[Snail]

I don't do drugs.

=P

Well we do, ecstasy when this is finished. And I wont be hallucinating, either...

[aRaven]

Its easy to distinguish the original models from the SWC ones. The cockpit glass structs are shaped differently.

[Flipside]

Well, that applies mostly to Vaders' ship, which had a flat glass front, from the look of things, as opposed to the spherical ones of the Ties themselves, whereas the newer model uses the standard central 'ball'. But if you hadn't seen the other one to compare the small details, it still would have been difficult to tell.

[aRaven]

nono that applies to all SWC ties... the struts have more similarity to the rendered TIEs on the TIE Fighter cover box than to the films. The middle section of the SWC ties is more protruding and smaller than the one of the movie TIEs.

lookie look and compare here:

http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://hsfeatures.com/images/tiefightervb_3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://hsfeatures.com/tieinterceptorvb_1.htm&h=480&w=640&sz=70&hl=de&start=19&um=1&tbnid=q4WTc0KH7wCUcM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtie%2Binterceptor%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26hs%3DCQ7%26sa%3DX

http://bp0.blogger.com/_f0n89qKXGWo/RwtRzlYdjYI/AAAAAAAACW8/mNspsRLWVi8/s1600-h/fmTieFighter.JPG

I think the reason for this incongruency is just that the orthographic schematics, which the SWC models are based on such as this is already incongruent to the movie models.


for comparison: http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://hsfeatures.com/images/tiefightervb_3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://hsfeatures.com/tieinterceptorvb_1.htm&h=480&w=640&sz=70&hl=de&start=19&um=1&tbnid=q4WTc0KH7wCUcM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtie%2Binterceptor%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26hs%3DCQ7%26sa%3DX

This incongruency applies to most of the models here. Especially the X-Wing. But I'm not nitpicking anyways. They are still beautiful, but not perfect

edit: somehow it doesn't show the rest of the pics I have inserted...

[Flipside]

Ah, I think I can see what you mean, it's hidden behind the panel in the shot, but I can just see that the 'slope' of the ball-section on the Tie suggests a larger cockpit in the movie shot