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                        My Defiant Class U.S.S. Monitor

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                        MartianGundamModeler
                        • Member since
                          November 2003
                        • From: Tennessee
                        My Defiant Class U.S.S. Monitor
                        Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:26 PM

                        Now that I have a card reader I can start posting some of builds. This was my first non-canon build, the U.S.S. Monitor from the Williams Shatner book "The Return".The books describes it as being a Defiant class vessel possesing 3x the fire power of a Galaxie class, cloaking device, and a black micro coating that makes it have minimal sensor signature and makes it hard to spot in visiable light because it is all black with no markings. It's registry number is classified because she "does not exist". I took some artisic license in the markings and i had to paint some dails ot it would just look boring. I went for the P-61 Black Widow look with the red striping. She won First Place Science Fiction at Liberty Con back in May of this year. I have also constructed a tactical runabout in the same vein which I will post at a later time. Anyway here she is...

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                        "Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 22, 2005 7:53 PM
                        Neta paint job. Was that the ship that dropped off Picard, Crusher, etc to sneak up on the Borg? Or am I remembering another book.
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                        Admiral Grasshopper1
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                          July 2005
                        Posted by Admiral Grasshopper1 on Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:40 PM
                        Nice Ship,and different. You should have JT Graphics make you some special decals for that. I like the black color. Who needs a cloaking device when your ship looks cloaked already. Really Awesome.Cool [8D]
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                        MartianGundamModeler
                        • Member since
                          November 2003
                        • From: Tennessee
                        Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Friday, December 23, 2005 9:17 AM
                        Yes that's the one. It doesn't have any graphics because in the book it says that the ship has no markings and is completly covered in a black micro coating. Technically the ship should be compleatly flat black but like I said that would be dull and look like a cheap cop-out in model bulding. So I took some artistic license by puttin the red lines on and painting in the details to give it that Black Widow look. The black widow was an early night fighter from WW II that actually had radar guided guns and was painted black. I guess it was the first stealth fighter. Looked like cross between a P-38 Lightening and a bomber. 
                        "Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:09 PM
                        I really really like this. I think i might do this with a Bird of Prey. Where the gun mounts remain a very nice silver metallic look. With the wings on the bottom in a dark red. I think it would look great.

                        I always did imagine the klingons to be a bit darker as in more evil kind of thing.
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                        MartianGundamModeler
                        • Member since
                          November 2003
                        • From: Tennessee
                        Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Friday, December 30, 2005 8:28 AM
                        Yeah like an elite Klingon black ops team. Coool.
                        "Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html
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