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Re: Has anyone ever tried to build this before?
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Fri, 1 Nov 2002 05:20:57 GMT
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TIE Raptor:
here's a picture I found on the internet:
http://www.stormsxwa.com/tierapt.html

i did a search of brickshelf and found nothing, but while the model doesn't
look particularly difficult, i didn't find it all that appealing.  it doesn't
have the sleek sharp-ness of the Interceptor, and i think that might be why
people haven't built much of it.

-lenny

In lugnet.starwars, Jesse Alan Long writes:
> To those of you who have built TIE space craft before, there is a new
> variety  of TIE that has never been built in LUGNET.  I was reading a Star
> Wars: X-Wing series book and it is the seventh in the series.  Anyway, when
> I got to page 320, I found a reference to a new type of TIE space craft, one
> named a TIE Raptor.  TIE Raptors are specially modified TIEs that were made
> under the direction of a very dangerous warlord named General Zsinj.  The
> description says, "There were three incoming TIEs, and they were of a type
> that he'd never seen before.  They had the standard TIE ball cockpit, but
> lacked wing pylons.  Instead, four trapezoidal wings, smaller than half the
> size of a regular TIE fighter's wings, protruded from the cockpit at even
> intervals."  If anyone knows more about this kind of TIE, please let me know
> and, for the rest of us on LUGNET, will you please be kind and build the
> rest of us one so we know what it looks like?  Thank you for your attention.
> 
> Jesse Long



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(...) Well, I just mentioned it because I saw people build a TIE Fighter, a TIE Bomber, a TIE Interceptor, and one other kind of TIE with three wing pylons but I forgot the name of it and no one had ever built one on LUGNET before and I was (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Has anyone ever tried to build this before?
 
To those of you who have built TIE space craft before, there is a new variety of TIE that has never been built in LUGNET. I was reading a Star Wars: X-Wing series book and it is the seventh in the series. Anyway, when I got to page 320, I found a (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)

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