I was playing tie fighter today and got in the mood to finally do a custom action fleet that I've had in my mind for a while. I have two extra darth vader tie fighter's in my action fleet collection, both with missing parts... One was the small version which came with the death star playset (missing the top hatch) and the other was a full size DV tie fighter but it was missing the hatch, engine cover, and part of the engine was broken off (I used it in the missile boat custom...)
I had the idea a while back to flip the vader wings around and then cut out a section of them to give it an interceptor like look... this reminded me of the tie-droid and I just went from there...
Tie droid concept:
my advanced tie/d
comparison to the larger darth vader's tie fighter and the interceptor:
I had to come up with something to cover the cockpit with, and since it's a droid fighter it didn't matter if it opened... I found the chest plate of an old gi-joe B.A.T. and thought it would look cool in there. With a lot of dremeling, test fitting, and more dremeling I finally got it in there. It's not a perfect fit, and the head on view looks odd with the flat top of the cockpit ball... but I used what I had.
The cockpit glass was trimmed up using an exacto knife until just 4 of the ribs were left, then I painted the cockpit glass with clear red acrylic paint.
The laser effects are two green lightsaber blades.
