As I mentioned in my previous post Trek Miniatures, Scale and Alternate Options, one of the coolest sets of miniatures wasn't made for a role-playing game at all, but for a boardgame. In 1999, the Italian company Ultimo Avamposto (literally "The Last Outpost", who runs the official Star Trek Italian Fan Club) released a boardgame called Star Trek Adventure: Serie Classica Set 1. According to the BoardGameGeek website, STA:SC is a strategy boardgame based on TOS for 2-4 players that includes a hexboard, cards, cardboard counters, and 17 unpainted pewter miniatures used to play the Federation, Klingons, Romulans or the Gorn. The game itself seems to be long out-of-print and difficult to obtain. It appears that it may have been intended to be the first of a series of Star Trek games (TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager) based on the box (below) and the "Set 1" tag.
The tokens for the game average 34mm in length, 30-32mm from top of base to eye-level. That puts them out of scale with most (but not all) gaming miniatures, but the entire collection gives a real variety of friends and foes. They really benefit from the larger scale, too, as these are really just about the nicest Trek miniatures I've ever seen. If you're trying to get them or the game, you might want to bookmark the eBay Seller's page of grandenagus (Massimo Romani of Ultimo Avamposto). I don't know if he has anymore after 10 years, but you never know. tokens for the game average 34mm in length, 30-32mm from top of base to eye-level. That puts them out of scale with most (but not all) gaming miniatures, but the entire collection gives a real variety of friends and foes. They really benefit from the larger scale, too, as these are really just about the nicest Trek miniatures I've ever seen. If you're trying to get them or the game, you might want to bookmark the eBay Seller's page of grandenagus (Massimo Romani of Ultimo Avamposto). I don't know if he has anymore after 10 years, but you never know.In the meantime, documented here for posterity...
The Klingons
The Gorn
The Romulans
Scotty, Orion Slave Girl, Chekov
McCoy, Kirk and Spock pictured at top of post (missing: Sulu)
Wow! Those are some of the best I've ever seen! Incredible! I wouldn't mind picking up a bunch of those for sure.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to find a bunch of third party/unoffical minis that were perfect but I seem to have lost the page. I thought it was on The Miniatures Page http://theminiaturespage.com/ but alas I just can't recall where.
In addition to some awesome TOS minis there were a bunch of alien Starfleet officers. Ever see these? Sigh, I've got to show them to you and I know they're out there somewhere.
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Found'em! They were made by Eureka Miniatures but pulled and then another series was made by a company called 'First Corps'. Long since out of print I suppose...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.matakishi.com/startrekproject.htm
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Yes, I even contacted Eureka about them last December. The owner was nice enough to reply, but sadly he has none and no plans to make anymore. Check out these Victory Force Spacefarers, though... very nice! http://victoryforce.com/Victorypfigspacefarers.html
ReplyDeleteYeah, those are pretty cool as well. Damn, I definitely need to get some minis before I start up my next Trek campaign (Which will hopefully be soon).
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