Well, this was about my third or fourth attempt at making the Enterprise, and it took about a month to finish it. As for the black background, for this, I just took it into MS Paint and blacked out the background with the fill tool. A better way to do it though is to go to File>Settings>3D Settings and click the background color button. It will give you the custom color window so you can choose any color you want. Finally, for the top name, you can invert the colors on this image
http://ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/...iginal-top.gif
using paint, erase any unwanted details, and set it as a texture on the saucer top section. Hope I helped :wink: !