Tralfaz

Thanks for the comments folks. As for me, I am a retired software developer who specialized in GUI and user interaction with the programs. Programs that are buggy or crashes for no apparent reason really rubs me the wrong way. I've been using Cinema 4D for over 20 years now and in all that time, it has crashed once, maybe twice. Blender 3.2 crashed 3 times in one evening (can't remember what I was doing). There were quite a few things that I really liked the way Blender did things. Others, not so much, but could live with it. And I agree with Blender changing the way things work between versions. Would be nice for them to lock down what the functionality was going to be and stick with it. If I did that stuff in my job of over 22 years, I don't think I would have lasted as long as I did. I am still using R15 of C4D that I bought used off of eBay. Can't afford to upgrade to newer versions, so was hoping Blender would provide me with a path to newer software. Well, done ranting for tonight, maybe tomorrow too!

Quick update. Been slowly making progress on my Enterprise. Getting there, but still a long way to go. Glad to see how many ongoing models of the TOS Enterprise are currently being worked on.

Really liking the progress you are making. Think you need to follow Eric's lighting examples otherwise you will have a dark render. Another thing I didn't like about Blender.

Thanks folks. As I have been working on the model, it occurred to me what an technological marvel the Enterprise studio model was. To think that the ship had a 5-6 foot diameter saucer, mounted to a forward heavy neck, mounted to the secondary hull which had two warp pylons supporting the back end heavy warp nacelles all mounted on a pole used for filming purposes! Amazing stuff that it was all so well balanced and survived so many years!

I've been retired for a couple of years now and am always in search of something to do. I've been modelling for quite a few years now starting with Anim8tor, Animation Master then Cinema 4D. Well, for the umpteenth time, I thought I would give Blender a go again. And to help learn it, I was going to do scifieric's excellent Enterprise tutorial. Got quite a way through it and got so frustrated with Blender, I went back to Cinema 4D. So, this Enterprise follows Eric's tutorial about 90% and the rest is my figuring out how to do it in C4D. Gotta' admit, there were quite a number of things that I really enjoyed in Blender, but the software just closing for no reason and the large number of clicks to perform an operation was too much for me. Anyways, after all that rambling, here is what I have so far...