USS VAL`WALO

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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
Day
Martin Luther King Day Conductors'
DeForest Kelley's
Earth
United States Civil Rights Leader
New Year
Earth, Chinese Calendar
Year of the Ox
Australia Day
(Earth, Australia)
Birthday
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
UFP Science Seminar
Earth, United States
Traditional Spring Ritual
“Terraforming from Scratch”
Little Life Form Day
Bibi Besch’s
Birthday
Brent Spiner's
Birthday
nItlh SoH jaj
(Scapegoat Day)
Klingon Blame-Diverting Tradition
John Shuck's
Birthday
Abraham Lincoln's
Birthday
Talaxian Bake-Off
Delta Quadrant Tradition
United States President
Earth (Traditional)
Melkot (Adopted)
Ethan Phillips’
Birthday
Presidents’ Day
Earth, United States
Traditional Tribute
Hair Style Show
Presidents' Day
Theme: Tricks with Banana Clips
United States
Earth
LeVar Burton's Birthday
Whalebone Corset
Invented
Jeri Ryan's
Birthday
Boss’ Girlfriend’s Day
Hollywood Tradition
Majel Barrett's
Birthday
Dabo Day
Ash Wednesday
Earth
Christian Religion
Quark's Bar, DS9, Bajor Sector
Chase Masterson’s
Birthday
Valentine's Day
Earth (Traditional)
Delta IV, Betazed (Adopted)
The Exploration Cruiser Artemis Rendezvous with the frigate USS Peregrine at Saturn
USS ARTEMIS
MARCH 2009
Engineers' Day
Artificial
Enhancement Day
Jimmy Doohan's
Birthday
Jolene Blalock's
Birthday
Starfleet Tradition
Vulcan Bionics Conference
Mawlid al-Nabi
Earth, Muslim Religion
Muhammad's Birthday
Commonwealth Day
Earth, Canada, Australia, NZ, UK
Purim
Earth
Jewish Religious Celebration
Burn Awareness Day
St. Patrick's Day
Earth, Ireland, Britain, US
Traditional Drunken Celebration
Take Pause Day
William... Shatner's...
Birthday
Women Drivers’ Day
Starfleet Safety Program
Marina Sirtis'
Birthday
Starfleet Safety Program
Connor Trinneer’s
Birthday
IDIC Festival
Vulcan Philosophical Gathering
Leonard Nimoy's
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
Earth
Christian Religion
Good Friday
Earth
Jewish Religion
Easter
Earth
Christian Religion
Passover Ends
Earth
Christian Religion
Earth
Jewish Religion
Joystick Day
Traditional Helmsmen’s Holiday
George Takei's
Birthday
Earth Day
Earth (Duh)
Replicated Coffee
Appreciation Day
UFP
Kate Mulgrew's
Birthday
St. George's Day
Earth, England
National Day
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
Labour Day
Earth, Australia
Mother's Day
Cinco de Mayo
Earth, Mexico, United States
Traditional Festival
Beltaine
Earth
Pagan Festival
Liberation Day
Earth, France
Visakah Puja
(Buddha Day)
Earth
Buddhist Religion
Armed Forces Day
Earth, United States
Commercial
Earth, United States
Military Tribute
Victoria Day
Earth, Canada
Technobabble Day
Starfleet Seminar
Memorial Day
Earth, United States
Military Rememberence
Colm Meaney's Birthday
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
Rene Auberjonois'
Birthday
Anthony Montgomery’s
Birthday
Earth
Starfleet Tradition
D-Day
Earth, US and Europe
War Memorial
Day of Payne
Earth, New Jersey
Flag Day
Earth
United States
Replacement Training
Seminar
Robin Curtis'
Birthday
Bendii Syndrome
Awareness Day
Father's Day
Earth, United States
Commercial
Vulcan
Tim Russ'
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
United States
Alan Ruck's Birthday
Universal Translator
Invented
Earth, Japan/Korea
7/7/2005
Linda Park's
Birthday
Earth, Great Britain
Memorial for Terrorist Victims
Capt. Picard Day
Annual Enterprise-D Event
Patrick Stewart's
Birthday
Bastille Day
Earth, France
Dance of the Orbs
Youth Science Fair
Nana Visitor's
Birthday
Wil Wheaton's
Birthday
Bajoran Dance Festival
Federation-Wide Event
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
Earth, Australia,
Jellystone Park
Cochrane Day
UFP Work Holiday
Glenn Corbett's
Birthday
Earth, Japan
Rememberance of War
Self-Sealing Variety
Cirroc Lofton's
Birthday
Mothers’ Day
Timeline Violation
Awareness Day
Vulcan
Starfleet Security Program
Jane Wyatt's
Birthday
Brannon Braga's
Birthday
Great Bird Festival
Ramadan Begins
Federation-Wide Tradition
Earth, Muslim Religion
Gene Roddenberry's Birthday
Johnathan Frakes' Birthday
Diana Muldaur's Birthday
Photography Seminar
Subject: Nudes and Technology
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
Starfleet Health Seminar
Labor Day
Roxann Dawson's Birthday
Earth, United States
Inwention Day
Earth, Russia
Annual Technology Fair
Walter Koenig's
Birthday
Rosh Hashanah Begins
Battle of Britain Day
Earth
Jewish New Year - 5769
Earth, United Kingdom
War Memorial
Childberth Seminar
Officer Emergency Training
Int’l Day of Peace
Rosh Hashanah Ends
Rosalind Chao's
Birthday
Earth
United Nations
Doomsday
Yom Kippur Begins
Earth
Jewish Day of Atonement
System L374
William Windom's
Birthday
Hatching Day
Andorian Fertility festival
Id al Fitr (Ramadan Ends)
Earth
Muslim Religion
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
Scott Bakula's
Birthday
Labour Day
Earth, Australia
Thanksgiving Day
Coridan Day
Earth, Canada
Coridan System Celebrates
UFP Membership
Columbus Day
Mark Lenard's
Birthday
Earth, United States
Italian-American festival
Orion Day of Mourning
Dilithium Market Crash of 2267
Ira Steven Behr's
Birthday
Holographic Rights Day
FCLU Annual Holo-Rally
Robert Picardo's
Birthday
United Nations Day
Earth
Halloween
Earth
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
Ferengi Ritual Day
Election Day
Armin Shimerman's
Birthday
Earth, United States
Futile Political Excercise
Armistice Day
Earth, France
Military Rememberence
Rememberence Day
Samhain
Earth
Celtic/Pagan Festival
Interstellar Hat Festival
Earth,Canada
Military Rememberence
Salamander Day
Warp 10 Achieved
Theme: Least Practical in a
Confined Space
Veterans' Day
Robert Duncan McNeill's
Birthday
Whoopi Goldberg's
Birthday
Earth, United States
Military Rememberence
Face Marking Day
Robert Beltran's
Birthday
Terry Farrell's
Birthday
Mogh Day
Klingon
Effigy Burning
Oil Slick Day
John Larroquette's Birthday
Denise Crosby's
Birthday
Earth, War Memorial
Vagra 2 Environmental Rally
St. Andrew's Day
Earth, Scotland
National Day
Eugenics War Day
Ricardo Montalban's Birthday
Thanksgiving Day
Earth, United States
Traditional Holiday
Name Confusion Day
Siddig Al - er...
Alexander Siddig's
Birthday
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
Klingon Pet Show & Barbeque
Pearl Harbor Day
Michael Dorn's
Birthday
Earth, United States
Military Rememberance
Underachievers' Day
Theme: Ensigns Forever!
Garret Wang's
Birthday
Rights Day
Earth
Hanukkah Begins
Earth
Jewish Religion
Hanukkah Ends
Wright Brothers Day
Earth
Jewish Religion
Earth, International
Technological Milestone
Kwanzaa Begins
Slug Swapping Day
Trill Holiday
Christmas Day
Nichole DeBoer's
Birthday
Earth
Christian Religion
Boxing Day
Earth, Great Britain,
Australia, New Zealand
Nichelle Nichols'
Birthday
New Year's Eve
Earth, Gregorian Calendar
Traditional Drunken Orgy
Earth, United States
Boxing Day
Canada, Australia
NOTES ON THE MODELS:
All the Star Trek ships herein were built by me from commercially available model kits, or parts thereof. If a design was inspired
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
picture.
NOTES ON THE ARTWORK:
Photo compositions are executed using Corel PhotoPaint. Some 3D elements are created using Caligari TrueSpace, and Daz
Bryce. Background images are often astronomical photographs taken from NASA websites. The calendar was assembled in
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
and phasers from Ertl 1/1400 Enterprise-C, Nacelles are Staedtler “Text Surfer” Highlighter Pens.
INGREDIENTS: Ertl USS Excelsior, sheet plastic hull extension, resin engines by Dark Star Models. Cargo pods are PVC pipe
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
created in CorelDRAW and printed on an Alps 5000. The NCC number, again failing creativity, refers to this being my first kitbash
of 2008.
THE NAME: The original Sultana was a Mississippi river boat. It was destroyed April 27, 1865 by an boiler explosion while
transporting Union Civil War veterans home. 1,800 people were killed.
BACKGROUND: Bubble City (Original Design) created in TrueSpace. Scene created in Bryce. Runabout is downloaded
LightWave mesh, origin unknown.
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 refers to the date of the Sultana’s sinking, April
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
the year i built the model.
MARKINGS: The kit was painted overall gloss gull gray, with dark gull gray undersides. Decals created in CorelDRAW and printed
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
SHIP: USS Val’Walo, exploration cruiser
DETAILS: See January’s entry
JUNE
SHIP: USS Hope, hospital ship
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
the Star Fleet.”
BACKGROUND: The Elephant's Trunk in IC 1396, Copyright: Brian Lula; Ertl Klingon battlecruiser model.
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
TrueSpace and rendered in Bryce
PROJECT: A nice, lean, low rework of the basic Enterprise
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
crisis of the Dominion War. Pieced together out of a combination of new-build components, depot spares and parts scavenged
from other projects, these ships were built as quickly as possible to meet the threat, and no two were alike.
PROJECT: To recreate one of the “Early Reliant” variations that appears in Mastercom Data Center’s classic book “Ships of the
Star Fleet.”
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: 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.
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.
The Coventry is copyrighted by Mastercom Data Center.
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