The curve on the top is the style of the ships of this particular race. It's actually a design for a range of starship miniatures called Cold Navy. I imagine the bridge to be up in that area, but again, I was replicating a certain feel/design of that particular race's ships.

Yeah, I would like to render this, hence my other thread on getting into rendering.

I got a demo version of Modo - holly hell is that a complex program! I feel it might take me decades to learn how to do anything? Looks powerful, but I can't make heads or tails of anything. A big part of it is probably my general unfamiliarity with painting/modeling/rendering in 3d?