Yes thank you very much that means a lot to an old time draftsperson like me 
Great work there very nice.
Thank you, :-)
Just busy with the office move. Cables have become the bane of my existence at the moment.
Not finished with the move yet, the Utilities section is being built, and then... back to sorting out cables, lol.
But I've been thinking, now that I've finished my Connie and the Refit Connie and dealt with the scal issue, I'm going to take another look at the Ambassador Class again. Never felt that I really did the ship justice, and given the studio model's history (rushed into play so key features like Torpedo Tubes were missing, and extra detail was left off, never really good enough to use again throughout the show...) I thought, well, "why not rationalise the design and make it work?" Do a real deep dive - keeping the silhouette, but making the ship work.
Yes, there are other projects calling to me as well. But it's something to look forward to :-)
More soon :-)
But I've been thinking, now that I've finished my Connie and the Refit Connie and dealt with the scal issue, I'm going to take another look at the Ambassador Class again. Never felt that I really did the ship justice, and given the studio model's history (rushed into play so key features like Torpedo Tubes were missing, and extra detail was left off, never really good enough to use again throughout the show...) I thought, well, "why not rationalise the design and make it work?" Do a real deep dive - keeping the silhouette, but making the ship work.
Yes, there are other projects calling to me as well. But it's something to look forward to :-)
More soon :-)
For my money, the one thing on that ship that never looked right was those right-angle engine pylons
Excelsior had those, too, and Ambassador was supposed to be a clear design-language bridge between Excelsior and Galaxy.
Not to say I think it looked good, mind you, but that was the idea.
The other oddity the Ambassador had was no impulse engines on the saucer section. The only one it had was at the back of the neck, and unless an emergency separation would take the neck along with it (not a very aesthetically pleasing look, but still functional I guess), the saucer would have no propulsion capability to escape a problem with the secondary hull. There would also be no capability for the ship to be able to operate as two independent vessels in combat like the Galaxy could. One section would be left immobile.
It was a half-baked design, IMO.
Not to say I think it looked good, mind you, but that was the idea.
The other oddity the Ambassador had was no impulse engines on the saucer section. The only one it had was at the back of the neck, and unless an emergency separation would take the neck along with it (not a very aesthetically pleasing look, but still functional I guess), the saucer would have no propulsion capability to escape a problem with the secondary hull. There would also be no capability for the ship to be able to operate as two independent vessels in combat like the Galaxy could. One section would be left immobile.
It was a half-baked design, IMO.
