
A friend & I were talking on Facebook about the Phase II Enterprise and it hit me I should use that as my contest entry instead. But which one? The Phase II filming model was never completed (we've all seen that picture). Add to it that the existing Jeffries plans for Phase II are also incomplete. So I searched the web and came across these plans that I liked, for the most part:
http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/en ... rogram.php
I also liked the images of this Phase II render:
http://scifanatic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.c ... 000_st.jpg
http://scifanatic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.c ... 001_st.jpg
So I combined the two in my head. My Phase II will not be like the Jeffries in that the nacelle grills will be convex instead of concave. It will be like the rendered picture in that it will have rectangular Bussard Ramscoops instead of the Refit grills plus the TOS deflector dish. I didn't like the rectangular photo torp tubes in the plans or the pig-like snouts of the render. I had also seen a mono-tube on other buildups and drawings that I didn't like. So for the photon torps I decided to create my own. Everything else will be like the plans.
So here we go:

First thing I did was to putty the photon torp tubes since they will be reshaped. I also puttied the bridge superstructure because that will have to be reshaped to be more round and for the decks to be less stair stepped in profile. This technique worked when I reshaped my TOS bridge:

I puttied the underside of the saucer to remove those bloody dimples. I will also remove the raised concentric circles. I noticed that the engineering section looks, for the most part, like the one on the Refit except for the neck and the tail. Those looked more like the the TOS, so I hacked away:

It's not very clear in the photo, but I also sanded off the Refit intercooler assembly, so now the front side of the nacelle is smooth. That allowed me to mark and cut out the Captain America wing-like intercoolers of the Phase II:

Here is the assembled - body minus neck - and the nacelles plus the new intercooler inserts. I don't know if you can see it well in the pic, but the photon torp tubes are now more round from the top view. They are a little bit rounder from the side view as well:

Here is a profile of the engineering section with the neck. Notice that the engineering section's tail in profile now looks more like the plans:

Tomorrow I plan to smooth out the engineering section and reshape the bridge superstructure.