Some USS Cardiff progress to round off the week. It has taken all my powers to avoid accidentally putting a smiley face on the back of the engineering hull.
This is nearly done - I just want to add a little detailing to the sides of the superstructure at the back of the saucer. Then I will bite the bullet, stop mirroring that section, and add the registry.
Oh, I should also say, it took me a while to settle on it but I think this is the best torpedo launcher configuration I can apply to the saucer using the components I created for the Excalibur. I don't really like the idea of making it a pair of straightforward tubes, and I think moving the phaser banks around like this works, more or less.
I also ported that over to the Saladin class model. After mulling this one for a while, I think I'm going to settle for no deflector dish, with the front of the saucer detailed to imply a hidden deflector array ala the Miranda class. I likewise settled on building shuttlebays directly into the back of the hull, rather than trying to build something out of the back of the bridge section. It just looks a lot cleaner this way.