Not long at all
Starcraft Models
http://www.federationmodels.com/model_kits/starcraft_models/default.htm
this is the 1:1000 conversion kit he's going to start selling
http://s995.photobucket.com/albums/af79/StarcraftModels/NX-01 Refit/
First View of SOTL 2011 NX-01 Refit Diagram
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Not long at all
Starcraft Models
http://www.federationmodels.com/model_kits/starcraft_models/default.htm
this is the 1:1000 conversion kit he's going to start selling
http://s995.photobucket.com/albums/af79/StarcraftModels/NX-01 Refit/
sorry for the confusion sojourner, he's apparently just finished the masters and intends to mold soon.
the first link is where it will most likely be available.
Here it be.
http://www.starshipmodeler.biz/shop/index.cfm/product/2056/11000-nx-01-refit-conversion.cfm
Now available for sale.
http://www.starshipmodeler.biz/shop/index.cfm/product/2056/11000-nx-01-refit-conversion.cfm
Now available for sale.
Now if someone'd make one for the 1/350... 
That view has always puzzled me -its ok to be 900 meters but 100 more its ridiclous? The warbird is a unique design with thought process that is alien -I mean given its propulsion type and what i have read from the designers its size may have a practical angle.
But I think a massive war ship can be a kilometer long and fit in the trek universe-theres nothing in trek canon that state ship length is regulated by some design limitation.
It still is one of the most unique and beauiful ship designs I have seen. The vertical hull concept is a nice bit "What may have been"
I have to wait until june before I can get a print of that but worth it.
A few questions...
Where do the shuttle pods go now?
What about the original navigational defector? Is it still left there, or replaces with something else? NONE of the pics of the refit I have seen evern seem to show that part of the ship, so I'm left wondering.
Also, in this new design...is engineering now relocated to the..uh...secondary ("engineering") hull...?
(Otherwise, what is the point of adding it anyway...it's kinda small - so what does it really add - in-universe, that is? And if engineering isn't there, then the warp-plasma sure has a long and convoluted route to go to the nacelles now.)
Where do the shuttle pods go now?
What about the original navigational defector? Is it still left there, or replaces with something else? NONE of the pics of the refit I have seen evern seem to show that part of the ship, so I'm left wondering.
Also, in this new design...is engineering now relocated to the..uh...secondary ("engineering") hull...?
(Otherwise, what is the point of adding it anyway...it's kinda small - so what does it really add - in-universe, that is? And if engineering isn't there, then the warp-plasma sure has a long and convoluted route to go to the nacelles now.)
Shuttle Pods go in the two front remaining original shuttlebays, and/or the two cargo ports at the back of the saucer which have been refitted into the "main" shuttlebay.
The original navigational deflector is a redundancy - this is still a brand new ship, just in case something goes wrong.
The secondary hull's "in universe" explanation was that starfleet had developed a new revision of the warp 5 engine that allowed it to be used at warp 5 all the time or some such, some big advantage that would have helped Enterprise a lot. It would have taken like a year to rebuild half the saucer section though to accommodate the new engine.
So, instead of spending a year in drydock they built the new module while Enterprise was still out in space, and they came in and added it in like a month or two vs a year.
At least, that's what I remember reading in the calendar/what Doug's told me.
^ So what did they do with the old warp core? Turned it into a coffee maker?
It's still there, as a backup.
You know what this reminds me of the most?
This.
http://www.hs.fi/kuvat/iso_webkuva/1135231169865.jpeg
Perhaps Starfleet found out the hard way that they had jumped the gun with dilithium-regulated antimatter powerplants, and had to backtrack a bit, adding an unwieldy non-dilithium, perhaps non-antimatter supplementary powerplant to the design to compensate for one of the following:
1) Unreliability of dilithium tech
2) Acute shortage of dilithium (cf. the reason the contraption in that picture was created)
If Starfleet had to abandon dilithium-regulated am power for a while, ENT would nicely dovetail into about 90% of fan/RPG/novel material predating that spinoff show, material claiming that dilithium only entered the picture a few decades before Kirk's time. That'd tie into the idea that something improved drastically between the launch of SS Columbia and the events of "The Cage".
Timo Saloniemi
This.
http://www.hs.fi/kuvat/iso_webkuva/1135231169865.jpeg
Perhaps Starfleet found out the hard way that they had jumped the gun with dilithium-regulated antimatter powerplants, and had to backtrack a bit, adding an unwieldy non-dilithium, perhaps non-antimatter supplementary powerplant to the design to compensate for one of the following:
1) Unreliability of dilithium tech
2) Acute shortage of dilithium (cf. the reason the contraption in that picture was created)
If Starfleet had to abandon dilithium-regulated am power for a while, ENT would nicely dovetail into about 90% of fan/RPG/novel material predating that spinoff show, material claiming that dilithium only entered the picture a few decades before Kirk's time. That'd tie into the idea that something improved drastically between the launch of SS Columbia and the events of "The Cage".
Timo Saloniemi
