r/spaceships 1d ago

News / Meta September 2026 Spaceship Build Challenge 🚀 | Cargo Hauler | Built in ANYTHING!

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September is here, so let's go forward with yet another build challenge!

Your task: Design a spaceship using ANYTHING at your disposal

Theme: Cargo Hauler

Rules

  • Create a vessel meant to haul cargo
  • You can use ANY medium to build the ship - No Man's Sky, Lego, Starfield, cardboard, Space Engineers, pen and paper, etc. - whatever is at your disposal
  • It can be small or large, practical or just cool looking, but it needs to fit the theme
  • Use the Build Challenge Entry Post Flair to share your spaceship on r/spaceships
  • You can post a maximum of 2 entries

Share screenshots from multiple angles (if possible) and, if you'd like, tell us a bit about your ship's backstory in the body of the post or in the comments - it can help in the final decision process of who will be chosen as the winner of this build challenge.

Speaking of the winner, they will get a unique User Flair that they will be able to show off on this sub. We will once again consolidate the entries and put them into a poll post where you will decide who should win.

You all have until Monday, September 21st, to post your creations.

Let’s haul some cargo!


r/spaceships 3d ago

Tabletop Wargaming New Video - Fan Made Ships

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4 Upvotes

r/spaceships 7h ago

3D / Models Corellian Engineering Corporation VCX-230 Strike Craft [OC]

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69 Upvotes

r/spaceships 13h ago

Artwork Painted these Heavy Scouts.

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87 Upvotes

r/spaceships 6h ago

Build Challenge Entry Magnar Magnate-Cargo Build Challenge

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15 Upvotes

The Magnar Magnate’s primary objective is to transport minerals and native flora/fauna samples from its base of operations on Magnar, in the Delta Pavonis system.

Made using the shipbuilder in Starfield(video game).


r/spaceships 12h ago

Artwork John Berkey

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49 Upvotes

r/spaceships 5h ago

Games [OC] Introducing the MMW IronCarapace — A Playable Heavy Armor Fleet Carrier

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10 Upvotes

Introducing the MMW IronCarapace, a Heavy Armor Fleet Carrier now live in MySpace.
At 1,400 meters long, 503 meters wide, and 385 meters high, IronCarapace is envisioned as an approximately 28.5-million-metric-ton full-load capital ship. It is built as a carrier that can stay with the fleet under fire: broad enough for protected strike-craft operations, yet heavily armored enough to function as a command and defense anchor rather than a distant launch platform.
The hull is organized around overlapping armor plates, recessed structural bays, protected propulsion zones, and deep internal volume. Ivory armor surfaces, dark gunmetal recesses, restrained gold-toned edge details, and cyan propulsion light give the carrier a layered, industrial identity instead of a flat flight-deck silhouette.
Its role is to deploy, recover, rearm, and coordinate strike craft while sustaining fleet operations through prolonged engagements. The ship combines internal hangar capacity, armored recovery routes, redundant systems, recessed defensive weapons, and close-in protection into a single armored carrier form.


r/spaceships 12h ago

Artwork Shigeru Komatsuzaki

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13 Upvotes

r/spaceships 16h ago

Build Challenge Entry Provisor-Class Long Range Cargo Hauler

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28 Upvotes

Excuse the...suboptimal lighting


r/spaceships 15h ago

Artwork C57d Saucer in Enhanced Image

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9 Upvotes

My build of the C57d model from “Forbidden Planet” and also seen often in the “Twilight Zone” with a background of Death Valley. The photo was heavily enhanced to bring our colors and correct lighting, and several planetary bodies were added.


r/spaceships 7h ago

Games Raider-class Corvette is built with blocks

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2 Upvotes

The Raider-class Corvette has joined the Star Wars collection.

Its design is built around a long, angular corvette silhouette: a tapered wedge bow, layered near-black armor, recessed metallic structure, compact command sections, and a stern defined by cold blue engine light. From a distance, it reads as one disciplined armored mass; up close, the windows, navigation lights, and surface detail give the hull its scale.

The voxel model preserves dark armor plating, metallic recesses, small illumination points, and blue propulsion elements to make them work together to keep the ship recognizable both at fleet distance and during close fly-throughs.


r/spaceships 1d ago

Games O.M.V. Dijiang, an orbital spaceship from "Endfield"

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183 Upvotes

r/spaceships 18h ago

Build Challenge Entry Transferring bulk freight from local station back to the fleet. Exterior clamps can quickly attach/detach cargo containers.

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10 Upvotes

r/spaceships 1d ago

Games Rhodes Island, an interstellar spaceship from "Arknights"

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142 Upvotes

r/spaceships 22h ago

Other đŸ«ĄTransformers fans in the Starfield
Cyclonus.

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6 Upvotes

Modded: ASC Taiyo, Ol Big X, Avontech, Antares Supra, Matilija Aerospace, Tiger Shipyards, Barrage Missile Launchers, Micro Modules, and Better Flips.


r/spaceships 1d ago

Artwork Technical view of the Tie Fighter

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31 Upvotes

r/spaceships 21h ago

Games Introducing the MMW ObsidianWedge Line Cruiser

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3 Upvotes

Introducing the MMW ObsidianWedge Line Cruiser, an original Human Fleet warship inspired by the broad, forward-weighted silhouette. Scaled to a more believable cruiser profile, it measures approximately 800 meters long, 332 meters wide, and 138 meters high. Its estimated full-load mass is about 12 million metric tons, giving it the weight for sustained line combat without pushing it into dreadnought territory. The curved, single-edged blade planform dominates the hull and gives the bow a sharp, instantly recognizable cutting profile. A Heavy Prism Beam Emitter mounted along the armored spine serves as its primary line-breaking weapon, supported by four twin turrets, recessed missile cells, and flush point-defense nodes. Four large cyan main drives are integrated into compact stern housings to keep the silhouette clean and structurally solid. Warm ivory armor, midnight navy panels, bronze accents, gunmetal machinery, and cyan emissive details preserve the ship’s original color identity. It is designed to feel fast, heavy, and purposeful—a cruiser.


r/spaceships 1d ago

Custom Build Starfighter: "JUKO 99" by bzior

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10 Upvotes

r/spaceships 18h ago

Games The Battle of Hoth is rebuilt with 97 Million Blocks

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A large-scale AT-AT battle scene is built.
The finished environment contains 97.265 Million Blocks and measures approximately 5,006 × 1,224 × 5,000 Blocks.

Three Imperial AT-AT walkers advance across a frozen battlefield filled with snow-covered trenches, defensive positions, wreckage, and scattered signs of combat.

The model is inspired by the Battle of Hoth from Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back, particularly the Imperial ground assault on the Rebel Alliance’s Echo Base.

You can view the battlefield from above, fly around the walkers, and explore the contrast between the enormous Imperial machines and the frozen Rebel defenses.


r/spaceships 1d ago

Games A combat ship I built in Space Engineers

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23 Upvotes

(Ignore that the post is nearly 2w old, I found this subreddit only just now)

I'm not sure whether to tag this games or buld but oh well


r/spaceships 1d ago

Games LT-01 OVERDRIVE // THRUST SERIES

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5 Upvotes

r/spaceships 2d ago

Artwork Thunderfighter / Starfighter concept - Buck Rogers, by Ralph McQuarrie

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347 Upvotes

r/spaceships 1d ago

Worldbuilding / Lore Sanewashing the Hammerhead

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r/spaceships 1d ago

Games Introducing MMW SHADOWWALL — A 2 km Fleet Carrier Fortress

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15 Upvotes

Introducing the MMW SHADOWWALL—an original Fleet Carrier Fortress created for Mow My World universe.

At 2,000 meters long, 999 meters wide, and 605 meters high, the MMW SHADOWWALL has an estimated full-load mass of 68 million metric tons. ShadowWall is built from 6.9 Million authored Blocks. The design is organized around one clear visual idea: a mobile fortress that reads like a wall moving through space.

Its broad armored face, layered longitudinal decks, recessed carrier galleries, central command tower, and ringed stern structure create a silhouette meant to feel defensive, industrial, and genuinely massive. Rather than treating a carrier as a thin launch platform, I designed ShadowWall as a self-contained fleet stronghold: one armored volume built to protect, deploy, and command.

MMW SHADOWWALL is an original design, built as a playable voxel asset with full close-range Block detail.


r/spaceships 1d ago

Artwork USS Marigold Revisit

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3 Upvotes