Background hunter ship Mocs

[Mandalorianknight]

Every once in a while, when I'm stressed out or trying to get over creative block, I dump out some random parts or take apart a set I no longer want and try to make something from it. Most of the time the results aren't very good, and they go back into the parts pile, but sometimes I like to keep them around, maybe tidy up the color scheme. Here are a couple of my favorites.

Butterfly Fighter:

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This is supposed to be a small fighter ship, sort of fancy looking. While the falcon looks like a piece of junk despite being a fast and competent ship, this fighter is meant to look like a little luxury car type thing. I built this in...April 2021, I think? Mainly out of the parts of the phantom 2, and went back to add a few highlight colors in may or june. I think it uses space pretty effectively, considering the shaping. The whip parts are meant to represent tubing for the main cannons, with small sensors up top. The back can fit a second figure and about 4 weapons. For the figures I made for it, there's a 50's chrome spacer looking bounty hunter, as well as his mechanic in an olive jumpsuit, which you can see in the images in the spoiler.

Fishbowl starhopper

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This is definately an uglier ship. I first drafted this back in...I think july 2019, but I made some changes to it last year. This was first made from the shadow troopers battle pack and wookiee gunship microfighter parts, if you can believe that. Clearly, I went back and changed the colors to this grey/blue mashup. If you look in the other images, you can see that while this ship looks ugly, it's absolutely bristling with weapons. Aside from the stud shooters and lower blasters, there's the railguns and missiles on the bottom of the ship. This was much more of a shaping exercise, and I think I keep it around more for the continual modding then any actual quality. The figures are a generic Han Solo type, a copilot with a weaponized arm, and a captured criminal. 

I've got a few more, including a more angular starfighter and a large gunship that I liked enough to order figure parts for a crew for it, that I might post sometime. Anyway, I got motivated to post these when I got my most recent block (on the moc wave I'm working on, I got stuck about 3 parts into the B-wing and couldn't start at all on the other 3 sets I've got left to build.), which I built this little spider-man moc (which is of the climax of the film, so spoilers if you click that link) to sort of get some creativity flowing, and ended up posting it at my friend's urging, and then I figured these mocs might be interesting to see.

 

[MAVERICK26]

Wow! These look great!

[Mandalorianknight]

On 1/18/2022 at 6:38 PM, MAVERICK26 said:

Wow! These look great!

Thanks!

I've got a few more I made awhile ago.

Aerodynamic Interceptor:

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So I made this aaaaallllll the way back in july 2018. Back in early 2018 I bought the ski speeder set pretty much just to part out, and I made this ship originally out of parts from the ski speeder, as well as some parts from the 2015 poe's x-wing (which I took apart in early 2016 and have always regretted dismantling). I then went back and recolored it in a more rebellion-esque color scheme, with the pilot an all-red rebel pilot.

Mercenary Gunship:

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So, this started because in march 2020 I wanted to buy capes for my mandalorian warrior minifigures. I found a bricklink store that sold them for very cheap, but there was a $20 minimum buy, so I bought some gunmetal first order officer torsos and silver heads with red goggles to get myself over the threshold, and made a small faction of troops using those parts. Then, I made a gunship for them, and ended up buying some parts to round out a figure crew. Anyway, as you can see in the images, the ship's main technique I was trying is a set of sliding doors. These work fairly well and look...not terrible? There's also the back ramp, which is a launch pod for the spacetrooper. The ship contains seats for a pilot, bombardier, and at minimum 10 troopers, as well as a weapons rack and spacetrooper launch pod. The figures I created are (left to right from the last image): 4x standard mercenary troopers, 1x heavy spacetrooper, 1x mercenary leader, bombardier, pilot, 2x armored troopers, and 1x mercenary spy (piloting the little speeder I made).

 

Anyway, let me know what you think. It'd also be pretty cool to see other people's non-canon background ship mocs, if anyone has any and wants to post them.

[MAVERICK26]

Whoa. I think that the Aerodynamic Interceptor has to be my favorite.

[MaximillianRebo]

Great models! I'd say the Interceptor is also my favourite and I like how much space there is in the interior of the Starhopper for the size of the ship.