I love it when a plan comes together.

There are still a few small placeholder pieces that need to be swapped out with black or dark blue tiles, but other than that, this massive build is done. I'm also waiting on one more TIE pilot to put into the cockpit.

Turret gun looks better now that most of the not black parts have been replaced.

Finished up the rear engine section with two more mirror image panels:

Completed rear engine section with additional hoses added just because. Stilla few technic pins I will have to replace when the black ones arrive.

Close up on rear engine section and hoses. I'll probably be adding more hoses later because they look really good.

Looking at the engines from the front. Also got the parts in to replace the gray and red parts in the cannon assembly.

I'm slowly getting in the parts to replace all the dark red parts with black or dark blue. It gets better every day!

Progress

More work done on the cockpit

Here it is finally attached to the main hull. Got a little test pilot working out the details.

Incorporated some more hoses after adding two more back engine sections.

more constructionis

Construction is easier when all the parts arrive! Got a little more done this weekend.

This is the beginnings of the cockpit section

One of the upper hull sections

One side...

...and the other side. Mostly identical.

This will be the rear center engine section.

And here it is attached to the rest of the ship.

Still waiting on parts from overseas. Can't really do much more until they arrive. Hopefully they will be here soon.