ST:TNG Klingons

I finished up 7 Klingons and 1 Norsican this week. These are plastic toys from the Strike Force series and are more 25mm than 28mm.

I have some other ST:TNG Klingons from Space Vixens from Mars. They are a bit chunkier and more 28mm (although the basing exaggerates the height difference).

Up next: I am grinding away on a bunch of 28mm Crimea figures (some French troops). Very colourful but lots of details to fiddle with.

Trek crews finished

To the extent that any gaming project is ever finished, I have completed my ST:TNG era crews.

First up, we have the Enterprise D crew. Mostly these are Monopoly pieces. The Worf and Ro Laren (left) and Tasha Yar (right) are from the Last Unicorn Away team set.

Then we have ST:DS9. Again, mostly Trek Monopoly pieces with paint job conversions. The Ferengi are from the Strike Force toy sets and Garek is from Space Vixens.

Finally, ST:VGR. These are all Monopoly (some with putty conversions) except Neelix, who is a converted Ferengi from the Strikeforce sets. I also have about a dozen generic ST:TNG era crew figures from a variety of manufacturers.

Up next: More Crimea (so much detail painting!) and some Trek baddies.

28mm British Crimean command

I have four British command from Foundry done this week. Some came painted while others needed a matching job. I also need to find a flag.

Overall, nice figures. Lots of detail but cleanly sculpted.

Up next: Some ST:VGR and ST:DS9 figures.

28mm British Crimean cannon

After a brief hiatus, I got back to work this week and finished off two British horse artillery cannons and crew from Foundry.

After some dithering about what to do with the basing, I chose 40mm frontages and put as many of each crew as I could on the base. The remainder, I based separately.

Overall, a nice enough piece. The endless lace and braid was tiresome. Looking forward to some more basic troops next!

Up next: Some British command and then some Trek.

ST:TNG Red Shirts

I've been putting together ST:TNG, ST:DS9 and ST:VGR crews but lacked an adequate number of cannon fodder figures.

For Christmas, I got these 7 generic Star Trek Strikeforce figures (circa 1997). They got some touchups, details, and a wash. I think they fit in well enough with my current troops, including a Doc Zimmerman (monopoly), Worf (Last Unicorn), and Data (monopoly).

Up next: Probably some more Crimean troops.

28mm Crimean artillery

I finally made some progress on these 28mm Crimean troops by Foundry. These are a Royal Horse Artillery limber. I'm not sure why this took me so long: probably a mixture of the complexity (lots of pieces), uniform details (KILL ME!), and lack of painting guides.

Anyhow, here is the limber. I did not rig up the tack with thread. It was just too daunting of a task and I simply need to move on.

Lovely enough figures. The blue might be a touch too blue (looks darker in normal light).

I also have two cannon painted. Just cranking out the cannon crew and then thinking about whether to base with the crew or do the crew separately and leave the cannon unbased. Probably with, I think?

 Up next: Some STTNG cannon fodder.

1/7000 Space stations

Two related projects today, both space stations. First up was a Christmas gift from Bruce. An enormous resin space station on an asteroid and two smaller gun pods. I have put some 1/7000ish Trek Ships in for scale (ship bases are one-inch across if that helps). Bruce did the painting.

I also found some old Star trek Monopoly hotels (Jupiter station). These were designed to lay flat on the monopoly board but I took two, did some minor cutting, and wed them to create full models (you can see the seam on the right-hand one).

For tokens I was going to toss, they turned out nicely. Here they are with some 1/7000 STTNG ships. They are a bit small for 1/7000 (Jupiter station is huge). but close enough.

And here is one with two 3-D printed space stations I bought two years ago.

Overall, a nice addition. Up next: Probably Crimean cannon.