A Klingon Rogues' Gallery

 Klingon General K'vorkuh with his personal guard celebrating a great victory over the puny Federation and their weak ships.

 The Generals' loyal lieutenant, Thug'h, son of Pug'h. Would gladly lay down his life for the mighty General.

 General K'Vorkuh. Always first in battle, the ancient Bat'leth of his fathers carves a trail of bloody ruin through his foes.

Captain Rak'h, a great fighter in her own right; greatly honoured for her victory over the Romulans at Phestus Three.

The Klingons are from "Space Vixens from Mars" scroll down the page and look for "Ridged Rim Aliens". Nice castings if a little flat. Very easy to paint. The shuttle is a Johnny Lightning offering that I picked up from eBay for about $13 including shipping just a couple of weeks ago. It's a little small for the purist, but who'll care on the gaming table?

Zocchi Plastics

 I started randomly collecting these as I stumbled across them in the past few weeks. I found this Battle Tug on the ADB website. It's a great little model. You can seperate the Tug from the cargo pods. The cargo pods can be configured as bulk carriers as above or as a star liner - basically with a passenger pod that (so the Franz Josef book says) can carry 500 in extreme luxury. I'm sure it could carry 2000 marines in mere comfort..

Fly-past. I've painted all of these extremely simply. Flat coats of spray-painted white with coloured details. I've done a little lining in in pale gray.

Tug, Destroyer and Dreadnought lead by a metal ADB heavy cruiser. These are great miniatures with beautiful, fine detail. I will be buying more where I can.

Joining the Fleet

 Flypast of three Enterprise Class Heavy Cruisers

 The 54th Heavy Cruiser Squadron reports for duty at Starbase 254 on the border of the Upper Leaf Swirl Spiral.

 19th Light Cruiser Squadron make the rendezvous at the Starbase

 Miranda Class Light cruiser about to dock for crew R&R.

 Science ship about to come in to dock. Ready for refit and re-paint.

The Ships are simply re-paints of Micro Machines plastics. I needen't have re-painted them, but I found the original schemes to be a bit garish and a bit too various for a really cohesive-looking force. The paint jobs are done from a black undercoat, progressively lighter through shades of gray up to pure white with coloured details. I have some decals on order that I am looking forward to using to fine-detail the look of the miniatures and to further unify the look of the fleet. The ships have been given a good coat of spray varnish to protect them as I continue applying paint to various details.

They are currently based on the original Micro Machines plastic bases, but I am going to mount them on AMD hex bases. I am thinking of having the light cruisers on higher mounts than the heavies, just for the look of it.

The science ship will be the next paint job, followed by a pair of Exelsiors. When the destroyers arrive, I'll proceed with them.