The dark side of the brick

A few posts back , I talked about the droid tie fighter that I rebuilt from the 10131 Ultimate Tie Fighter Collection.  At the time when I was buying the parts for this this, I thought it was the only model from 10131 that I didn't already have a copy of.  It was, in fact, only when I came to write a post that I realised that the Darth Vader advanced tie was also unique to this set. I couldn't leave it at that so over the last month or so, I've been slowly buying up the missing parts and have now built the advanced tie too.   It was a very quick build the other week but I was still missing the two printed round tiles which finally arrived yesterday so here's the completed set (there's a Darth Vader in the cockpit but he's got a very frayed cloak so staying hidden).   So, here's the complete collection (including my copy of 7263): The main observation is how fragile sets from this period can be - the wings wobble around and just moving it around half of the ...