I downloaded Google sketchup and I thought I'd take a crack at making the old scout ship from drive. Here's my results.

[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2678/427954160 9_c2ef376443_o.png[/img]
[img]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4029/428028490 0_634669fd08_o.png[/img]
[img]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/427954183 7_218924b21a_o.png[/img]
[img]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4055/427954145 7_fa106a6a4b_o.png[/img]

Can anybody think of anything I can do to improve it?( Or maybe why the images won't show up?)

First things first: THIS IS AWESOME. You are so rad for doing this.

Secondly, my apologies: This forum uses this format for linking images (You'll also need to add a at the end):

img src="http://www.sheldoncomics.com/imagename.jpg"

Anyway, here are the four angles on the ship:

OK, now back to business. THIS IS AWESOME. YOU ARE AWESOME. Thank you for being the first one to take a crack at this!

Kris Straub over at Starslip has been telling me for weeks to do this, and I downloaded Sketchup 'n everything...just never found the time.

So! To your question on how possibly to improve it...here are some thoughts (and keep in mind I think this is awesome, lest that get overshadowed).

1.) The main "box" body should be shorter -- bow to stern -- by perhaps a 1/6th or 1/5th.

2.) Additional to that, the two diagonally placed side engines should sit slightly further back towards the stern. Viewed directly from the side, they'd be seen as "centered" on the main box of the ship's body, with a tiny bit of the ship showing in front of, and behind, each engine. (Better way to say it, the length of the engines are slightly shorter than the main section of the ship.)

3.) The ring, ring mounts, and stern ring-tower all look great. 4.) The down-tilt bow of the ship looks great, but should be slightly larger than it is right now, in height and width. It's depth, though, could be shortened a bit. 5.) In the fourth picture, viewing the ship from the front -- you did a great job guesstimating how far the engines are spaced from the body of the ship -- I don't think I ever showed that. But if you'd bring them closer, just a smidge, that'd be awesome. The larger section of the hydraulic could probably stand to come down a bit in length.p Other than that, this is so rad that you did this! I can't emphasize that enough.

Well I've taken your suggestions and made some improvements. The main section is shorter, and when you said "The larger section of the hydraulic" I wasn't quite sure what you were referring to so I just assumed you were talking the tall thing in the back attached to the ring. So I made that shorter. The engines are a little more centered. I noticed that in some shots of the ship there seemed to be little wings in the back so I added those. I also made the down tilt bow is a little larger and shorter. I'm a little confused about the down tilt though, in some comics it seems rounded on the sides but in others its square so I'm just wondering which one it is supposed to be. And there seems to be something attached to the ring from the bottom of the ship, is that just more of the bottom connector I already have connected or is it something more? I've also added some more details to the ship. Like what seemed to be intakes on the engines so now they have some indentation in the front. Also I've added some holes for the ring to go through. Anyways, here's some previews(hopefully I get the tags right this time):

This'd make for an absolutely perfect addition to the Sheldon store as a USB drive:
http://www.customusb.com/products-customshapes.htm l

I'm guessing Kellet's background with Mattel was it? would give him some rudimentary knowledge/connections for accomplishing this manufacturing project.

Is there any way to beg for an .obj file or other such file to import into Daz 3D Bryce 6.1? :D I have no idea what Google Sketchup can do.

@cucui
That. Is. AWESOME.

@cynvision
The free version of SketchUp can't really do much. And as for the Pro version, considering it costs $500 I'd hope that it's able to do a lot of stuff. BUT, they do offer a 8 hour free full trial of it. And it is able to output it into .obj format. So I'll do that with what I've got and since you have your email available to other users I could e-mail it to you. Cause I'd love to see what other people can do with it.