See, the arms of Vader's TIE are very hard to render in LEGO, since they're hexogonal, and they taper. I'll be the first to admit, I got them totally wrong on my earlier UCS Vader's TIE.

I'd had this idea in mind for a while, as a revamp for the older model, but I'd sort of fallen out of love with the dark grey look, and those wedges are harder to get in dark grey, and the scale (which wasn't really alterable) wasn't quite right.

So we'll see. I may yet try this on the UCS scale model, and see how it works out.

These "Special Edition" TIEs have coincidentally worked out to exactly minifig scale. I didn't really design this for a fig, but the space was there, so here's Vader in his somewhat sparse cockpit.

The interior of the pylons. The door-rail-plates inside of those panels keep the internal assembly well in place, and allow those arms to bare the interior load of the wings, without any droop or twist.

Incidentally, I really like the way TIE wings look when you can totally conceal the hinges by using the clickie hinge plates, weak tho' they may be. I'd love to show you a short of Lowlead's fighter escorting Vader down the trench, but I'm totally out of grey. For now...