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More accurately, this is the Imperial Raider-class Corvette, first developed for the X-wing Miniatures Game.

The wings look a tad too wide to my eye, but I certainly wouldn't mind buying an instruction manual for this.

The use of Technic liftarms on the fuselage is really distracting with their round ends, and it also bothers me that you didn't straighten out the flashback supressors on the laser cannons before taking pics. I also dislike the use of bricks to make the canopy. The official X-wing style canopy is more than sufficient, IMO, even if it's not as square as it should be. Other than those points, it's a pretty nice MOC.

Sure thing, man! :D I can take more pictures if you want, but I think that will cover it. It's a really strong structure for something that's relatively spindly, owing mainly to the angling of the lift arm. Also, I'm glad that I happened to have a 2x4 modified plate with holes for this, because it has anti-studs on it that allowed me to securely attach it on the back end. Also, I thought it might look better with a hood ornament:

Been working hard on this one, fellas! I think I have it pretty much solid, maybe a little tweaking left to do here and there. I decided to tile the sides and I think it actually did end up improving the look of the thing! Let me know what you think. I left the nose a little bumpier to suggest wear. I also reworked the struts for the engines. They look much better now, and give the ship a more streamlined appearance, and I also replaced the front strut with a single Technic lift arm. This helped give the assembly a lot more rigidity and strength. I also reworked the turret mount to make it look more visually interesting. And last but not least, I built a stand for it out of Technic beams and tiles because it's impossible to fit landing gear to this ship IRL. I know that there was a scene in the game where the ship is landed, but it's clear that the landing gear were an afterthought and I just can't find a way around the problem. Maybe someday, but for now, it's not strictly necessary. The model is still quite swooshable! Even the engines and fins behave themselves when swooshing it around, heh. I don't think there are many more areas that need strengthening. Comments and criticisms are appreciated!

It really depends on where you plan on displaying them, IMO. Even if you get all the pieces together, if you have no place to put it and display it a while, it's kind of a wasted effort to me. Find the biggest area you can display a completed model, and then use that to choose the one you want to build. As TwoSolitudes said, they're all super awesome models and any of them would make a fantastic display piece!

He managed to get one on the target? SEND THAT MAN TO SNIPER SCHOOL!!

Looking at your MOC again, I realized something was bothering me about the taper of the nose. It feels far too blunt, especially when compared to this screenshot: I think if you moved the hinges back and widened the nose by one stud it would have the more gentle slope of the ship in the game.

Holy toledo, this is awesome! Great use of parts, and I love the method you used to obtain the kneeling pose! Well done!

You'd need it in case of instrument failure or sensor failure. It would be sort of a backup for the primary means of visually guiding the spacecraft, there in case you need it, but not really used all that often.

I generally prefer the underslung engines on the official version, but I like the curviness of yours better, even if it doesn't look like it was manufactured by Incom.

Looks pretty great, dude! :D I do think the engines tilt down and out too far, and I agree with Jimminynick about the studs out method (maybe I'm a little biased, heh!). But the color does look great! I might need to do a complete rebuild of my MOC with dark tan sometime, though I think red looks better to my eye than dark red, compared to screencaps. The fine manipulator on Wee-Gee looks like it might work better with a battle droid arm, but again, fantastic work! I might have to steal the design and display it with my Crow!

Yeah, absolutely. I just love seeing weird, off-the-wall builds like this! That's one of the things that I liked seeing on FBTB back in the day, in fact.

Oh man, this is a hilarious little build! I love it! :D

Well, I would agree with you except that the orange seems to follow the stripe along the bottom of the nose. I think this detail is fascinating, because it's a dramatically different color scheme than the brown and red scheme seen in the cutscenes, like the cinematic model and in-game model were made side by side by two different people, and one of them didn't get the memo about the color scheme change.

In the background of the scene where Luke and Ben are pulling up to the cantina, the astute movie viewer will notice a pile of what looks like giant rocket cylinders and some sort of radar dish: If you look closer, you'll notice that it's actually the skeletal remains of some sort of small transport. And a drawing done by John Berry during production shows what the wreck originally looked like: So I thought, why not flesh it out even further, the same way Stinsen Lenz of https://deeplyobsessed.blogspot.com did and make a Lego version of the same ship? In the theme of naming ships after birds, I decided that this ship's original name was the Dodgy Sparrow, a small Sorosuub TG-2200 spacetug meant for ferrying small amounts of cargo from a planet's surface to orbital facilities and back, as well as latching onto cargo containers and towing larger ships around. Small but powerful engines flank its sides and a powerful tractor beam is mounted to the rear frame of the vehicle, and two docking rings flank the cockpit to enable the transfer of personnel from space stations to the ship without the need to land. One of these ships fell into the hands of the smuggler Doran Liasan, who began using the inconspicuous and innocuous looking craft to smuggle small amounts of illegal cargo under the nose of Republic customs ships. He refrained from arming his ship, fearing that authorities would see the weapons and begin poking around and asking too many questions, and as fast as his ship was owing to the quartet of engines on the flanks, he wasn't about to test the armor and shields of his ship against Republic laser cannons. One day as he was making a run from Socorro to Tatooine to deliver a cargo of thermal detonators to his buyer in Mos Eisley, he attracted the attention of some pirates flying near one of the planet's moons. He tried to outrun them, but their ion cannons made short work of his reactor and port stabilizer. He used the remaining stabilizer to bring the ship down, but the resulting crash landing sheared off the portside engines and broke the cockpit free of the hull. Doran rode out the crash, but the impact had shattered several ribs and broke his legs. He attempted to free himself from the wreck, but the pirates who had shot him down landed a few yards away, walked up to the severed cockpit, and shot him as he sat in his chair, still held in place by the seatbelt. The remains of his ship can still be seen outside Chalmun's Cantina as a warning to anyone who thinks the skies above Tatooine are safe. The Lego model has several features added to it. I didn't want to be satisfied with a static model, so the landing gear can fold up and the top hull sections can be pulled off to view the interior. More pictures can be seen in the Imgur album: https://imgur.com/gallery/vs6VVw8

I'd love to see your Moldy Crow. It's also my favorite ship, though honestly, I can't pick between this and the Millennium Falcon, so I usually say the Falcon is my favorite movie ship and the Crow is my favorite EU ship. Maybe it's because they're both named after birds, lol! I originally thought to go with dark tan or brown, but I didn't have the requisite pieces in my collection, so I went with gray and red. I'm actually thinking about replacing the red pieces with orange, because the in-game model's textures are gray and orange for some reason:

I thought about tiling it all, but I ran into problems with the angles on the nose and the windows. Tiling around them made them more pixelated and IMO detracted from the look of the MOC. I'm going to redo the tiles to make them more resemble the paneling seen in the game, but for now it'll be a mix of tiles and studs, which lends it a sort of boilerplate look to my eye. I wish Lego made more angled tiles... I've been working to improve the look of the main features of the ship, mainly the engines and guns. I rebuilt the turret so that it looked more streamlined like it does in the game, as well as giving it the ability to rotate. It's supposed to be 3 studs wide, and I'm not sure how to add slope to the sides of the front half, so I think I'll leave it alone unless inspiration strikes me. I also added the larger radiator fins under the back end, improved the coloring of the engines, and rebuilt the blocky structures under the fin engines. I think the rebuilds look pretty good. I also replaced the 4x8 plate on the nose with a gray airplane wing, and it really streamlined the look a ton! The next thing I want to work on is raising the engine mounting points to be more in line with the blocky structures. The wings sit too low by about a stud or so, and the look would be much better if they were raised up. I'm not entirely sure how to do this and still use the ball joints, but that remains a problem to solve later.

Y'know, this design would be perfect for other fighters, too! I'd certainly use it for something like my Moldy Crow MOC or the Rogue One Y-wing set. :)

Oh man, I love combiner robots! This is such a cool, cute little build! :D I gotta make one for my shelf!

I think that Star Wars is a win for me over in-house. Even when I was a kid, I had a preference toward Star Wars over the in-house space themes, because that was what I was a fan of already. I collected a bunch of themes, but whenever I built a MOC it would be the X-wing, or the Millennium Falcon, or when I got enough parts to do it, an Imperial Star Destroyer. Multicolor, of course. :P I thought the in-house Space themes were cool, of course. But I always hated the colored canopies. I imagined myself trying to use them as a minifigure, and it always made my head hurt because why would you want to look out a window that was colored at all, especially in your command center or cockpit? When the first Star Wars kits came out, they used smoked clear cockpit canopies, which I didn't really like as well as I would have liked clear, but it was a step in the right direction. Also, I think it's a tad unfair to Star Wars to claim that they're all gray blobs with little in the way of color variation. Naboo Starfighters are yellow and chrome, Republic ships are crimson, Separatist ships are blue, many "scum and villainy" ships are green... there is a LOT of variety in Star Wars as far as color pallet goes. As far as creativity in design goes, I don't think Lego ever really had compelling designs for any of its in-house Space line. Most of the time, they went with mundane rocketships or flying saucers, and while they started to branch out in the 90's, I don't think their design work has ever had anything that truly "grabbed" me, even when I was a kid. I think if they were to do another in-house line, they should REALLY consider hiring someone like Chris Foss or Doug Chiang to design the line and make something that's really wild and cool, with the design coming first and the Lego components coming second. Or heck, find someone on Brickshelf that has obvious creative talent in terms of coming up with cool ship design and hire them to make some compelling designs.

Thank you! I'd really love any constructive feedback I can get. I'm sure I can get this model looking nicer or make the structure even stronger. I already rebuilt the main connecting spar for the engines, as well as the boxes that the fin engines attach to in order to improve their accuracy, but I'd love to hear what others think could be improved. :)

Man, that's some good work! I really love the little repulsor skiff build, and that's a nice solution for IG-11's outstretched arm. :D

I'm pretty new to posting here. In fact, this is my first! Recently I went through my collection of Lego and decided to reorganize it. Originally it had been arranged by color, but finding the piece I wanted turned out to be nearly impossible, so I decided to organize it by part type. It took a while, but I got them all done! Also, this is the first time I've clicked bricks together for the purposes of building a MOC in... jeez, probably 10 years! But I've been learning new techniques and such, and I decided to take on one of my favorite Expanded Universe starships: the Moldy Crow! I decided to start this one off by printing out a blueprint I made at the size I chose. The Moldy Crow's size is a wildly hot debate, but I've been analyzing it for a while (see: favorite EU starship), and it appears to be around 16 meters in length. So I used the standard scale of 3.2 meters per stud to get a length of 51 studs. It happens to match really nicely with the most recent X-wing kit, and feels completely natural with the size of the cockpit interior. I decided not to worry about mixing old and new bricks with this, because I wanted it to feel like an old, beat up ship, and because I had no qualms about using my teeth to get trouble bricks to detach when I was a kid, some of them have teeth marks. The majority of the shape is derived from using a bunch of jumpers and hinges, and since it's a WIP it'll probably change in some way. It's got some areas that I really want to improve as far as durability is concerned, especially when it comes to the engines and nose. The wing engines are derived from Brickdoctor's excellent build. I was going in a similar direction as far as shape, using the 2x3 plates with round ends for the front of them to hold the sensor antennas and radiator flaps, so I used his as inspiration for accomplishing the rest of it. But I decided to modify it somewhat to achieve a slightly more accurate shape, with longer antennas and shortening the length of the engines by one plate. I also added the lumpy boxes that are on top of the engines. The mounting arms for it were something I really wanted to improve on and make as accurately as possible, because they give the engines their unique three-way angling. So I used a Technic ball joint for the main one and some linkages to make the forward one. I'm planning on adding some hoses visible in the game between the engines and the hull. I'm pretty happy with how the cockpit turned out. I don't have any glass in the frames yet because I wanted to work out their shapes first. There are supposed to be four panes, but I couldn't figure out how to get three frames attached to the wedge plates, so I left it at two. It looks fine, IMO. I'm going to get some window glass and see if I can get panes in there after I get the rest of it figured out. I decided to use Cassian Andor and Jyn Erso to stand in for Kyle and Jan, because obvious reference is obvious. :P This build will also mark my first usage of Bricklink to purchase parts. I never considered it before, because I have a TON of Lego, or at least I thought. But after discovering that I only had eight of those plates with round ends, I decided to bite the bullet and go for it. Turned out to be a great decision, as I have all the parts I need to finish this build incoming in the mail! I might also use it to change out the color of some of the pieces I went with and get some lengths of plate that I didn't have in the right color for this build later.

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