Miniatures for your game

[Spinward Scout]

Some cool looking miniatures over on Shapeways.com

Star Yacht

That admiralducksauce has a a bunch of designs that would look cool in a Traveller game. Plus some great retro designs if you like the Flash Gordon look.

Some others at Trata Kam Orbitals

 

[Icosahedron]

Somebody's gonna get slammed for copyright sooner or later...
Which is a pity, cos the copyright holders obviously don't want to make them. :-/

 

[Spinward Scout]

Which ones?

 

[tjoneslo]

Which ones?

Trata Kam Orbitals - Federated Planetary Union look over the line of Star Trek copyright. The Trata Kam Orbitals - Earther Alliance are close, but not identical to B5. If I had better media awareness I might find others.

 

[GRNDL]

Not to mention the ones that are from Blakes' Seven: the Liberator and the Scorpio look-a-likes. Though the series is long dead, I'm not sure if the properties are too. Last thing I heard there was interest to reboot the series, so I guess someone has the rights, which would put those models at risk. Which is a shape, because I like those models.

Not to mention the Andromeda clone.... (the Lexa ship)

 

[ShapeShifter]

The "Victor Interceptors" are vaguely reminiscent of the starfighters from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (w/ Gil Gerard, and Erin Gray). Kinda. Sorta. Maybe. And the "Alliance Pursuit Frigate" looks like a distant relative of the same programme's Hatchet fighters used by the Draconian badguys, that is, if you look at it at a distance. They were careful to make them different enough.

Those "Frogan Blood Pack" guys look good for mechanised armour troops in a spacey wargame.

Makes me wish the Star Wars ship minis were cheaper and more available.

 

[whartung]

I look at, I guess, the Space Yacht, and at least the white one they show -- looks pretty grainy to me, not a very smooth surface. Maybe it paints up ok, but from the photo it looks kinda yucky. Perhaps it's the material and if you choose another one it's better.

 

[Dagrill]

Not to mention the ones that are from Blakes' Seven: the Liberator and the Scorpio look-a-likes. Though the series is long dead, I'm not sure if the properties are too. Last thing I heard there was interest to reboot the series, so I guess someone has the rights, which would put those models at risk. Which is a shape, because I like those models.

Not to mention the Andromeda clone.... (the Lexa ship)

Hi,

pretty sure Terry Nation (the inventor of the Daleks) was astute enough to hold the copyright to Blake's seven as well, so presumably whoever inherited his estate.

Regards

David

 

[Icosahedron]

I'm pretty sure the copyright of both the Daleks and Blakes Seven is held by the BBC. They tend to be rather aggressive about infringements. ISTR them bankrupting some poor artistic SOB who sold a few dozen home-made Dalek figures from his garden shed about a decade ago.

IIRC, he'd tried going the legal way and asked them about a licence, but they'd quoted him something stupid that would have meant selling half a gazillion units to break even.

I don't think there are any legal ones on the market just now. The BBC don't seem to be interested in the miniatures market - except perhaps as a source of litigation income...