Pyotr Velikiy WIP
 

Ok, now it's my turn. It's not 100% accurate, but then none of stuff ever is :)
http://skyhawk223.concept40.com/pyotr4_25.jpg

And the front
http://skyhawk223.concept40.com/pyotr4_25a.jpg

Looks good! I see you recessed the deflector housing - nice variation.

That looks very good. I actually like those colors too. Too bad this is a Fed ship.

The colors are the best part. HA! :)
Thanks. The housing looks recessed in the drawings, so I thought why not...
The colors are just temporary so I can more easily see the different parts. They sort of melded together when they were a uniform gray.

That's right, the drawings do show a recessed housing! Also, please refer to Thomas's model for the forward slope of the collar. I will modify my schematics to fit that part of the model.

As for the color, some selected parts of the ship with a slight blue tint might be interesting, sort of like on the back of the secondary hull of the refit Enterprise.

Wee little update...
http://skyhawk223.concept40.com/pyotr5_2.jpg

What are those blue thingies on the inboard nacelles? Creeping Akiraprise-ism?

Yeah, that's it! No, just coloring so that I can see where that object ends and the nacelle object begins. If I hadn't colored it that way it would have blended in with the nacelle. I will probably make it black or a dark gray.

A little update. Added stripes and the bubble thing on the back of the secondary hull.
http://skyhawk223.concept40.com/pyotr5_12.jpg

That's a fine looking ship, if I don't say so myself.
The inboard details on the nacelles still look about NX-01-ish, though. You have that 7-shaped thingy at the front but replaced its back end with one of the twin intercoolers from the end of the nacelle.
The rest of the mesh looks great.

Thanks. It's hard to make out what that area looks like from the 2d drawing. Is there any other source material you can point me to that shows what the inboard area of the nacelles look like?

Oh sure, there are lots of places, such as IDIC and Model Citizen, with pictures of the Enterprise nacelles.
http://members.aol.com/IDICPage/main.html
http://www.mjtsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
http://home.earthlink.net/~casimiro/blueprints.html - Nice schematics

Thanks. I will check them out.
My version of the ship looks taller than Thomas' version. I think I like his better. :)

It does seem a tad taller but I like yours too. Keep going!!!

Maybe the increased height is an illusion due to the bright markings?

Could be. Oh well. Onward and upward. I am working on the pennants now. Have the nacelle pennant applied already just need to add the saucer pennant.

By the way, if you don't want to name this ship Pyotr Velikiy, here's a list of all the ships in the class:

USS PYOTR VELIKIY NCC-1670
USS SHRELEV II NCC-1671
USS YI SUN-SHIN NCC-1672
USS JOHN PAUL JONES NCC-1673
USS TAV NCC-1674
USS ELIZABETH I NCC-1675
USS ATROX NCC-1676
USS TOGO NCC-1677
USS ROMMEL NCC-1678
USS FRIEDRICH BARBAROSSA NCC-1679
USS USS GOYATHLAY NCC-1680
USS WASHINGTON NCC-1681
USS NIAKENCHIIS NCC-1682
USS SALAH AD-DIN NCC-1683
USS GIAP NCC-1684
USS HANNIBAL NCC-1685
USS ZERISSHEBI NCC-1686
USS DE GRASSE NCC-1687
USS REXX NCC-1688
USS GANTU NCC-1689

Oh, now you tell us... :)

I'm looking forward to the history posting over at the museum. I thought they only built the one.

Any idea how far back the pennant on the main hull entends?

I sent all the stuff to Bernd. He will post it whenever he gets around to it, I guess. Soon, I hope. I think the history is pretty interesting, if I say so myself!

Added some more detail here, some more there...Still need to do the shuttle bay and the yellow square thing on the bridge module.
http://skyhawk223.concept40.com/pyotr5_28.jpg

That's looking fine. I do notice on the front view some strange blending/zoom effect on that grey patch around the windows on the disc edge.

Yeah, I'm not happy about that. Boolean subtract mesh errors.

Have you tried to shapemerge?
Or detaching that section from the mesh and preforming the compound opperation on the detached faces?

Can't do that in trueSpace. Wish I could. I tried to fix by adding extra geometry, but to no avail. I guess it will have to be hidden by careful placement of lights. Very annoying!