[MOC] UCS ARC-170 Starfighter (2,102 pieces)

[starwarsfan66]

This is the ARC-170 Starfighter - it's a massive starfighter, both the moc itself and in-universe. I first made the regular version as seen in Revenge of the Sith, and then later I color swapped it to the Muunilinst 10 colors (I did dark blue and regular blue for that). I also color-swapped the regular version to a bunch of different variants just to see what they would look like. The dark blue and yellow looked the best to me. 

arc170 starfighter by Rendili Bricks, on Flickr

arc170 starfighter_2 by Rendili Bricks, on Flickr

image taking_2 by Rendili Bricks, on Flickr

 

Muunilinst 10 (dark blue)

muunilist arc170 starfighter by Rendili Bricks, on Flickr

 

Muunilinst 10 (blue)

UntitledModel by Rendili Bricks, on Flickr

 

These are the 11 other color swaps I did on the regular ARC-170: https://bricksafe.com/pages/starwarsfan66/arc-170-starfighter-color-variants

I didn't want to upload a bunch of unnecessary pictures here. 

 

But anyway, the regular ARC-170 ended up being 2102 pieces (including the stand) and the Muunlinst version was 2113 pieces (including the stand). 

In terms of stability, it is excellent in my opinion. The body of the ship itself is very securely packed with technic, bricks, and plates. And the main wings and 4 smaller wings are all brick-built (with technic liftarms). Those 4 smaller wings can easily "close up" for when the ARC-170 isn't in battle. The larger 2 wings are attached quite securely to the body of the model, but I included 2 small support stands at the ends of each wing just because the wingspan is so large. Though I am pretty confident that the supports will not be needed - of course, the wings will droop a little bit without them just because of their sheer weight. For my C-9979 Landing Craft, I included stands to go underneath each of the 4 wings, but after someone built it in real-life, they told me they didn't even need the stands. 

By default, I made the instructions to sit on the stand, but I did make an option for landing gear as well. The stand is very simple and tucks into a 4x6 hole on the underside of the model. There are 2 modules of landing gears (one for the front and one for the middle). The front module easily attaches to the front of the ARC-170 and the middle one goes into that 4x6 hole. So in order to display the ARC-170 with landing gear, the stand will need to be taken off. 

Also, I know that the large wings of ARC-170 are supposed to be light gray underneath the spot where the smaller wings go, but for the regular version, I liked the look better when it was all white. But it is just a simple color swap from white technic liftarms to light-bluish gray technic liftarms to get that accuracy. I used the light-bluish gray on the Muunilinst version though. 

I'll include a link for the instructions / parts list if anyone wanted to take a look. It will also have some more images of the starfighter as well. 

Regular ARC-170: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-88927/RendiliBricks/arc-170-starfighter/#details

Muunilinst 10 ARC-170: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-88929/RendiliBricks/muunilinst-10-arc-170-starfighter/#details

Let me know what you all think!