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Some people can build a model and then say "That's done, now let's do something else." Me, on the other hand, I build a model and then agonise over it for years. I keep tweaking it and rebuilding bits of it, trying to get it ...just ...right.

So anyway, I've been looking at my animation of my USS Paul Dirac model jim197.deviantart.com/art/USS-… and I've decided that the shape of the primary hull is wrong. The top face is basically a simple dome, reminiscent of the Excelsior and the TNG Enterprise. And therein lies the problem; these are post-TOS ships and I want my design to look TOS-era.

After giving it some thought, I've decided to flatten the primary hull's top face out at the edges so that it looks more like the TOS Enterprise primary hull. This change also makes it look a bit like the NX-01 primary hull, meaning it could be a transitional form between the NX-01 and NCC-1701 hulls. I find this notion very appealing.

To be clear, I don't think this change makes it look any prettier (in fact the original shape is probably more attractive), but I do think it fits better with Star Trek canon.

If you aren't into Star Trek then this may seem like a lot of fuss over a very small detail ...but if you aren't into Star Trek then you probably haven't read this far anyway, so it probably doesn't matter.

There are other bits of the USS Dirac model that could use improvement too, but that's for another day.

Images rendered using POV-Ray 3.7 on Sunday 28th July 2013, and composited using GIMP.

Description
Some people can build a model and then say "That's done, now let's do something else." Me, on the other hand, I build a model and then agonise over it for years. I keep tweaking it and rebuilding bits of it, trying to get it ...just ...right.

So anyway, I've been looking at my animation of my USS Paul Dirac model jim197.deviantart.com/art/USS-… and I've decided that the shape of the primary hull is wrong. The top face is basically a simple dome, reminiscent of the Excelsior and the TNG Enterprise. And therein lies the problem; these are post-TOS ships and I want my design to look TOS-era.

After giving it some thought, I've decided to flatten the primary hull's top face out at the edges so that it looks more like the TOS Enterprise primary hull. This change also makes it look a bit like the NX-01 primary hull, meaning it could be a transitional form between the NX-01 and NCC-1701 hulls. I find this notion very appealing.

To be clear, I don't think this change makes it look any prettier (in fact the original shape is probably more attractive), but I do think it fits better with Star Trek canon.

If you aren't into Star Trek then this may seem like a lot of fuss over a very small detail ...but if you aren't into Star Trek then you probably haven't read this far anyway, so it probably doesn't matter.

There are other bits of the USS Dirac model that could use improvement too, but that's for another day.

Images rendered using POV-Ray 3.7 on Sunday 28th July 2013, and composited using GIMP.