Kdapt-Preacher

#105, 106, and 107: Moomo Williwaw, The Last Resort, and Little Bivoli! I think these models are a pretty accurate rendition of these ships, but wow, they're some ugly ships. And The Last Resort is kinda just a block, but that's exactly what the ship is, so what can you do. I do like the teal on Little Bivoli, though.

The Arrestor Cruiser is one of the next on the list--I'm not sure if it's going to be the next medium-sized model or the one after that, but it'll be soonish (again with no promises as to how that translates to actual time). I love the skeletal look of the CIS ships, but I'm going to need to build up to something that complicated. I intend to build them, but they're not going to be the first capital ships I do. Also, Malevolence at this scale would be 3.33 meters (almost 11 feet) long, so that one may be a while longer.

Interesting suggestion--that hadn't been on my radar at all, but I like it! I'm not sure this is the model I'm going to go with--it really needs to be a stud shorter, but I'm not sure yet how to get there without losing the shape--but it's something. I'll have to make some of the other small ships from the KotOR comics to go with it. The Buckshot didn't actually make it into canon. Enfys Nest's ship is called Aerie now, and it doesn't have any canon images. The design that would've been the Buckshot was adapted into a very blurry assault ship in Rise of Skywalker. I'm not aware of any images where the ship is anything other than a grey smear with some engine lights, so there isn't a whole lot to go on there.

Number 104, the Eta-class supply barge! And the fleet shot that took all afternoon to render is already out of date after barely a day. Sigh.

First Light would be a great model--the shape lends itself well to this scale, so I think it would look really good. I looked at it when I was making the Coronet, since they're nominally the same class, but the reason I haven't made it yet is that it's another one where nobody's published the size of the ship. It's probably possible to estimate it if you can get the height of the doorway when Han and Beckett board it, but I haven't done that work yet. My guess is that it'll be about 200 meters, similar to the Coronet, but given that the ships don't look anything alike I'm not sure enough of that to build the model off it. So yes, it's on the list! But I'll have to do the math first, or find somebody else who's done it. Somewhere on the Internet there has to be a collection of people who obsessively work out the stats for every ship that appears on-screen and puts them on a forum, right? Surely those people exist. If anybody here knows where they hang out, I'd love a link to them!

There's disagreement in canon as to how big the C-9979s are, actually, but that larger size is the better one. Most text sources (including the Databank, which is usually reliable) say they're only 149 meters wide (and several sources give other dimensions that conflict with themselves--the ship is perfectly clearly wider than it is long, no matter who says otherwise). But that isn't reconcilable with The Phantom Menace; that would mean the 'foot' was only about 7 meters wide, which is much smaller than what's shown in the movie, and too small for an MTT to fit through at all. I pulled the 3D model from SW:BFII, which is exactly 357.75 meters wide and 166.50 meters long, and based the dimensions of my model on that. I loved Jedi: Fallen Order, so the only reason I haven't made a Stinger Mantis yet is that I don't know how large the ship is. It's definitely possible to work it out from screenshots of Cal standing in the doorway or similar, or to rip the 3D model out of the game and measure it, but I haven't done that work yet (I've been ripping files out of TOR instead). I'll get around to it! I haven't designed scenes for any of the space vehicles, but for some of the ground vehicles I have: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-68837/Kdapt-Preacher/11455-small-vehicles-at-at-tie-fighters-mtt-sail-barge-y-wings-aat-pac-mg-100/#details Enough people have mentioned the Battle of Scarif to me that I'm inclined to take it as a sign. The next model I publish is going to be the Eta-class supply barge (it's almost finished; might even go up today), and when that's done I'll have every ship from Scarif except Profundity, so I'll probably be obligated to complete the collection there (especially since that's one of the only ones I'm missing from SW:Squadrons too). And once I have all the ships, it does seem like the Shield Gate might be in order... we'll see! I don't think they've published exactly how large it is, either but that could be worked out too from the shots of the Star Destroyer hitting it.

I'm actively working on a Dreadnought already! I'm doing the more angular canon version from Rebels first, but the classic EU version will be after that. It's a ways from being finished, though; the shape of it is so distinctive that I think it's important that all those angles be pretty much dead on, and I'm not satisfied with them at the moment, especially around the engine block. It needs to be ruminated on for a while yet. An Acclamator's on the list as well. I'm not sure the Imp "the only paint we had was gray" version deserves to be called a color scheme, but when I eventually make one it'll definitely have the AotC/Imperial gray and the TCW/RotS red stripes, and probably a file for the extra stripes on Galactic Guardian as well. I know there's at least one on Rebrickable that's approximately the right size (I don't remember whether it's 1/1455 or 1/1666, to match the original UCS ISD, but that's only a difference of a couple of studs over the length of the ship), but I've never seen one that I thought was completely satisfactory. The bottom has a lot more structure than most Star Destroyers, so there are a lot of angles to get right. But yeah, it'll happen!

So over the last couple of months I've designed a bunch of ship models... and by 'a bunch' I mean 103 155 158 162 177 202 208! All of these ships are built to scale with the UCS Imperial Star Destroyer, which is 1:1455, or about 11.64 meters per stud. There are way too many ships here for me to post individual photos of all of them in this thread, but all the photos you want--as well as the Stud.io files and free step-by-step PDF instructions for all of them--are available on Rebrickable here: https://rebrickable.com/users/Kdapt-Preacher/mocs/ I'm putting the full list of ships in a spoiler because it's very long. How many do you recognize? (EDIT: This list is based on the group render above, which I only update intermittently because it takes forever to do. If the number given here doesn't match the thread title, the newest ships will be in the later pages of this thread.) I have every Star Wars vehicle encyclopedia ever published and very grand ambitions. My current plan is to start getting into larger ships, probably starting with some of the mid-sized Star Destroyer classes (I don't think my current fleet really shows my open Imperial bias as much as I'd like). Public opinion does have some influence on my priority list, though, so if there's something you'd particularly like to see, I'm open to suggestions! Although I don't make any promises as to how that'll translate to actual time. ;)

The motors they use for the LEGO Robotics line have a fair bit of torque to them, and more importantly have connections for five pins in a + shape on the rotating part, so they can take a lot more weight than the ones like they used in 10178 that just have an axle hole. But don't take that as an endorsement of the idea of it being motorized; that doesn't strike me as being very likely.

I mean, this is a series called Star WARS. Some degree of violence is an inherent part of it; other adult themes are not. I don't agree with Disney's goal here, but it's not completely crazy to draw a distinction between those things.

Disney has been trying to rebrand 'Slave Leia' to 'Huttslayer Leia' for a couple of years now, so it's not a complete shock that they'd be backing off the Slave I as well.

Yeah, I thought that was a bit of a weird line in the review. For context here, a minifigure-scale model of this ship would be about 1.7 meters long (5'7") and almost as wide, so clearly it can't be anywhere near that. The ship to compare it to in The Mando is the Gozanti assault carrier, which LEGO quite rightly treated as a capital ship along the lines of the system-scale Venator or ISDs, where everybody understands that the scale is arbitrary and doesn't have any relationship to the figures (the review specifically calls out the seating in the cockpit being more like a starfighter, which is true of the Gozanti and every other large ship set as well). In-universe it's definitely too big to be a starfighter (or even a bomber, really--it's larger than any real-world military airplane), but the designation "fighter/transport" and the built-in infantry racks make me think it's meant primarily as a troop carrier or insertion vessel and is only armed as heavily as it is because that's how things are done on Mandalore.

Well, I don't know why, but the one from 2006 (6209) does have them, so that definitely isn't definitive even if it doesn't make a lot of sense.

You must not've been around in the bad old days...

Certainly good enough for government work. It should be pretty trivial to put a couple extra bricks on the underside of the bridge to get that droopy shape the Republic ones had, too, and that's the most distinctive difference. No idea how easy or hard it would be to mod the engine block too, but that's not nearly as noticeable either way. Yeah, that would certainly make sense. The Databank entry is definitely for the specifically Imperial version. Internally during the production of TCW, and in the initial episode guide for Grievous Intrigue, the ship was just called 'Jedi light cruiser' or 'Republic light cruiser'; the name Arquitens didn't show up until a couple months later, and still doesn't appear in the Databank at all as far as I can tell. The differences between the Republic and Imperial ships are significant enough that it makes sense for them to be different sub-classes (the differences are way bigger than between Imperial I and Imperial II Star Destroyers, for example, and everybody agrees that those are different ships); but specifically using the names "light cruiser" vs "command cruiser" to make that distinction isn't necessarily reliable the way Wookieepedia makes it sound. The important takeaway from the Databank entry is really just that the Databank considers the ship in Rebels and the one in Mando the same, while Wookieepedia currently doesn't. We also see hundreds of them being chopped up for scrap on Bracca in Jedi: Fallen Order, so that was presumably the ultimate fate of most of them, and that was only a couple years after the war ended, so the Empire definitely didn't keep them around for long. I'm waiting to see if they show up in Bad Batch, though, since that's set even earlier, maybe too early for the Imperial-class to show up at all.

This is one of those things that Wookieepedia has jumped on that I fairly strongly disagree with. The words "class 546 cruiser" appeared in Aurebesh on a viewscreen in The Mando, and the folks over at Wookieepedia have taken that to mean that it is a Class 546 Cruiser and a Class 546 Cruiser only and that that is a wholly different thing from an Arquitens. But... it's obviously an Arquitens. "Class 546 cruiser" may be an additional designation for the class, or that may not have been intended to mean anything much at all (there's plenty of nonsense Aurebesh text in places where you can only see it for a second), but either way the term hasn't appeared anywhere other than that one brief shot of the view screen, and the fact of the matter is that it unquestionably is an Arquitens of some variety. It has the additional small engines that the model in Rebels didn't have, so if somebody wants to call it an Arquitens II, fine, but that's a smaller change than many of the other ships have had when transitioning between animation and live action or vice versa, so the most reasonable course here IMO is to assume it's intended to be a stock Arquitens until somebody explicitly says otherwise. Most importantly, the Databank (which is much firmer canon, since that's coming directly from Disney as an explicitly definitive encyclopedia) still has a single entry for "Imperial Light Cruiser" and says the ship appears in both Rebels and The Mando. Related to that, the distinction between the Arquitens-class light cruiser (Republic, TCW) and the Arquitens-class command cruiser (Imperial, Rebels) is also canonically much shakier than Wookieepedia makes it look--there are obvious structural differences between the Republic and Imperial ships, especially around the bridge and the engine block, but the idea that those names refer specifically to the Republic and Imperial versions respectively comes from Star Wars: Armada, which is notorious for introducing divisions like that that don't exist literally anywhere else because they've got a game mechanic where each ship model has to have two different classes to choose from. This is why we now have Quasar Fire I vs Quasar Fire II, Gladiator I vs Gladiator II, Acclamator I vs Acclamator II, Nebuon-B Escort Frigate vs Nebulon-B Support Refit, MC80 Assault Cruiser vs MC80 Command Cruiser, Hammerhead Scout Corvette vs Hammerhead Torpedo Corvette, and on and on and on, and while yes, the game is indeed canon so these are all "real", none of them actually exist in any other source (or make much sense in-universe), and I would really advise everyone not to make any important plans hinge on those names being respected by any other Star Wars media.

You're right, that was my mistake. I just built both of those sets and mixed up which one I'd seen it in. But the point of my post is still true--it had only appeared once before, and in black.

That new wedge’s only previous appearance is in black in the TIE Fighter earlier this year. I’m very glad to see it turn up in LBG already, since I want it for a MOC! It’s going to be a very useful piece, I think.

I don't completely disagree, but in fairness $70 for 663 pieces isn't a bad PPP at all, even if most of the pieces are small.

I love that the Meditation Chamber includes the viewscreen with Admirals Ozzel and Piett. It reminds me of the hologram of Sidious in the original Star Destroyer set back in 2006 or whenever that was.

At some point y'all are going to have to make peace with the fact that nobody outside LEGO and Disney knows what those contracts say. You don't know, MandR doesn't know (despite what he may claim), and LEGO doesn't seem inclined to say anything about it other than the one interview ten years ago or whenever that started the whole debate in the first place, so there's simply no way for us to get any insight into that process and speculating about it doesn't accomplish much. The ultimate answer is always that LEGO will make [insert whatever product you're annoyed that they haven't made] the very first moment that a) they have the legal ability to and b) their market research convinces them that it will be the most profitable of their options, with the understanding that, as vocal as the AFOL community may be, we're very rarely the actual target demographic and what everybody here wants is not a good proxy for what the general public wants.

I think the problem with the SBD legs was due to the pearlescent plastic they were made of rather than the molds themselves. They definitely break very easily, and I've had a lot of the arms break too, more than should be justified given how thick those clips are. It's like how lime green and dark red pieces are notoriously brittle. The black K2 and brown commando droids don't have the same issue, at least that I've experienced.

Why do you doubt? It's perfect and an easy thing for them to do; is there any reason they wouldn't use that piece? Of course it's always possible that they don't, but this is such an obvious use for the longer hilt (it's the first thing everyone thought of when it was introduced) that it seems like it would be a weird move for them not to.