Gino Dykstra’s USS Shinma

Sometimes you find yourself with bits and pieces left over from other projects, and personal, 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