Why dont Moc builders build capital Ships as playsets

[Alifeoflegos]

G'day folks. I have a query maybe someone can help me with.

Why Do i see very little in the realm of MOC builders that actually build capital ships as play scale instead of just UCS or micro?

example: first order star destroyer 79150

There are so many capital ships that could be created for those talented individuals that create these other mocs. Sometimes i see people voicing questions as to why we have so few large ship sets.

ive seen some takes on the sphyrna corvettes. and we got a really large CR-70 corvette. i would like to see something smaller. maybe by half.

i know the dreadnoughts are buildable. 

My some love the combat frigate. they have the awing and xwings from polybags and they go up against their imperial star destroyer with polybag tie fighters.

i've been considering getting them micro fighters so they can have more.

Thanks for letting me have the floor.

 

[Mandalorianknight]

Welcome to eurobricks! I've only ever made one MOC of a large ship (ironically it was playscale, but it's not an actual canonical ship), but I'll try my best to answer this.

It's not really a question of scale, as many playscale, UCS, and even micro/polybags are all very much out of scale of other sets within the same subtheme. For why the ships aren't playsets, most MOC builders tend to focus on making accurate models of ships instead of children's toys like lego's playscale sets mainly are. As is the result, most of them don't have play features, though I've seen a fair few with minifigure-scale interiors.

If you're asking if there's ships that come at a size comparable to the playscale star destroyers, combat frigate, etc, then I think there's a fair amount. I don't remember the specific links, but searching for the ship you're looking for on this forum should give you results of MOCS of all different sizes, from some massive UCS style builds to starfighters built smaller than polybags.

I hope this helps.

[campbebj]

I agree with you Alifeoflegos, i tend to prefer playsets as well, full scale capital ships in other scales can be ... space consuming.