Inspired by another poster's thread, I've decided to stop procrastinating on posting something I've been meaning to put up here. He designed a ship called the Discovery NX-2001, and I too had a ship and class called Discovery back in the mid-90s. My uncle and I designed it after the shoddy pylons from the Star Trek VI kit for the NCC-1701-A fell off.
It was basically the engineering hull grafted directly onto the underside of the saucer. I experimented with placing the engines in different configurations before finally deciding upon placing them in a position analogous to a shuttlecraft. If I were to complete the model I would try to use the pylons from the Reliant at the same scale. I also used the engineering hull of the smaller scale NCC-1701 three ship TOS set as a mount for a TOS-style sensor dish (from a bigger NCC-1701, closer to the scale of the main model). My reasoning was that the dish in TOS was a sensor dish and the dish in the refit was a deflector dish.
It sounds like you chose almost exactly the same era for your ship of the same name. Not surprisingly it shares some design elements with mine. So here's a thread of my own ship of the same class and the same name (I was a little disappointed to learn that Star Trek: Legacy used the name for the ENT-era Conestoga ships).
I decided the name "Discovery" didn't really apply anymore because it looked utilitarian, like it was made around the time of the Excelsior, or perhaps around the time just after the Khitomer Accords (I made these modifications after I tried to replicate the battle damage from the Battle of Khitomer, so the registry reflects and early 24th century design), but from spare parts, designed for a quick production cycles as a way to supplement other forces. I kept the name because I figured the Corps of Engineers would appreciate the irony of such a name going to a class that was merely a repurposing of older parts.
I may post photos of the actual WIP model, but here's the profile I made in MS Paint using a chart from ex-astris-scientia.org.
It was basically the engineering hull grafted directly onto the underside of the saucer. I experimented with placing the engines in different configurations before finally deciding upon placing them in a position analogous to a shuttlecraft. If I were to complete the model I would try to use the pylons from the Reliant at the same scale. I also used the engineering hull of the smaller scale NCC-1701 three ship TOS set as a mount for a TOS-style sensor dish (from a bigger NCC-1701, closer to the scale of the main model). My reasoning was that the dish in TOS was a sensor dish and the dish in the refit was a deflector dish.
It sounds like you chose almost exactly the same era for your ship of the same name. Not surprisingly it shares some design elements with mine. So here's a thread of my own ship of the same class and the same name (I was a little disappointed to learn that Star Trek: Legacy used the name for the ENT-era Conestoga ships).
I decided the name "Discovery" didn't really apply anymore because it looked utilitarian, like it was made around the time of the Excelsior, or perhaps around the time just after the Khitomer Accords (I made these modifications after I tried to replicate the battle damage from the Battle of Khitomer, so the registry reflects and early 24th century design), but from spare parts, designed for a quick production cycles as a way to supplement other forces. I kept the name because I figured the Corps of Engineers would appreciate the irony of such a name going to a class that was merely a repurposing of older parts.
I may post photos of the actual WIP model, but here's the profile I made in MS Paint using a chart from ex-astris-scientia.org.
