Just a quick little experiment tonight.... You know, it's funny how one thing leads to another sometimes. First, I uploaded a render of a hot girl in a space station with an old airbrush painting of a spaceship in the background. Then Mike (mrestey) says 'I had a model of that ship.' Then Bill (bmac62) says he'd like to see the original painting. So I uploaded a scan of the painting, and mentioned that I also had that model, but don't remember what the ship was called. Then along comes Colin, with the name of the ship - the Lief Erikson! Sweet! Then, just for the heck of it, I Google 'Lief Erikson Model' and shazam! I find a goldmine of information, plus a nice OBJ file and textures at This website! I imported the OBJs into Poser, and applied the textures. And here's the result. The ships were rendered at 3360 X 2100 with IDL. Here, three Lief Erikson class Star Cruisers assume attack formation. The Lief Erikson, McArthur, and James T. Kirk are preparing to defend thier quadrant from hostile ships. Who are they preparing to engage? Klingons? Romulans? Borg? Perhaps Cylons? Maybe those nasty critters from Independence Day? I slightly modified the texture files in Photoshop for the three ships. Since - unlike Dave Archer - I don't have a million-volt Tesla coil in my basement, I relied on my old friend Photoshop for the space background. This is one of the many things about this community I just love - the interaction among so many talented artists! Hope you like my little experiment! The TNA Girls will be back in action very soon! Working on Chapter 2 now! Thanks again for all the great comments, and support! You folks ROCK!!