Revell: Star Wars: Darth Vaders TIE Fighter EasyKit Pocket

I built all of the mini kit series a few months ago and mostly I was impressed with results. The Imperial ships seem to give the best results as the rebel ships have a more beat up weathered paint scheme that revel haven't quite managed to pull of yet.

The Vader Tie is a great little kit, both wings come as one whole piece each, the main cockpit ball and hyper drive hull section comes in two halves along with the twin wing pylon internal detail. The cockpit top cover can be opened via a small hinge that fits into the roof. The internal cockpit is made up of four sides and a base that fit into the hull section, as does the shaded cockpit window. The wings slot into place and are held by a pin with external detail.

The build quality is good but there are a few seams that need glueing to be properly closed, namely the seams across the pylons and the rear of the hyperdrive engine. Some of the locking / locating pins need sanding to fit properly and the pins that hold the cockpit walls together need to be sanded to enable the walls to fit together well. If you are an experienced modeller, I would cut off all the locating pins and simply glue the thing together as normal.

When done, it is a nice looking kit, good detail attention and colouring, proportionally good and looks really good hanging up.

Snaps together easily and pretty solidly considering the size. Looks quite nice including being able to see into the cockpit. Paint is bound to be sparse but whats there is fine. Mould detailing is nice. Only minor issue I have is that on one part, it doesnt snap together quite as tightly as I would like leaving a bit of a seem visible, but its not too bad, and the doesnt stop be being very happy with it overall.