You're not being pad to do this and you're not on a deadline. Go deal with whatever you have to and come back to this when you're ready.
You're actually feeling the need to apologize for giving real life priority? C'mon man, don't worry!! Life is more important then a CGI project. It'll be there when you feel like it again, mean while, taking care of yourself is more important.
Technically, they're already someone else's problems, but when those someones are people you love and care about, it can be just as bad. Anyway, I'm dealing with it. Gonna try to get some work done on the Grandeur tonight if nothing major arises.
NX-class ships used black and yellow warning stripes, for example: http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/_...es/4/45/Columbia_(NX-02)-Main_engineering.jpg
Look at the rails. Regardless, there are yellow and black stripes on the NX exterior too if you look at Doug Drexler's high-res renders. Near the two round airlocks and at the top of the image: http://trekazoid.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/nx-01-struts.jpg Visible here too: http://trekazoid.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/nx-01-top.jpg
hmmm, now that I look at it again. I guess those are stickers on a flat surface. When I first looked at it I got the impression of geometric shapes casting odd shadows.
Yep, those thrusters look great. That second to last image is lovely, very regal looking from that angle. ETA: the fifth image down. It looks like there is a smoke smudge on the underside of the right nacelle. Like someone has physically handled the model. Very strange?
Yeah, I got one of my omni lights a little too close to the nacelle with the intensity set higher than 1.0.