"Modiphius Star Trek figures with a coat of paint!" Topic

Finally got around to painting some of my figures.

Star Trek

Star Trek The Next Generation

Romulans (Only half the box so far!)

Klingons (Only 2 out of 10 so far!)

The Klingons need lots of shades of grey!!!

So…I was looking at these on their site. What are they made of? How easy were they to paint. (BTW, the pictures didn't display…at least on this computer.)

The figures are made from resin and are very easy to paint. Lots of details that are beyond my painting ability – such as rank pins…

The pictures are displaying for me, but they're up on my blog here too – link

Looking good! Keep us posted.

Dave
wargamingminiatures.com

Wow, very nice!

Dan
PS. By the way, how big are those figures?

I was asking because I got totally burned by Alien vs. Predator KS those are also "resin" but are a soft slippery type of resin that is very susceptible to heat and is harder to make paint stick to than 1:72 vinyl figures. I ended up writing off nearly $400 USD on the KS fiasco.

Lesson learned.

I now know that there is more than one type of resin. There's the stuff I'm accustomed to seeing that is hard, sandable, and paintable and there is stuff that is softer and more slick than vinyl and, I assume, all the shades of gray in between.

So, what kind of resin are these figures?

P. S..

I moved over to my iPad and can see the pix now. I think what happened is that the pictures are are links to your blog.. Blogs are blocked on my work computer.

Check this thread for size comparisons – TMP link

Regarding the resin, it definitely is the softer variety and for me feels like Airfix model kit plastic.

Very nice! Wish they made TOS Klingons. Never cottoned to the bone heads.

Bob

Apparently TOS Klingons are in the pipeline. Speaking to the guys at Colours the other week, in the next release will be a Borg boxset, TNG away team crew, Star Trek villains (Lore, Khan and the Borg Queen etc) and one other set.

thumbs up

Very nice

Do they have a red shirt casualty figure?

Where is Seven of Nine!?

The thing about the Prodos resin is that it's hard to paint. I'm told autobody primer will do it, I usually use an acrylic primer and find that scrubbing the miniature with pinesol and rinsing it off with warm water helps but I find there are often patches of release agent that repel paint. Using thick primer helps but obscures the fine and soft details that look so nice before painting.

I wish Prodos would put out a handling guide. I like their resin in a lot of ways. I used to gently bounce my Nepharite off the table to demonstrate. It finally broke after maybe a dozen bounces but glued back together so nicely that there wasn't even a gap to repaint. But as has been noted, it's not fond of paint.

As for redshirt casualties, I think that would be a great use for miscasts. They should sell them in blisters as such.