The second version looks much better Jaitea (the right scale but filling the screen).

The inclusion of closer craft (obviously looking smaller) also sells this shot.

It's still a bit too uniformly lit for my taste (a bit like ILM's work for Star Trek III) but that's a subjective judgment.

Ady, I agree, an otherwise lovely model ruined by a scale throwing detail.

The sheen on the model (especially around the dish) would need to scrubbed down to be used in filming so presumably anyone taking that on would correct the trenches anyway but that's a lot of unnecessary work which should have been caught before going into production.