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NX Refit

I don’t know what they are but I like the things that look like old-fashioned rocker switches planted on the hindquarters of the Hecia. :techman:
Ah, sorry to say that's a bit of blocking mesh - the basic shape will remain the same, but will have various comms and sensor stuff embedded. Hopefully it'll still look OK after I make those changes :)
 
To elaborate, this is what I've come up with so far - all the antennae at the front and in the ridges are a reference to the Romulan Drone Ship plotline in Enterprise S4. It would make sense to have some sort of Electronic Warfare jamming pods as a countermeasure.
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I love that you’re working on variants of the design! I’m probably just weird, but the one version I can’t stop wondering about is how with only the catamaran part instead of the full saucer. I don’t know, I just think it looks kinda sleek and speedy. Something like what I’ve quickly photoshopped here. (No idea how the underside would look, though. :lol: )

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Ooh that looks like it could work. I hadn't noticed this before, but taking the saucer away kind of like gives the ship an 'Advanced Conestoga' sort of vibe!

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Yeah, totally! They certainly look like there’s one design lineage going through the developmental steps.

I always loved the Conestoga look, too. Even though I can’t now unsee (after @Saul pointed it out to me a few months ago here) how it’s basically the NX-01 warp core with nacelles stuck on it, haha.
 
Yeah, totally! They certainly look like there’s one design lineage going through the developmental steps.

I always loved the Conestoga look, too. Even though I can’t now unsee (after @Saul pointed it out to me a few months ago here) how it’s basically the NX-01 warp core with nacelles stuck on it, haha.

LOL. I see it too!
 
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@Michael's version reminds me of something I posted on the board... 17 years ago!!! :eek:

To avoid devaluing @SCE2Aux's superlative work in this thread I'll hide this photochopped abomination...

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No need for spoiler tags - what you've got there is exactly how I would go about doing this kind of kitbash: making the upper an lower halves symmetrical. I was thinking maybe I'd leave the bridge on top, but where it would be placed below, instead cut in a loading ramp and maybe add some extendable landing skids to the ventral side as well.
 
I always loved the Conestoga look, too. Even though I can’t now unsee (after @Saul pointed it out to me a few months ago here) how it’s basically the NX-01 warp core with nacelles stuck on it, haha.
Wow, that just makes me like the design even more. I love it when artists recontextualise objects in creative ways - which is why I have no issues at all with Voyager looking like a spoon haha

It puts me in mind of this person's work:
https://spacegooose.artstation.com/projects/nQYBKK

Their artstation page has lots of mundane objects reinterpreted into scifi contraptions. It's really inspirational how one can play with the forms we see every day and make them fantastical.
 
A one nacelle design that doesn’t look like a one-nacelle design—it keeps Enterprise’s swan motif alive with the sensor placement—something only the Joshua class had in profile.
 
It looks a bit like a trilobite in the top view—I think you also had a post TNG that was similar…
You've got a good memory, publiusur! My old Trilobite model did indeed coalesce along the same lines, at least from the top down.
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I feel that with some adjustments, I could possibly retrofit the old ship to fit the Enterprise era I'm currently building in. The only issue is that it was made with VRay, and I've switched over to Corona now. Converting the model would be a pain in the ass, and I've already got freighter models I like which suit pretty well. :)
 
Wow, that just makes me like the design even more. I love it when artists recontextualise objects in creative ways - which is why I have no issues at all with Voyager looking like a spoon haha

It puts me in mind of this person's work:
https://spacegooose.artstation.com/projects/nQYBKK

Their artstation page has lots of mundane objects reinterpreted into scifi contraptions. It's really inspirational how one can play with the forms we see every day and make them fantastical.

A long time ago… (same galaxy and planet, though, ha ha) I remember seeing a fan/home-made film where they used ordinary objects and modified them into spaceships.

The best design was (of all things) a hand-cranked mixer, where the eggbeaters were basically the nacelles and oddly enough… the design ‘worked’ from an odd (artistic?) viewpoint. Plus it was just too damn funny not to smile!

God knows if it’s been posted on YouTube or something similar - this was from back in the BetaMax vs VHS days.

Cheers,
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