"My Star Trek Figures, so far." Topic

May latest project I've been working on…..Star Trek….old school Classic Star Trek.

I've made most of these from Victory Force's Spacefarer line. There's also some Mega Minis Starship Crew in there. I also have a few of the official FASA movie era figures (true 25mm and not very good sculpts, I've only got them here because I'm just doing all my Trek stuff at once) and some of the Last Unicorn Games (all TNG era) and there's some Not-Star Trek figures from Matakishi's Tea House. The minis are intended for use with Amarillo Design Bureau's Prime Directive RPG (based on the Starfleet Universe of Starfleet Battles and not the canon Star Trek Universe) and I'm trying to maintain the classic uniform look. However some of the sculpts have some variations on the uniform that range from pre-TOS (like seen on the pilot The Cage) and some that lean more towards TNG era. The artwork in the Prime Directive RPG shows variations in the uniforms that range from straight out Classic Star Trek to a sort of blend of Classic and TNG. So that's what I did with the VFM figures, and I'm really liking the Classic/TNG blend to the uniforms. Pretty much a Classic era uniform however the shoulders are black like the TNG. The insignia and rank stripes remain more like the classic style.

I've tried to paint a few of the crew to resemble some of the races found in the Starfleet version of The Federation, namely Cygnians and Rigellians. The Cygnians have a pastey white skin with white hair and big solid black eyes. The Rigellians have dark purplish skin with red and black markings on their skin (I still need to work on that) and white hair.

VFM also makes an Alternate Universe version of the same Spacefarer sculpts. These have daggers, sashes, extra medals and of course the evil goatees on them. I took those figures and painted them up to look like the classic era Klingons instead.

Basically the same figures as the VFM Spacefarers. However, not only did I use different colors but tried to replicate the vests that the Klingons had. Any figure that didn't have a goatee, got a skinny manchu moustache instead (done with a fine felt pen). The skin colors were basically Reaper Olive Skin shades but I went heavy with the black around the eyes.

I've got some of the VFM Marines and Space Suited Spacefarers which I intend to paint up as Starfleet Marines. I also dug up some of the old Harlequin Starfleet Battles 28mm figures out of my collection too.

Thats alot of Trek!

They look great, love the Klingons.

The Federation Redshirts I used Reaper Magma Red with Citadel Baal Red Glaze. The Goldshirts was P3 Ember Orange with Citadel Gryphonne Sepia Glaze. The Blueshirts was Reaper Saphire Blue with Citadel Asurmen Blue Glaze. The stockings on the females with miniskirts was done with Citadel Badab Black Glaze over whatever flesh color I painted them.

The Klingons posed to be a bit more tricky. Doing my research it turns out they were quite sparkly. Seems a lot of glitter went into the makings of their uniforms. The black pants seemed to have glittery bitz suspended in it. I went and coarsely drybrushed some Reaper Shadowed Steel over the black pants and then applied a thick black inkwash over the pants.

The vest was also glittery. I started by painting the vest with Vallejo Dark Gull Gray. Then applied a thinned wash of Shadowed Steel over it. Then I mixed Shadowed Steel with the Gull Grey to and made the dark horizontal stripes. The sashes were Vallejo Bronze.

Very nice!

I've got some of the Heritage Star Trek models, unfortunately I don't think they'd mix well with newer minis.

I thought Wiz Kids was supposed to be coming out with a Star Trek Clix game in the near future?

Thanks!!

@Inari7
I'm already putting together a list of proxies for other races. Right now I've got some Kzinti Marines already lined up.

@SonofThor
Yeah they've got that boxed game out with just Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Uhura from the new movie. Painted to the usual Wizkids level. I wouldn't pay $50 USD just for the figures however.

Really great work, and nice collection.

You might want to contact 1st Corps Miniatures as they used to do a set of original series figures. They never used to advertise them and they were sold 'word of mouth'.

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If I get time, I'll take some photos of them for you.

Very nice looking figures!

Thanks for sharing your pics, and paints used.

Excellent work Cmdr, looks to be a real labour of love!

Regards, TC.

Great work. More kudos for the Klingons.

Looks great

A++ on turning the AU guys into Klingons.
Really clever.

Thanks for sharing
James Bland
VFM

Very cool. I like what you have done with the federation guys. The uniforms really pop. The Klingons looks really nice too.

Excellent work, weel done.

Really nice!
Planning on doing any Gorn?

Gorn yes.

Next on my list will be some minis from Gary Mitchell's Rim Aliens series for my Romulan and Gorn. Hopefully those Reptialian Rim Aliens are pretty big.

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The Kzinti Marines I already have lined up are from Dark Sword (and a few from the original Ral Partha / IWM)

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I'd love to get more of these with and without armor and rifles however.

I might resort to using some of these Horrorclix Pride Warriors for Lyrans. However there's only females available.
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Excellent!

Beautiful!

Wonder if you can take a human in power armour and add the head from one of these link to give you a Kzinti figure?

Andrew
Mini site: 2mmwars.blogspot.com

Wow! Those are great! You have made my day with those pics.

Thanks,

John

Very nice job on the Klingons. Painting the "alt universe" sculpts as Klingons was sheer genius.

Wow !!! Looks like a Trekie Convention !! Very Nice ! Kapla' !!!!!

Your Klingons look great! VFM also offers alternate hands link The German Lugers can be made into disruptors with some modifications.