So I always like coming up with my own stuff for like my own alien races or spaceships as I am sure many of you do; but most of the time when it comes to Star Wars I do tend to leave it as is. However upon watching a youtube video by EC Henry about his custom Tie Fighter, the Tie Vector (If you haven't seen EC Henry and 3D models on youtube then I suggest you go check out his stuff now, its fantastic.) some friends of mine have now challenged me to come up with my own Tie fighter variant. When considering how many Tie fighter variants have been designed whether it be canon or fandom, it almost feels like there is almost no room left to come up with a new design. I am really going to have to think this one through and for the most part I'm afraid I'm gonna just end designing a completely different ship. So I did come up with a list of requirements for myself to keep my design in line.
1. Central Pod Structure
2. Classic Tie Viewport
3. Wing Attachment Pylons
4. Solar Panel Arrays
5. Twin Ion Engine system
These requirements are mainly for myself they not absolute rules for people to follow. You do you if you wanna design your own Tie variant. 😁
Right now I'm kinda thinking some sort of experimental heavy first strike kind of fighter; but I will play around with some design ideas and post em in the comments later for you all to check out.
Have any of you ever come up with your own custom Tie variant? Do you think I may have bitten off more than I can chew? Do you think I have set too many design rules for myself or not enought? Feel free comment and don't hold back, let me know what you all think.
Edited by ImNtDead