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I've started on a design of my own that so far has ended up being a mish-mash of pre-TOS and TMP era details (I figure it's undergone a refit or two, but not a complete one like the Constitution). Basically, I just created this as a way to incorporate some gull-wing nacelle pylons, which I've wanted to see on a Federation ship for a long time, plus some other oddball features. The decks are 2.7m high with 0.5m divisions, and the overall dimensions at this point are 230m long by 47m high by 124m wide at this point. I've got a way to go with detailing and shading yet.
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Hmmm... Well, I like the way the saucer connects to the secondary hull, and I think she's got an especially fine butt, but I just really don't like the gull wing nacelle configuration. It just looks like too much strut.
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I'm torn. I really like the aft profile in that bottom view, but the dorsal view looks... dinky. Like the saucer seems too small maybe? Or the nacelles too wide? I'm not sure. Just something to make it look a bit less 'frail'. The dorsal projection looks almost Nova-esque right now, which could be OK, I guess, it just seems too 'light' for ships of this era. Or how I think of ships of this era anyway. It's definitely a cool design and I really think there's something there.
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Hmmmm nice renderings. The ship has a real Steamrunner vibe from the front and aft (it's the bend on the nacelle pylons).
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Cool Why not mount the pylons to the neck, would reduce their length , but keep the look? just a thought
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Oooh, I like the side view. I'm still thinking the nacelles are a touch too far apart. But this thing is really coming together. Can't wait to see more.
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It's been slow going, but I've got an update to the front view, plus a ship's logo. It's not a class patch, but a logo for this specific ship. I stole the design almost completely from the movie "2010". The font is different (used actual Cyrillic letters), and I added an accent to the "O" as it should be spelled. And I realize I forgot the RCS thrusters.
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Woo hoo! It's done! I added a bottom view, plus added little details to all the other views like phasers, torpedo tubes, panel lines, etc. The configuration is done, but I'd still like to draw up some section cuts sometime. We'll just have to see when that will happen.
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I came up with a couple of auxiliaries for this ship. I've got a third in mind, but haven't started to draw it up yet. Anyway, the workbee here is based on one of Probert's early sketches for TMP. The shuttle is obviously a smaller version of the Vulcan shuttle. I've seen someone else draw up a similar shuttle, but that was fully set in the movie timeframe, while I've tried to keep my design somewhere between TOS and TMP. I'm not quite done with these yet, since I'd like to draw up other views. Comments?
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I see you seem to have forward torpedo hatches on the saucer, very nice. But I see no over- or under-side forward phasers, only port/starboard ones, what's the thought there?
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I didn't want the ship to be quite as armed as a TMP-era Constitution (save for the aft torp launcher), so I figured that the p/s phasers could easily manage the forward arc as well. You would only have one of the dome pairs firing from each location in that instance, though.
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