Ooh! I like it! About the only thing I'd do to improve it would be to change up the nacelles a bit so that they're not a TOS copy, if you're not already planning to do that.
ty! I'll see what I can do about the nacelles, those and the deflector dishes are the only things left now from the Connie parts set I began with... If i were to try it your way, I'd get glue all over my monitor and keyboard!! ...in the meantime, here's a beauty shot:
This is great, but I think if it were to really "take off" as a TOS design, it might benefit from using just one dish/pod, and then having the dish/pod and the nacelles offset from each other by intervals of 120º, like forming a triangular arrangement.
Make those pods into mini saucers. Maybe lose on of the deflector dishes. Make the front end a sphere - a la 2001 (the Discovery) and you've got my vote.
The ship has a great potential, but you need to work over the textures a little more. Looks like you sllaped the same pattern all around, and it don´t looks that good for now. You could post it as a wip over F3D or SFM, and get some help improving the overall look. Just suggestions. Anyway, the rendered scene turnned aout very well.