The dark side of the brick

Last weekend saw me deconstruct 75192 but this week seems to have gone by without much Legoing.  That's perhaps not quite true as I bought most of the parts for two MOCs which I'll finish off and build at some point in the next couple of weeks. However, tonight's challenge is to deconstruct the three largest non-UCS TIE fighters:  9492 from 2012 with 413 parts 75101 (First Order Special Forces TIE) from 2015 with 530 parts 75211 (Imperial TIE fighter) from 2018 with 519 parts All of these look and feel quite similar, mainly due to the fact that they all share the same basic wing design.  As such, they're all exactly the same height and depth.  That said, they are all very slightly different widths, with each slightly wider than the previous iteration. They all come with excellent detail packed in to a relatively small number of bricks and interestingly the 2018 set returns to the old printed 4x4 hatch dish that hadn't featured for years.  Equally, all have ex...

Today's double bill is a pair of Tie Fighters - 75101 First Order Special Forces and 75211 Imperial standard. These were both BNIB sets I've picked up from Ebay though it took me ages to get hold of the latter. It turns out that these are near identical in terms of size and design but the inverse of each other in colour!  I started with the First Order Tie and was able to build most of the wing section of the second tie without looking at the instructions.  Neither took me longer than about 50 mins. I prefer the First Order Tie - three printed dishes does it for me, along with the blocky detail around the wing spars.