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I did a test render with some materials to have some fun with the lighting setup. On the refit studio model, I discovered the neck spots as well as the Nacelle spots, which light the neck and the mainhull, so I tried to transfer this system to the TOS Era Enterprise.
Of course it's a really dark image, as I reduced the environment lighting to the minimum, and i fear, on some monitors it will be too dark.


And I am still searching for a good material for the Bussard caps, like frosted glass. As you see, I still don't get it right. I want the light inside to be very blurred and instead it is a good visible sphere. Maybe some of you are working with Corona Renderer as well and can point me to the right tutorial?

Thanks to you! I have modelled a new module for the ship: the Phase II Nacelles.
Now I wonder if the pylons just look weird with it, or is it just too unfamiliar to me.




What do you say? I already made the pylons a crossover between TOS and refit, but I think I could swap them back a little bit more.

Or... should I treat the Pylons as modular too? Different Pylons for different Nacelles? The connection point at the Mainhull would be the same then.

Don't forget, the Mainhull will be the same until its end above Genesis! Only some modules will be swapped

Here's the new bridge module with resized windows.

Hello there!
Recently I started with my own idea of an alternative line of the starships Enterprise. First I modelled my take on the original 1701. As you see, I borrowed some elements of the refit model. Many thanks to Hunter G and Viper for your inspiration!

Some parts of the model already need to be redone. For example the size of the windows needs to be smaller. Unfortunately I only realised it after rendering the whole model from afar.

Other elements which are still to build are: the bigger "Pike Era Deflector", "Kirk Era Deflector", "Phase II Deflector", "Refit Deflector" etc.
I plan on using the mainhull and saucer until the time of Star Trek III, only exchanging modules like Deflectors, Bridge module (Imagine the process from the Kelvinverses Ent-A assembly sequence), Nacelles, Impulse Thrusters...

I modified the tactical and science station a little bit and set up screens and interface. As the Stargazer's tactical station had a mostly green interface in TNG, I tried to modify the TVH interface accordingly. Or should I ignore the show's setup and go for Star Trek IV's setup? Or maybe something entirely new to reflect a LCARs version between tmp and tng?