Starfield Player Builds Flying Ford Mustang Fastback

Summary

Starfield players have been creating impressive spacecraft inspired by real-world vehicles, including a flying replica of the classic Ford Mustang Fastback.
The ship builder in Starfield allows for customization and building of new vessels up to 40m in any direction with up to 130 modules, resulting in stunning spacecraft designs.
Despite limitations, such as the absence of wheel modules, players have been able to maintain authenticity in their designs using creative solutions like painting landing pads to resemble wheels.

One crafty Starfield player created a flying replica of the classic Ford Mustang Fastback in Bethesda's space-faring RPG. Their engineering feat is just the latest in a long list of impressive Starfield spacecraft inspired by real-world vehicles that the game's fandom authored to date.

The Starfield ship builder allows players to both customize their vessels and build new ones from scratch. While it's not without restrictions, it supports creations spanning up to 40m (~131 feet) in any direction and incorporating up to 130 modules in total. Those lax limitations have so far proven to be no obstacle in the fandom's attempts at putting together some positively stunning spacecraft.

The latest such impressive Starfield vessel comes in the form of a flying Ford Mustang Fastback, which was recently constructed by Reddit user KN-Art. Their design is instantly evocative of the famous pony car, boasting a short decklid, long hood, and an overall sporty aesthetic. The player revealed that they were looking to nail the "classic Fastback vibe," with the end result of their effort suggesting they turned to one of the coupe variants of the Ford Mustang Fastback from the '70s for inspiration.

While Starfield's ship builder doesn't offer wheel modules for obvious reasons, that limitation did not force KN-Art to sacrifice authenticity. Instead, the fan merely opted to equip the vessel with four semioval landing pads, which ended up successfully emulating the look of actual wheels after they were painted black. The majority of the spacecraft's key modules like its reactor and grav drive aren't visible from the outside in order not to detract from the classic pony car aesthetic, while its many thrusters have been arranged in the shape of a spoiler that extends into a sporty exhaust system.

While the creator of this flying Ford Mustang Fastback did not share a specific parts list along with their vessel, the fact that the spacecraft spans only three floors and is around four larger habs long suggests that it wasn't too expensive to make. In fact, given how so many of its modules are clearly structural, it would appear that the ship was in the ballpark of 100,000 credits. For clarity, "structural" components are Starfield's jargon for purely cosmetic parts that are inexpensive to purchase and primarily exist to allow for greater engineering freedom in terms of ship shapes.

The fandom has so far been making the most of those flexible modules, as underlined by the fact that this flying pony car was preceded by amazing Starfield replicas of The Fifth Element taxi and Batman's Tumbler, as well as a plethora of completely original vessels. With Starfield just hitting ten million players in the second half of September, many more impressive ships are likely to surface online in the near future.