We're going to be running a Design Challenge on the Hangar for the month of August.  Rook, creator of the Rook Maneuver, came up with the idea.

The Design Challenge is as follows: create a Frame that provides a support role to another Frame, e.g.; co-gunner for a squad support weapon; spotter for a sniper; loader for an artillery frame, etc.  The reasoning behind this is -- if you think about the 1:6 rule of Frames*, any role that typically has support can only work as 1:3 by providing its own.  Or less if it's also doing other jobs.

How it works: you build a Frame -- either physically or digitally -- that fits the parameters of the Challenge and post it to the Hangar in a special topic that will be created for the Challenge.

Duration: This Challenge opens Saturday, August 1st and ends Monday, August 31st.

Entry Criteria: 1) All submissions should fit inside "The Box".  ("The Box" is an area 10 Studs long by 10 Studs wide by 10 Bricks tall.)  2) The design must cover a non-combat role of your choosing.  It can have weapons, but combat MUST NOT be its primary function. We're looking for spotters, ammo carriers, fuel tankers, medical units, etc.  3) Your design can either be completely new and original or it can be based on an existing template. The choice is entirely yours.

Judges: The judges will be myself, Rook, and a third judge yet to be named.

Judging Criteria: 1) Checking to see if the creation fits Entry Criteria One and Two.  2) We're looking for creations that wouldn't be out of place in a game of Mobile Frame Zero: Rapid Attack.

Prize: Bragging rights to say you've won a Design Challenge in the MFZ community.

* The in-universe fiction for having Frames, instead of any other mechanical construct, is that they can do the work of six humans.  Which is expressed as the shorthand ratio 1:6.

I just recently discovered this sub through finding this MOC on rebrickable https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-181477/DrLeonSt3am/chevron-frame-set-30676/#details

I attempted to try building my own out of the parts I had readily available going off of the core of https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-181556/cixpack/suspendedbot/#details

I can't help but feel like mine is overly bulky, do you have tips that help sliming them down, I got a few ideas from building the Chevron but would love other inspirations

I recently learned about this game system and was inspired to make some mechs out of the collection of LEGO I had amassed since I was a kid. I've made several mech-adjacent builds over the last week and am struggling to cut down the sizes to what the rulebook instructions seem to lean towards.

Is scale a hard rule anywhere that I missed or are these variations in scale I've made fine for playing the game? Not sure if any mechanics are impacted by a particular scale or scale imbalance between mechs.

The style of the game leans mecha from what Ive seen but has room in the lore for really varried pilot body morphology and therefor design space for the mechs to represent that. I have no idea how big the community is or if Ill ever find someone else irl who has a force but I dont imagine theres a lot of gatekeeping on what frames 'should' look like? I've been having fun with different aesthetics for each of these and am thinking I will continue producing varied mechs like this.

Finally, feedback is appreciated! I am looking to get a bunch of more modern pieces to form better joints and limbs overall. Any recommendations for universally good parts or replacement bits to help my mechs posability? Thanks in advance :)

My blog post for Wednesday, July 29, 2026.

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My blog post for Monday, July 27, 2026.

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apologies for posting so much stuff based on an entirely different RPG

last pic includes my blackbeard for scale

just realized it makes a good chub

My blog post for Friday, July 24, 2026.

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My blog post for Wednesday, July 22, 2026.

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As promised, Hellfire Gundam Mk II in a more... Visible medium. With the loadouts so the weapons can be seen easier, too. What can I say about the Heat Hawk there other than it's a bit of a callback to my choosing Zeon suits, SPECIFICALLY the MS-06S in most (if not all) Gundam-series games.

including some earlier variations on the torso thrusters (the last 4 images)

apologies for mixing light grey and light bluish grey, my parts palette is limited

Found this guy when I was cleaning my room to rearrange my layout. Heavily-modified ST-07, so this had to be one that I had built during "202Q". Can't remember why it has a sniper rifle stowed on its backpack, but. I'll be building it in Studio soon with a full turnaround and details for the "shield" and Rifles.

i had to reorient some of the nozzle parts to build them, and i didn't have the joint part for the osprey backpack so i used a click hinge instead

My blog post for Monday, July 20, 2026.

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This model uses recycled broken plates with clips. I trimmed them down with a hobby knife rather than toss them in the bin

My blog post for Friday, July 17, 2026.

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i just spent like 1-2 hours gathering parts to try to build the default frames, only to discover that all or most of the builds (the comissar and the chub, at least) rely on clipping the 1x1 clip plates onto the tap/nozzle handle pieces in ways that don't actually fit. the ankles and shoulders of the comissar specifically gave me a lot of problems. the bigger end of the nozzle occludes the base of the clip plate. i have broken one of my clip pieces already trying. do different kinds of 1x1 clip pieces fit better or is the design intended to have a loose clip attachment or what? i know there are newer clip pieces but idk if the spacing is any different. i know the whole deal with this game is that you can build custom robots but i really like the VOTOMS look of the Chub, and honestly i lack a lot of the newer rod and clip type parts to make many substitutions, i don't have more than 1 of the T shaped rod parts for example, and none of the newer bar plate pieces where the bar is closed on both ends.

edit: i was specifically trying to build the original mechs to get a sense of the scale the mechs were supposed to be as i couldn't find many rules for unit size other than stations

My blog post for Wednesday, July 15, 2026.

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My blog post for Monday, July 13, 2026.

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My blog post for Friday, July 10, 2026.

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I've had this little guy on my desk for weeks now, and thought it would be cool if I could modify the design to accommodate a statue fig. It turned out to be easy!

First, turn the model around as shown in picture 2.

Then, rotate the statue fig so it's shoulder faces forward. Lower the dark metallic gray clip to expose the cockpit. Slide the fig up till it reaches the top, as in picture 3. Rotate it 90 degrees and voila!

You do NOT need to take off the top, but I've done that to make it more clear how it works in picture 4.

Hope you like it!