Yeah, I'd ditch the lights, too. That should be a Refit feature post-2270.
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@Serveaux you have a better eye for this, that look different from the Discovery Episodes hull plating?
Is it me, or does that picture of bearded Pike make him look chunkier?
The straight pylons and lighter color makes a world of difference. I hope Eaglemoss produces one of these at some point.
Can always 3d Print it.
It’s not you.
Honestly, I don't even mind the pylon split in the version I quoted above. It gives it a feel of tech before TOS, where maybe it took more space and more conduits to transfer energy, equipment and people back and forth between the nacelles and the secondary hull.
I imagine my skills are not those of a lot of other people around. It would be awful.
Well, for a time STO was offering to 3d print ships (quite expensive). I have found a lot of modelers online who are quite talented and there are mail in services for 3d printing that charge per oz. of filament. Some libraries do this as well.I imagine my skills are not those of a lot of other people around. It would be awful.
I'm not quite sure what you're asking. The quoted image is certainly lit a little more sharply and attractively than the ships on Discovery generally were in those days. The plate texture is still pretty generic and random-looking.
Just a botched job, detail-wise.
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That big row of saucer lights/windows bother me more than the pylons, because no version of the E had those.
I hoped that they would disappear after the repairs to the saucer at the end of S2.
The ship does feel too squashed with the neck pylon too short. But that's more evident in a port or starboard view and less so from front or back.
Well, that complaint was voiced by very, very few people.
Andy Probert addressed any weakness in that area of the design well, as he somewhat did with the pylons, without altering the proportions of the ship in any way.
That said, knocking a deck or two out of there didn't hurt the look too much. What's annoying is that it's one of the things that every fan artist seems to do right off the bat to "reimagine" the ship, along with sticking the TMP pylons on the TOS ship. It's an unimaginative, slapdash kind of alteration without any thought to it at all.
I have heard it for decades.
Did you ever finish that ship you were posting about here? I missed seeing the finished product.
I've heard it for a long time too. But it's trivial complaint of nitpickers that tends to travel with "the bridge should be inside the ship" kind of stuff.
If you're talking about that Enterprise variant, it remains about 95 percent complete. Pretty sure I shortened the neck on that one.
If you're talking about that Enterprise variant, it remains about 95 percent complete. Pretty sure I shortened the neck on that one.
I always just thought of it as future tech and materials allowed ships to be built that way and those points really weren’t weaknesses at all.
The Refit's neck was similarly "vulnerable" and it wasn't until the Enterprise-B that any ship with the name had a bulky, wide and sturdy-looking neck.
Yeah, it's just like how 32nd century vessels don't even have anything connecting the nacelles to the ship. The neck and pylons looking weak is the Federation showing off how advanced their technology is.
