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I understand that with any design there's going to be those that like, and favour your choices, and those that don't. So it's fair enough. I went for sunken nacelles on this design because I prefered them, maybe for diversity's sake. They were turned upwards in the very fist study model I made, but at the ASDB, my colleagues told me that it looked too similar to the Excelsior, and it would be better to change it somehow to set the two apart. So this was the solution.
Perhaps yes, the lighting is a bit dark, but there's other lighter renders available that of which links to are provided (eg: http://www.trekmania.net/art/hokviews2.jpg)
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I think the nacelles look fine pointing downwards, but I don't like the pylons. I think they stick out like a sore thumb with those sharp angles in contrast to the rather curved exterior in general.
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i think that the pylons fit the ships era very well.
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That's the problem -- it might fit the era (Excelsior and Ambassador, particularly), but they still look awkward and gaudy.
Perhaps a pylon arrangement that's derived from the Centaur Class, which is probably a contemporary? It certainly doesn't have to be a sweeping, flared design like the Sovereign, but some kind of smoother arrangement would make it look a whole lot better.
IMO, of course.
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So what are the blue squares around the bridge complex? Lifeboats ot just design elements acrried over from the excelsior?
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I believe I read an old tech publication that pointed them out as sensor palettes on the Excelsior - or at least the first incarnation of the Excelsior, where they were irregular shapes that were near-flush with the hull. The ST6 version of the model had more regular shapes. Anyway, I'd assume something similar here.
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Yes it does!! Didn't you hear about the Oberth Class fleet that was lost when Starfleet sent it to combat an uprising by the Amusment Park Planet!?!
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This design is fantastic!! Don't change it!! I don't think the angular nacelles look too bad; perhaps a little off but nothing that needs changing IMHO.
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