So after a couple of lazy months i decided to throw my self back into my modeling, and I'm so happy I did. endless fun trying this model but I've used a few references and have picked what I consider to be the best of the all, so its like a bit of A, a bit of B etc
But with out further ado here is my take *so far* on the federation vanguard station Starbase 47 - a type 6 starbase

As you can see, instead of texturing the hull lines in, I have opted to model them in, and still I have not hit 10k, so by the time shes finished and clean/optimized i hope she will be a smallish mesh still,
on one more note I would like to say the docking ring is a place holder at the moment, that is by no means my final part
