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That looks great. I've always liked the two-toned paint job of the TOS shuttle better than the later shuttles.

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UPDATE...
I did a little more textures but realized I still have a few smoothing issues. I might rebuild the main body of the shuttle or I might leave it because it still looks good from a reasonable distance. A few folks have expressed that the shuttle bay appears to be a tight squeeze. These pics should show that it's not all that tight. I'm thinking that the shutle bay might be able to fit four shuttles.

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I don't see any smoothing errors from that distance. So, if you have to get really close to see them and you don't plan to get that close, I wouldn't worry about it.

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I like it!
The shuttle has an 'angry look' to the aft section.

Is this all part of one big mesh (i.e. a ship with a bay and shuttle to be posed) or am I just smoking too much old rope?

:biggrin:

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It's all one big mesh.

UPDATE...
Finally got around to doing the grid lines after a hell of a lot of work. I'm happy with them and I won't be making any changes so don't ask.:biggrin:
I mean it.:biggrin:







I really mean it.:biggrin:

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Who needs changes? Those look perfect to me. :D

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Looks good to me.

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Thanks. I thought some people might bitch about them being too deep or too thick, but it appears ok.:D

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Looks like about the same thickness I usually use. And, as far as how deep they are, I don't know how Max operates, but sometimes I can't get lines to cut in trueSpace without making them deep. I get stupid "can't do the booleans" messages, so I move the pieces to make the cuts deeper and it works. Besides, the deeper lines show up better because the deeper cut makes a darker shadow. :)

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I like deeper lines... makes it look more like armor plating...

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UPDATE...
Started to on windows to the rim of the saucer.

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purdy...

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Nice work, bro. Are you going with a cluster pattern (ala NCC-1701, etc.) or just randomly placing them?

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I don't know if I would call it random since I am thinking about how I want the windows placed. But I'm not following any set pattern so it is made up.

UPDATE...
Starting work on the lower saucer windows. I wasn't going to include portholes here but I tried it and thought it didn't look too bad so I kept it.
I'm still thinking if I'll keep the back walls of the large cut outs the way they are now or make them more angeled.

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Not so much an update but another ship design.
While working on a ship for another person I was playing around with the saucer and came up with another idea for a ship.
The first two pics include the ship I was working on. You should be able to guess the one.
Right now it only roughed in I'll add all the parts to make it fit with my alt-Trek concepts. The warp engines will probably be moved.

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I like those a lot. The new one in the first 2 pics looks like Enterprise meets Romulan BOP and Millennium Falcon. The other one has more of a Flying Wing look to it. :D

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UPDATE...
Started to add windows to the lower saucer.
The next two pics are my version of the Ptolemy transport/tug.
After that I started on something for the Feds to shoot at.
A Tholian ship.

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UPDATE...
I finished the windows on the saucer rim.
I added a few details to the Kelvin part of the ship and built a few cargo containers to go into the cargo bay.

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Nice work. I like the little cargo canisters. The round ones remind me of the ones that appeared in every cargo bay shot from TNG.

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That's what they are based on.