Maruth, in some ways I share the pain of how bad the Akiraprise design is, but not so much when you take certain elements to make 60s retro-ish designs such as the Big E first seen in 1966 and make it more realistic, or more modern. Take Dennis Bailey's U.S.S. Phoenix for example:
Pic 1 (shown above)Pic 2Pic 3Without making it look too much like an Akiraprise-themed design, Dennis Bailey transformed an early Constitution-class design and made it modern. More metallic-looking hull patterns and grids and more-believable thrusters and so on... It's basically a 21st-century look on an old 1960s design we all like, and much of the original design is still there. At the time when I discovered this, I saw Anduril making an attempt at making an SFC version, and to this day I still have it with me
(I hope! Only way it'll be lost is if I lose track of my backed up data on CDs or one of 'em gets scratched up badly), and I enjoy this design, as it gives much respect to the original design of the Constitution-class while making it look more believable and more appealing to newcomers of the original series.
What Wallace did was a similar attempt, but with a little more influence to Akiraprise than what Dennis Bailey did to the Consitution-class. However, it still looks mostly (or basically) pre-TOS (at least what I swear by my heart to be Pre-TOS, being
Masao Okazaki's perception of Pre-TOS-era.
). Nevertheless, a promising model, nicely-done, even the textures.
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