[MOC] MINIs from The Acolyte - 6 New models

obijon · February 28

Hello everyone.

It’s been a long while since I posted anything but I have been building. Having watched Acolyte last year (I quite enjoyed it – the witches for one thing did not bother me being a fan of Clone Wars) there were quite a few nice new ships to build. I had the prototypes built and the last bricklink order arrived just before Christmas. I was going to build the models and do my (bad) photography over the holidays but life took over. A bad bout of flu which turned into a bad chest infection (coughing blood!) put paid to that plan (ill for 3 weeks!) and then year-end with work meant I have been busy. But finally…….

……..here we have six new models and six custom minifigures as there are no official sets.

POLAN JEDI TRANSPORT

The main ship of the show and the model I spent the most time on. The one thing I wanted to do with this one was make the hyperdive section separate from the main body like in the show. This was the main trick with the model. The 2x2 plate/tile with 2 studs which slides into the gap on the hyperdrive and also the 1x1 round stud on the hyperdive section which sticks to the 1x3 jumper plate on the engine section of the shuttle provides enough clutch so that it stays together and is swooshable and then pulls apart without breaking. The fins on the back of the hyperdrive are attached using 1x2 wheel plates with the pins attached to 1x1 round plates with holes. I really like how his model turned out. Displayed with a custom Jedi Master Sol figure.

ESCAPE SHIP

Following on nicely from the Polan is the Polan’s little escape ship. Obviously not to scale with the Polan model! A simple little model, no tricks but captures the shape nicely. Displayed with a custom Mae figure.

EXILE II

A unique design for a ship this one. The difficult part was how to attach the fins top and bottom without them being wider than the side pylons. The 1x2 plates with technic holes solved this perfectly and allowed the 1x1 headlight plates to attach into them to build the cockpit section and front beam to hold everything together. The colour choice of the model was based on the production model. The wedge plates for the fins are not available in sand green so I used light grey. I think the overall proportions are pretty close. Displayed with a custom Stranger/Qimir figure.

JEDI VECTOR STARFIGHTER

A really nice looking starfighter this one. No real tricks on this one either. The ship is built along 2 pairs of umbrella stands which clip to the main hull and attach the wings. The colour scheme reminds me of Poe’s starfighter. A really striking little model which adds a splash of colour to the collection. The pictrues also make this model look a lot larger than it actually is. I think I nailed this one! Displayed with a custom Yord Fandar figure.

PALWICK PRISON SHIP

Another unique design this one for Star Wars. For some reason the front section reminds me of the Oberth-Class USS Grissom from Star Trek III minus the control tower? Another model which is quite a simple build but captures the overall shape of the source material without any real building tricks. Displayed with a custom droid prison warden. I think the castle helmet works well with the green robot eyes.

CANTAROS

Lastly for this update, the model I am least happy with. Mainly because I could not get enough decent reference pictures for the rear of the ship. The engines etc are a bit of a guess. I have built it using bricks for the wings and the model turned out how I envisaged it but if more references become available this one will get updated probably. I have used red rather than dark red as the 2 x 6 wedge plates used at the rear of the wings are not available in dark red (or weren’t at time of building). It’s quite a nice-looking model, just not sure of its overall accuracy. Displayed with a custom Venestra Wroh minifigure.