Wishbone_Ash

small updates - phaser strips and bridge

small update - secondary hull sensor array - was surprised to notice that it is thinner than the saucer array but also has a different pattern.

widened the phaser strips a little...

The concept behind this is to imagine the predecessor to the Constitution Class and what a refit of that might look like. A bit of an odd concept, I know, but it was mostly an excuse to model an idealized Phase 2 Enterprise without having to be tied to established details. I also really like the first and second pilot Enterprises and wanted to retain some of the details and proportions of those, such as the taller bridge, larger deflector etc.

So I imagine the Declaration class was launched in the 2230's but relatively few were built because the upcoming Constitution class design was so much better. The ships were refitted in the late 2260's but by the late 2280's they had all been retired. The refitted Declaration class is 257m long as opposed to the Refit Constitution at 305m so it is substantially smaller.

I might eventually also model the ship as it appeared in its original 2230's configuration.

I always liked the idea of a "production" version of the ship with only the upper pair of nacelles and no multi vector capability.

MadKoiFish wrote: »

Decided that maybe I should have the cargo pods in a housing vs just intersecting the bulkhead.


I really got to do something about the cargo floor material.

so why don't you do something about it?

Love this latest bridge, but one thing is bugging me, the secondary command chairs look a bit strange with not being centered in front of the consoles behind them....

actually the saucer edge on the 4 foot Enterprise D edge, while proportionally thicker than the 6 foot model, is still much thinner than the Nebula's. The Nebula was originally intended to have a smaller saucer (and thus be a smaller ship) than the Enterprise-D so they increased the thickness of the saucer as part of their down-scaling of the ship. They were going to give the model larger windows to make the ship look smaller but they apparently didn't have time to do that, or indeed, time to include all the same windows as Enterprise D which also explains why the top of the saucer has many fewer windows. I will be sticking to the Nebula's original window pattern though, I feel the Nebula looks a bit off if you make the saucer identical to the Enterprise, so I never liked the CG version of the Nebula we saw in DS9 and Voyager.

more greeblies...