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Title: Is anybody aware of "Next Generation" era starship minis?
Post by: Doc Twilight on February 20, 2010, 11:36:44 AM

Maybe somebody here can help. I'm finally getting back to doing some starship miniatures (for Firestorm Armada, in this case, which allows a lot of customization). I'm slowly finding sources for my first love in Space Opera (Star Wars), but I've had a beast of a time finding stuff for another big love, Star Trek.

Original Series era is not a problem, but it's the newer stuff I'm looking for, and while I've managed to find a -few- TNG and post TNG era miniatures for Star Trek (Cardassians, some Borg, a handful of Klingons) I've had no luck finding Romulans, and even LESS luck finding Federation (amazingly enough). In general, availability just seems poor. There are Micro Machines, but they're small, and scale is sort of "whatever will fit in the box".

Anyway, I'm told that these miniatures -do- exist somewhere, however. Occasionally they pop up as garage casts, or one offs. Sometimes a company will do a run, then disappear.

Would any of you with connections be willing to share a source?  Does anyone have any suggestions?

-Doc

Title: Re: Is anybody aware of "Next Generation" era starship minis?
Post by: dexter on February 20, 2010, 11:58:51 AM

What sort of size ships are you looking for?
Micro machines although small used to be the best resource for Federation ships, but even these are out of production.
Dex

Title: Re: Is anybody aware of "Next Generation" era starship minis?
Post by: Chairface on February 20, 2010, 12:56:14 PM

There were a few good ones that came in cereal boxes back in the day

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120516908430

Title: Re: Is anybody aware of "Next Generation" era starship minis?
Post by: Tomsche on February 20, 2010, 01:14:35 PM

You`ll find a heap of links here, being a spaceship gamer myself I collected them over the net for the local gamegroup

http://www.tsa.topforums.be/index.php?topic=1288.0

If you go `up` one level there, you`ll find a heap of em scattered around the board as well as I still need to update the main topic.

Title: Re: Is anybody aware of "Next Generation" era starship minis?
Post by: Steve F on February 20, 2010, 01:32:06 PM

I'm not too familiar with post-1960s Star Trek, but Studio Bergstrom is often a good source for TV and movie look-alike spaceships:
http://studiobergstrom.com/index.php (http://studiobergstrom.com/index.php)

If you are into spaceship games, Star Ranger's Starship Combat News site is well worth a browse:
http://www.star-ranger.com/Home.htm (http://www.star-ranger.com/Home.htm)

Title: Re: Is anybody aware of "Next Generation" era starship minis?
Post by: archangel1 on February 20, 2010, 07:21:36 PM

You might want to try these guys.  I didn't look at every pic but since they have about 100 models, I presume at least some of them might be post-classic.

Home page
http://www.starfleetgames.com/

Miniatures page
http://store.starfleetstore.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=S&Category_Code=14

Title: Re: Is anybody aware of "Next Generation" era starship minis?
Post by: Cosmotiger on February 21, 2010, 01:33:56 AM

Search e-Bay for Furuta.  They're a Japanese company that makes small collectible plastic models.  They have a Star Trek line that includes many of the TNG era ships.  However, they aren't to a standard scale either-- they range from around 2" to approx 5".   They are a hard styrene-type plastic.  Prepainted, but I have painted over them with good results.

Title: Re: Is anybody aware of "Next Generation" era starship minis?
Post by: warrenss2 on February 21, 2010, 02:26:44 AM

Never heard of this game. But you just have to love a good starship shoot 'em up game!!!!

Title: Re: Is anybody aware of "Next Generation" era starship minis?
Post by: CompanyB on February 21, 2010, 02:27:27 AM

F-Toys
(http://www.bcmini.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/FTOYS/ftoys_stra_trek60.jpg)

Do an ebay search.  A place in L.A. called BC mini sometimes has the boxes at discount.  So a box of 8 to 12 ships for $50
http://www.bcmini.com/id67.html (http://www.bcmini.com/id67.html)

You could e-mail them and see if they will restock anything.  Right now they seem to only have "thunderbirds cases"

I've ordered from BC mini before for my kids birthday party take aways...  You should see some fathers eyes when their kids walk away with "Star Blazers" ships.

Title: Re: Is anybody aware of "Next Generation" era starship minis?
Post by: Cosmotiger on February 21, 2010, 05:03:22 PM

Another thing I'd suggest is to join the Starship Combat News Forum:

http://www.star-ranger.com/forum/index.php (http://www.star-ranger.com/forum/index.php)

I've discovered lots of people doing small runs of metal and resin starship miniatures (in a variety of genres) posting there.  For example, Vanquisher miniatures does 1/7000 and 1/3900 models based on the Star Trek universe:

http://www.vanquisherminiatures.blogspot.com/ (http://www.vanquisherminiatures.blogspot.com/)

Often these guys are literally garage companies, and may not even have a website, you have to email  them to find out what they're currently producing/selling.