How long does it normally take to get a concept approved from start to finish? Is there a normal, or is it dependent on the size and shape and purpose of the ship?
TL;DRApproval depends on size and shape: smaller concepts take about a week or two and bigger ones roughly three to four weeks, with back-and-forth refinement along the way.
Yeah, it does depend on obviously size and shape. The smaller ones can take a lot less. I suppose it takes about a week or two for the smaller ones, and then it can take about three weeks, four weeks, something like that maybe for the bigger ones, just because there's so much to them. There's a lot that has to be accounted for, and then getting the feel of it right, because they're such huge silhouettes on the landscape and stuff like that. As I say, it just does depend as well. It's just a refinement process, and sometimes you might not hit it straight away, and there's a backwards and forwards that does go between. But this stage for me is one of my most enjoyable, because this is where I get to let my hair down and create crazy stuff. And not too crazy stuff really, simple stuff as well. It was weird actually, when I was making all the pieces as well, I was looking at this chap and I was thinking, actually, that looks like a cool little ship by itself, sort of thing. And that doesn't even sell noodles. That's a thing as well with different types of pieces: sometimes you can repurpose stuff like that, that you think, actually, that might make a cool ship, and you kind of save these types of things for later down the road, when you think that would actually be quite cool to work off. As I say, it's a cool process that I do love to do.