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MODEL DESIGNS COPYRIGHT © 2008 JOHN E. PAYNE EXCEPT WHERE NOTED COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHY COPYRIGHT © 2008 JOHN E. PAYNE MOST BACKGROUND PHOTOS © NASA, BORROWED WITHOUT PERMISSION Hovering over a distant Gamma Quadrant starbase, the cruiser USS Val'Walo awaits the arrival of a runabout carrying mission specialists for her current assignment.
USS VAL'WALO JANUARY 2009
New Year's Day Gregorian Calendar Earth Kwanzaa Ends (Earth, United States)
Weight Loss Seminar Starfleet Medical Health Program Kirstie Alley's Birthday
Moon Shuttle Martin Luther King Day Conductors' Day Earth DeForest Kelley's United States Civil Rights Leader Birthday
New Year Earth, Chinese Calendar Year of the Ox Australia Day (Earth, Australia) The cargo pod transport USS Sultana delivers crucial supplies to a new colony world, under escort of the battleship USS Coeur de Lion.
USS SULTANA FEBRUARY 2009
Groundhog Day Earth, United States nItlh SoH jaj UFP Science Seminar Traditional Spring Ritual (Scapegoat Day) “Terraforming from Scratch” Little Life Form Day Klingon Blame-Diverting Tradition Bibi Besch’s Brent Spiner's John Shuck's Birthday Birthday Birthday
Talaxian Bake-Off Abraham Lincoln's Delta Quadrant Tradition Birthday Ethan Phillips United States President Valentine's Day ’ Earth (Traditional) Earth (Traditional) Birthday Melkot (Adopted) Delta IV, Betazed (Adopted)
Presidents’ Day Earth, United States Traditional Tribute Hair Style Show Presidents' Day Theme: Tricks with Banana Clips United States LeVar Burton's Birthday Earth
Whalebone Corset Boss’ Girlfriend’s Day Dabo Day Invented Hollywood Tradition Ash Wednesday Quark's Bar, DS9, Bajor Sector Jeri Ryan's Majel Barrett's Earth Chase Masterson’s Birthday Birthday Christian Religion Birthday The Exploration Cruiser Artemis Rendezvous with the frigate USS Peregrine at Saturn
USS ARTEMIS MARCH 2009
Artificial Engineers' Day Enhancement Day Starfleet Tradition Vulcan Bionics Conference Jimmy Doohan's Jolene Blalock's Birthday Birthday
Mawlid al-Nabi Earth, Muslim Religion Muhammad's Birthday Purim Commonwealth Day Earth Earth, Canada, Australia, NZ, UK Jewish Religious Celebration
Burn Awareness Day St. Patrick's Day Starfleet Safety Program Earth, Ireland, Britain, US Connor Trinneer’s Traditional Drunken Celebration Birthday
IDIC Festival Take Pause Day Vulcan Philosophical Gathering William... Shatner's... Leonard Nimoy's Birthday Birthday
Women Drivers’ Day Starfleet Safety Program Marina Sirtis' Birthday USS Soryu's shuttle #12, "Voyager," surveys the burned out ruins of a city on Miri's planet
HEAVY SURVEY SHUTTLE APRIL 2009
April Fool's Day Earth Traditional Day of Practical Joking Captains’ Conference Subject: Sexual Harassment Grace Lee Whitney's Birthday
Palm Sunday Passover Begins Good Friday Earth Earth Earth Christian Religion Jewish Religion Christian Religion
Easter Passover Ends Earth Earth Christian Religion Jewish Religion
Joystick Day Traditional Helmsmen’s Holiday St. George's Day George Takei's Earth Day Earth, England Birthday Earth (Duh) National Day
Replicated Coffee Appreciation Day UFP Kate Mulgrew's Birthday The Val'Walo disables a Cardassian scout ship as it tries to evade them in a gas giant's ring system.
USS VAL'WALO MAY 2009
May Day Earth, Great Britian Traditional Spring Festival
Visakah Puja Cinco de Mayo Beltaine (Buddha Day) Labour Day Earth, Mexico, United States Earth Liberation Day Earth Earth, Australia Traditional Festival Pagan Festival Earth, France Buddhist Religion
Mother's Day Armed Forces Day Earth, United States Earth, United States Commercial Military Tribute
Victoria Day Earth, Canada
Technobabble Day Starfleet Seminar Memorial Day Colm Meaney's Birthday Earth, United States Military Rememberence Michael Piller's Birthday The hospital ship HOPE comes to the aid of the stricken destroyer USS Shaitan, damaged in the Orion blockade of Coridan in 2267.
USS HOPE Saladin Class Destroyer Copyright © 1975 by Franz Joseph Designs JUNE 2009
Foundation Day Earth, Australia Silly Putty Invented Dunsel Day Earth Starfleet Tradition D-Day Rene Auberjonois' Anthony Montgomery’s Earth, US and Europe Birthday Birthday War Memorial
Day of Payne Earth, New Jersey
Replacement Training Seminar Flag Day Robin Curtis' Earth United States Birthday
Bendii Syndrome Awareness Day Father's Day Vulcan Earth, United States Tim Russ' Commercial Birthday
Jeri Taylor’s Birthday The Essex late in her career, when the noble old warhorse had been reassigned to shuttle pilot training. Here she is imaged over Cait, with young Caitian shuttle pilots practicing landings.
USS ESSEX USS Essex Copyright © 1987 by Mastercom Data Center JULY 2009
Canada Day Earth, Canadia Pineapple Cake Day NX-01 Enterprise Tradition Dominic Keating's Birthday Restocking Day Independence Day Torpedoes Delivered Yesterday Earth Alan Ruck's Birthday United States
Universal Translator Invented 7/7/2005 Earth, Japan/Korea Earth, Great Britain Linda Park's Memorial for Terrorist Victims Birthday
Capt. Picard Day Annual Enterprise-D Event Patrick Stewart's Bastille Day Birthday Earth, France
Dance of the Orbs Youth Science Fair Bajoran Dance Festival Federation-Wide Event Nana Visitor's Wil Wheaton's Birthday Birthday A Klingon loses a game of "chicken" with Artemis as her phasers track true, laying a beam across the cruiser's path.
USS ARTEMIS AUGUST 2009
Lughnasadh Earth Pagan Harvest Festival
Stem Bolt Day Picnic Day Hiroshima Day Self-Sealing Variety Earth, Australia, Earth, Japan Cirroc Lofton's Jellystone Park Rememberance of War Birthday
Timeline Violation Mothers’ Day Awareness Day Vulcan Starfleet Security Program Jane Wyatt's Brannon Braga's Birthday Birthday
Great Bird Festival Ramadan Begins Federation-Wide Tradition Earth, Muslim Religion Cochrane Day Gene Roddenberry's Birthday UFP Work Holiday Photography Seminar Glenn Corbett's Johnathan Frakes' Birthday Subject: Nudes and Technology Birthday Diana Muldaur's Birthday Kim Cattrall's Birthday
Dancing Doctors’ Day Annual Federation Talent Show Gates McFadden's Birthday Sultana heads out for her next pick-up after delivering two cargo pods to a Starbase orbital warehouse facility
USS SULTANA SEPTEMBER 2009
Genesis Day Mutara Sector Merritt Butrick's Birthday
9/11/2001 Earth, United States Memorial for Terrorist Victims Anger Management Labor Day Starfleet Health Seminar Earth, United States Roxann Dawson's Birthday
Inwention Day Earth, Russia Annual Technology Fair Battle of Britain Day Rosh Hashanah Begins Id al Fitr (Ramadan Ends) Walter Koenig's Earth, United Kingdom Earth Earth Birthday War Memorial Jewish New Year - 5769 Muslim Religion
Childberth Seminar Int’l Day of Peace Officer Emergency Training Earth Rosalind Chao's Rosh Hashanah Ends United Nations Birthday
Doomsday Yom Kippur Begins System L374 Earth William Windom's Hatching Day Jewish Day of Atonement Birthday Andorian Fertility festival Exploring the performance envelope at warp seven
USS COLUMBUS OCTOBER 2009
Emissary Day Bajoran Religious Observance Avery Brooks' Birthday
Gazelle Appreciation Day California Pretentiousness Society Labour Day Scott Bakula's Earth, Australia Birthday
Thanksgiving Day Coridan Day Earth, Canada Coridan System Celebrates Columbus Day UFP Membership Earth, United States Mark Lenard's Orion Day of Mourning Italian-American festival Birthday Dilithium Market Crash of 2267
Ira Steven Behr's United Nations Day Birthday Earth
Holographic Rights Day FCLU Annual Holo-Rally Halloween Robert Picardo's Earth Birthday Pagan Festival In the confused meleé during the battle for the Chin'toka System, the corvettes of the Arminius class take a beating while USS Surak and her destroyer escort move in to attack enemy capital ships. Arminius and her sister USS Vercingetorix maneuver to attack lighter Jem'Hadar units, while at lower right USS Hamilcar burns, and USS Boudicca tumbles from a crippling hit.
USS ARMINIUS NOVEMBER 2009
Lobe Festival Election Day Ferengi Ritual Day Earth, United States Armin Shimerman's Futile Political Excercise Birthday Armistice Day Earth, France Military Rememberence Rememberence Day Earth,Canada Interstellar Hat Festival Salamander Day Military Rememberence Theme: Least Practical in a Samhain Warp 10 Achieved Veterans' Day Confined Space Earth Robert Duncan McNeill's Earth, United States Whoopi Goldberg's Celtic/Pagan Festival Birthday Military Rememberence Birthday
Face Marking Day Robert Beltran's Name Confusion Day Birthday Siddig Al - er... Terry Farrell's Alexander Siddig's Birthday Birthday
Mogh Day Klingon Effigy Burning Oil Slick Day John Larroquette's Birthday Vagra 2 Environmental Rally Eugenics War Day Thanksgiving Day Denise Crosby's Earth, War Memorial Earth, United States Birthday Ricardo Montalban's Birthday Traditional Holiday
St. Andrew's Day Earth, Scotland National Day USS Coventry joins in the effort to move the dead hulk of the "Planet Killer" to a secure location for study.
USS COVENTRY USS Coventry and USS Essex Copyright © 1987 by Mastercom Data Center DECEMBER 2009
Targ Day Pearl Harbor Day Klingon Pet Show & Barbeque Hanukkah Begins Earth, United States Michael Dorn's Rights Day Earth Military Rememberance Birthday Earth Jewish Religion
Underachievers' Day Theme: Ensigns Forever! Wright Brothers Day Hanukkah Ends Garret Wang's Earth, International Earth Birthday Technological Milestone Jewish Religion
Kwanzaa Begins Slug Swapping Day Earth, United States Trill Holiday Christmas Day Nichole DeBoer's Earth Boxing Day Birthday Christian Religion Canada, Australia
Boxing Day Earth, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand New Year's Eve Nichelle Nichols' Earth, Gregorian Calendar Birthday Traditional Drunken Orgy NOTES ON THE MODELS: NOTES ON THE ARTWORK: All the Star Trek ships herein were built by me from commercially available model kits, or parts thereof. If a design was inspired Photo compositions are executed using Corel PhotoPaint. Some 3D elements are created using Caligari TrueSpace, and Daz by someone else, I make note of it below. I do not light my models; all lighting apparent in the images is digitally added into the Bryce. Background images are often astronomical photographs taken from NASA websites. The calendar was assembled in picture. CorelDRAW!
JANUARY FEBRUARY
SHIP: USS Val’Walo, exploration cruiser SHIP: USS Sultana, cargo pod carrier
SCALE: 1/1400 SCALE: 1/1000
PROJECT: Gundam/Trek Hybrid. PROJECT: Excelsior-based Transport/Tug.
INGREDIENTS: Bandai “Val Walo” EX Gundam kit, Deflector and nacelle pylons from Ertl’s 1/2500 Enterprise-D, Hangar doors INGREDIENTS: Ertl USS Excelsior, sheet plastic hull extension, resin engines by Dark Star Models. Cargo pods are PVC pipe and phasers from Ertl 1/1400 Enterprise-C, Nacelles are Staedtler “Text Surfer” Highlighter Pens. with end caps made from gashapon capsules. Cargo pod pads are resin units from PNT Models Franz Joseph Tug conversion.
THE NAME: Failing to get creative, I adapted the name of the Gundam into a Vulcan name by adding an apostrophe. Cargo pods are removeable.
MARKINGS: RLM 76 German WWII light blue/gray overall with pale green paneling to evoke the Next Generation era. Decals THE NAME: The original Sultana was a Mississippi river boat. It was destroyed April 27, 1865 by an boiler explosion while created in CorelDRAW and printed on an Alps 5000. The NCC number, again failing creativity, refers to this being my first kitbash transporting Union Civil War veterans home. 1,800 people were killed. of 2008. MARKINGS: The kit was painted overall Testors Model Master “Light Gray,” my standard color for Motion Picture era starships. BACKGROUND: Bubble City (Original Design) created in TrueSpace. Scene created in Bryce. Runabout is downloaded Decals created in CorelDRAW and printed on an Alps 5000. The NCC number refers to the date of the Sultana’s sinking, April LightWave mesh, origin unknown. 1865.
BACKGROUND: NASA Photo of Stellar Nursery W5, by Lori Allen using rthe Spitzer Space Telescope.
MARCH APRIL
SHIP: USS Artemis, exploration cruiser SHIP: Heavy exploration shuttlecraft
SCALE: 1/1400 SCALE: 1/96
PROJECT: A delta-shaped starship based loosely on Arids Sofia’s USS Ariel shuttlecarrier. PROJECT: To create a shuttlecraft using the obviously-perfectly shaped hull of the Aurora Voyager, which also reminds me of the shuttles from the old “Space Family Robinson” comics. INGREDIENTS: Moebius Models’ repop of the old Aurora model of the “Voyager” ship from the 1970 cartoon series “Fantastic Voyage,” saucer and necelles from Starcraft’s 1/1400 resin Enterprsie refit kit. Shhet plastic “neck.” INGREDIENTS: Moebius Models’ repop of the old Aurora model of the “Voyager” ship from the 1970 cartoon series “Fantastic Voyage,” nacelles from the 1/1600 AMT Spaceship Set Enterprise THE NAME: A random visual suggestion: The ship looks like an arrowhead. Artemis was the Greek goddess of the hunt. THE NAME: Well, duh. That aside, I chose an earlier kitbash, the through-deck cruiser Soryu, to be its mother ship. MARKINGS: The kit was painted overall Testors Model Master “Light Gray,” my standard color for Motion Picture era starships. Decals created in CorelDRAW and printed on an Alps 5000. The NCC number is yet another unimaginative acknowledgement to MARKINGS: The kit was painted overall gloss gull gray, with dark gull gray undersides. Decals created in CorelDRAW and printed the year i built the model. on an Alps 5000. The markings are meant to conform to TOS shuttlecraft standard, but i had to come up with a “close enough” font for the name. BACKGROUND: A NASA/Cassini probe photo of saturn combined with another astronomical photo of the Mily Way. BACKGROUND: Ruined city meshes borrowed from a friend who purchased them online, rendered in Bryce.
MAY JUNE SHIP: USS Val’Walo, exploration cruiser SHIP: USS Hope, hospital ship DETAILS: See January’s entry SCALE: 1/1000 BACKGROUND: Ringed planet scene entirely created in Bryce. cardassian ship is a photo of the actual filming miniature found online. PROJECT: creating something interesting using the Franz Joseph cargo container as a hull..
INGREDIENTS: PVC pipe, PNT Models cargo pod end caps, PNT models dreadnought conversion for Polar Lights Enterprise, and nacelles from the PL Enterprise.
THE NAME: The first real hospital ship that popped into my head.
MARKINGS: The kit was painted overall Testors Model Master “Light Gray.” Decals created in CorelDRAW and printed on an Alps 5000. The NCC number is a random choice for a low-numbered, early Starfleet vessel, with an H for hospital added for the hell of it. Some decals are from PNT’s generic 1/1000 Starfleet sheet.
BACKGROUND: Entirely generated in Corel PhotoPaint using Flaming Pear’s “Glitterato” and “Lunar Cell” effects filters.
PERSONAL NOTE: This is a recreation of an orginal kitbash I did using GameScience miniatures a very long time ago. that one was only about 3” long. It was fun to make it big.
JULY AUGUST SHIP: USS Essex heavy cruiser SHIP: Artemis
SCALE: 1/1000 DETAILS: See March
PROJECT: To recreate one of the Constitution-class variations that appears in Mastercom Data Center’s classic book “Ships of BACKGROUND: The Elephant's Trunk in IC 1396, Copyright: Brian Lula; Ertl Klingon battlecruiser model. the Star Fleet.”
INGREDIENTS: Polar Lights’ 1/1000 Enterprise. The sensor dish was reversed to create the Essex’s pre-TMP-style deflector. An extended landing pad was added to the hangar deck.
THE NAME: From the book
MARKINGS: The kit was painted overall RLM 76 just to have a variation on the ghost gray I usually use for TOS-era ships. Decals created in CorelDRAW and printed on an Alps 5000 to exactly duplicate the look in the book, which postulates markings that may have existed between the end of the TV series and the first Trek movie..
BACKGROUND: A NASA photo of the Heart and Soul Nebulas by Davide De Martin. The two planets were generated with the LunarCell filter in PhotoPaint. The Caitian shuttles were modeled in Caligari Truespace and rendered in Bryce 6.
The Essex is copyrighted by Mastercom Data Center.
SEPTEMBER OCTOBER SHIP: USS Sultana SHIP: USS Columbus, Exploration Cruiser
DETAILS: See February SCALE: 1/1000
BACKGROUND: A NASA astronimical photo composited with a Megellan photo of Venus. The space station was created with PROJECT: A nice, lean, low rework of the basic Enterprise TrueSpace and rendered in Bryce INGREDIENTS: Polar Lights’ 1/1000 Enterprise.
THE NAME and NUMBER: Yeah, uh, sorry about that.
MARKINGS: The kit was painted overall Light Ghost Gray. Decals by me.
BACKGROUND: hubble photo of NGC 346 with a motion blur,
NOVEMBER DECEMBER SHIP: USS Arminius SHIP: USS Coventry, Frigate
SCALE: 1/1400 SCALE: 1/1000
PROJECT: The USS Arminius is one of the hundreds of Starships built in Starfleet's emergency shipbuilding program during the PROJECT: To recreate one of the “Early Reliant” variations that appears in Mastercom Data Center’s classic book “Ships of the crisis of the Dominion War. Pieced together out of a combination of new-build components, depot spares and parts scavenged Star Fleet.” from other projects, these ships were built as quickly as possible to meet the threat, and no two were alike. INGREDIENTS: Polar Lights’ 1/1000 Enterprise, and a buttload of sheet plastic. INGREDIENTS: Saucer: Two stands from Ertl's Excelsior sandwiched; Aft hull: Monogram's 1/2500 Maquis raider; Nacelles: Ertl's 1/2500 Enterprise-D THE NAME: From the book
THE NAME: The German ruler who wiped out a Roman Legion in a decisive battle at the Teutenborg Forest in 9AD MARKINGS: The kit was painted overall Light Ghost Gray, which I usually use for TOS-era ships. Decals by JTGraphics, based upon the ship’s appearance in the book. Additonal detail decals by me, and PNT models. MARKINGS: The kit was painted overall Light Gray, with late DS9-era markings, made in Corel and printed on my Epson inkjet using Micro-Mark inkjet decal paper.. BACKGROUND: Photo of the Lagoon Nebula, copyright: Fred Vanderhaven; Doomsday machine was created and rendered in Bryce. Other ships are more pics of my Essex and Coventry models. BACKGROUND: Hubble image of the Dumbbell Nebula (M27); color-altered Cassini image of Saturn's moon Enceladus; my USS Surak cruiser kitbash, USS Preble destroyer kitbash, and other shots of the Arminius. The Coventry is copyrighted by Mastercom Data Center. www.inpayne.com
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