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Thank you for your help. I really like your little ship. Are you planning on doing a cross section to help define it more?
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My deck plans guy, Allen Rolfes, designed an entire set of interior schematics, like he does for my Starfleet Museum ships, but whether they'll be released publically, I don't know.
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Agreed. I much preferred working on smaller designs like the Deneva-Class or the Korolev Yacht than the big capital ships. I suppose it's partly due to one's ability to imagine it in real terms. To me a Galaxy or a Sovereign are too big for my to be able to picture in real terms. A shuttle, or a cargo ship about the size of a P&O ferry, now that I can deal with. Also, as you say from a design challenge point of view it's more satisfying to get it right, especially when it come to the internal confuguration because you can't fudge scale issue like you can with a larger ship. It all has be be there for a purpose.
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Yes, small ships are very challenging. Designing them is more like designing cars, tanks, or airplanes because you've got to pack a lot into a very small space. The interior determines the exterior shape, so you're sort of designing from the inside out. In big ships you just assume there's enough space for everything you might need, so you can wrap the ship up in whatever hull shape you want. Of course, if you don't care about realism, you can make a ship look any way you want.
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Are you planning on doing a cross section to help define it more?
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