Original Star Wars Diorama — 2026
Pronounced “Hangar Besh.” The letter B in Aurebesh, the written language of the Star Wars galaxy, is called Besh. You can find it on the concourse wall behind the hangar. That detail named the whole build.
This is a fictional pirate space station, inspired by the hangars found in Star Wars Outlaws and Skeleton Crew. The kind of place held together by salvage, stubbornness, and a force field keeping the vacuum out.
Hangar B is the front face. The light blue tiles along the front edge represent that force field. Inside, two raised landing platforms flank a central bay: a TIA-Wing docked on the left, a TEY-Wing on the right, and a TIEB-100 on approach through the middle. These are all Uglies, cobbled-together starfighters built from salvaged parts, favored by pirates who can’t afford to be picky. Eight crew members and five droids work the floor around them. The walls throughout use SNOT techniques to build in texture and mechanical detail, showing a station that has been patched and re-patched for years.
The doors at the back of the hangar aren’t just decoration.
Concourse B is what’s on the other side. The main thoroughfare connecting the working areas of the station, viewed dollhouse-style so you can see into every room at once. First floor: a cantina with a multi-armed droid cook managing several orders simultaneously, a pair of Mandalorians in the corner having a conversation that is probably not about the food, a central concourse where a pair of Jawas and a very persistent protocol droid are trying to get a woman’s attention (she is not interested), and a market with three vendors. Second floor: a captain’s office currently being used to negotiate something over tea, a karaoke room because pirates need somewhere to decompress, and a sabaac table with a dealer droid rising through the center and Lando Calrissian, because Lando belongs at any sabaac table.
Year built: 2025-2026
Size: 30″ x 20″ combined (96 x 64 studs)
Hangar B: 8 minifigures, 5 droids, 3 ships
Concourse B: 27 minifigures, 5 droids, 7 rooms
How Concourse B Came Together
The original Hangar B debuted at LEGO expos in 2025 with three closed doors in the rear wall and nothing behind them. This expansion answers the question those doors were always asking.
The design started with a mood board built entirely from in-game screenshots taken while fast-traveling between space stations in Star Wars Outlaws. Market stalls built from whatever was available. Loud cantinas. Rooms where something sketchy is clearly happening. The goal was a place that feels improvised and lived-in, not a military installation. Two custom-printed Firestar tiles, one reading “Cantina” in Aurebesh and one reading “Market,” were already in the parts bin. They handed me two rooms before the design started.
The rear expansion required surgery on a MOC I had already considered finished. All three hangar doors needed to open and connect logically to whatever was behind them. The left door leads into a working corridor. The center blast door creates a sightline straight through from the hangar front into the concourse. The right door became something more interesting: a large window looking into the captain’s office from an elevated position, pulled directly from a screenshot of Hauler’s Keep in Outlaws. From the front of the hangar you can see through it into a room where someone is clearly in charge. It draws visitors around to the back.
The second floor rooms were designed around the characters first. The captain’s office came together once I’d built the captain himself: a figure that reads as dashing but not entirely trustworthy, surrounded by custom helmets, a lightsaber hilt, and a carbonite brick with an Ewok on it. The karaoke room replaced an earlier idea after a parental gut-check from my wife. The sabaac room started with a set of custom sabaac card tiles found while digging through the parts bin. Lando was never in question.
The Aurebesh B on the concourse wall was the last thing built. It named the whole diorama.
The full breakdown, including room-by-room design notes and the hangar surgery, is on Patreon for Tier 1 and above members. Tier 1 (Hangar Crew) includes a 7-day free trial.
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