This has so far taken me just over 6 hours today to get this far. Originaly source 72,000+ poly model/textures is located on
www.startrekaustralia.com and created by Jorg Gerlach, so many thanks go to him. I was planning on attempting this over 18 months ago but my modelling skills weren't really that great. Now I feel a bit more confident to attempt the mesh as my results are getting better with each model. Anyway, this is a heavy WIP at the current time (poly count is aprox 2380) and the mesh is around 40% complete (albeit with minor tweaking).
(forgot to add this). Two things will happen once this mesh is ready:
1) It'll be an SFC3 release ONLY. That means, no BC, Armada or any other publically converted releases (and no, I'm not being heartless. I'm just a little tired of seeing more releases for BC than SFC3 (which I also play more often)).
2) Don't expect to see this on any other site, other than Outalance Shipyards.