After I finished my TMP era refit of my Guppy fighter, I realized it was obsolete compared to all my other fighter designs. So I thought why not dump them on the civilian market and let the public turn them into hot rods?
The original model is from Trekmeshes.eu
It's the same size as the tiny shuttlepod we saw in early TNG, but the styling is from the Star Trek 5 shuttle.
I made this around 2011
My vision of what Turtledove was thinking about. I look inspiration from a lot of other nations.
I did these around 2009.
I spent several hours mapping out the hangar space and parking shuttles and fighters to determine what I could fit. It got so complicated I had to get help from AI to plan out different configurations for different missions. There is a lot more room in those pods than you realize. I could make 2 good sized decks 85m long.
The colors are just for me to differentiate the parts. Not final textures.