I really hate cutting pieces of the hull away, when I did the CFS I was working on the principle that there was a war going on at the time and the less time spent sawing up the hull of the Constitution the better so the Starfleet engineers would much more likely just mount the torpedoes directly to the hull rather than come up with a completely new structure to house them.
BTW Rogue I can't tell from these pics but on the Elohim did you retain the smoothing groups I put on the saucer, there should be a sharp line just outside all those little grey square thingies where the saucer top bulges up like the old TOS version, I made that a separate group so there'd be a sharp line as the saucer comes up but I can't see it on those pics.
Don: the CFS is an SFC ship who's specs I used to make the Elohim, the Elohim is the first name in the shipnames.txt file for the game and I like it, it's apparently an old jewish word, and informal word for God, but it's plural, can also mean strength of God.