Starship Parts reversed sketch
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Dammit... now I'm gonna want to draw this one up, too...
I like that. That forward "pod" and neck vaguely remind me of the old ring ship...
Kinda looks like a Romulan Bird-of-Prey with a Klingon battlecruiser type head and neck section stuck in front of it. A ship like this would've been cool to see in TOS and backup the idea of Klingons and Romulans sharing ship designs while mixing and matching parts for new ships. Hey, that could work for the New Voyages/Phase II people. 
Actually, I think it looks best as-is... something about the smaller size just makes the whole design work better, IMO.
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See, though... this is where a lot of fans make that critical mistake, thinking that bigger and more prominent is always better. It is not. That's why so many strange fanon designs end up looking awkward and unbalanced.
The way this is now looks perfect... it's evenly balanced for what it is, and really looks like a space ship. If the saucer were bigger, I really do think the design would suffer.
See, though... this is where a lot of fans make that critical mistake, thinking that bigger and more prominent is always better. It is not. That's why so many strange fanon designs end up looking awkward and unbalanced.
The way this is now looks perfect... it's evenly balanced for what it is, and really looks like a space ship. If the saucer were bigger, I really do think the design would suffer.
I'm not saying bigger and prominent in itself is better. What I'm saying is, in the original Enterprise model the saucer is the largest section of the ship. It's not unbalanced there. He's only switching the positions, I don't see how that would necessitate a "balanced" ship to lose size in an area. Besides, even coming from a functional standpoint, this ship has just lost a huge amount of volume since the saucer is smaller here. I don't see what harm would come from having a look at a version with a larger saucer. As long as it's not overdone, it could still look perfectly fine. 
No reason why we can't have both the big saucer and the small saucer versions...
I think that if it is a hub, and big, there needs to be a lot of stuff going on in it. The rear of the saucer needs to have some purpose, since the space is available. Based upon the sketch ( where I draw stuff vaguely, and then intuition sees things there and fills in the details ) I'm seeing it as a massive hangar deck.
I think that if it is a hub, and big, there needs to be a lot of stuff going on in it. The rear of the saucer needs to have some purpose, since the space is available. Based upon the sketch ( where I draw stuff vaguely, and then intuition sees things there and fills in the details ) I'm seeing it as a massive hangar deck.
Does that often happen with you folks, where you just sketch and sketch, brainstorming, and you don't have a clue, really, what it is what you've drawn, but as you look at it, your brain fills in the details, and you say, "ah, that's obviously the starboard ailertooter" or something like that?
You know what... even with the saucer the same size it is now, that would make a great hangar deck... and actually, to make it interesting, the center of the circle could house the warp core, and the core could be surrounded/enclosed by a circular wall, in much the same fashion as those circular benches that are built around trees.
The shuttles could be lined up all along the outer wall of the circle, and individual "tracks" would lead them to a smaller circular path surrounding the warp core wall, which would lead directly to the aft of the deck, where the shuttlebay door would be.
Plus if you really think about it, who says that this ship is even that small? I don't see many size-defining details like windows yet.
No, for me I usually can see it fairly complete in my head, but can't get it out that way on paper... I had a ship I had thought of and I can picture it fine, but when I go to sketch it out it never looks right...
I fiddled around with the great & powerful Vance's toolkit (for the first time BTW) and came up with this:
I had some blending issues as you can see.
I had some blending issues as you can see.
I sometimes have that happen, a complete design flashes to me in a moment of inspiration, right down to the number of rivets.
The challenge then is to dash off a sketch so that I can remember the idea. Maybe someday I'll have the skills to execute the ideas fully, but life keeps getting in the way...
