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Re: UCS T.I.E. Fighter
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Date: 
Sun, 27 May 2001 00:26:14 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Mark Sandlin writes:
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

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:
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/Xbradford/TIE_fighter_2.jpg
(source: The Art of Star Wars exhibit)

Other TIEs apparently do, however, as shown in this closeup of Vader's X1:
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/books/sw2ij/tiex1cp1.jpg
(source: From Star Wars to Indiana Jones)

Nice work on the model, BTW :) Do you have enough black bricks to make a TIE
Avenger or TIE Defender? I've recently become quite interested in SW Lego
modeling, as I've been rather disappointed w/ the accuracy of the official
Lego models (although they provide some nice raw material).

-Dan



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(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-01, to lugnet.starwars)

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