Looking for tie fighter wing material

[GorFrag]

I want to build something similar to an imperial millennium falcon at about 1/144 scale. Styled after the Sith Fury interceptor in KOTOR online game. whats a good looking sheet material to make the wing panels with. It need not be super accurate to tie fighter panels just something with a nice small ans tight pattern.

[Stu Pidasso]

It's called "Kool Shade." And the accurate stuff is pretty rare. Some people have resigned to using the window screen material out of their houses.

[Ramsayman]

Window screen looks good in 1/72 scale, but I don't think it will look "tight" enough in 1/144... maybe there's a tighter filter or something somewhere?

[Stu Pidasso]

Ah, 144. I have seen people use spray adhesive and stretched pantyhose or stockings to create the honeycomb or grid effect.

[MillenniumFalsehood]

At 1:144, I wouldn't bother with getting anything specific. Just get some finely grooved styrene sheet and cut your panels out of that. It'll look perfect at that scale.

[Zubie]

Here's a pic of the material if you want to find something to duplicate it with. (kool shade used to super detail a hasbro TIE)
http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/in ... ic=8775.45

It is effectively a fine grid of horizontal metal ribbons held in place by a widely spaced set of perpendicular wires. There are some HO PE loco intake grills that have a similar pattern to them, but whether they would work for TIE panel grills is something else entirely.

I haven't seen the kit personally, but looking at pics of the 1/144 model they look visually fairly good if perhaps overscale, but that's not really unusual for something on this scale. They do appear more spot on than replacing them with something that generates a "honeycomb" effect. It's not a honeycomb.

Darth's tie used a more rectangular waffle grid, don't know where from (some plastruct standard?)