>I dunno but it seems like the warp nacelles are canted a little too
>far down compared to the high-nacelle version?

Mm, this could be. They look all right in profile, but from directly in front the pylons look too long. (The nacelles are on upside-down, too, which probably doesn't help. :)

One thing to keep in mind when weighing these up is that Surprise is rather smaller than Challenger (which is on the humongous side as this style of starship goes); her construction isn't simply a Sovereign dish and warp engines with the secondary hull omitted, the external arrangement is also scaled down by about 30 percent. (I say "external arrangement" because, well, obviously inside the ceilings aren't all 30 percent lower, etc. :) It's pretty much impossible to see without a scale reference, so for purposes of actually making the artwork it doesn't matter, but it should be borne in mind when looking at them.

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