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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Cyberpunk Calamity Control

04.30.2025

This time I remember why I picked up a random pack of minis for a game I won't ever play - I like the bald guys in the suits. They're generic enough to be bystanders in any game. Plus, I like suits. Suits are good for painting because you can go into as much detail as your mood at the time warrants. John Wick 100% black everything - it can work. Pinstripes. Fun to try, as are an attempt at almost any pattern. Turned out that when it came time to paint these I was in a matching coat and pants, vest with some color mood.

The other 3 minis were... weird. Woman with skirt and a gun fits the general motif of the 2 bad suited guys. Other 2 women with some kind of armor going on... no idea what to make of those. Maybe that comes from not knowing the game? As it was, these managed to get a splash of whatever color I was painting some one/thing else at the time. That happens when I have no real vision for a mini.

Another round of nothing spectacular, but also nothing horrible.

Next time on minis from games I'll never play: Something that's not Cyberpunk Red Zone.

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