Gilbert Class brought to you by Tholian Design Bureau and 4MM Shipyards

Tholian · Model Overlord

RE: Gilbert Class brought to you by Tholian Design Bureau and 4MM Shipyards

lloyd II · Model Overlord

More changes?

Tholian · Model Overlord

Not changes. Enhancements!

Tholian · Model Overlord

Maybe I shouldn't have said anything. 4MM has not replyed. Maybe I upset him.

Four Mad Men · Model Grand Pooba

Cleaning Woman? Cleaning Woman! CLEANING WOMAN!!!

Four Mad Men · Model Grand Pooba

I know what you mean about the Reliant. Infact I've always planned to try some Reliant detail on that area of the ship. Just to see how it looks. So here's what I've come up with.

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Do I take it from your suggestion that you are not liking the deflectors? There are a couple of things on Reliant that really look like they could be deflectors but sadly the only place it makes sense to put them on this ship means they wouldn't have line-of-sight to the front (just to the backside of the upper saucer).

Four Mad Men · Model Grand Pooba

I myself have been most disappointed in the bridge. So I'm redoing it from the ground up. It's a tough nut and after a couple of false starts it is well on the way to being (re-)complete.

Tholian · Model Overlord

Well, I have read that after they designed the Reliant, that question was raised on where the Deflectors were, and the Designers said they totally forgot about them. So later on in another design I have seen, on the front of each of those pieces it has a Dish like Deflector like the older versions. Except for the dish being round, it was more like a rectangular shaped, yet it was a dish. Hope that describes it enough.

The Front Deflectors look great, Just wondering what you thought of doing that.

Kinda like the ones on this ship. They are in orange

Four Mad Men · Model Grand Pooba

Oh man, those are ripe! That's a nice build but I just don't care for the dishes at all.

If you look at those semi round structures coming out of the saucer and facing forward. Now those look like small deflector dishes to me. Especially in the closeups of the filming minature. Just look at the saucer registry and follow the lines of the around to the back. Those horizontal tubes just before the "plateu". If you follow me.

Tholian · Model Overlord

Your right. I was just wondering what it may have looked like with those Dishes set on there. But your right, That looks goo enough. What else do you want to do with it before you say it is finished.

Four Mad Men · Model Grand Pooba

I've got a short list of geometry changes which includes finishing the bridge rebuild, some nacelle changes, some ports and hatches, and a few more grid lines on the underside of the saucer. The rest of the list is taken up by lighting (boh interms of lighting and adding the bulbs themselves) and texturing (most notablly here are the nacelle "decals" and azteking).

On the whole there is nothing on my list stopping you from proceding with you build up, they are just things that need to be completed to call the 3d model finished and ready to render the final orthographics and a few space scenes.

Tholian · Model Overlord

Then I will probably get started. I decided to use one of the 1/350 ships for the build up. I asked Thomas to make some decals up for me, so I am hoping that I will get those soon as well.

lloyd II · Model Overlord

^^ Are you going to put lights in it? What about the hangar decks, are you going to build them?

Tholian · Model Overlord

Yea, I will make hanger decks. Not sure about the lighting up part. But it is in my head.

Four Mad Men · Model Grand Pooba

WHAT!!! At 1/350th*** scale you just gotta light it. You just gotta!

*** Cool idea by the way. And if you have a 1/350th TOS primary hull lying around I'll take one USS Cairo in that scale please sir.