As much as I love how your work is coming along, the lack of the third nacelle is really throwing me off as far as her being an Alt Federation class. Hell, she doesn't even look like the Federation class at all. I would've been quite satisfied if you'd just said she was her own thing.
But as far as looking like an intermediary between the Constitution and Excelsior class, you are fairing far better. You're blending in the two designs quite well, and the blending of the two design elements from the Constitution Refit and Excelsior's nacelles are a relatively simple but elegant blending.
The aft of the saucer section looks blocky, which in turn makes it look a little cluttered, but then that is sort of what I'd expect from an experimental one off testbed anyways.
I definitely get what you're saying but unfortunately for the Federation Class, it was never seen on screen. That makes it Non-Canon in my books, and that means I can mess with the design as much as I want.
I could legitimately make a cube, and call it the federation class design, and I could theoretically get away with it.
But I'm not, because I'm not a jerk like that... or am I?
The essence of the federation class to me is, a bigger badder enterprise, with more shuttle bay's it knows what to do with.
A big honking torpedo launcher, and a bulkier neck.
That's what I wanted to carry over, but for me that's never enough, so on TOP of that, I wanted the Federation Class, to be the missing link between the excelsior design and the connie refit.
And I think that's working out pretty well so far.
I like just two nacelles myself.
The best bit is your new torpedo set-up. Nice to see something different.
I'd like to see an alternate version with the neck of the Pike used as nacelle supports--scaled down a bit--with aft firing tubes just below/behind the nacelles.
That's what I like to do, something different every project.
This model is the last ship I'll do for a while. I'll be moving on to other projects soon.
Not this ship, maybe a 24th/ 25th era ship. Might go and ping erifah, I really like his designs. I would not mind doing a collaboration piece with him at one point into the future.
Anyhoo, here some stuff I've done, the first one here is a scale piece to show the difference in size between the ships.
Next up are some renders and close ups of the secondary hull, torpedo launchers, and the shuttle bay cover (still got to push/pull verts on that one.)
Oh and I did this as well...
Alrighty then, Back to work!
