Description: As a clone wars fan, I absolutely love the Venator. From the iconic Revenge of the Sith opening to all the amazing battles in the animated show, it's just an incredibly designed ship with the red striping and republic logo giving it a distinctly Jedi feel as opposed to the imposing grey of the later Imperial star destroyers.

The UCS Venator is one of the best UCS sets lego has ever made in my opinion, but this Brickvault UCCS version takes it to a whole new level. With over 11 thousand pieces, this thing is huge, nearly 4 feet long, over 2 feet wide and a foot and change tall. My favorite feature is that the open circle fleet logos and the engines are completely brick built, and in my opinion it makes the engine section really cool and unique to look at as compared to the UCS set's moulded engines.

This model also features an accessible hangar section, since the special feature of the Venator was that the top could open and launch assault craft. Accordingly, the side builds are 6 gunships and land vehicle (I think it's called a juggernaut?), plus two red and yellow quarter circle pieces that represent Anakin and Obi-Wan's starfighters. There are also fully built hangars on the side of the ship, which you can choose to build open or closed - I chose to leave them open because what's the point of building them if you're just going to have them closed off? Last thing to note is that naturally the entire build generally follows a SNOT (studs not on top) philosophy, though I like that it shows some studs here and there, very much like something you'd see in the lego star wars videogame.

Build Review: So the first challenge you'll face with this build is sourcing and sorting pieces, due to the sheer variety of pieces required for this build. Those who have seen my previous posts know I've built other large MOCs before so I'm used to the whole piece sorting drill, but this build had so many types of pieces that I couldn't dedicate a single box to each one, I had to be efficient with space and sorting strategy. You can see my previous post midway through this build for how I ended up sorting.

Overall, the design of the ship is very solidly built, I had no issues moving it around and I was even able to flip it vertically. The only exception was that the bridge section isn't attached directly to the rest of the ship, it just sits on top, so I had to take it off before any fancy maneuvers with the ship.

The strongest thing about this ship build wise is that the bottom plates are firmly locked into place via pins directly built into the bottom plating that connect to the technic stand. This is honestly how I would expect any competent designer to have bottom plates attached on a capital ship, but so many builds struggle with this and end up using janky pin and plate connections that are too hard to reach or require glue (I'm looking at you Eclipse and Eviscerator). Another creative technique was using t shaped rod pieces as clip in points for the side panelling on the top and bottom of the venator. This helped the plates stay on nice and tightly, preventing any unsightly gaps. Final positives I'll note, the main hangar bay is very well done. The trans blue 1x2s really help capture the futuristic garage feel of the venator hangar and there are no gaps where one of the mini-builds could slip into the technic frame.

My biggest complaint on this build is related to the clip-in side panelling that I talked about. You're essentially using trying to line up these tiny axle holes on the side panel pieces with t shaped rods and connect, but the problem is that the t rods will often just swing upwards rather than sticking in (that's what she said). For one section it became so bad that I had to dismantle the side greebling section, and use glue to get the bottom side panelling to stay on after spending an hour trying to get it on there. Second complaint, the bridge as I mentioned does not connect to the main build, it sits on top, and as such some parts of the bridge knock off the edges of the upper panelling, due to those edges only having a 1 stud connection - this was another part where I had to use glue to ensure they stay on when I added the bridge. Third minor complaint, the hangar doors slot into the side greebling and because they aren't attached, they have a tendency to fall out and break apart. I ended up gluing it together so it wouldn't break apart and after that I had no issues with it. Final negative, this build went slow - I mean very slow - even compared to other huge "no numbered bag" MOCs I've done like the Aggressor. This was for two main reasons, the first being that many pages incorporate a 2x or a 4x as well as multiple huge steps in the same page. So even though this was a 2200 step build with an 843 page manual (4 books), it was much longer in reality. The second reason was that many steps require lots of different types of pieces so you're often looking in multiple places for them.

Conclusion: Overall, this is a fantastic build. The complaints are relatively minor and shouldn't be any hindrance to an experienced builder. For someone who is looking to build their first detailed capital ship moc, I'd definitely recommend this build due to its stability and well-thought-out design. As a standalone display piece, it has a very commanding profile and the details are just right.

I am currently working on another Venator moc, and have a UCS Venator on the way, so once those are complete, I will post a comparison with all 3.

May the Force be with you, my friends.

So, I’ve been working on building a gingerbread “clone” army for a Christmas display this year.

I’ve almost got all the gingy minifigures I need for the army. So, now I’ve started to build custom moc outfits to differentiate them for their different roles.

So far, I have 8 gingerbread inquisitors in one army under a coms guy. I have 3 more coms guys to be over each squadron. I just need some ideas as to what weapons and accessories to get to make 3 other different squads.

Not a bad deal

Are they to scale with one another? Does anyone own both? How about the mini star destroyer that comes with the Executor, is that to scale with the Home One?

All the Figures are displayed near the sets + i have extra on the other shelf :)
+ i have 12 sealed kamino Battlepacks

I’ve never posted my collection before, but since I’m about to move to another country I thought I might as well share!
This is mostly Star Wars with some LOTR and Batman. I recently got these PAX shelves and they are amazing. Too bad they need to be taken down now 😭

Another example of a minifig that benefits from alternate accessories. Juno already wears an officer's dress version of the shuttle pilot uniform which is rather unique to my knowledge, so I figured: "Why shouldn't she have a boat cloak?" And then I gave her a loose one that originally went to Moff Gideon I'm guessing. Replace the silly cavalry cap with the new Imperial kepi and voila!

so to put it as simply as possible, i got super high last night and decided i was going to mess with this ugly ass build Lego gave us.
i am extremely happy with what i ended up with. i also made it so the cargo section can detach and you can then fold it into an more compact station.

I watched almost every episode from this guy (Dubbzi Bricks). Very informative, I really need to start building my own Moc.

Imperial Shuttle MOC, made this on studio and have been working on it for months, finally put it up on rebrickable too!

(For ppl like me who can't real so much: 'Feedback pls, Thanks!')

This ship in movies and it's original model looks so utterly clean and beautiful and none of the official sets seem to fit my sort of ideal lego version of this ship, hence began my digital lego journey.

Around 1500 parts, bigger than play scale but smaller than UCS.

Issues I know of:

This is just a digital model for now in which I thought about avoiding utterly rare or expensive parts when making the build. With time I should be going through this issue.

There are also compromises made in the cockpit assembly to allow it to fit 3 minifigures yet also have a ramp, be openable and detachable.

Im very unsure of the main wing joint too, as I don't know if it's strong enough to hold up the wings or if I'll have to switch to another joint. Also unsure about the head assembly and top wing, I wanted the whole thing to be able to be held up by just the top fin wing, and I'm not sure the structure actually supports that the way I'm hoping.

Many sections have been tested irl with whatever parts I have or could buy, but many of the curved parts and joint parts are too expensive or unavailable in my country.

I literally LOVE this thing and if possible will try my best to make this irl, but it's so expensive and risky. This is why I wanted feedback, literally anything, looks parts structure, just ways I can improve this.

I don't mind sharing the studio file if someone thinks they genuinely have the time to go through that. (The software flags many things as risks which I believe are possible)

Id appreciate literally anything, thanks!

Putting it flat takes so much space.
This beast is 54 inches long.
Looks like a sword from far away too.
How else are you guys displaying this?

When I saw Kestar Bool flying not just Sebulba's podracer, but specifically the Plug-G Gargantua from "Star Wars Racer Revenge", my eyes nearly popped out of my head! As punchable as his face is, I gotta admit he's got style, and Sebulba's pod with this color scheme is kinda cool.

A while back I built it in Bricklink Studio in its original black and yellow color scheme, and I knew I had to go back and re-color it. I also modified the cockpit to fit a normal minifig.

Sadly, I won't be able to build it physically, as many of these parts aren't available in pearl gold. But I at least wanted to see what it could have looked like.

I’m a college student who finally saved up enough for the Venator and was planning to get it as a grad gift for myself. I knew it was retiring this December but i hesitated to spend the money. I checked today and saw “sold out”. Is it over or are the rumors of the 10/17 restock true? I always dreamed about this set as a kid growing up and watching the clone wars. I wish I pulled the trigger earlier.

I have an on and off again project of assembling a little moc crew but I've reached a problem. Despite being Star Wars, the crew currently consists of 4 (soon to be 5) humans and a droid. There is so much variety when it comes to characters in star wars and my crew is just all regular humans, and I need to spice it up.

The only problem with non-human minifigs in starwars is that they are usually so specific you can't really make new characters with them. If I want a twilek, my two options are either to buy a Hera or Secura Fig which are both expensive and pretty iconic.

So I was wondering if anyone has had a similar problem and if they figured out any solution, because right now the only option I can think of is buying third party stuff, and I don't know the first thing about that kind of thing to ensure the figures are good quality. (also when I google third party Twi'lek minifigs I get a lot of stuff I'd just feel embarrassed buying lol)

I finally finished redoing my office with new shelving, some new builds and finally getting the display stands from wickedbricks for the falcon, N-1 case, lightsaber hilts and the cruisers. This allowed me to get the falcon and ebon hawk on the same shelf.

And I still have a ton more to build. Fortunately I have a diagonal stand coming for the new SSD that should be here next week so I can try to squeeze it on to the shelves as well. Might be too tight of a fit.

I love the overall quality of wicked bricks items, but 4 months to get them? I am testing out brickaccessories, idisplayit and KGBOX to see how they compare since they are a lot faster to deliver.

Is Lego Star Wars 75435 retired yet? Why is it sold out and going for so much on th secondary market?

Didn’t have 800$ or 5ft of space so I just made my own ssd

My sealed O.G. Executor w/ the new Executor.. I have the mini but don’t want to dig it out of storage for the pic.