My EVE

Im impressed by your craftmanship.
Would love to be able to do that myself but unfortunately im better at blowing stuff up then creating it :)

Tho i do have 1 advice.

Your crafting something that is suppost to be completely like the ingame thing.
BUT .. you have choosen to use 3 mining lasers (or was it Gas cloud harvesters?).

The Venture only has 2 turret hardpoints.

Imho that 3th one should not be on there.

For the rest keep up the good work :)

ForceM

Baseplate for Gas Harvestor turret

First official part, lol. Made only from 1.5mm pasteboard and set solid with this superglue. Avetek is a distributor here, its made by a company called BSi International

Since there are 6 of these bad boys I will build one high detail master then ill be casting 6 of them. This will involve taking you guys/gals through my techniques and materials so hopefully one of two of you can see how to have a go at home.

here here.

Gas Harvester turret mount almost done

This thing is small!

While I do understand the reasoning behind what you have said, others in the industry have said the same thing many times over. Those machines can save time but most often I'm just simply faster than one. Those two little parts today probably took me 20 mins tops.
3D printers suffer badly from an effect called stair-casing and only the best machines out there, the $100k+ ones, minimize that to a point where you cant really see it. Even then the part will need some kind of finishing. I personally don't enjoy clicking print at all as there is no satisfaction when its finished. For mass production, sure id do it, but not for this one of a kind.

I'm also going to be hiding electronics inside this model so printing one whole venture shape at once could be problematic.

ok well keep posting new photos.. pictures say more then 1000 words.

Don't waste precious building and photo update posting time on tutorials that people won't use or appreciate. (Trust me, I speak from experience in other creative fields)

Focus on the build!

I will give you anything you want for a lacquered Caldari vs Gallente set.

What about a Nyx?

Here is where I am with the harvestor. The main tube looks big in the photo but is the perfect size, just a bit of visual foreshortening happening in the pic :)
The curved tip was too small to practically make so I cheated there and used a tiny piece of a basic ballpoint pen, when the glue dries ill run my razer saw over the tip to get those grills/claw bits