Refit/1701-A - 3D Model, Full Interior

[MarsWeeps]

The basic saucer structure is coming along nicely, just need to flesh it out a bit and add some lateral support. I'll then have a crack at the dorsal and torpedo room(s).

That looks like way too much framework. I don't see any room for anything else.

 

[DanGovier]

That looks like way too much framework. I don't see any room for anything else.

Potentially yeah I may be overkilling it a bit, but I'll refine that as I go along. It's quite deceptive though, there's more room than it looks:

 

[Bernard Guignard]

Hello Dan
I couldn't help my self its what I'd like to see happen






Keep up the fantastic work

 

[DanGovier]

Hello Dan
I couldn't help my self its what I'd like to see happen






Keep up the fantastic work

Haha, well great minds think alike because I absolutely plan to do an "Under Construction" render when it's complete enough for it. My outer hull is all individual rectangles as it is, so it's no biggie to delete a load for that unfinished look, exposing all the structure inside.

 

[Soran77]

I'm Impressed Sir! Looking F-ing Amazing so far!

 

[DanGovier]

The beginnings of a deflector!

Ooooh shiny...

 

[DanGovier]

Some more work on the deflector, and the beginnings of the engineering hull:

I'm conscious of the fact the outer glowing segments are not all the same size on screen, so I'll be sorting that out soonish. I plan to have quite a complex array of hardware depicted behind the actual deflector dish, so I'll make the outer glowing segments part of that assembly.

Do any of you guys know the purpose of those outer segments? I've looked at various resources but nothing seems to describe their function.

 

[Bernard Guignard]

Cook Looking forward to it

 

[blssdwlf]

Do any of you guys know the purpose of those outer segments? I've looked at various resources but nothing seems to describe their function.

Purely speculative, but those outer segments could be intakes of some kind and/or forward facing scanners/sensors that need to be exposed to space.

 

[DanGovier]

I've been doing a bit more work on the engineering hull, and in order to create the internal deflector structure I figured I'd take blssdwlf's advice and start with the TOS configuration before refitting it to TMP.

I figure the deflector dish itself is only an emitter/transmitter, so I'm trying to visualise what's sitting behind it to generate all the energy. I imagine it would need a fairly significant link to the intermix shaft. I keep picturing something like the guts of a CRT TV.

 

[DanGovier]

The front of the deflector is now pretty much where I want it, aside from the colour which is too bright. My philosophy with this whole build is that anything visible on the outside should have associated hardware on the inside, so I've started building emitter arrays behind the 32 white lines on the deflector dish. I've decided to stick with the copper colour on the inside to keep with the TOS origins.

And here's where I'm at with the project as a whole so far:

 

[MadMan1701A]

Awesome.

-Ricky

 

[blssdwlf]

Pretty sweet

 

[DanGovier]

So having fiddled with the rear of the deflector for a couple of hours I've decided it's not turning out as good as it looked in my head :P

I'm going to have a bit of a rethink on what's behind those 32 white lines on the dish, and I think the blue conduit is both too chunky and too tightly stretched. This is where I become victim to my inner perfectionist! I also need to avoid it looking like a giant speaker.

 

[Patrickivan]

This is looking just awesome man. I can't even express how cool I think this is...

As for the back side of the dish... Instead of the convex conduits, how about fins, extending straight back from the dish. All 32 of them going back however long you find appropriate. Each fin can be some kind of modulation blahblahunit. It won't look like a speaker. More like a radial radiator. Anyways- here's a quick dirty sketch of what I mean.

 

[publiusr]

We just assume the Refit dish always looks the way it does.

But there is an inner circle that one could describe as a feed horn that may move forward--ahead of the dish in a more retro fashion on certain occasions.

Heck, the Klingon D-7's manta type shoulders can be thought of as a dish, with the command/cobra head ITSELF a feed horn

 

[arch101]

I'd give this the one the 2015 Best Use Of Sketchup award! When all a person has been using it for are strip mall redoes and house additions, something exciting and dynamic like your model is a breath of fresh air.

 

[DanGovier]

Hi guys, I'm still around and working on this when I can catch a spare hour or so. It's been a bit hectic at work/etc these past couple of weeks.

I'm on the wrong laptop at the moment, but I'll post some pictures later. I've gone ahead and completely re-done the the deflector hull structure and the profile of the engineering hull (being a perfectionist really slows you down ). It both looks and fits better now.

 

[DanGovier]

Ok, so here we have my second attempt at the field controllers/deflector sensors around the edge of the deflector dish:

I've designed it so that they can easily be maintained or removed during the normal operation of the ship, and I've got both power and data conduits feeding out towards what will eventually be the connection to the intermix shaft. I'm keen to keep the design as plausible as possible, so if hardware exists it needs appropriate connectivity and it needs to be maintainable.

Here's what it looks like as you go through the layers. It's very low poly at the moment, but when I do the outer hull properly it will be a lot smoother:

I'm attaching and routing the conduits through the various beams and girders, so I'm laying them out with that in mind.

 

[BK613]

The guys in the white coats are surely coming for you because that is an insane amount of detail.
Nicely done.