Thanks for the replies and thanks Axeman!
Yeah, the kitbahed model parts are not very accurate at all.
They are very inaccurate, if anything. This is what happens when you don't get permission or pay a royalty to the originator of the design. No credit is given for the design and someone doesn't t even try to contact you to ask about clarifying details of the design so an accurate model can be made.
The were 3 revisions/editions done to Detroyat blueprint set over a course of about 3 years or so. The packaging was different on the second edition and the 3rd edition used the 1st edition packaging again with some tweaks and new details and the edition of a "3rd Edition" notation. The only one I've seen posted online was the first edition version.
The second edition was basically a clean-up version of the first edition. The first 3 of the sheets were redrawn and some of the template lettering I used was replaced with transfer lettering. And some design tweaks/corrections were made on the first 3 sheets.
One change I made that I reversed in the 3rd edition was I had replaced the triangular-style thrusters w/ a rectangular design that was closer to those on the STTMP E. On the 3rd edition I reverted back to the triangular design as I like the look and layout better and I made a few tweaks to the look of these.
The 3rd edition I again did some revisions and redraws of the 4th and 5th sheets to clean up a lot of the lettering and again made a few more design tweaks that clear-up some confusion on some of the design details.
I can't post these, however since I have moved, somewhat, recently and don't have easy access to this stuff right now.
However, I have the scans of the 1st edition that I could add the changes and revisions to as well as as add color to the prints to show coloring/marking details.
One detail that I reverted back to from the first edition was the ship name/number markings. The large NCC-1100 on the primary hull is Amarillo USAF. The ship name, the "United Federation of Planets" on the primary hull, the NCC-1100 on the bottom of the primary hull and on the nacelles used the STTMP E lettering style (without the red border). Same goes for any other wording or number markings on the ship.
As for your question on the impulse engines,the "windows" on the back that you refer to are the impluse engine exhaust ports. The layout is similar to what Franz Joseph did on the TOS E published blueprints. And are consistent with some of TOS stock footage of the Enterprise having impulse engines with multiple exhaust ports. They are just a little more rectangular. The rest of the details are deflector gridding.
The Detroyat, herself, didn't originally have photon torpedoes but had added them in the 3rd edition after discussions with Aridas and Todd Guenther. I placed a recessed tube on the port and starboard sides on the part of the ship that connects to the primary and secondary hulls. On the part that transitions to the wedge-shaped secondary hull. This is the area that has the airlock port on the lower primary hull in the front view. The tubes are toward the back of this section hidden from the side profile view.This made sense and it placed the tubes in a built-in location rather that having something sticking off of the hull somewhere.
The other vessels had them, but added a note to denote that Detroyat had been retrofitted with photon torpedoes after the rest of the class had been bulit.
Until I can post or get you a set of revised design details, this is the best explanations I can give you so far
