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This
is my rendition of the Romulan Stormbird, a modified Klingon D-7
Cruiser from the FASA Role-Playing Game.
I was commissioned to produce the feather pattern decals and
when the project was done, I printed off two decal sheets; one
for the client, and another for me. The decal pattern was made
specifically to fit the AMT Original Series Star Trek Klingon
model. The decals were created with Adobe Illustrator and
printed on white decal film.
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The
base coat of the ship was first sprayed with a Gray Primer. I
began to airbrush Light Ghost Gray as a base color, but the ship
wasn't the color I wanted. I decided I like the look of the
primer, so I re-sprayed the model with primer and left that as
the base color.
Since the decals needed to have white in the design, I had to
use white decals film. To keep the white from showing at the
edges when cut out, I marked the edges of the decals in black
and painted the corresponding panels where decals would be black
as well. The wing pattern on the aft top section is from the
FASA design and colors. The front face of the secondary hull and
the bridge area were requested and approved by the client. I was
commissioned to produce a pattern for around the deflector on
the 'head' underside, but I opted not to include the decal on my
own model. Including the decal I didn't apply, the decal sheet
is made from ten individual decals.
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The
impulse engine is painted Red The forward vents and areas on the
nacelles are painted Medium Gray. Vents on the upper structure
and nacelle pylons were painted Steel.
Some of the decals still have some shine to them...I'm going to dull coat
the model to protect the decals, but I took the pictures for the
site after I applied them.
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The
FASA design may have intended the bottom of the ship to have some
sort of feather pattern, but neither my client nor I felt the
need for anything to be there. The deflector housing at the
front was painted Copper.
This model was built when the reissue kits were sold in the
1990s, but I was a much less experienced modeler then. I used
measurements from this old model to create the pattern shapes
for the decals. Since I had the ship already done, I decided to
putty the seams, (I hadn't done that when I built the kit), sand
them smooth and repaint the kit for finishing with my Stormbird
decals.
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This
composite was done in Photoshop while I was preparing the other
photos for the site. It depicts three Romulan Stormbirds near a
blue nebula, the third of which is decloaking.
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Photos
by Stephen L.
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