Re: Andy Probert releases prelim plans for USS Ambassador ki
Please don't hurt me, Rick, but I am new here, and I didn't like your Enterprise C... at first. I understand more now than I did as a kid, about limitations of budget and TV production schedules.
At the time, I thought the executed model was clunky. The navigational deflector dish was "droopy" - pointed downward instead of parallel to the ship'c centerline.
I thought the nacelles were big, bulbous, stubby pod-thingies, and I thought that the way the nacelle stut roots blended into the secondary hull all the way back and around the shuttle bay doors made it look like the "C" had a fat butt.
But as I said, I didn't like it, at first. I love it now because I've discovered by accident that the basic hull has beautiful and elegant lines.
Please let me explain! I had an AMT kit of the C a few years ago, and I had just pulled the box out of storage this spring to resume work on it. Alas, the engines were missing, as well as the deflector dish and impulse engine parts.
I decided to salvage the kit by bashing it with an Enterprise B and E that I had sitting around, that had ALSO lost too many parts.
To the C, I added the E's engines, significantly lengthening the model and making it appear less stubby.
I used the B's impulse section, and grafted it to the saucer, and sealed the hole in the neck strut. I also grafted the B's bridge and lower sensor dome to the C's saucer.
I decided that the nacelle struts needed some work, so I cut away all of the struts that wrapped around to the shuttle bay. The remaining struts look slender and truly aggressive and sexy! (I'm trying to decide now if I should leave them flat or add curvature.)
Finally, I removed a most of the windows along the upper and lower half of the secondary hull, and I used a small plastic egg to create a recessed alcove for a deflector dish. The dish is now perpendicular to the secondary hull horizontal cenetrline, and it looks pretty good "hooded" by the alcove.
Indeed, with the new, longer engines and smoothing away of clunky details, your basic design really IS a very sexy and well-proportined masterpiece!
My best, Eric
Please don't hurt me, Rick, but I am new here, and I didn't like your Enterprise C... at first. I understand more now than I did as a kid, about limitations of budget and TV production schedules.
At the time, I thought the executed model was clunky. The navigational deflector dish was "droopy" - pointed downward instead of parallel to the ship'c centerline.
I thought the nacelles were big, bulbous, stubby pod-thingies, and I thought that the way the nacelle stut roots blended into the secondary hull all the way back and around the shuttle bay doors made it look like the "C" had a fat butt.
But as I said, I didn't like it, at first. I love it now because I've discovered by accident that the basic hull has beautiful and elegant lines.
Please let me explain! I had an AMT kit of the C a few years ago, and I had just pulled the box out of storage this spring to resume work on it. Alas, the engines were missing, as well as the deflector dish and impulse engine parts.
I decided to salvage the kit by bashing it with an Enterprise B and E that I had sitting around, that had ALSO lost too many parts.
To the C, I added the E's engines, significantly lengthening the model and making it appear less stubby.
I used the B's impulse section, and grafted it to the saucer, and sealed the hole in the neck strut. I also grafted the B's bridge and lower sensor dome to the C's saucer.
I decided that the nacelle struts needed some work, so I cut away all of the struts that wrapped around to the shuttle bay. The remaining struts look slender and truly aggressive and sexy! (I'm trying to decide now if I should leave them flat or add curvature.)
Finally, I removed a most of the windows along the upper and lower half of the secondary hull, and I used a small plastic egg to create a recessed alcove for a deflector dish. The dish is now perpendicular to the secondary hull horizontal cenetrline, and it looks pretty good "hooded" by the alcove.
Indeed, with the new, longer engines and smoothing away of clunky details, your basic design really IS a very sexy and well-proportined masterpiece!
My best, Eric
No wonder I prefer paper drawings 
Has some one done a similar graphic but for
