Boeing 787 Airline Captain Trophy

This trophy was made for Erza Eskandar to honour an airline captain. It puts three pieces of his working life on one base: the tail of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Singapore Airlines colours, the throttle column and the control yoke. A gold nameplate carries the captain's name and the line "A Commander, A Mentor, A Friend and A Brother". It stands about 242 mm tall and 324 mm long.

The brief

Erza sent photos of the real aircraft and cockpit controls and asked for a single trophy built from them, with the airline logo and a metal nameplate. It was one piece, collected in person, and it had to be ready within two weeks of the go-ahead.

How we made it

We modelled the whole trophy in 3D from Erza’s reference photos and sent the first design four days after the scope was agreed. Erza came back with changes, and the second design went out the next day. The throttle now runs the full length of the column instead of showing just part of it. The yoke was redrawn to match the photos, including a new shape for the left handle, with a button where the first design had a round knob. The Boeing Dreamliner logo was added to the yoke’s pedestal, placed and sized as in Erza’s photo. Erza approved this second design on 13 August.

Every part was 3D printed in our studio on FDM printers, in the colours you see, with the natural printed finish left on. The airline logo, the Dreamliner logo and the nameplate text were UV printed for crisp edges. The 787 tail sits on a clear acrylic support so it seems to float behind the controls, and everything is fixed to a black printed base.

The trophy was ready for collection on 20 August, a week after the design was approved and two weeks from the first go-ahead.

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