The best I've seen is probably Lowlead's so I started thinking about what I liked about his, and what could be taken a step further.

So I made the ball as round as I could by making it out of 6x6 radars, and the arms as thin as I could by making them out of 2x2 cylinders. I also cheated by painting the windscreen so only the part that's supposed to be clear actually is. I've actually had that basic design kicking around my head for a good year, but it took the DVD ads to spur me into finishing the trickiest part of the model; the parts of the arms immediately adjacent to the cockpit. They had to be JUST right or they ruined the round appearance of the ball.

The other problem was the wings. Most models, including my earlier attempts at both UCS and minifig scale TIEs, simply ignore the grey parts and build the wings out of black plates. Again, Lowlead's solution was very good, and I probably just would've copied it but for two issues; The slope that the 2x4 wedges made didn't look quite right to me, and it was prohibitively expensive to do it in 2x3 wedges. So as much as I'd like to claim that this "border" trick was born out of creativity, it was really out of cheapness.

I re-used my old trick with the rail plates to get the wings at the right angle, since the proper is angle is halfway between two click positions on the clicky hinges.

Here's the requisite family portrait shot with fighter and bomber. The fighter and bomber were posed together, but the interceptor was photoshoped in, as I don't have the parts for both to exist simultaneously.