Was discussing pre-TOS but post Enterprise ships with a friend of mine today, prompted by Joshua Bell's Declaration class design (found at http://www.calormen.com/Star_Trek/de...eclaration.htm). Which, interestingly enough, also bears a fair resemblance to LUG's Ranger class (does anyone know if the Ranger class was intentionally based on the same Matt Jefferies design sketch?).
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I did a little cut and paste, and mixed it with some bits redrawn in Corel and came up with something I kind of liked.
It's based on the same 1701 design sketch as Joshua's Declaration, but I made a concerted effort to make it look more like a later contemporary of the Daedalus. Not to mention, I think it's much closer the original Jefferies design sketch. Hence I drew the nacelles (Daedalus class version) and saucer in Corel, and hooked them up to a stretched version of the Daedalus secondary hull.
Currently, it's a work in progress, since I want to redraw the bits that are just cut and pasted, and scale the whole thing properly (the windows are far too large just now).
Any thoughts? If anyone's interested, I'll probably do a CODA writeup for this thing.
In case anyone cares, the latest scratch-drawn draft looks like this
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