>>212763150 (OP)
The best TIE Fighter is the friends we make along the way.

>>212763356
those must be old photos, because impressively most of those guys are not over weight
I'm also partial to the Tie Advanced

>TIE glider

>>212763448
I'm with you on that one, dude. Something about the wedged shape design, shields and hyperdrive and life support. I'm all for it.

>>212763356
The kid’s works because he is Vader inside the ship. The invalids work because they are half machine already. The rest are perplexing.

>>212763150 (OP)
TIEs with turbolasers slapped on are always a good option.

>>212763725
One of the few good additions to come from the Solo movie.

Fly am I so man of an embarrassing purpleson? Somnam that’s no me, no we , no we, fuck no. Hit them with the should have kept in it in my, but they wouldn’t do that they know when they.

>>212763725
That's fucking sick to all hell.
Is this an official release of the old Action Fleet collection or is that a customized model?

>>212763832
>>212763931
meds

>>212764169
Pretty sure that was a custom job from the original standard TIE model from that line. There's also this fine chestnut done in a similar fashion.

>>212764506
Love blowing these fuckers up in Empire at War.

I really like a lot of Star Wars ship designs, but my problem will always be that while the original trilogy was pretty creative in their designs, it just causes people to be like "Ok but what if we took these as a base and just made a ton of crazy variations and shit that are even better than the base ones?" and it's like...ok yes, but that just cheapens the ones in the movie.

Like the whole point was, TIE fighters were cool but they were mook ships, and Vader had his special Advanced version that was bigger and different. But if you also had 10,000 OTHER designs with all these way crazier patterns and utilities, why weren't those being used? It just makes the original stuff look stupid by undermining the utility.

>>212764194
I kneel.

>>212764664
Your standard TIE fighter was meant to be designed so that any backwater hick and eight-pounder waterhead asshole could pilot it. TIE pilots didn't get attached to their TIE's the same way X-Wing or Y-Wing pilots would get attached to their ships. A TIE was a TIE was a TIE.
The ones you saw in the original trilogy were an evolution of the ETA-2 Jedi starfighter, itself being an evolution from the Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor. The TIE fighters seen in the films were ships with the mentality of maintaining an Empire, rather than building it at the time. "Cheap" is actually the correct operative word there. The TIE Fighters we see in the film are the Japanese Zero's of space: sleek, fast, deadly, nimble, but any stray shot at it and the whole thing just bursts into flames. No shields, no life supports, no hyperdrive, no pressurized cabin, little vision out of the top of the vehicle, no visibility out the starboard or port having been obstructed by the wings, so you can only see out the front canopy window and what the sensor systems pick up. They look cheap because they are cheap. Vader's TIE fighter solved all those problems, but it was expensive to produce and the Imperial higher ups didn't want funding to their fancy Star Destroyers to be slashed along with the Death Star draining precious resources at the time too.

>>212763598
I laughed at that one too

>>212764194
I loved that game. It was so much better than X-Wing

Name one single use for this

>>212764953
Dangerously based and epic short film, one of the best and most original ever. Its up there with Troops.

Guy was a known lurker here too.

>>212765007
subverting functional civilizations.

>>212765007
armageddon

>>212765038
lol
i didn’t even think of that until you mentioned it

they should have called it a Kike Fighter

>>212763150 (OP)
This stupid toy commercial ruined millions of men

>>212765007
>>212765038
didn't see it at all until it was pointed out

>>212763658
It was going to be even more advanced with four chin guns and extra wing geometry but got toned down for the final film model.

>>212763150 (OP)
Tie cyclone

>>212765007
Spinning. Its a neat trick.

>>212763150 (OP)
Have sex.

>>212765360
but every time i have sex, i go to jail for it

>>212765360
She no match for TIE Fighter: Japan

>>212765360
I do cause I'm your real dad.

TIE Interceptor and this custom TIE Interceptor with 4 turbo lasers

>>212764194
it taught me the empire were the good guys

>The predecessor to the X-wing
>Barely any screen time

Its criminal really. Coolest ship in the franchise

>>212763150 (OP)
>TIE Ring
doesn't have a twin ion engine.

I'll take the TIE VIP shuttle because I'm a very important penis

>>212764506
damn there was a time I had a pretty great spread of these.

the action fleet A-Wing looked awesome, they didn't have to mess with it's dimensions like at all.

>>212765701

I never really liked any of the AotC and RotS designs. I get that they're ment to be precursors for familiar craft, but they still all look overdesigned with too many bits. Just like everything in the prequels really.

>>212765892
those old cross section starwars books actually pointed this out saying the republic era was a time of opulence, art, etc so everything was over designed and prioritized aesthetics

whereas the empire era was purely utilitarian and prioritized functionality

>>212763770
Can't be having no heavily armored TIEs threatening to give pilots autonomy from their carriers now.

>>212766002

They can use any kind of excuses after the fact. The designs just don't do it for me. Any OT design I can get behind 100%, not even a matter of nostalgia.
In the prequels I only found two of the cool enough. Naboo starfighter and Grievous' personal ship. Both of those look very cool.
But the clone ship stuff looks lame to me and so do the separatist ships and craft.

>>212766057
i like the clone gunships :)

>>212766098

Well I think they SUCK!!