[LordMelvin]

So I was browsing Brand-X's older model renders, and was struck by how freaking awesome his uglies were and are, especially the chirdaki'i (or however the frell you spell that frakking piece of gosa )

I'm trying (slowly, in my off time, when I'm not busy being sarcastic on the internets) to teach myself 3d modeling (after some thought I've decided not to start with an SSD...). Since any model I can come up with at this point will be (of necessity) ugly, I thought it appropriate to attempt an Ugly as my first model. The problem is this; Brand already did versions (may or may not have been before his crash, but either way, I don't feel comfortable competing...) of the 'canon uglies,' which means that I'm going to have to go farther afield.

So, long story short, I'd like to solicit suggestions for essentially stupid combinations of ship scraps that might be available as salvage for pirates to attempt to piece back together. Suggestions like "Cloud car chassis with Z-95 s-foils" or similar (although I don't actually like the design of the cloud car chassis, so that's not one I'd consider...)

[Scourge of Ages]

Great idea, I like it!

Thinking about junk floating around after battles, I would expect to find plenty of spare, mostly intact TIE solar panels floating around. You slap between one and four on any engine-cockpit combination and BAM! Ugly.
How about... an old YT freighter bridge, the engine pods from a Y-Wing, and a few solar panels to round it off.
That's all I have for now, but you can also consider Z-95 and X-Wing wings to be drifting around, complete with laser cannons.

[SpardaSon21]

How about a Rebel Ugly, a Y-Wing cockpit and frontal assembly with X-Wing engines and S-Foils?

[swashmebuckle]

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Clutch_(fighter)

The Clutch:

1) Used as the primary fighter by at least one serious post-Endor faction

2) Actually decently balanced against our other ships, unlike the canonically superpowerful Tie Advanced and (especially) Defender

3) Never had a picture or schematic drawn of it as far as I know, so you can make it awesome and try different stuff (as in Brand's EU reimagined series) without actually deviating from canon

4) Appears exclusively in the work of one of the better SW authors who specialized in fighter action, so it hasn't been tainted by the bad-EU stink

[Colonol Dekker]

Imperial missile boat with y-wing engine pods. Nice simple shape to get you started.
 
 
Or a carrack cruiser with a blockade runner head.
 
 
Firespray patrol craft with four or five tie panels slapped over it.
 
 
Mon cal with isd bridge.

[swashmebuckle]

I'm changing my vote to A-wing engines and cockpit w/ Death Star superlaser ugly.  It would have to be piloted with the Force by a whiny Jedi Padawan, but secretly it's controlled by IG-88, and the mesh is already way too wide and too narrow.

[zookeeper]

A Y-wing with half a TIE bomber replacing each engine.

EDIT: In any case, you should be working off the existing (new) models and just taking whatever parts you need directly from those. It sounds like you were intending on re-modelling parts of the existing (new) models.

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[Pred the Penguin]

Mon cal with isd bridge.

That doesn't make the slight bit of sense...

lolz.

[Black Wolf]

If you're going to be doing bits and pieces of fighters anyway, why not do it a different way? Model a fighter, say a Cloakshape. Then model another fighter, maybe a T Wing. Then, combine them together to make an ugly - a T Shape. Then, instead of having half of one fighter and half of another, you make all of one fighter, all of the other, and get an ugly essentially for free.

[StarSlayer]

A B-wing with the S-foils replaced with outward canted Squint solar panels. 

[Pred the Penguin]

I imagine that'd be the perfect death trap.

[headdie]

A B-wing with the S-foils replaced with outward canted Squint solar panels. 

that could be quite dangerous, the solar array would provide extra power and the squint mounts its cannons on the solar arrays (probably better with TIE/D as those wings are already mounted correctly and also have the cannons mounted on the solar panels) so you then double the firepower on each wing mount all on the same super robust B-wing chassis and shield system

[Cobra]

I wanna see a DIE- and TYE-Wing.

[brandx0]

We already had a DIE wing, but unfortunately that was lost in the HD crash

[Colonol Dekker]

X wing foils on a y wing chassis.

[Angelus]

X-Wing Nose and Cockpit with Tie-interceptor Wings and a, in size reduced, Tantive enginesection

[brandx0]

Star Destroyer bridge mounted on a TIE Fighter hull, with wings from an American Bald Eagle mounted behind the saucer section of the Enterprise-A, with Protocol droid heads instead of scanner globes.

Okay seriously, these are getting a bit rediculous

[Pred the Penguin]

Would we be able to fly uglies in the mod. XD

[LordMelvin]

Star Destroyer bridge mounted on a TIE Fighter hull...[snip]

The proportions are wrong for that. The fighter's hull isn't rounded enough.

Would we be able to fly uglies in the mod. XD

I'd imagine it may be possible, depending on the mission, but almost certainly wouldn't be desirable, since uglies are, by nature, lousy craft to fly.

[Archaic]

"...and arc, in his wisdom, declared he would lurk no more."

i doubt anyone remembers me, i beleive i made all of 3 posts about a year ago.

anyway, everyone seems to be missing some uglies form the 'corellian trilogy', namely x-ties and x-ceptors (my own name, cant remember the canon name).

think the inverse of that chir'daki. the x-tie i think has a laser cannon mounted in one of the  torpedo bays and the x-ceptor has inverted interceptor panels.