This LEGO Venator Model BROKE ME (but HOLY SMOKES it was WORTH IT)

[@Ozman-f1d]

Says that nothing is perfect, then proceeds to show us something perfect

[@crazydog1750]

Haha, you’re too kind. If I had managed to get the back into a decent shape maybe I’d let myself agree with you. 😅

[@InForTheLonghaul]

@@crazydog1750 idk, man. I think the stripes are what make the shape look correct at that scale, at least to me. It’s just so clean 🙂‍↔️👌

[@IM-xs3uv]

Midi-sized capital ships are so awesome.

[@N3WH0R1Z0NS]

I love that the instructions are low barrier to entry and not $15-$50 for something you have to then buy parts for. Where it's better to have something available than "exclusive" instructions because of entitlement to a passion project. Which is deserved (do with your IP as you will) BUT it's refreshing to see nicely priced instructions for cool builds that took work then make me feel like I can spend money supporting a creator .....without feeling like funding a business premium for no reason besides "building and designing with Legos takes time" on a digital asset....

[@ryaninthiran9862]

This is by far the greatest venator model I have ever seen. I love huge and large scale mocs and ucs sets, but this is true perfection. This moc has a perfect balance between size and detail, and the small size makes it a perfect desk display piece. Congrats.

[@WolfpackBricks63]

This gives me flashbacks to playing LEGO Star Wars III during Quarantine (I can't believe that was 5 years ago)

[@silvialanfredi7388]

@@WolfpackBricks63 quarantinosant

[@ryaninthiran9862]

I love the greebling on the side of the venator, it adds an extra level of detail.

[@lukebuildslego24]

Wait, the hanger doesn’t open up?!?!?! Just kidding, dude. Amazing model, and I hope you make billions from selling the instructions.

[@crazydog1750]

Lol, like the first three or four designs I tried that was a feature I was attempting to implement. Quickly realized that that wasn’t quite possible.

[@themysticaldrone4517]

I love these smaller ship designs moc builders and lego are both pushing out, tons of detail in one tiny package

[@BrickStopmotions]

This looks absolutely insane!!! I've never bought a custom moc, but these builds are tempting me! 😂 I know it'd be very difficult, but it'd be awesome to see the Malevolence in this scale! Maybe you could also make a Republic medical frigate and nebulon b frigate.

[@crazydog1750]

A Subjugator in this scale would probably be around the size of the UCS Venator. I think I need some more experience… and money… before I could tackle that. 🤣

[@BrickStopmotions]

@crazydog1750 Wow... that's way bigger than I thought!!

[@Vinicius1898]

@@BrickStopmotions lol I think you can use the Malevolence play set with this midi scale Venator though

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

It’s amazing! I can’t say I’ll be buying the instructions, but that’s largely because you’ve inspired me to build my own, tweaked for how I want to display it (and done faster because I don’t care how fragile it is, or about the underside). I have to say, the forecastle is excellent, and I’m going to copy your turrets when I get the parts.

[@mattheb01]

This is awesome. I'd imagine to get the 4 main capital ships as close as possible. The Home One would have to be a bit larger too. And a Lucrehulk in midi scale would have to be almost the size of the ISD

[@thisisthisis542]

Great job dude! I also can't wait to see your MC80 liberty cruiser, just bought the Home One and man is it a good model. Hopefully someday we could see the MC85 or even 75 (doubtful because of the big ass fin but always stay positive)

[@warfighter4129]

I thought this was a legit lego set, great job man, there`s something addictive about these mini ship models

[@jh6031]

Nicely done!

[@jefflindberg9423]

Beautiful!!! Great job man!

[@legodium3450]

Perfection!

[@patrickfitzgerald4005]

man this is phenominal it looks so good you are a genius

[@EpicGoatman]

Actually, the BEST midi scale venator I’ve ever seen. LEGO certainly couldn’t do it, and definitely won’t for the next few years because of the full USC size model out right now. Ive always loved this ship because of its perfect proportions and angles, but I hate it as much because of how hard it is to get it right. You got everything spot on. Bravo. That being said, I totally get the compromises you had to make in the design: No1- the height/size of the bridge superstructure isn’t tall enough. Though you got the angles and slopes of it correct, it gives the model an overall squat appearance. No2- The snot technique for the “wings” was really creative and got it right. Such a shame that the pieces are so thick, giving the model a back heavy appearance. I wonder if there is a way to achieve this with plates (although I am sure you already tried) Great job otherwise 👍

[@crazydog1750]

Lol, someone else told me that the bridge was TOO tall. So I guess I found a happy medium. 😂😂 And oh boy did I try to flatten that back out. I tried like ten or fifteen COMPLETELY different designs. I actually scrapped all of my progress and started from scratch eight or nine times.

[@Metroyeti17]

Fantastic. If only I could've asked for this for Christmas! Maybe next year!

[@ChaosTheoryArchitecture]

Me, looking for this exact thing for 6 months, then this video falls into my lap. Thank you !!!

[@a_literal_brick]

I'm not really in a place to be building custom sets right now, but this one sure is tempting. Much moreso than any of the BrickVault ones. I hope that if Lego ever does an official Venator in that scale it looks at least halfway as good

[@banshee_2552]

looks nice :D

[@namelastname9774]

Lowkey I like your version better than the official ucs one

[@TheBlackBrickStudios]

Welp, that's it, I admit defeat. The Venator has been my white whale in terms of midi-scale design. I have done almost everything else, both ISDs, both Victory-Classes, Acclamator, Munificent, Recusant, Providence, MC80, MC75, MC30c, Nebulon-B, you name it, but the Venator has been the only nut I could never crack. This build is as close to perfect as one can hope to get. I am ecstatic to finally, at long last, get one of these on the shelf, especially one that looks THIS good.

[@Eric1285]

Wow, that looks great! Super job!

[@AWOLbriks47]

I'm getting the pieces together now from my collection and bricklink. Can't wait to build it

[@konan102102]

I've rewatched Episode 3 a few days ago. I love this model

[@JohannSebastianBach-1685]

That is an absolute masterpiece

[@TheMuddler]

I can't wait to compare yours and LEGOs when it comes out.

[@OpticBlast-yk5hf]

I may be building this one. I got the Invisible Hand for Christmas, and this would look great with that set.

[@GreabGroovy]

god thats a beautiful model, seriously! well done!

[@Flying_Tori]

Is this MOC based on the Ep3 model and not the SWCW model? Watching the video, I love the overall design and I absolutely agree that the bottom is very important. The attention to detail is spectacular!

[@galaxygamer247]

A surprise to be sure but a welcome one.

[@QurikyBark32919]

I’d love to see you design ships from other franchises that scale with these. Like a helldivers super destroyer, or the USNC Infinity.

[@CzytaSieTylkoBarry]

it is perfect

[@Venator-2070]

Thanks for the video and great model. Sadly as a venator enthusiast i need to subtract some points here and there cause i prefer the clone wars version of the Venator to the episode 3 one and this one seems to be a hybrid? That means for me the Open Circle fleet emblems are at the wrong place, the hangar door easter egg should be removed and some slight editing to the back needs to be done (on the wings above the engines). Oddly your bridge has more resemblence to the clone wars model than the episode 3 one wich make it hugely possitive for me and you also appear to have used clone wars accurate engine layout (the episode 3 one has another pair below the hyperdrive housing and has some weird engine cowling panels). stupid critigue aside it is one of the best if not THE best midi venator model i have seen. Especially since you took great care to model the underside with the same detail as the top (many such models have a lazy underside). My personal tip for next time would be to look closer at what source you are using to make ships especially in the clone wars era as because of the many different mediums it was presented in over the years there are significant differences in the ship models (even the clone wars venator is 5 different models throughout the years which have detail- and later even structural differences)

[@brbrbrbrbbrbrbrbr]

i want a bunch for a mini space batle

[@LiquidSolutions]

Oh…it’s beautiful

[@Marcin-qy6cn]

Oh... It's beautiful

[@halocraft314]

I think you should build an in-scale Lucrehulk next! Hipe I spelled it right lol

[@warriorbrickstudios]

Just ordered the parts I am missing, very excited!!!

[@RCmies]

If I wasn't able to sell or take it apart for pieces, I would much rather have this than the massive UCS venator set.

[@pivomanslovensko]

So cool, if only i had the money

[@jamesturgay3641]

Is there any bricklink store that has most of the parts? What tips do you have on finding all the correct parts on bricklink

[@kvasir501]

Is top tier

[@sleepdeep305]

Gonna be honest, it's not the prettiest venator I've ever seen, but it's sure as hell the strongest. I could never fuck with my venator moc the way you can with yours

[@TheOtherGuys2]

That's some really good shaping there. Unfortunately I think it's juuuuust a bit too big for the scale I need. But maybe I can adapt it, shrink it down a tad. Just how long is it, I wonder?

[@crazydog1750]

~35 centimeters.

[@TheOtherGuys2]

@@crazydog1750 Ah, thanks! 35cm makes it about 44 studs long. Close, but sadly my scale would have it ~33 studs long. Still, your build looks fantastic! The subtle angling of the plates is perfect~

[@p.b.5107]

I bought all three of these great moc instructions, soon I will get the parts too. It's well deserved money. The Acclamator is already on its way, but I will execute some modifications, especially on the lower side. Somehow lego has a tendency for serious inaccuracies.

[@crazydog1750]

I hope you start with the CIS builds. The building process for those is a lot smoother than for this and I don’t wanna give a bad first impression. 😂😂

[@p.b.5107]

@crazydog1750 We will see. Unusual building process is the fun of it, that's also the big-brainer part from the inventor. I built some space marines and there it was full of it, that's also what I'm most proud of.

[@Red-zh7vq]

Do you have a way to or have thought about a way to print or sticker a name plate for these display midis?

[@matth3wc]

That's a nice bottom! I wish more of the midi-scales cared about it

[@crazydog1750]

Thanks!

[@calebherring387]

Just bought the instructions I hope you make 1 morbillion dollars from this👍

[@FHT1883]

now I wanna know how you fixed the stability issues

[@crazydog1750]

Lots of inverted plates and Mixel joints.

[@Darth_B]

Can you please indicate in the instructions that the bridge can be red or gray

[@crazydog1750]

I’m not savvy enough with Studio and Rebrickable yet to know how to do that, but it’s only like six pieces you’d have to swap out.

[@DiamondGuyisherenow7567]

While your good at making midi sized star wars ships, I have two mocs of the us battleships texas and Arizona lol, do you have any tips for using bricklink studio? I would love to make instructions for them, but I have no clue how to use that, and I don't think I can rn because my computer is kind of broken rn

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

I love that mindset to free MOC sets as unloike Lego sets or paid Mocs people can reasly change the set to their liking for free which can get extemly expensive for Lego sets like the current Gunship shows even if yyou want it in it's normal colors not Corsunti guard... Which I can love this as much as my MOC MIDI Pride of the Core... As I can aprcate diffent Lego styles even the new 4+ lego sets that are insanely over prices but yeah... My Lego style is much like my pixel/low poly art style ancent and uqniue... KLike my pride of the core doesn't look like it was a '00s Lego set though it is extemly remenst to one... But this is awepomes like I said it look exactly like a USC set just MIDI instead... Which is something that is extemly hard to do in lego and I don't think Lego thhemshelves do it well very much... Like the upscaled Minifig is tghe only one that comes to mind...

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

So um if your goal was to make a MIdi scale version of the current UCS ventor you did a 100% perfect job! I mean it would be nice if it had the same paint sceme of the current UCS ventor... But to be fair that should come with the stuff to make it the same version in revenge of the sith. As I'm sure Lego could sleep at night with those adtions into the part count...

[@FHT1883]

was there no way to replace the ingots on the upper side with 4 stud long "wing" plates?

[@crazydog1750]

I could’ve, but I prefer the look of the ingots over a wedge plate right there.

[@franklarza1369]

I am so upset that I just wasted paying $100 for a republic bricks midi scale venator which was out of scale cause they sent me the wrong one AND it was was only designed digitally so the connections SUCKED! I swear I just about threw the darn thing I was so mad because of the unstable and illegal techniques. Wish I would have waited for your model. Looks beautiful 🤩!

[@crazydog1750]

I think it’s wise to just never purchase anything from RB. I have never heard of ANYONE having a good experience with him.

[@manuxx3543]

Are all of those ship in scale with the official lego Malevolant ?

[@crazydog1750]

Unfortunately not. The Malevolence would need to be about twice as long.

[@manuxx3543]

@crazydog1750 Damn would have been cool for display of that odd forgotten set

[@Name-lw3qo]

Was this made using 2 Acclamators? Or did you just order the parts online

[@crazydog1750]

Just got the parts online.

[@jamesrees920]

Americans Still can't pronounce "Lego" properly. It's not "Laygo" ffs

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

I love that mindset to free MOC sets as unloike Lego sets or paid Mocs people can reasly change the set to their liking for free which can get extemly expensive for Lego sets like the current Gunship shows even if yyou want it in it's normal colors not Corsunti guard... Which I can love this as much as my MOC MIDI Pride of the Core... As I can aprcate diffent Lego styles even the new 4+ lego sets that are insanely over prices but yeah... My Lego style is much like my pixel/low poly art style ancent and uqniue... KLike my pride of the core doesn't look like it was a '00s Lego set though it is extemly remenst to one... But this is awepomes like I said it look exactly like a USC set just MIDI instead... Which is something that is extemly hard to do in lego and I don't think Lego thhemshelves do it well very much... Like the upscaled Minifig is tghe only one that comes to mind...

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

Also yeah $3 still counts to what I said and that is what I priced my Pirde of the ciore MOC at too on Itch as I'm much more comfble with platform then rebrickble and forcing me to be social... A person disabled for a ton of stuff but in this case autism that makes me incable of being social that Rebrickble requires... Like even my freinds I've had for over 10 years now and my best friend since I was a few months old I;'m 29 now don't talk but every few years and only exchange text at least a night every few months... So yeah safe to say I'll never be able to post paid mocs on rebricknble... Also I don't understand this policy as no other platform has that infact most platforms let you sell things as soon as yyou make an account...

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

Also I now how hard to make stuff swooshble and up to Lego's standard of fall apartness which let's be honest Lego tends to forget sometimes... As it was a pain to make my Moc Midi scale pride of the core that... Dispiyte how simple it looks compared to yours or any Lego midi scale set since the nabolon B...