Joe's job was to create a ship allenge of creating a ship that had never been seen before. Relying on what he had read, he began modeling the Mist Hunter. As Joe explains in the interview, the complexity of the process of modeling depends upon the ship itself ...

"This depends from model to model, but in the case of the Mist Hunter I went as far as creating an interior. I had to do a card for Zuckuss's snare rifle anyway, and thought that he would probably display it in his cockpit, kind of like a gun rack in the back of a Ford pick-up. So you get to see the Mist Hunter from inside and out."

After several hours of modeling, the essential process of integrating the shell into an environment begins. Detail becomes the most important element. Joe explains . . .

"I love spending hours painting in little tiny details, and thinking through the logic of a ship's design. As sophisticated as our audience is it's always worth putting in those little extras."