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So, I've been kicking around designing a smaller Mon Calamari cruiser for a while now, but had always held back. For one thing, I don't think MC ships tend to translate well into Lego unless you go almost obscenely large, and I wanted to do something that would A) fit in well with the small fleet I'm assembling, B) occupy roughly the same scale, and C) not be something requiring the mortgaging of property to assemble. This, of course, ruled out the largest of the Mon Calamari ships - the MC80s and above (well-know Liberty and Home One types), but I wasn't totally in love with the smaller options, either. If I was going to stick strictly to cannon or even legends material, I was really forced to choose between the smaller MC30 frigate and the bigger MC40 light cruiser (the latter from the X-Wing and TIE Fighter games), and I didn't feel confident enough working with these fleshy-looking warships yet to to do the MC40, and did not care enough for the MC30 to try (although, looking back on it, the MC40's simple shape would have been easier than the ship I wound up constructing, so I may do one of these later). Ultimately, I settled on creating a hybrid vessel of my own design - the MC35 destroyer escort. Even though I don't really like the SW: Armada ship overall, I really appreciated the efforts of the MC30's creators to incorporate some exposed details into the more tradition Mon Calamari lines, so my boat would employ these, too, but restrict them to a single compartment - engineering, which would be open to aid in cooling the ship's large hyperdrive. Like with all my capital ships, I did my best to build in multiple interior scenes. Anyway, this is what I came up with: Exterior Interior Captain's Cabin: Bridge/Briefing Room: Engineering: Obviously it's not perfect, but I feel like it was a pretty decent first effort. Total part count is a little under 1,700 pieces, which makes it roughly 1,000 pieces smaller than my Dreadnaught (though I still consider that the superior build). This isn't too bad considering that they're about the same size:
