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Spencer Pollard
Newport, Shropshire, England
To build his diorama, TIEs Died, Spencer used spare parts from Revell’s 1/65 scale Outland TIE Fighter. “Or, in this case, I had two to use,” he says. He added bits and pieces from his spares box and scratchbuilt the tower at the back to give the scene more height. “The whole thing was really a proof-of-concept project,” he says. “Could I build it from spares and still capture the look of the Star Wars universe and the artwork on which the idea was based? I didn’t worry to much about the lore that surround the stories, so there will be a ton of liberties. I also didn’t really micro-paint each item, concentrating on the idea [more] than its execution. Instead, I just had fun during the few days it took to build.”