-tip
just so that the paint kind of hangs around in the recesses
it gives a kind of worn look and it shows up the details
in the model so you'll be familiar with this
technique it's a very common technique and i use a lot of models
on this channel also
so we've got the the cockpit nearly ready with the washes and we will
start to assemble the cockpit and glue it together ready to put inside
the main tie fighter body so of course it's best to
paint these parts because they will be housed inside the main
typhoid body
so of course some things you need to paint if you want to paint it
before you assemble other parts so just gluing it together there and
there we are we got the cockpit ready to insert into
the main body of the tie fighter i forgot to say that some of the parts
that make up the cockpit which we haven't mentioned
is number six and number seven hello with number eight which is the
back of the tie fighter right so now we cut out the main body of
the tie fighter with our middle section which is nine
and thirteen but before we put the pieces together
we've got a piece number 12 and we've got our transparent
pieces which is the the cockpit
lid which is transparent and we've also got the cockpit glass
windshield at the front uh with the lid on the top of the tie fire
there is also a plastic piece which kind of houses the window part
and we put that inside one of the parts of the tie fighter body
which is number nine i ended up fiddling around with it for
ages but uh basically you just got a hinge on that
top lid and you can like move it in and out i don't know why they bothered but
that really because it sort of makes it more toy like but i still
went ahead and did um we set the thruster on the back
i think the video is going quicker than i'm talking here
that was number eight put it all together
with the uh cockpit windshield number 14 and 11 for the top i think i said and
number 10 for the top on top of the top of the lid so
now we're on to the wings there's a number 16
and 18 for the two wings plus 17 and 19 for those two attachments
that go on to the wings of the tie fire so that's it for now
in this part of the video you can see there there's some other um
models that we've done in some other videos
i've got the slave one out because i just wanted to paint the base of the
slave one the same color as the base the tie file
we're doing so i just got that out just to do that while i was there doing
the paint job and had the paint out look at
the tie interceptor which some of you might have seen which we did
over christmas i think over a year ago now
christmas 2018 i think there's a slave one again
so in the next video we'll get everything together and we'll put
obviously paint the wings of the tie fighter
there's another model there um the female mechanical soldier
garage kit yeah so we're just waiting there
and in the second part we will paint at the wings
and paint the whole tie fighter
and assemble the whole thing and that'll be the finished piece there's asteroid
cat she's hungry she wants something to eat
so see in part two and we'll finish off the tie fighter
so here we are in the second part of uh building
and painting the revel tie fighter level three kit and what we're gonna do
here is just fill in the panels on the wings
and i'm using um a kind of cast iron effect
metallic paint on this uh particular tie fire i'm not again i'm
not following the color codes in the instructions i'll just do it with the
paints i've got handy and so in this case just using this iron
cast paint which i've already mentioned and i
kind of watered it down to give it some fluidity to go into the
nooks and crannies and all that type of thing so don't come out totally metallic
you just got sort of subtle metallic look to it
so um so first off yeah just paint the segments in
on the wings there both sides of each wing
and give him a couple of coats get that nice solid color i'm just
painting up a boba fett slave once down there which is featured
in another video i thought i'd paint the stand
while i'm making this model and painting the
stand for the tie fighter in this video so anyway yeah pretty straightforward uh
using the same techniques pretty much the same as i usually do
um for solid colors uh pretty much solid paint
uh a couple of coats maybe water it down just for fluidity
and to make it flatter we don't want any sort of drip marks and all that type of
thing and watering it down even further to put
washes onto the parts where we want washes like
we have there on the cockpit of the thai
fire so just put washes over and wipe it off with
a piece of tissue paper and anything you get your hands on you use uh
cotton buds or q-tips just to wipe off the paint in the more awkward areas
and just sort of build that up build the layers up to get the effect that you're
looking for so i kind of look kind of like
this effect because it looks like the um gives a kind of worn look
and maybe some sort of battle damage look also so it's not totally clean
and another advantage of doing this is if you haven't got a totally steady hand
or some of your lines aren't straight your washers will kind of hide that and
let that merge into the model and you won't get a ton of difference
and i think it looks pretty good and gives you a kind of authentic
looking paint job if that makes any sense
uh the the actual camera ran out at one point i think i'm putting uh
the second coat there on the panels of the wings
but then the camera did run out so i missed the bit where i stuck
the wings to the main body and all we did after that once we
stuck the wings to the main body was just to continue with washes
over the wings and the body and just to continue wiping
off and leaving the paint in the recesses with our
iron effect cast iron effect paint so i'd say relatively
straightforward pretty much the same effects as we use
in the other videos so you see slave one there in the video
and that i did a video on that just over christmas
2018 2018 sorry 2019. so um we're during the uh where
this video is being made during the coronavirus thing in the uk so we're on
lockdown at the moment so that's why we lost a little bit of
footage so we put the tie fight together so you can see where
we're at at the moment and i think that looks pretty good
and we just continue with some more washes as you will see yeah so we're
it's uh beginning of april here and uh we're kind of halfway through our
lockdown
thingy over here in the uk well not i don't know if it's halfway through or
not i don't know how long it's gonna last like all of us don't know how long
it's gonna last um so i'd love to see how it goes so i
hope everybody's safe out there and keeping safe
you have plenty of plenty of supplies and food and all that type of thing
and you're keeping yourselves busy so there we are another wash of the cast
iron effect paint over the whole tie fighter
just applying the wash and then wiping off until you get what you're
looking for so i wanted to keep um the light parts relatively light
i they might invest in some proper model paints at some point
um maybe on this tie fighter would have been nice maybe to make the
body a little bit lighter and use the correct
paint as in the specifications
so that we can keep the hardcore star wars nerds happy
so there we are job done one original thai fighter
revel kit paint it up ready to go
and there we are
so you enjoyed the video thanks for watching
keep safe and see you soon over and out for now
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