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Sunday, September 3, 2017

Tiny Trek

I'm slowly getting back into gaming and painting as summer wanes into autumn (sigh). I have some larger 54mm figures just about done as I await Tricorne's arrival in Canada.


In the meantime, I picked up a bunch of 3-D printed ST:TNG or DS9 ships this summer. These guys are listed as 1/7000 scale but I would think they are much smaller than that. This Enterprise-D is about 1 centimetre long (the washer it is based on is 20mm)


Above are some 20mm figures (painted by Tim in Saskatoon) for scale. Even getting a picture is a challenge--to say nothing is trying to figure out how to paint them! So far the Feds are getting a washer of grey, then some lighter grey to pick out plating details, and some some brighter colours on the nacelles. I see (below) that the white I used to navigation lights is too bright (maybe yellow?).


No rules set picked out yet. Maybe I'll try to write something where the operational unit is a squadron. This week is also our first club night at Red Claw (I'm pumped to actually game again!). And my copy of Vikings should be in the mail soon.

4 comments:

  1. Now those are teeny ships! Good job on painting something so small.

    For rules, you could try my "Final Frontier" rules, which I rustled up last year and got quite a goid reaction from players of Star Trek: Attack Wing. Best of all, they're free!

    carrioncrowsbuffet.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/final-frontier-the-rules/

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    1. Thanks. Very tricky to get the level of detail right on such small figures!

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