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Wow! Love the detail work you've put into this. Looks very much like a true TNG version of the Excelsior. I'd like to see other views of this if you have them. That upper lip on the forward secondary hull is definitely different, and I can imagine that some might not like it, but I do. With so many cookie-cutter designs out there, we need fresh ideas. I also like how you've come up with new ideas for the sensor strips, nacelles, and deflector.
I forget if you've said it before, but what program do you use?
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This design looks pretty cool! It's a nice meshing of design elements from many others, but it doesn't lack originality, either. What's it called?
Lobo, somebody said you designed stuff for the Borg Invasion 4D attraction at Star Trek: The Experience. Is that true? Did you design the Olympia?
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I kind of like Harry's suggestion, though in that case I think the nacelles would need to be tweaked a little, as they would look. . . unbalanced. But all in all it is interesting.
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quote: I forget if you've said it before, but what program do you use?
Hi, I use Corel Draw 11.
quote: I think it might look better without the primary saucer, and just have that Voyager-esque shape be the hull.
Well maybe... I actually wanted to make a post TNG ear ship. But then I saw (when I started to draw) that the secundary hull became more Excelsior/TNG era like...so I decited to make an early TNG era ship. I also had already begun to design the primary saucer section and indeed it was a bit Voy-like but more organic in shape. Same with the Warp nacelles. The currently nacelles you see on the ship are "last minute changes" because I didn't like the older ones. Maybe I will try to draw a new version based on your suggestion.
quote:This design looks pretty cool! It's a nice meshing of design elements from many others, but it doesn't lack originality, either. What's it called?
Lobo, somebody said you designed stuff for the Borg Invasion 4D attraction at Star Trek: The Experience. Is that true? Did you design the Olympia?
It has no name yet. I just wrote "U.S.S. Imaginus" on the hull but it's just a placeholder.
And no, I did't design the Olympia or any other stuff for Star Trek: The Experience. But I would like to see some puctures of that ship. Btw: Who says so?
quote: This would have made a good Titan for the contest.
Thanks, Masao. I don't know the rules of that Titan contest but I assume my ship would have been too old to be the "new" ship Titan.
At last I am glad to see that you all like the ship so far, thanks.
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Interesting design. From an artistic standpoint, if I were you I'd use more contrast in those gradients. As it stands the colours look a little flat and washed out, with little sense of depth. Really like the nacelle design though.
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I dont dig the secondary hull sticking forward like that- looks a bit like a goblin shark's horn.
Is the saucer circular or oval?
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It's a sleek design. Sharp and you can see the Excelsior lineage (without the guppy-ish Excelsion qualities) I even like the deflector over-bite. But maybe a little too slim at the rear of the engineering hull. Structurally it seems like a lot of things need to happen where the nacelles join the secondary hull. Especially if one intuitively expect the nacelles to be providing the motive force for the vessel. Right now that area looks to be about one deck high, and so maybe double that? Don't know just my initial reaction...
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Do the nacelle pylons stem from the secondary hull like Probert's Ambassador Prototype?
Looks that way....
Have you ever considered making the Amby Prototype? Pretty Pleeeeze?
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I like the side view proportions a lot. However, the saucer's size seems to dominate the secondary hull, which from the top could be too narrow if the deflector is circular. By the same token, I hope the secondary isn't too broad, lest it look like the saucer is attached to a 2x6 piece of wood.
Oh, and I can't spot the aft torpedo launchers.. Are they in the aft undercut?
Mark
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