Re: Ok, someone had to do it... The New Enterprise in 3D!
Okay, Madman1701A, I think you're on your way, but allow me if you will to point out a few things I see:
In other words, it's not quite balanced; and frankly, your rendering assumes it's more balanced than it actually is.
-DF "Advises the Trek Art Staff to Do Some Research at The Gap Next Time" Scott
Okay, Madman1701A, I think you're on your way, but allow me if you will to point out a few things I see:
- Your primary hull dish is too large for the entire model. I would start with a smaller dish, but that's the same thickness at the rim as the one you have now. Now, look carefully at the borderline in the connection between the supporting pylon and the rim of the vessel to see how this dish should taper. In this case, the beginning of the "protrusion" of the dish down does not start exactly half-way in-between the perimeter and the center, as you have it. Draw a straight line in your mind from the center of the "nipple" to the rim, and at about 40% of the way (not 50%), there's where the protrusion stops and the dish flattens out. And on this model, it's pretty flat, not so gently tapering like on Jefferies' 1701.
- Because your dish is so wide, you have your nacelles swept-back like wings, much more like the 1701A in the movies. Make your engine pylons straighter, as if there were a rod that's perpendicular to the secondary hull, then build the exterior shell of the engine pylons so that they sweep on both sides toward the bottom.
- Then pull your engines closer to the dish -- way closer, dangerously close (maybe my second least favorite part of the new design is how close these suckers are).
- The support pylon connecting the new dish to the new fuselage is more delta-shaped -- you have it flat like in the TV show. Notice in the photo how it gets broader in the back and narrower at the front -- the seam actually runs down the side of the fuselage and touches the seam of the engine support pylon. If you want another angle, there actually is one: in the first movie preview, on the platform with all the welder guys, the camera appears positioned at the base of the support pylon, looking up toward the stumps where the engine pylons will go.
- The taper on the underside of the secondary hull extends further forward than where you have it, though where it stops, it still leaves a rounded "tummy," not a flat airline fuselage.
- I think the engines themselves do not appear to be as long as you have them. The pylons connect not behind the cowlings (those droopy-eyed things I still can't explain) but at the bottom of them.
In other words, it's not quite balanced; and frankly, your rendering assumes it's more balanced than it actually is.
-DF "Advises the Trek Art Staff to Do Some Research at The Gap Next Time" Scott
Sorry, I'm just being sentimental. 
It's just that on Trekmovie, Ryan Church stated he pulled a lot of "ILM reference" of the original Enterprise when drafting the proportions of the new one, so having a model that matches the TOS ship in overly like ancient's is probably correct. (I hope.)
