Well, yeah. The MSD is missing the cutout on the underside of the nose where the Death Star laser comes from too.
Continuing to think it over, I think the thing to do is to just shorten the bay and put it between the impulse engines, if only because they're very noticeably located in the aft extensions while the saucer rim at the back is dark, whci could jkust be a closed bay door. They were also on screen from multiple angles for several seconds while the MSD is barely shown long enough to register details, in the background as characters are talking. I probably will also thicken that rim so as to get a decent height fro the bay, but that's a minor consideration. Pretty definitely going to give making a model a shot, the more I look at the ship the more I love it, and just doing the outside and a shuttle bay cavity is simple enough I should actually be able to finish the thing for once, rather than getting caught up in details until a new shiny object catches my attention. She needs some phaser strips too, though there is are least convenient gaps in the bands of windows to add those, and torpedo tubes can go in the front cutout beside the moon-destroying doom laser and the back end of the deflector dish dongle.
Now I just have to hope Blender's interface hasn't been changed again, because it's gone up another point-release since I did anything with it... I really hate the switch from Layers to visibility groups, basically it means I have to keep another tool tray open to eat more screen space and click multiple things to switch them around when for decades it's just been a matter of hitting a number key or shift and one or more number keys, and using them heavily is ingrained in my workflow. At the same time, a lot of the actual features introduced in 2.8+ are really attractive, so I don't want to just freeze on 2.79b.
Continuing to think it over, I think the thing to do is to just shorten the bay and put it between the impulse engines, if only because they're very noticeably located in the aft extensions while the saucer rim at the back is dark, whci could jkust be a closed bay door. They were also on screen from multiple angles for several seconds while the MSD is barely shown long enough to register details, in the background as characters are talking. I probably will also thicken that rim so as to get a decent height fro the bay, but that's a minor consideration. Pretty definitely going to give making a model a shot, the more I look at the ship the more I love it, and just doing the outside and a shuttle bay cavity is simple enough I should actually be able to finish the thing for once, rather than getting caught up in details until a new shiny object catches my attention. She needs some phaser strips too, though there is are least convenient gaps in the bands of windows to add those, and torpedo tubes can go in the front cutout beside the moon-destroying doom laser and the back end of the deflector dish dongle.
Now I just have to hope Blender's interface hasn't been changed again, because it's gone up another point-release since I did anything with it... I really hate the switch from Layers to visibility groups, basically it means I have to keep another tool tray open to eat more screen space and click multiple things to switch them around when for decades it's just been a matter of hitting a number key or shift and one or more number keys, and using them heavily is ingrained in my workflow. At the same time, a lot of the actual features introduced in 2.8+ are really attractive, so I don't want to just freeze on 2.79b.
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus