Yah, there is a group who are trying to make a star trek total conversion. They posted in the mod announcement forum about it. They might have some ships, or certainly be interested. The best you can hope for if not get them to do it, is to find someone who can model who wants a challenge. There is nothing better than links to some pictures (or include pictures in posts (but limit size and to jpg format so it doesn't take 2 minutes for 56kers to load page
)) cause seeing really cool ships usually gets someone to make them
Apart from that, it might be best to try modeling. In the Tutorials forum, there is a thread by a guy called Drizzla. He made a tutorial for "how to model a ship" - it goes from start to finish, including commands in the modeling program. That can get you started. Another good one is to find some poeple who are making ships, and have only made their first few. Then you can see if they would be willing to join you in a mini mod team. That way, see if they want to try modelling, and then you can do the ini editing.
For the ini editing, you need to go to tutorials forum and take a peek at what you want to aheive. The link below takes you to a thread that contains a load of programs, as well as links to two threads called Newbie Questions. Those threads cover a ton of topics about modding, so have a read through the "index" as it is.
However, i would recommend some pictures and Drizzlas tutorial (which is in PDF format in downloads
Have fun
Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:21 pm 
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