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Niiiice! I know this is just starting out but I'd tone down the contrast in colors though: a more subtle paint scheme adds to the illusion of scale.
You placing the phasers in the same positions as the Niagra?
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Thanks, as for the colours, I've got new RGP values provided to me by someone who is doing a model of the Enterprise-C:
I haven't set anything in stone yet with reguard to the phasers, but I will do something with a few smaller strips rather than a single large one, likely simmilar to the Niagara
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I like those Ambassador-era ships with those weird reversed bridge domes like the Freedom or the Niagara. And I have to agree, the new color is way better than the bright blue. A minor note: the Niagara saucer has a larger grid; eight lines across the hull, separating it into 16 triangles, and (not counting the outer rim circle) 3 circles.
How do you want to proceed? Does it get a secondary hull? (And, since it was obviously cool in the early to mid-24th century to built ships with uneven numbers of nacelles, how many does it get? )
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I agree with Aban- shrink it by to about 75%. That'll give you more room to work with the lifeboats and phasers as well.
As to panel lines. I think it looks good as it is- the Amby has twice that many and the Niagra only half, so this is a nice mid-range.
Small random panels with only a slight color shading diffrence would add to the scle as well: mabye only a 2% darker rectangle placed randomly.
quote:Thanks, as for the colours, I've got new RGP values provided to me by someone who is doing a model of the Enterprise-C:
Those are studio model colors: the onscreen look is very subdued and Enterprise C actually looked more of a gray color onscreen than blue. THe studio models look pretty garish in person (Enterprise D looking almost aqua-green) but the blue tones are to offset the studio lights so the ship looks gray onscreen.
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Somehow I think this might end up looking like what I believe the Niagara class originally looked like back with numbers in the 20000's. A round saucer instead of an ellipse and Ambassador class nacelles instead of Galaxy class nacelles.
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