Star Trek Away Missions: Scottyless

05.04.2025

My last entry for the first third of 2025 is the other box from Star Trek Away Missions: Commander Scotty. The most interesting thing about this box is that there's no Scotty. There were 2 Sulus. This is specific to a batch delivered to Miniature Market, because another Scotty box I ordered from them also has 2 Sulus. There's a box I ordered from Amazon that actually has Scotty. Why didn't I paint that one instead? Dunno, but this way I got some extra Sulu practice.

Specifically, with Sulu, I made a red shirt version and yellow shirt version. While Sulu wore command yellow in TOS, he wore red in the mirror universe episode, which is my excuse if anyone were to ever actually ask.

The paint job on Uhura is, I think, my best. Best ever, not just of the Trek minis or for what I've been posting this past week. Best, as in it ended up best matching in the end what I intended it to look like when I started.

Last in the pics is a combined shot of minis from this round of painting for size comparison, to help show just how much bigger those Away Mission minis are from other/Cyberpunk "normal" size.

That's everything that's was sitting in the backlog waiting to get posted. I'm not sure when the next update with anything interesting will occur, but hopefully sooner than 4 months.

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Star Trek Away Missions - Kirk Box

05.02.2025

A few weeks ago I posted a quick WIP of minis that included Trek figures that were mostly done. It didn't really take another 2 weeks to finish them up, but a good chunk of that time was still trying to do my best detail work ever.

Star Trek minis are something I haven't painted before, although I've had plenty of them to paint for a long time. It's a category that internally I hold myself to a higher standard. I'm a Trek(ker/kie). I've got shelves upon shelves of Trek whatnot. That and GI Joe are the cornerstones of my pop culture collecting these days. Unlike a lot of other minis and their accoutrements, I should know what Trek stuff looks like. Plus, there's no making up of random colors along the way - this stuff is well defined!

The Away Missions minis are bigger - probably 32-35mm - and also come with slightly oversized heads. Not to the Chibi extreme, but luckily for me oversized enough that I can actually add some facial details to my paint work. Pupils. Everyone has pupils. I dare say properly aligned pupils, too.

The Kirk box came with Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Checkov. No red shirts this time around. While I was a little worried about getting those department colors correct, a base coat of plain red, blue, and an orange tinted yellow I don't remember the name of all worked, followed up by some similar tinted contrast paint that helped get the tone right and acted like a wash for the recesses.

My 2 points of pride in painting these were the rank embroidery on the sleeves, and Kirk's hair. The hair was a shade of brown for the base, and then yellow contrast on top. I think it worked well. Really well.

I still messed some stuff up, and most of that I was able to go back and cover up well enough. While the scale of these definitely put them in the "I'll never use them" category, they were the skill test I needed. It's one of the few times I'll say I think I'm on the higher side of average painter skill.

Next time on minis from games I'll never play: The Scottyless Scotty Box.

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