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I've spent considerably more time than I care to admit working on this. Bear in mind that it is my first Trek model, and that it's mostly just modelling practice to learn my new 3D program. I think I'm almost at a place where I can finally start texture mapping it...
It definitely needs some more work. Particularly in the nacelles. I've been having a really hard time with them...
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Fishy origins be damned, that side view is really helping a great deal. I had been using Bernd's extrapolated side view as a template, but refined it a bit with that deckplan (i'm sure you've seen around). (The top view is, of course, taken from a cleaned up high-rez scan of the spread from TV Guide.) The "official" model side view really helps me nail down a couple disprepencies and gives me a better idea about what's going on with those nacelles. Thanks again, Bernd! Did I mention that you're my hero?
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Please note that these discrepancies = pretty minor.
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Hmm.. y'know, without all the excessive textures present on the official model, this one looks like it could've.. um.. i dont know .. come BEFORE the NCC-1701. Strange idea, that..
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...only if you remained fixated on the bizarre idea that smooth plating is primitive and rough textured plating is advanced.
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The main differences between my preliminary version and the official one are that some parts like the observation tower are protruding although I thought they shouldn't, that the strangely twisted double hull doesn't really look strangely twisted from the side, and that I didn't get the hull curvature quite right in the forward upper saucer and where the double hull runs into the bottom of the saucer.
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It's VERY close. Micrographix is Vector based, right?
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I've never used Micrographix, but if Bernd is using it it can't be that bad. I use a really old version of Deneba Canvas (3.5.4 from like 1990), if it's any consolation. It really tears it up at doing simple B&W drawings because it's tuned to work with an Mac IIci, and I'm running it on a G4/400 with 640MB of RAM. I can beat just about anyone using any other program for speed and accuracy. Unfortunately Strata won't import the EPS files Canvas exports (and Canvas would have a tough time with the HUGE image files I've been using as templates) so I've been using Adobe Illustrator. But even then I'm using 7.0. The idea of vector transparency and mesh gradients appeals to me, but I'm waiting for OSX versions of the whole Adobe Suite before I upgrade...
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