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I made changed to the classic Enterprise scale as I found the accepted canon scale problomatic, this rescale address a number of areas but not all.

In my re-imagined constitution class, the biggest adjustment is the scale going from 947 ft to 1311’5 ft mostly once I started to model the design to its accepted canon scale I found a number of issues based on my understanding and views on the design.
Over a few week I increased from 947ft to 1000ft thinking it might help, not at all then to 1260 ft thinking that it would fix the areas of interest. but that did not solve issues with the shuttle bay access corridors at the sides of the bay, so again I had to enlarge the design, which was creating a new problem for me as to the deck count, I always put that at 23 via The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whitfield & Gene Roddenberry and I did not want to stray to far from that.
But one area I thought I needed to establish is the deck heights, what to use, other fans think 9.6ft or work, which is fine. I chose to go with the set plans and make it 10ft for the deck heights for corridors as seen in Series, it is the visual established look for the series. I think if they are lower it would effect the look so right or wrong its what I used.
Some of the decks in the secondary hull are taller than the 10ft mentioned mostly due to the shape of the design, this included the dorsal neck and the Engineering section mostly helps in the area for fuel, maintenance and cargo, for example in the connecting neck I have turbo elevator maintenances area. with the rescale there is enough room.. just to do this..


Length: 1311’5 Feet
Width: 577’5 Feet
Height: 319’11 Feet
23 Decks.
Crew Complement 430.
10 Phaser Banks
4 Photon Torpedo Launchers
(3 forward and 1 Aft)
7 to 8 Class F Shuttle craft
Total Escape Pods 192
164 Escape Pods in the Primary Hull (4 persons per Escape Pod is 656)
28 Escape Pods in the Secondary Hull( 4 persons per Escape Pod is 128)
Total Escape Pod Personnel Capacity is 768

great to see you have returned to the world of CGI Chris

fantastic work, I saw this on Youtube and was delighted to see the Enterprise-A is based on the original Excelsior-class design (not a fan of the E-B at all). a real tour de force

Nice work Chris, fantastic to see your still working on the Enterprise and other Trek designs. still my failing as a modeller is textures.. top work

amazing work..

Great design, I loved it. I often thought about building it myself but I think the control area would be too much of a challenge. bravo


I watched it on TV in the 70s, around the time of Star Wars I don't remember ever seeing it repeated again. but it had Nick Tate aka Captain Carter from Space1999, Brian Blessed Flash Gordon and Space1999 season 2 guest star.

it was aimed at kids and tried to reflect the reality of Space travel at near lightspeed, Dobler shift and time dilation.

it was fun

Outstanding work Eric,

evil_genius_180 wrote: »

That's a really nice design and your model looks great.

thanks, it was on my todo list for years. now I need to do some more renders with it

Amazing work.

stunning work, modelling and rendering.