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Fabrux
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That's the ticket, laddie...
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Captain Boh
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Secondary Hull grids, windows and markings + nacelle markings

Markings are in yellow so that they arn't confused with details


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A good rendering of a terrible design.

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Looks good, only 2 things a bit off IMO:
1. The bottom of nacelle now looks odd since you flipped it over, it seems to be pointing diagonaly up towards the rear, would look better if you straightened it out until the curve.
2. The torp launcher looks very basic but I guess that's not finished, or is it? I dunno but it does look very plain

Otherwise a very nice Endeavour variant, though I must say I quite liked the upside-down nacelles myself.

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Captain Boh
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The Torpedo launcher is supposed to be like the twin cylinder version used on the Phase II model
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That's cool but it don't really look much like the circular one I've seen, don't think it was the Phase II model as there wasn't a torp launcher on the Phase II model, nor a deflector dish, it was never finished IIRC. I think you mean the ship from that poster with a Phase II looking TOS Enterprise flying out of the page. The Ships of the Starfleet manual had a variant based off of that poster. But yeah it's a cool idea but it doesn't really look much like it on the schematic at the moment.

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Captain Boh
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I think the problem is the proximity to the bottom of the neck throws the shapes off. It IS kinda hard to create the image of a cylinder side on in an unshaded 2d image though.
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A nice big front view would alleviate that! LOL j/k I wish I could come up with something a fraction as good as that. Ah but alas I don't know squat about vector graphics.

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Captain Boh
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Well, I'm techincally cheating by using my 3D program to make 2d images [Wink]
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Changed the marking colour to red, since most of them ARE red

Fixed the bottom of the nacelle and added an attachment dealy


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I like the new revisions. It now, even more, clearly shows the design lineage...
Looks good!

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The nacelle is reminiscent of the undercut Oberth Nacele.

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Captain Boh
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It does look like that from the side, doesn't it!

I'll make a 3d mock-up of what I was going for though. Post it tomorrow hopefully

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here is what the nacelles look like... basicly:

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Having that tiny duplicate of the end of the TOS style nacelle at the aft end looks very unbalanced to me.

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