Federation War Destroyer

An ADB Federation War Destroyer and the standard Federation Destroyer

Here is the latest addition to Star Fleet. It's and Amarillo Design Bureau 2400 series (i.e. 3788 scale) Federation War Destroyer. A nice little model once the flashing is cleaned up.

Kzinti Battle Squadron

Kzinti Battle Squadron preparing for conflict along the Klingon border

The first battle squadron for my Kzinti's has finally been completed. These miniatures are 1:3788 scale and comprise and small task group of the Kzinti Hegemony.

Heading out on patrol

The miniatures come from three sources, ADB (Amarillo Design Bureau's 2400 range), Babylon 5 Fleet Action (Agent One) scale miniatures and Firestorm Armada miniatures (Spartan Game's Relthoza).

From this...

...to this!

A Kzin Battle Station, Base Station or "Listening Post."

The Spartan Games' Firestorm Armada miniature from their Relthoze range (sadly all now defunct) is actually a weapons platform from the planetary defence group. I turned in on its side in order to make a small base station for use by the Kzin. The main base itself will become a Kzinti Starbase.

Once a Minbari vessel now commandeered to be Kzinti Escorts

The smaller ships are from the Babylon 5 Fleet Action series of miniatures. They come from the Minbari range and make very nice Escort sized vessel to support the Kzin.

Docked for resupply

Ready for battle!

Star Fleet Tug scratch build

Star Fleet Tug!

Amarillo Design Bureau have a Federation Tug in the 2400 series of miniatures. But I was after something a little more detailed. I like the look of their Command Cruiser saucer and bought some time back their Heavy Cruiser miniature. So I decided to play around a little with the miniature bits to make something I was after.

Cargo pod by Studio Bergstrom miniatures

I wanted to have a nice looking cargo pod as well and the best I have seen in the 1:3788 (2400 series) scale is from Studio Bergstrom's Irrational Designs range.

Tiny rare earth magnets hold the cargo pod to the tug

So using very small rare earth magnets and super glue, and the odd four letter word, I played around with the miniatures and hacked up the heavy cruiser's secondary hull to make a scratch build tug.

Star Fleet Tug from bow looking stern

I still need to play around a little with the reflector dish arrangement to complete to model. Truth be told, I should have been less zealous when I was clipping the secondary hull of the heavy cruiser. Still lesson learnt.

I have base coated the model and begun preliminary painting so I'll add another post on the final result when its done. I hope to find other pods I can add to this beasty so that it can have a variety of cargo, transport and combat configurations on the table. The search is on!

Kzinti Light Cruiser 2400 (3788) scale

I just finished painting up some 2400 scale Amarillo Design Bureau Kzinti Light Cruisers. These are roughly 1:3788 scale.

I am still not happy with the rear hull of these ships and feel they might need some camouflage added as I have done to the primary hull. Still, I'm not sure what stripes to paint yet.

The underside of the ships haven't had any camouflage added either at this time. Finding the right strip scheme has alluded me so far.

In the image above you can see the 2500 scale Kzinti light cruiser next to the 2400 scale version. I have also placed the 2400 scale battle cruiser on the right for a scale comparison.

The picture above has a MicroMachines D7 placed next to the light cruiser. I've shown off how I have painted the Klingon D7 in a previous post. Green wash is the magic with the D7.

Anyway, these light cruisers can at least go on the gaming table now. But I do want to make the rear hull more interesting somehow.