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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