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Sometimes you find yourself with bits and pieces left over from other projects, and personall, I hate to waste them (especially
now that they're out of production). The USS Shinma is an attempt on my part to use some of those leftovers.
The USS Shinma is a destroyer, and as such I named it after the Japanese
term for "malevolent ghost" -- at least I THINK that's what the term means. Anyone out there, feel free to enlighten me. It's a single-engine carry-over from the original Starfleet
Technical Manual, updated into the movie
era. I wanted to have an excuse to use my "experimental" yellow and black checkerboard markings, so I threw this together as a "potential" addition to Starfleet. The main oddities from the usual destroyer configuration is the unusual location of the shuttle bay (once again, an opportunity to show something a bit different) and the main deflector dish under the main hull -- a set of parts from Thomas Models again.
Other than that, it was just a fun toss-together of parts left over from other projects.
Gino Dykstra
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