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I think this is working better.
The not matching seperation cut on the back is already fixed.

I have choosen my next project: the Prometheus class.
The educated Trekkie knows this ship from Voyager's 4th season episode "Ship In A Bottle".
It will not be a 100% accurate recreation or the original model seen in the episode, because I think it has some really ugly bulges, mostly on the upper saucer. I will mostly go with the drawings of Rick Sternbach with all their details and make the lines and curves more even. I will also make it separable and rig the upper saucers mini nacelles.
I collected some screencaps from Trekcore, blueprints and drawings from Cygnus-X1. Everyone is welcome to send me more reference stuff.

Lower main hull blocked out. Copy-pasted the top one, deleted everthing except the base plate and pylons, so, only had to do the under belly.

Thank you guys.
Here is a clay render

It took me several approaches but I finally got the seperation line and plate.

My latest render, inspired by the "Dragon's Teeth" episode.



4K version here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ao-dW4zBX53q9wXP4JPTcx4Xpd1U?e=jpa2Np

Finished my build or the Delta Flyer today.

Prometheus is said to be 414m long with 15 decks. Voyager is 344m long and also 15 decks.
I mostly go with Sternbach's sketches because they better match to the stated size. And I think the dips on the saucers top and edge make it look rather dented. So I initially decided to not go this way but try to achive a clean look that will mix elements of the Intrepid and Sovereign class.

Started building a helper cage of splines

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I ran this bottom render which only showed me that I SO need to work on the paint and grime more. This model already has 3 UV maps purely for color.

I went from painting grime on the UV maps to mapping them seperatly on top of the UV-ed colors map with triplanar mapping, some with curvature and AO masks.