This thing probably should get it's own thread on all the forums as it has little to do with my project series.
Not much today. Mostly nacelles and a mess of small changes as I fiddle with the overall shapes of things. Loads of making sure things are what I want before going to the next stage fo collapsing all the subdiv and doing all the detail stuff. I think a lot more of my reboot style is in this than any sort of inline with TOS. There are areas I cannot reconcile with say my Daedalus to the connie in design or technological matters. This triangular hull and some of the shapes are just much more advanced than the connie exp with the Daedalus as an example. BUT you could make that argument with the NX 01 as well as a pressure vessel. A collection of tubes and spherical shapes are far easier to work up and keep as a sealed environment than a mess of square or angular shapes. Hence my idea of the hull on this ship is mostly covering over a internal frame and sealed spaces. A very un trek like idea as internal components are not likely accessible within a pressure environment. IE you would have to leave habitable areas while still in ship to access void areas where machine parts reside but still within the outer skin of the hull.
Another idea is this ship could have been a joint venture with a entirely different aim or goal. Given the 4year war (game based) and other things occurring pre tos but within the constitutions life prior to TOS this ship could be a more modular or swap-able with other components to fit missions. Could be requiring a more robust load out and likely be more of use in war than exploration.
As for the basis of this whole project being the DISC ship I find it more of a post TOS even post TMP in design tech wise and size. Thing has to be 3X that of a connie. Some of the features on the hull has me suspecting it has some roots in a defensive mission. Possibly as un-fed like offensive position. If you watch the video you find a lot of odd shapes across the flat hull behind the saucer.
Triangular hull. I am deeming this is required to house larger fusion cores for larger sublight drives and to house more forward sensor arrays and weapons systems. The centerline of the "wings" are the only paces I could find to comfortably place torpedo launchers short of the saucer.
ANYHOW much of above is moot as I could easily say this isn't the disc ship and is something else in a TOSish timeframe! Main thing is anything that sticks out as ehhh atm. Much of the central saucer components are not being considered right now as they are easily replaced at any stage however saucer shapes wont be soon. Really only the secondary is a largely subdiv object that would be a need to finalize and no go backs once it is collapsed. Much of the rest of the ship is either box modeled or is in subdiv mainly to increase segments such as nacelles and saucer.
Measurements as of now.
453.5' wide
953ft length
202.5ft tall
Again fine details are not modeled so clamps etc are rough.
Rough overall of the ship with nacelle details. Note right of way lamps are still symmetry objects so colors are wrong.
back end view, shows alteration of trailing edge secondary hull. Those round vent thing will likely get removed for another style of vent or be cut into the hull later on. Flush nozzles on the struts are still missing.
Including a side view so it can be compared to the doodle. It should also make some design choices stand out more like the angle of the neck continuing into the saucer etc. One thing I am tempted to alter which would make for major changes is the height of the secondary and where the "belt line" is on it. lowering that as well as the entire deflector arrangement would lend to more height and give me angles that are more vertical than they are now. Issue is it will screw up all the aligned angles on all the various parts. I think this fitment of parts is what bothers me as when you build a connie is all falls into simple easy to make joints. No complicated compound angles etc. It is why this hull shape bothers me so much. BUT I wanted to showcase it in old fed guise/tropes, though I think I have strayed from that.
man there is too much light inside of those domes!! they are glowing way too much from it.
