Over 300 star systems? Well that's pretty much. But I can do it for starters till you find someone else so keep that job open.
I can do atleast some of the models. It's pretty easy actually. I made Excalibur from 4 cylinders which I then altered to get the ship look like it looks now. It took about an hour or so. The texture map I've done so far took over 2 hours so I can really appreciate any help I get in that area.
As for regarding Draco Yards, yes it's my site. It has the ship models build by Draco Yards in the People's mod. Also their background decriptions are meant to TPM. But for little changes you can easily fit the ships to any campaign.
I don't know.... I was hoping for the traditional ships of startrek to start with and then maybe later we'll do something, I don't know.
But for now I just need someone to go around asking people for permission to use ship models or to make ship classes that already exist.
For example:
Miranda
Sovereign
Galaxy
Intrepid
Akira
Nova
Etc.
But don't just do Federation.
If you look in the other Startrek Starfury topic you'll see a list of Races, I need ships for all of these races.
This is preproduction so-to-speak and we need some concept races, so get some pictures and send em my way. If I approve then I either need you to make the model or get permission to use someone elses model. Anyone that wants to do this get out there and do it, i'll see to it that a list is made so we can keep track of what ships we already have.
I'm not good at replicating already existing models. I create new ones from the scratch. By the way I did the changes you requested to Excalibur. Currently it looks like this