Building Bandai's Star Wars TIE Interceptor

Building Bandai's TIE Interceptor from start to finish. As always please feel free to leave some feedback, and remember to subscribe to see more Star Wars kits coming up!

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[Herk_Derp_]

I've probably watched this vid over 50 times in the last month. I ended up buying a kit and I'm really excited to give it a shot! I haven't done this sort of thing in over 25 years, makes me feel like a kid again, I love it! Keep up the great work! Cheers!

[BobH]

Nice build, and as you say, Bandai kits are so detailed you don't need to do much to 'enhance' them. As for the overspray of the gloss coat, 'Looks like a little bit of armour to me, ' or, 'looks like a bit of battle damage covered up by the maintenance guys in the launch bay, before inspection.' So true about not being able to overdo the weathering with Empire's machinery.

[Dilious]

Nice build! I agree, I’m also a fan of the blue/grey finish! Thank you for sharing!

[buddamassa]

Your video inspired me to grab my favorite Tie.. The USAF grey was spot on and I added a red blood stripe for the Barons Tie...wonderful kit and thanks for the build

[michaelcanno]

Great work! I'm impressed on how you made the exact tone of color that's on the box! Cheers!

[milwaukeegregg]

I remember building model cars as a kid...I was terrible at it then and I'm sure I would be worse bless this guy. I would have busted half of the parts by now...

[azkards]

yet another AWESOME build - thanks for sharing

[lxd_scalemodels]

Nice build! Just finished mine along with the Advanced X-1 and the standard TIE fighter. Bandai kits are really nice, easy to build and very good quality.

[foxhound]

'The Force is strong with this one.'

Nice build!

[boomerdiorama]

Another nice kit. I built and painted this one as well. Except I went heavy on the weathering. You are correct, Bandai injection molding is superb and second to none.

[Kharn]

Love your videos, you've convinced me to start building these. 1 bit of constructive criticism, please put your paint color list in the description. Makes it nice and quick to get the same colors

[returningwhisper]

Paint job looks great, love the look of this model.

[AvengerII]

According to either badgrendels or the American modeler in Japan (I forget his YT screenname -- it's steve/fish/dotnet?; unfortunately I am NOT subscribed to him), the reason for the flat silhouette in the Bandai kits is squarely in Disney's court.
Disney Co. are complete and utter control freaks. I think all except those of who still believe in the Tooth Fairy understand that basic fact... This is not even a question of politics or faith -- it is, what it is. They have the meanest lawyers in show biz and are driven by money past the point of common sense (and common decency I would argue) in many instances.
Disney Co. were the ones who attempted a worldwide ban -- OUTSIDE of Asia -- on the Bandai kits. Again, most of us know this now. Only recently, has the ban been lifted -- at least partially for the US. They angered enough of the US Star Wars fan community and apparently we are still the largest market for this "franchise." IF their money-making is in danger, they WILL back down a bit if they see the writing clearly on the wall.

You can blame Disney again for the silhouettes instead of scale figures in the Bandai kits.
You know WHY they wouldn't allow Bandai to do scale figures for the models anymore? Under some damn lawyer's definition, a "scale figure" equals an "action figure" for which Disney/LFL has granted ANOTHER license (to Hasbro, the inheritors of the old Kenner toy company which made the classic Star Wars action figures way back when). SO, unless Bandai negotiated a separate license to produce scale "action figures" for their kits, they can't produce them!
Yeah, Disney wants even more money than they're being paid for the license already!!!!
Utter bullocks as you would say in the UK!
(Frankly, as kind and euphemistic as many terms overseas are, I prefer to call what it is... Utter bullshit on the part of Disney's lawyers... I'm sorry for the rant but sometimes honesty requires being blunt when it's called for.)

Disney won't allow Revell and Bandai to go against each other fairly across the world... They're still trying this tactic of controlled product releases and price gouging even as that tactic is collapsing with other product (movies, for instance, are MUCH easier to buy cross-country at VERY GOOD prices in the Blu ray/4K Blu ray disc era... Heck, I just bought an anime flick at competitive prices through Amazon.uk because the Sony-US release of that film utterly sucked! It's at the point the major movie studios have given up on region-coding discs for the 4K BD format and many, many Blu ray discs are at least multi-region if not open discs, too).

The general consensus is that Bandai's Star Wars product IS superior to Revell's... Why they DON'T allow open competition is beyond me other than they're trying this business of keeping licensors happy (which I'm personally cynical about)... It's about the money again, folks.

[JonathanMcBrien]

Mate, I really enjoy watching your builds - they've really helped me get back into the hobby. Thanks!

[themodelkitbase]

No dislikes here! Excellent work mate - Been working on the Y wing actually, got this one in the cupboard and watching this has made me want to take that out next to build along side their Falcon

[ModelsbyWil]

Great to see another kiwi on here building these kits.
Really like how this turned out, nice work!
I do like your simple, no fuss approach to the painting a weathering. I also like that you are using Vallejo as I'm just starting to get into their range.
Keen to chat with you on techniques, where you buy your kits and supplies and all that.

[timthedean]

Looks great. Colour looks spot on to me. And they sure are amazing kits. Just finished my Y-Wing, and the TIE Interceptor and X-Wing are in the mail from Japan now. Looking forward to building them.

[matthewhibbard]

You’re the first person I’ve heard say, “leave a like, or dislike.” Pretty cool of you.

[finnthechosenone]

I think a full 1/12 scale tie fighter pilot would be really cool hope they make one someday

[AvengerII]

@18:35 -- I think the colors are nice. I think they match closer to onscreen evidence and "look right."

Keep in mind -- in real life, they change paint schemes on military equipment ALL the time.
They painted American F-4s camouflage during Vietnam (land-based USAF C, D, E-models) and bare metal finish with squadron markings (USN and USMC B, J-models).
They also paint planes according to basic mission. Interceptor/air superiority F-15s (A-D models) are painted shades of light blue-grey, F-15E dual-role (generally ground attack) models are painted a dark green/grey to make them harder to see at night OR blend in better with the European forests at low-level.
They paint planes with high-visibility colors for air shows (Red Arrows, Thunderbirds, Blue Angels), senior CAG/air wing commanders (USN service), and for special occasions (decommissioning of planes, commemoration of battles). If planes are going to match colors, it will be within squadrons, not necessarily across the entire service and they're certainly going to paint planes a bit differently according to customs of different countries' air arms. The Sea Harriers for the Royal Navy had a definitely different paint job than the USMC Harrier II's! USMC Harriers tend to have closer to bare alloy-finish whereas the RN Sea Harriers were painted dark blue/navy blue. The Sea Harriers had a paint job color close to what was used for F6F Hellcats and F4U Corsairs in World War II! That's because basic Sea Harriers tended to operate from RN aircraft carriers and USMC Harriers mainly operated from land bases.

It might make more sense that the TIE Interceptor is painted a basic light-blue grey to help it blend in better into an atmosphere. It's probably an aerospace superiority fighter like the X-wing is, meant to specialize across different environments but probably faster in the atmosphere like the TIE models generally are than the Rebellion fighter types.