A Smaller Explorer

[erifah]

Taking a break from my Enterprise H/I project to work on this thing, guy's gotta have some fun.

As a WIP, I've got lots of placeholders in there. I want to explore the idea of a saucer that expands upon Probert's rim job (giggle giggle snicker snicker) on the D, as well as saucer upper & lower surfaces that are translucent or honeycombed with lots of windows.

I also was struck by the idea that the nacelle pylons, at their roots, could do double-duty as shuttle landing surfaces.

Beside the bridge complex, I envision a "tower" topped with either something akin to an air traffic control tower, or the Stratosphere Tower, or maybe a big ball of windows.

 

[publiusr]

hex surfacing instead of aztek... interesting.
For very large ships, aneck with different sized torpedo tube clusters with hex panel drone racks either above a below might be easier to do...

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

The aztec pattern would be the plates fitting together, so hex shaped plates wouldn't be too much of a stretch.

Might be easier to replace damaged sections that way.