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Re: UCS T.I.E. Fighter
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Date: 
Wed, 23 May 2001 13:47:48 GMT
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Kevin Wanner. at ewanner@macnet.com wrote:

Yes the lasers are green but the star wars incredible cross-sections
show that the tip is red.  so a RED tip shoots a GREEN laser. I don't
understand it but that is how it is in the trilogy.

No, that's just how it is in that book... which the artist could have done
because he isn't as anal about laser colors as a rabid fan might be.

In any case... this photo from the movie doesn't show any kind of colored
tips on the laser cannons:

http://www.starwars.com/databank/starship/tieadvancedx1/img/movie_bg.jpg

So I think that, if  you're gonna put a color on the cannons, then it should
be the *right* color. :^)

~Grand Admiral Muffin Head
--
Mark's Lego(R) Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego



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(...) If anyone is still interested in this, here's what I've dug up about TIE laser cannons: A closeup of the T/F laser cannons shows that they do not have red tips: (URL) The Art of Star Wars exhibit) Other TIEs apparently do, however, as shown in (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.starwars)

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(...) Yes the lasers are green but the star wars incredible cross-sections show that the tip is red. so a RED tip shoots a GREEN laser. I don't understand it but that is how it is in the trilogy. Kevin (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.starwars)

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