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bensculpt04 Apr 2009 10:49 p.m. PST

can anyone give me a list of companies doing gamescale miniatures for starships right now?

rodvik04 Apr 2009 11:12 p.m. PST

The much beloved Star Ranger has a good list to get you going.

star-ranger.com/Minis.htm

Michael B05 Apr 2009 4:28 a.m. PST

Agreed..there are plenty of websites there.

bensculpt05 Apr 2009 12:47 p.m. PST

Thanx guys a managed to stuble on it last night, after dusting off my old fasa ST miniatures im not sure i even want to use miniatures anymore, there all in little bits and bent up like pretzels lol!

Covert Walrus05 Apr 2009 1:05 p.m. PST

That's the problem with ST minis and all those nacelles, Bensculpt. A lot of other designs store much better, and modern pewter sure takes the knocks! :)

bensculpt05 Apr 2009 7:06 p.m. PST

Ya i think ill use what mecromachine stuff a have when posible. Does anyone know if future legends stuff is for actual sell or just to tuant us?

Inari706 Apr 2009 7:39 a.m. PST

If you want to go the Paper route there are lots of Star Trek Counters (Fan Made) out there. If you don't mind the older Star Trek look head over to the star fleet battles website.

link

…………….Doug

John Treadaway03 Jun 2009 4:33 p.m. PST

The original Zocchi ships for Trek were injection plastic and very lovely. No bent bits there. Mine are 25 years old and still pristine link – mind you half of them are in balls for 3D Star Trek.

I believe you can still purchase the plastic injection ships

John T

BlackWidowPilot Fezian05 Jun 2009 7:31 p.m. PST

Gents,

for Star Trek, it's gone to a whole new generation of plastics:


hlj.com/product/POL50498A


And more:


hlj.com/product/POL50498B


If you can run to ground the Furuta plastics on EBay, you're doing well indeed, as the quality is quite nice to say the least…


Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

Top Gun Ace28 Jun 2009 7:50 p.m. PST

Are the Zocchi plastic Star Trek ships still available for sale?

If so, who carries them, and do they come with decals, or do those need to be purchased separately?

John Treadaway29 Jun 2009 5:39 a.m. PST

You can still get them – apparently – from the Starfleet store:

link

John T

Top Gun Ace29 Jun 2009 11:57 p.m. PST

Hi John,

Thanks for the link.

I hadn't seen them listed anywhere for some time.

Seems strange you can get a cloaked Federation cruiser, and other vessel, but no cloaked Klingon/Romulan ones.


Best regards,

Rob

TheStarRanger02 Jul 2009 9:28 a.m. PST

The 'cloaked' Fed ships are clear plastic ones for Zocchi. They also did glow in the dark versions since they had the molds. For years they sold the clear and glow ones since when painted, you never knew the difference as stock of the white or cream plastic ones was getting low.

I guess they did recently cast more plastic Fed, something they haven't done in many, many years so prices were going up on the new ones as before they were just selling old stock.

These Klingons and Romulans were never made out of plastic, always, pewter so no way to make a clear petwer mini, thus no cloaked versions.

You can get decals here:
link

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