![]() While explicitly stating in prose that they’re meant to share the same cockpit ball in common at least once and IIRC twice. I picked up the Owner’s Manual and I find it a bit disappointing, since it still leaves things inconsistent – any of the TIEs featured in Rogue One(/ln, /sk, Boarding) use the new 3D model with the smaller canopy(which I really dislike tbh), but the Interceptor, Defender, and the two Advanceds continue to use the classic look for the cockpit ball. The discrepancy on the bomber I think comes from sticking strictly to your constant canopy assumption, which I thought was the most sensible approach, but ILM/Lucasfilm evidently don’t agree with me. So, aye, it really does seem like they just pull some of the scale numbers out of their backside, considering that the ln, int, and advanced all clearly share the same “cockpit ball”, and the bomber’s wings are modified versions of the advanced’s. The result is a canopy size of about 1.5m, with the lengths of the other three ships coming out as ~6.9m for the bomber, ~5.85m for the Advanced, and ~9.2m for the interceptor. x1 from EA’s Battlefront 2 game files(it’s approved by ILM/the Story Group, so is part of nuCanon), took high res images of the front, right side, and top views, scaled them all relative to each other using your Constant Canopy assumption, and then scaled them all at once in a GIMP image using 1cm = 1m based on the TIE/ln being 7.24m. I ripped the 3D files for the TIE/ln, TIE/sa, TIE/int, and TIE Adv. Hiya, don’t know if this will be any use but I’ve already done it for my own benefit trying to figure out how big I should 3D print some ships for Star Wars Legion terrain, so I might as well share. This supports the argument that the 1/24 pilot is too big and that the cockpit of a TIE is quite roomy. The pilot's eyeline matches that of ANH where the camera hits. Finally, look at the diagram of the Rebels TIE Fighter cockpit.The 1/24 pilot would be looking through the outer ring of the cockpit, where as the full-size set pilot and camera are looking just a little above the center octagon. Look at where the pilot's eyeline should come (also where the centerpoint of the camera hits when the camera is looking though the cockpit). The pilot seems severely oversized compared to the full-size cockpit.Moreover, you don't really see the pilot figure in the movie, so I don't think ILM meant for them to be representative for the true TIE pilot. You'll notice the pilot is grey and not black, like a TIE pilot.Also, ILM never said those models were in the same scale. But, we know that isn't true (the y-wing is double the length of a TIE Fighter). If they are all 1/24, then they should be the same size in-universe. Now, look at the picture of the models lined up together. ILM used the 1/24 figure in the X-wing and Y-wing studio scale models.However, I have several issues with this: Now, the studio scale pilot of the TIE Fighters was a 1/24 figure, which led many to believe that these TIEs were 1/24 scale.
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