Ditto. Took a little longer for me. But yes, That Ship! I still find her the most beautiful of all the starships I've ever seen.
One tiny thing that's bugged me about your Enterprise model is the shape of the impulse engine exhausts. I couldn't figure out why until just now. It's not that they taper, it's just that the angles are opposite of the V shape made by the nacelle pylons. If they were like \_/ instead of /_\ it wouldn't strike me as looking "off". YMMV.
A far more suitable religious symbol than any blade or instrument of torture. When a cousin smashed my AMT...it was far more than the loss of a toy car to my heart. The loss of Enterprise in ST III wounded a younger me as much as Spock's death.
Damn, that would have been cool if it had been open to space. Stars flitting by back there, some subtle distortion like heat coming off a summer highway. We would be left to assume that grid barrier protects against falling into the forcefield just beyond it.
Nothing much to report today; just a quick update to keep this thread alive . Work continues to be a never-ending harangue (early retirement appeals more and more every day!) so I’ve had zero time to work on The Beast. This past weekend I turned on the graphics workstation for the first time since I churned out the Star Trek 55 video, just to make sure the damn thing still runs and to keep some vestigial Lightwave/Octane muscle memory intact. To all of my US friends and fellow Trek artisans, Happy Thanksgiving!
Sorry, nothing but a lump of coal for this thread until 2022 I’m afraid. (There IS a reason I asked @T’Bonz for “Professor Grinch” as my Christmas moniker, y’ know.) I’m just sitting here at the airport bar, waiting to catch my flight (and hopefully not a dose of omicron as a chaser) and just wanted to wish my Trek Art friends a very merry Christmas, seasons’ greetings, Fesivus for the rest of us, and what I sincerely hope is a better 2022! (I will also, as a New Year’s resolution, try to do better about finishing this stupid project I’ve been working on since the start of this century.)