Hey Jim -
Well - to try and make a long story short....
About two months ago I got sucked into a web page project that ate up all my spare time, and only now am I managing to extricate myself. Hopefully in another three weeks or so I can pick up where I left off.
I did a VR pano of the cargo deck as a sort of test, and am working with someone to try and import it into Flash and see if it works. If we can pull that off then I know I have a format to create a 3d VR tour of the ship.
I also got some new software yesterday that lets me create very realistic oceans, so I want to play around with it - float the Normandie and see how well I can make her sail, so to speak. Maybe come up with some kind of intro movie, kind of like a cruise ship commercial but hopefully not too commercial.
As for photos, I'm still looking for any detail shots of the top of the wheelhouse, and what sort of instruments were positioned up there.