A Complete Catalog of Kitbashed Starfighter MOCs

What Are Star Wars Uglies?

In Star Wars Legends, Uglies are salvaged starfighters built from whatever parts are available. Mismatched, asymmetrical, under-armed, and flown by pilots who couldn’t access real hardware. They appear across Legends-era novels and sourcebooks as the ships of fringe factions, pirates, and anyone operating outside sanctioned supply chains.

Kitbashing isn’t a fan invention either. Lucasfilm built the original Star Wars universe with it, assembling ship models from WWII aircraft kits, tank parts, and submarine components until they read as something that had never existed before. Uglies are the in-universe acknowledgment that the galaxy has always been built from whatever was at hand.

The Series

The LEGO Star Wars Uglies series started as a learning exercise in BrickLink Studio: build official sets digitally, then take them apart. The early builds were the obvious moves, combinations that already existed in the books. But around ship ten I stopped looking for what had been named and started doing what hadn’t been tried. That’s where the series got strange in the way I actually wanted it to.

Two things shifted alongside that. The first was color, treating builds the way a hot-rod restorer treats a barn find. The second was naming, where later names became part of the design itself. B-A-B-Y TIE is ironic given its footprint. BUT-Yt is a punchline. TIESTY-70 rewards you for saying it out loud.

Ships 1-9 — The Obvious Moves

1. Y-TIE (2021) — Y-Wing fuselage with TIE Fighter wings.
2. TYE-Wing (2021) — TIE Fighter pod with Y-Wing engine nacelles. Described in Legends-era books as the “Die-Wing” because it was slow, had no shields, and no hyperdrive.
3. A-TIE Advanced (2021) — A-Wing front fuselage attached to a TIE Advanced rear fuselage with TIE Advanced wings.
4. Y-TIE Bomber Sabine Wren Edition (2021) — Y-Wing fuselage with TIE Bomber wings, painted graffiti-style, a signature of Sabine Wren from Star Wars Rebels.
5. TIE-N1 (2021) — Naboo N-1 Starfighter with the cockpit replaced with a TIE Fighter pod.
6. BooY-Ceptor (2021) — Naboo N-1 Starfighter fuselage with TIE Interceptor wings. The first ship in the series to use ‘Boo’ as shorthand for the Naboo N-1 Starfighter, a naming convention that carries through several later builds.
7. X-TIE (2021) — X-Wing fuselage with TIE Fighter wings.
8. TYE-Wing Bomber (2021) — TIE Bomber pilot pod with Y-Wing engine nacelles and pylons.
9. TIE B-Wing (2021) — B-Wing with the cockpit pod replaced with a TIE Bomber pilot pod with TIE Fighter wings replacing the traditional S-foils.

Ships 10-18 — Expanding the Formula

10. X-Ceptor (2021) — X-Wing fuselage with TIE Interceptor wings.
11. TIE-X (2021) — TIE Fighter pod with X-Wing engines and wings.
12. TIA-Wing (2021, 2025) — TIE Bomber pod with the outer wedges and engines from an A-Wing.
13. XY-Wing Brute (2021) — X-Wing fuselage with a TIE Brute’s weapon pod and Y-Wing engine nacelles.
14. Boo Crest (2021) — Naboo N-1 Starfighter fuselage with Razor Crest engines.
15. YA-Boo (2021) — A-Wing front fuselage attached to a Y-Wing rear fuselage with Naboo N-1 Starfighter engines.
16. STX-TIE (2021) — AT-ST command pod made space-worthy (ish) with X-Wing engines and TIE Fighter wings.
17. X-Ceptional Bomber (2021) — X-Wing fuselage with TIE Bomber ordnance pods attached on both sides with TIE Interceptor wings.
18. TIE A-ttack Shuttle (2021) — TIE Fighter pod extended with the cockpit from a Lamda-class Imperial shuttle and A-Wing engines.

Ships 19-27 — Getting Weird

19. ClouTIEY (2021) — Cloud Car with one pod extended with a TIE Fighter pod and the other replaced with a Y-Wing engine nacelle. An atmospheric airspeeder and perhaps my most awkward Ugly.
20. V(ulture) Wing (2021) — Vulture-class starfighter (Vulture Droid) with its fuselage replaced with a V-Wing.
21. B-A-B-Y TIE (2021) — A-Wing front fuselage attached to a Y-Wing rear fuselage with the engines and stationary wing from a B-Wing and its S-foils replaced with TIE Fighter wings. A play on words with the letters and an ironic description of its size.
22. A-TIE (2021) — Front half of an A-Wing attached to a TIE Fighter pod.
23. T-47 Exodrive (2021) — Inner section of a T-47 Airspeeder with the front mandibles from a Koro-2 exodrive airspeeder. An atmospheric airspeeder.
24. Lambda TIE X-Ceptor (2021) — TIE Fighter pod extended with the cockpit from a Lamda-class Imperial shuttle with an X-Wing’s engines and quad S-foils, but the bottom two S-foils replaced with TIE Interceptor wings.
25. Tri-Tri (2021) — Three droid tri-fighters interconnected and attached to a Jedi starfighter hyperdrive ring.
26. Land’Ceptor (2021) — X-34 Landspeeder with its top engine replaced with an X-Wing engine and the top halves of TIE Interceptor wings attached to either side. An impractical podracer-style landspeeder.
27. TIE-J’Ceptor (2021) — TIE Fighter pod with wings from an Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor (a.k.a. Jedi starfighter).

Ships 28-36 — Named Ships and Legends Entries

28. The Verity (2021) — A named ship from the canon comic series The Rise of Kylo Ren. Because there were multiple ships of this unidentified class in the comic series, it’s not an Ugly per se, but it’s kitbashed construction and asymmetrical design made it an obvious choice for my Ugly series. It appears to be a Y-Wing fuselage with X-Wing S-foils on one side and a hull similar to a TIE Bomber pilot and ordnance pod, which means the comic’s own designers were already doing the work, whether intentionally or not.
29. Tri TIE (2021) — A TIE Fighter pod with two X-Wing wings mounted down at an angle and a third vertical.
30. The Deathraven (2021) — Another named ship, this time from the Legends-era Starships of the Galaxy from Wizards of the Coast. A mercenary named Erron Kell enlisted the help of engineers from Kuat Drive Yards to combine two B-Wings around an enlarged cockpit pod.
31. A-TIE x2 (2021) — A-Wing fuselage with the front cut off and TIE Fighter wings attached.
32. YA-Wing (2021) — Front half of an A-Wing attached to the rear fuselage of a Y-Wing and three Y-Wing engine nacelles snugly attached to the fuselage.
33. 2X-TIE Extended Cab Edition (2021) — Two TIE Bomber pilot pods extended with the front of an X-Wing fuselage, connected, with TIE Bomber wings and X-Wing laser cannons attached.
34. X-TIE Cruiser (2021) — X-Wing front fuselage attached to an enlarged TIE Advanced rear fuselage, modified to feel like a small Corellian cruiser.
35. SnowTIE (2021) — TIE Bomber pilot pod with wings from a T-47 Snowspeeder. An atmospheric airspeeder.
36. Razor TIE-Boo (2021) — TIE Bomber pilot pod with Razor Crest engines and rear tail from an Naboo N-1 Starfighter. 

Ships 37-45 — Story-Based Ships and the Firespray and U-Wing Era

37. X-SpraY (2022) — Front half of an X-Wing fuselage with a Firespray gunship’s hull attached to it (serving only to enlarge the ship) and Y-Wing engine nacelles attached to where the small rotating wings would normally be. This ship flies in a traditional horizontal fashion, compared to the vertical position of the Firespray’s native flight mode.
38. TIE/BB-Spray (2022) — An elongated TIE Bomber pilot pod with the rear fuselage from a Firespray and two large wings from a B-Wing, giving it a WWII bomber aesthetic.
39. BUX-Wing (2022) — X-Wing front fuselage attached to a B-Wing’s engine module with U-Wing S-foils.
40. BY-Ceptor (2022) — Y-Wing front fuselage attached to a B-Wing’s engine module and two half TIE Interceptor wings.
41. TTIE-16 (2022) — T-16 Skyhopper built around a TIE Fighter pod. An atmospheric airspeeder. The first ship and pilot I wrote a background story for (see link for the story on Instagram).
42. TUB (2022) — TIE Bomber pod with a B-Wing’s engine module attached at the rear and U-Wing S-foils.
43. T-128 (2022) — 65 + 47 + 16 = 128. T-65 X-Wing fuselage with T-47 wings and engines, two standard X-Wing engines, and the vertical wing from a T-16 Skyhopper.
44. Tri-TIE (2022) — TIE Fighter pod mounted inside a droid tri-fighter shell.
45. TIESTY-70 (2022) — Pronounced “Tasty”, a TIE Bomber pilot pod attached to a Y-Wing fuselage engines from an ST70 gunship (the Razor Crest’s class of ship).

Ships 46-54 — Puns, Droids, and Late Entries

46. Quad-TE (2022) — Command pod from an AT-TE walker attached to the front of a Quadjumper, with the walker’s cannon mounded top and rotating turrets placed on the front, sides, and rear. An awkward, but well-armed, spacecraft.
47. Y-Pod (2023) — Y-Wing with the cockpit replaced with the front of a Mobile Tac-Pod (featured in the Andor series).
48. YUTie (2023) — TIE Fighter pod mounted to a Y-Wing engine nacelle with U-Wing S-foils swept back.
49. TieBee-7 (2023) — TIE Fighter pod with partial wings from a Delta-7 light interceptor and a B-Wing escape pod’s sublight engine. A small, slow-moving, snubfighter, named for a bee on purpose.
50. BUT-Yt (2023) — An intentional kitbashing of ships to spell “BUT-Y” or “But, why?”, a question I commonly received when designing the variety of Uglies in this series. YT-1300 cockpit attached to a pressurized TIE Bomber ordnance pod with a B-Wing’s main wing and U-Wing engines.
51. THMPY (2023) — HMP droid gunship with a TIE Brute weapon pod and shortened Y-Wing engine nacelles. A pairing together of the HMP droid brain with the TIE Brute’s MGK-300 weapons droid with a Pit droid in the pod, to interact with humans as needed.
52. TIEE-Wing (2024) — TIE Bomber pilot pod with wings from an E-Wing.
53. Quad-X (2024) — Quadjumper with an X-Wing fuselage attached front and S-foils attached to each engine.
54. TIE BV-19 (2024) — TIE Bomber pilot and ordnance pods stacked as two floors with wings and ion engines from a V-19 Torrent. 

Ships 55+ — The Latest Additions

55. TEY-Wing (2025) — X-Wing fuselage attached to a TIE Fighter pod with Y-Wing engine nacelles.
56. TIEB-100 (2026) — TIE Bomber with Delta-7 wings and an R93 Refractor engine. 7+93=100.

The Work

What started as a Studio tutorial I replaced with necessity became five years of asking the same basic question in slightly different configurations: what happens if you bolt this to that? The answer is almost always interesting, sometimes genuinely elegant, and occasionally a ship called the BUT-Yt.

The craft side is real. Learning how LEGO geometry actually works, how official designers solve connection problems, how to make a fuselage from one ship accept a wing root from another without the whole thing reading as obviously broken: that took reps. A lot of them. The design side is real too. Deciding what color a mercenary’s salvaged TIE mashup would be, how a droid-crewed gunship might differ from one with a human in the seat, whether a ship deserves a name or just a designation: those are creative decisions that compound across 56 builds.

I don’t think I would have developed either skill as quickly any other way. Working with existing geometry, existing color distributions, existing lore forces a kind of problem-solving that pure original design doesn’t require. You can’t just invent a connection point. You have to find one. The gray the Uglies live in turned out to be a productive place to work, and I’m not done working in it.