I've been wracking my brain trying to decided what I wanted to do about the navigational deflector area. I've not been happy with it and my previous attempt to build the dish itself did not go well. However, one of the reasons for posting work on the Internet is to get feedback. And, there are many times where feedback can get you past a problem you're having, because people will often times suggest things you hadn't thought of. So was the case with the deflector area. Michael "BorgMan" Bosscha suggested something so simple on Scifi-Meshes earlier that I could kick myself for not thinking of it myself:
"Hey, just a stray thought: what if you delete the forward section of the deflector housing and leave it at that notch? I was glancing over it a bit and I think it would look pretty cool"
I liked the idea instantly and went about implementing it. I was quite happy with the results, so I went about building the deflector itself. Here is the result:
