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I had this idea to remake the Defiant from Deep Space Nine into the style of the original Star Trek series.

Yes, I know the USS Defiant was a Constitution class when Shatner donned his girdle to play Captain Kirk. Well, the redesign was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Plus my end result was ugly and I eventually deleted the would-be project in frustration.

A couple of rebuilds later and I finally came up with a design that not only fits the look of the DS9 version, but captures the style of the original Star Trek look.

Not satisfied with just having the Defiant, I needed some sort of adversary. Instantly I got the idea to build the Romulan Bird of Prey (with a few touches of my own). That particular model was pretty easy and took me about four hours to build and texture!

For those interested in the software I used...
- trueSpace 7.6
- Vue 5
- Photoshop

-edit
Changed some of the effects to make it look a little better.

This image and models © Liz Gibbs

Description
I had this idea to remake the Defiant from Deep Space Nine into the style of the original Star Trek series.

Yes, I know the USS Defiant was a Constitution class when Shatner donned his girdle to play Captain Kirk. Well, the redesign was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Plus my end result was ugly and I eventually deleted the would-be project in frustration.

A couple of rebuilds later and I finally came up with a design that not only fits the look of the DS9 version, but captures the style of the original Star Trek look.

Not satisfied with just having the Defiant, I needed some sort of adversary. Instantly I got the idea to build the Romulan Bird of Prey (with a few touches of my own). That particular model was pretty easy and took me about four hours to build and texture!

For those interested in the software I used...
- trueSpace 7.6
- Vue 5
- Photoshop

-edit
Changed some of the effects to make it look a little better.

This image and models © Liz Gibbs