Who Makes Ship Miniatures?

[Baron]

Is there a list somewhere of what manufacturers have made physical, 3D miniatures of the smaller ships in Traveller? It would be helpful in tracking some down. Specifically, I play CT, and I'm looking for minis of various common ships boats, scouts, traders, system boats, and maybe even up to something like the Kinunir. Thanks!

 

[DickNervous]

I am not sure if there are any companies making licensed minis at this time other than what Ad Astra makes for their Traveller game. They have a Beowulf, Type-S and Pinnace at 1:2500 scale (which would probably be good for typical adventures) and the rest are all 1:7200 scale. There are both Imperial and Zhodani fleets.

As for who used to make them, you can check this page in the Wiki or these search results for eBay. But the short list looks like Martian Metals, Grenadier, and Citadel Miniatures were the most common.

I think you can also find stuff on Shapeways and similar sites if you have access to a 3D printer.

 

[kilemall]

Shapeways has a large number of people making ship minis.

Here are a few-

http://www.shapeways.com/shops/tratakam

http://www.shapeways.com/shops/aotrs_shipyards?s=0

http://www.shapeways.com/shops/dreamfoundry

http://www.shapeways.com/shops/hobbyfuzion

 

[GypsyComet]

Go to http://www.star-ranger.com/Home.htm

 

[maksimsmelchak]

Go to http://www.star-ranger.com/Home.htm

Great resource.

Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.

 

[Baron]

Thanks for the responses. I already have ships from other games as well as some misc little ships someone threw in when I bought some other stuff. I'm looking to throw in some actual Traveller ships, for fun. I don't 3D print and I can't afford the Ad Astra ones, so guess I'll haunt Ebay. Thanks for the manufacturer list!

 

[Reynard]

Problem is Traveller ships are diverse and fluid. Each new edition has a new design for iconic ships and books filled with old and new ships, lots of ships. Also add in the simplicity of ship combat with Mongoose using fairly abstract range bands. Ground combat is more complex needing possible minis to mark unit locations on a table top. Only real need for ship minis is if you went retro with one of the older edition vector movement mechanics.

I have several compliments of very generic ship minis that were popular for the Starfire game. They represented the game's size classifications for ships but you could use them to represent groups of like vessels on the table.

I think one of the downfalls for FASA was their Star Trek game that took on creating large numbers of in game ships from their ship construction rules then actually building and selling all those minis. You know players were building lots of new ships and complaining they had no mini for it.

Unless they make a new and complex mini game, only reason I see for iconic ship miniatures is a collector's set for display of the famous adventure ships.