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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Griffworks: [QB] Overall, I think they look alright. However, I have some stuff to comment on about your work. Only trying to offer commentary and constructive criticism here, not personally attacking you or your work, so please keep that in mind. :) [i]Hermes[/i] (Scout): the "dish" serves as the sensor array in the SFTM. I always thought that the dome which supports the FJ version of the [i]Saladin/Hermes[/i] design was still a planetary sensor array and wouldn't be impacted that much by the large sensor dish. I kind of liked where it was and think that you somewhat ruin the lines of the original design w/the somewhat bulky, tho have no alterative suggestion to solve your dislike of the original position. When you do the other views, are you going to add a shuttlebay to the bottom of the primary hull, as I've seen in several fan drawings? I also heard that FJ had intended for that to be the case, but didn't have the room to add the bottom view in his pages. [i]Federation[/i] (Dreadnought): While I agree that I never liked the shuttlebay being up front in the secondary hull (the "deflector-decorated cylinder" as Timo puts it), I also never liked that aft sensor array being where it was. I'd like to suggest you remove it and place the shuttlebay there. It would make the landing bay beacon be where it needs to be so that you don't have move to a new location, as already noted. ;) Also, I would like to suggest you move the dorsal warp nacelles orientation so that the flux chiller is pointing up instead of down. That way, it's pointing directly into open space, instead of at the hull. I know there's no canon basis for this, but I always thought that the reason it was done this way on the [i]Constitution[/i] class in TOS, as well as by FJ in his designs, was to keep any "radiation" from being aimed directly at the ship. Primary hull on the [i]Fed[/i] was designed originally as larger and w/the bridge buried in the hull, presumably to enhance survivability on a warship. I also liked the idea that it was larger, personally. Made for a more impressive ship. And the dimensions also happen to come out to what was done for the Refit. Tho I do understand your design to keep the components mostly "off the shelf" - ala your comment about the bridge module. However, it looks somewhat odd w/the lower primary hull shaped as it is w/the upper hull the standard curvature. Again, I like the work you've done here. Very nicely executed. Thanks again for sharing with us. :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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