There are no lights behind the bussards because I modeled them to be more like the ones for the show Enterprise, not TOS, since this ship is from before Enterprise.
And I'm working on a lighting rig for the warp coils and bussards so they will cast light on the ship but it's sitting on the back burner right now along with a lot of my projects because I'm working on an entry for a contest at sf-m.
As for using or not using Lightwave; that stuff is too expensive. My next upgrade will probably be to a newer version of trueSpace before I even contemplate something like Lightwave. And, can Lightwave import any of these formats: .asc .x .dxf .can .rsd? because I can export to all of those (though I'm not responsible for the resulting mess that might occur.) Other than possibly being persuaded to export to one of those, get a converter.
