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I feel like ships of the E-C/Stargazer era need the TNG season 1 captain's chair flip up panels. Especially for such a small ship/bridge, you'd want the captain to have more active controls on hand.
that or maybe a panel like the First officer/counselor ones on the D. Or even defiant style side panels.

First contact studio model blueprint ^



Nemesis studio model blueprint ^

IRML says that the CG model for nemesis was horribly inaccurate and shouldn't be used as a guide.

Hopefully these blueprints help. I have a massive reference archive of the sovereign and galaxyic an share if so desired.

Great model, I don't like how the nacelle pylons of the belknap are mounted to the hull, but that doesn't detract from the quality of the work. Nicely done.

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OK, I'm going to send you a list of shots from the TMP Director's Edition that need to be redone...

Kidding! Just saying your work is scrumptious!

Lewis worked on the TMP director's edition

Yea, FYI it is a hangar deck because the original studio model had two executive shuttles docked in it until they remade the model.

https://i.imgur.com/VertHYQ.jpg

@Brandenberg an anonymous post from 2015... pretty sure those images are not going anywhere

Fun fact, did you know the TSFS Excelsior appeared longest of any of the Excelsior variants in trek?

TSFS's Excelsior was used for Encounter at Farpoint at the start of TNG and was used as the guest ship for all 7 seasons, TUC didn't occur until TNG season 5. So that means the TSFS excelsior version appeared as stock footage for all 7 seasons of Trek. The TUC excelsior only appeared for about 2-3 years in DS9 before Generations and converted to CG after that with it's own errors.

I do love that impulse deflector crystal on the back of the impulse deck personally, no idea why they replaced it in TUC with something different. That crystal dome was _the_ standout part of TMP that tied all the ships together.

Mirror than subd yes.

With your other issues, to be honest, it'd be faster and easier to help you on the SFM discord. Doing it via forum posts is a little hard.

The only _only_ criticism i have of the latest screenshot is that the model itself "too perfectly" joins between the neck and the saucer. I am pretty sure in the "canon" studio shot, the actual studio model had a pretty big seam there where they forgot to stick wood glue/putty/whatever in that gap to seal it up. Might be worth shrinking the verts along the neckline there to finish the near-perfect recreation?

Are you doing the grain and frame damage in PS or doing that in blender's compositor?

You might get a demonetization warning and make no money off ads if you use a licensed soundtrack like the star trek ones. But that's about it.

The model never really had any canon hardpoints to describe it. Fanon explanations came from everyhwere like the indented rings near the sensor dome being a rotating turret to pop up weapons. Some versions had torpedo tubes like the NX01 on the lower level of the saucer.

The OG modellers hadn't really planned anything like that specifically especially since it would have never shown up in any shots they did for TOS.

So just use some creative license, or borrow how the Constitution Defiant from Enterprise did it since that's the closest on screen source.