Imperial TIE Pilot

Here’s something that isn’t camouflaged!


I did this TIE Pilot over in the fashion of a WWII German pilot.
I repainted him entirely using Walmart acrylics with matte mod podge for sealer and clear floor polish for gloss on the lenses.

I dremeled out his neck and used a 1/6 scale head barbell to connect the helmet. Gives a great range of motion! I used some black hockey tape to help cover the exposed barbell stem, and as a helmet seal (seen best from the back of the helmet)



I also cut his chest tubes, drilled a hole in each side of the chest box and put some small magnets in. Then I glued magnets on each side of the hoses and bippity bam.
Removable chest tubes.

I also made a flare belt using some pieces of pop rivets, hockey tape (naturally) and carnation ribbon.



I gave him a grosgrain ribbon belt, and straps for his chest plate. I also made a holster out of hockey tape with carnation ribbon.





I slapped some decals from a 1/72 Huey kit I had kicking around, and here we have it.

Interesting, vibrant-color treatment. Frankly I'm surprised how "Star Wars" it still looks, but I suppose shoretroopers paved the way. Nicely done. Don't forget to take a look around at other topics.

GubernatorFan wrote:Interesting, vibrant-color treatment. Frankly I'm surprised how "Star Wars" it still looks, but I suppose shoretroopers paved the way. Nicely done. Don't forget to take a look around at other topics.

Thanks man!

What a clever idea. Nice job.

Stryker2011 wrote:What a clever idea. Nice job.

Thanks a lot Mark, appreciate it.

Great job sir, yellows, greys and grey blues just work beautifully together.
And one could almost think you have had some experience with hockey tape and carnation ribbon in the past.

Color scheme reminds me of something similar, bit simpler I did some time ago. Maybe they are from the same unit/wing, haha.

Right, you did those too, Ovy. And the female pilot reveal: what a twist!

Ahh yeah I remember that pilot you did, Ovy, that was awesome.

They may be non canon, but both of you have created some very cool looking SW pilots. They're just great.

ZombieTestSubject wrote:They may be non canon, but both of you have created some very cool looking SW pilots. They're just great.

Thanks, appreciate it