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I would start this with a quip about it being a long road getting here but by all the gods, that song is dismal.

So, a return to my alternate Warp Five ship. I might not be much of a Trek fan, but I watched Star Trek: Beyond the other weekend and somewhere between wondering why they hired Idris Elba if all they were going to give him was some growling and gurning, and hoping against hope something interesting would come of a massive multi-cultural star base (sorry, but as pretty as it was, it really didn't have the charm of DS9), I seem to have switched back to this old idea.

I had already a version of Endeavour in Blender but I wasn't especially happy with it. This model uses the nacels of that version and some of the greebling but I've started over with the general sweep of the hull, which I think looks considerably better now. My driving ethos is a sort of aesthetic antecedent of the original Enterprise (whichever version you prefer), incorporating a dollop of Dan Dare and ray-gun gothic into the mix. That's the reason for the wings and the fin, of course, besides implying a less refined warp drive and so on.

Comments and input welcome at this stage - it's a work in progress and even if I don't finish it, it's quite fun to tinker with. Not quite sure how to handle the shuttle bay - or the shuttles themselves, of course, although I'm thinking styling them after Dan Dare's Anastasia might be a way to go . . . I like the wings.

Oh, the colours are probably a lot paler than they'll be in the end . . . although I'm not sure if I'll go quite as dark as my original.

Anyway, do drop me a comment if you have any suggestions for developments. And apologies for not being great at responding recently - I'll try to do proper correspondence later in the week.

CBS owns Star Trek, I believe. This ship is the product of a fevered imagination, chiefly mine.

Description
I would start this with a quip about it being a long road getting here but by all the gods, that song is dismal.

So, a return to my alternate Warp Five ship. I might not be much of a Trek fan, but I watched Star Trek: Beyond the other weekend and somewhere between wondering why they hired Idris Elba if all they were going to give him was some growling and gurning, and hoping against hope something interesting would come of a massive multi-cultural star base (sorry, but as pretty as it was, it really didn't have the charm of DS9), I seem to have switched back to this old idea.

I had already a version of Endeavour in Blender but I wasn't especially happy with it. This model uses the nacels of that version and some of the greebling but I've started over with the general sweep of the hull, which I think looks considerably better now. My driving ethos is a sort of aesthetic antecedent of the original Enterprise (whichever version you prefer), incorporating a dollop of Dan Dare and ray-gun gothic into the mix. That's the reason for the wings and the fin, of course, besides implying a less refined warp drive and so on.

Comments and input welcome at this stage - it's a work in progress and even if I don't finish it, it's quite fun to tinker with. Not quite sure how to handle the shuttle bay - or the shuttles themselves, of course, although I'm thinking styling them after Dan Dare's Anastasia might be a way to go . . . I like the wings.

Oh, the colours are probably a lot paler than they'll be in the end . . . although I'm not sure if I'll go quite as dark as my original.

Anyway, do drop me a comment if you have any suggestions for developments. And apologies for not being great at responding recently - I'll try to do proper correspondence later in the week.

CBS owns Star Trek, I believe. This ship is the product of a fevered imagination, chiefly mine.