My EVE

Hi everyone

I have been quite interested in making my own ship model just for fun recently and personally I really like the newish Venture as it has a lot of really cool shapes and textures to play with in a very high resolution build so may possibly get that underway soon.

Its not my first time building spaceships either. In 2007 I designed and built single handedly a 7ft long $6000NZD film miniature of a re-imagined Starship Von Braun and UNN Rickenbacker for a film adaptation of System Shock 2 (Completely theoretical for my honors degree)

I was simply wondering from a recent forum search on this topic as to how many people who play eve could be interested in the same thing? Or if even CCP would allow someone like me to do this with their IP. I'm not talking about mass productions of every ship in the game, more along the lines of very limited runs of hand built then molded/casted display models, probably with working lights etc.
For the Venture I mentioned earlier I was thinking of modeling that at a scale of 1:200 which would make its actual size 665mm, or 26 inches long, fully LED driven to include every strobe and the four main floodlights and engines. The rough figure I have been looking at to built it isn't that much, maybe around $250-350USD depending on how far I go.

A very brief history of myself:
I am based in the capital of New Zealand , Wellington
Have played Eve for 10 months and plan on many more as I absolutely love it ;-)
Bachelor of Industrial design
When I was a student I actually dealt with Asgeir Jon Asgeirsson and Cliffy B for design input on my 7ft Von Braun back in 2007
I've always wanted to work with CCP since my study days
I have been working in the feature film industry for 7 years
For 4 of those years I have been Senior modelmaker and concept designer for Sir Peter Jackson

Recently I have finished three and a half years making concept models for The Hobbit trilogy and while thinking about making my Venture, I saw a potential business opportunity involving you, the EVE community.

Now I have no idea if anything will come of this, CCP may shut this down immediately, the EVE community may shut this down immediately, who knows? If anything I would really like to see what someone at CCP thinks about this.
The point is, I really enjoy EVE and the story around it, I'm highly skilled and passionate and want to build my own ship again, maybe even build quite a few!

I welcome every troll an positive/negative comment to see what you think.

Here is a link to a handful of photos of the 7ft miniature from 2007.

Thanks everyone, I know that was a bit of a read!

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THE BUILDING HAS BEGUN

Progress Report:
Here they come!
Plan cluster, Rubicon plug.

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First official part.
Gas Harvester mount almost done
Harvester progress
Harvester progress 2
Turret head getting there nicely
Basic harvester complete #1
Basic harvester complete #2
Basic harvester complete #3
New gear for the build

That is my first problem, I simply do now know how I would go about this. If you are able to point me in the right direction that would be great.

Thanks for the pointer,

ME Ravens ;-)

I would like to see eve ships as Christmas ornaments, similar to the hallmark star trek ornaments.
Man I would have fun setting up the christmas tree with mock battles.

"Information about CCP or its products, wanting to set up interviews, needing assets or interested in review copies should contact:

Ned Coker (nedcoker@ccpgames.com)"

Or he'll at least point in the right direction......if Falcon becomes 'Slow Falcon' for some reason (because of Falcon )

$200+ is a bit steep but i woul dbe willing to pay for smaller less costly models..Megathron and Tempest would be amazing.

We need new up to date RL ship miniatures.

If only CCP started a toyline and started selling frigates!


If only the Lego rifter thing had happend!


YOU! YEAH YOU, THE TOPIC STARTER!

MAKE ME MINIATURE SHIPS DAMNIT! *whips*

Thanks!
If your into The Hobbit and Tolkien etc. you see me in quite a few of the Hobbit production video blogs on SPJ's Facebook page
Not that my true identity has been revealed!

To the OP: Good luck.