Thanks for the suggestions, and the praise.A couple of detail suggestions:
* The pop-up weapon hatches to me seem slightly more widely separated in the photos, and extending closer to the bow centerline.
* There seem to be paired phaser turrets at the port and starboard 45 angle marks: dark dots on a yellowish rectangle, one-third the way from the saucer "step" to the bridge rim. (But perhaps those are retractable, too?)
* There seems to be a group of dark windows / sensor apertures / deflectors / whatever at the very bow.
* At 45 degrees port bow, there's a bright group of blue thingamabobs. Perhaps an RCS cluster, suggesting the existence of three more in the other "corners" of the saucer?
* Do I see the faint impression of a large, circular logo at the port side of the dorsal pod when I ramp up the brightness? Or just battle charring? It might be interesting to have the United Earth globe there, rather than those cool square openings...
As I said, details only. I dig this one a lot. Especially when it looks as if this could be what the Saladin class looked like "originally", before being refitted with a TOS style engine. Perhaps one of the Saladins got this extra "exploration pod" with big sensor dish plus shuttlebay, and didn't live long enough to get the refit?
Timo Saloniemi
I think work has gotten stuck on this one until I can see more of what I am doing. I never made it to the phasers, or finishing the weapons hatches. I had intended to put the guns on there as well.Those black things on the side... I have no idea what I meant for them to be. Vents, maybe? I just wanted something to break up the smooth empty surface. Maybe the glowing deflector needs big heat radiators.
-=MadMan=-
