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[Freak]

Thanks Guys.

Scott, after I had finished modelling it and put it into place I though the same thing. LOL.

[Prime_8]

it's an efficient mounting system if you think about it

[Freak]

Okay, I have finished off the grid on the under side of the source and cut in the windows that are mirror.
But before I apply the mirror modifier to cut in the rest of the windows, I was going to do the airlock on the source.
I was looking at the reference photos of the filming model and noticed that there is not an airlock on both sides.
Was this done as they planned to only film the ship form one side like they did in TOS (Even though they did film it from both sides for TMP.) and leave the detail off or was this done on purpose?

If anyone know the answer I would be grateful so that I apply it both side or just one.

Update picture will be coming soon.

[scifidude79]

As far as I know, it was done on purpose. The one in the saucer edge is different, and seems to be designed specifically for docking with space stations. The Reliant also only has one on the port side.

[Freak]

It seems a bit daft to have it only on one side, as it would cause issues if you needed to dock two ship together.
But then looking at it, it appear the doors are between decks leading me to believe that there much be a ramp from the two decks leading to it. That would also be a waste of space inside of the ship and it would be doubled if the airlock was on both sides.

[scifidude79]

I addressed this on SFM, but I will here too. The non canon info on that port is that it's specifically for connecting gangway (jet bridge) ramps, and nothing else. If that's the case, it's totally useless unless docked with a station using a gangway. So, no, it's not a good design feature.

In the real world, someone was probably looking at an airport terminal and thought it would be a good idea to have that on the ship to dock with stations. It was likely carried over to the Reliant just to keep them in the same technology tree, but I've seen no evidence of those ports on other ships. People who do schematics of the Excelsior put one on the port side of its saucer, but I don't think it's actually on the model.

[Freak]

we seen it on Voyager, they blow out a bunch of Brog from a Cargo bay from it.
I Think the episode was Scorpion Part 2, so they are on later ships. Though saying that with the Galaxy Class every time we see her docked it was from the Neck, even with docking at DS9.

As for the Excelsior-class, I can't see anywhere for her to dock. So I am going to guess that it covered over plating that moves out the way when docking.

So to keep with logic and what we have seen I will put it on both sides.

[scifidude79]

Voyager has docking ports that are like the ones on the Enterprise-D, so they're different than the gangway hatch that the refit and Reliant have. Voyager had three on its saucer perimeter, fore, port and starboard. It also has a couple docking ports in its engineering section.

[Freak]

It's been two weeks since I posted an update on this build.
I not had much time to work on this project, due to work, home life and going to Silverstone last weekend for the British F1 GP.
But I did manage to get three of the six tasking left to do on the source section.
So I managed to finish off the lower source grid lines before going to Silverstone. Since coming back I got the windows cut in and do the Airlock on the rim of the source.
I was thinking of putting the airlock on both sides for logical reasons, unlike on the filming model which is only on one side.
Look at the filming model it look like it was added on for Star Trek III The Search for Spock, when the ship is in spacedock. However I have kept with the just the one, but it will not take much to add it to both sides.
With that here are the recent render showing off the work done.











Work on this will be a little slow for the next few weeks, as the Kids are now on Summer Hols.
I am also working on another 2D project, which currently needs to take priority as I need to have it done before the 7th of August. (This is for my Step-Brothers Birthday.)

Things let to do on the saucer.
1.Finished of the grid lines and cuts out to the lower saucer.
2. Cut in the windows.
3. Model and add the Airlock to the rim of the saucer.
4. Model the Impulse Engines.
5. Model ship name.
6. Texture.

[scifieric]

Nice work, Dean!

[Freak]

Thanks Eric.

[Prime_8]

pretty slick man

[scifidude79]

You're cruising right along with this build.

[Freak]

Thanks guys.
Not had a chance to work on it since the last post. I hoping to able to tomorrow!

[Freak]

It has been a few weeks since I last posted an update on the Enterprise Refit build.
Things has settled down at work and with the kids summer holidays coming to an end, I finally had sometime to sit down and get on with this build.

So with that said onto what I have done:
Frist up, I have modelled out the ship name and reg and placed it onto the ship. Modelling out the name was easy enough, put placing it onto the ship was a pain in the arse. There was a lot of trail and error to get it right, but I got there in the end.
Next up was modelling out the impulse engines, this went along with out any problems until I had to the panels on the top. I tired all sorts of tricks to get this right but it never did. So I had decided to go with cut out, I might go back towards the end build correct it.
I have also add Navigation lights to the saucers. I also saw looking at the references that where the impulse engine sticks out of the saucer on the side. The cut out that go round the rim stop just before the impulse engine so I have also corrected that.

I have not textured her liked I planned. I have changed my mind and decided to get back to finishing off the ship and come back later to do the texturing.