Sunday 21 July 2024

Star Trek toyetic update

While there are of course many toys and models and the like for Star Trek, preparing for STA Valiant part two got me thinking.

Modiphius make miniatures of TOS and TNG main characters and generic types, now available through 3D printing, not that we use miniatures anyway, and not a big selection but at least we would have some. HeroClix has others, but that involves hunting individual figures online. (You wait years for an official Star Trek character miniatures range and two come along at once. And then both do TOS and TNG and stop.)

And among assorted unofficial versions the card standup maker keeps expanding.

Commander Sofia Melnyk, Star Trek Beyond style as the dress isn't as short...

Hello boys!

Trousers for use sometimes, Strange New Worlds version.
Doing Ann-Margret properly she should really be in a top and leggings anyway.

And looking at 3D printing and retro TOS stylings, I discovered that not only are there Star Fleet Battles renders and STLs -

I like swept-back nacelle struts. I am a child of my times.

... but someone has made the FASA DIY ships too, many of which were goofy but some hit me right in the 1980s expanded universe nostalgia.

This is the best angle for several of them.

I love the Chandley...

... but the Northampton looks like a bundle of sticks.

I would happily add some of the Klingon ships though. Not so many Birds of Prey of different size!

Make the D10 canon! Ironically for a d20 game.

And on the subject of 3D printing, it seems to be the only way to get a decent phaser nowadays, let alone the versions from the current shows. And communicators are rare and tricorders are rarer still. I should have bought myself the set in 2009.

The currently available phaser, a Kelvin style in white and orange.


They also make this bright blue TOS phaser (apparently an improvement over an orange one)
but it's import only and therefore about as much as a proper one you can get for about twenty pounds.

Also the dice are OOP.

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