[Alt-Build Contest] Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser Midi Scale (75404 Acclamator-Class Assault Ship)

Wurger49 · January 11

A lot of people were hoping for a Venator Midi Scale model in 2025, but we ended up in getting the Acclamator, which we first saw in the “Attack of the Clones”. The model itself is great and has all printed pieces including republic insignia and the 4 striped tile.

There is no question on an alternate build to the Venator, it’s whether I use two sets of just the one. In the end, I wanted to keep the parts wastage down as LEGO SW is getting very expensive and gave myself a challenge by using just the one set of 75404.

I think I got there in the end, it also used highest percent of the included pieces out of all my alternate builds, close to 100% including the spare pieces. The result is a stubby version of the Venator, maybe the Fat V before the design got transitioned to the Imperial-class Star Destroyer. I wanted to make the front wedge longer and the back wedge narrower but was hampered by the limitation of the pieces available, its’ very important for me that the model to be sturdy and swooshable and use the all of the printed tiles. The wedge hull plates are mostly three plates thick for strength.

I kept the hull ramp design on each side where it opens up showing a row of white 1x1 round plates denoting clone troopers, it’s a nice touch by LEGO.

The Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser had a hull characterized by two wedge shapes and a dorsal superstructure near the aft containing two bridge towers. The port tower was the starfighter operations command bridge, while the starboard tower served as a primary helm and command bridge. To build that superstructure, I had to pillage parts from across the model including even the display stand to achieve its significant sloped presence. Roller skates are used to represent the heavy turbolaser turrets flanking the bridge.

The model’s central dark red hangar roof is tapered gradually towards to nose. Grey wedge plates are built around it. I am so happy LEGO included printed tiles for the insignia! At the stern of the ship, there are four primary thrusters, two secondary thrusters, mounted beside the pronounced hyperdrive tail.

Hopefully I delivered a satisfactory alternate build model to add the ever growing number of Midi scale LEGO SW ships.