Sunday Starships: transports

The various starfleets of the Five Powers amass a lot of firepower--but those spaceships need something to fight over.  That's where these transports come in: as targets or objectives for the military forces in a starship combat scenario.

These minis come from several different manufacturers.  The majority of these models are Star Frontiers ships:

• Federation battleships (2)
• Federation destroyers (3)
• Federation frigates (7)

In addition, there's a trio of Stardate: 3000 models (the ones with the circular sections to their front):

• Auriga-class fleet support ship (kitbashed with two Draco-class destroyers)
• Orion-class heavy cruiser
• Perseus-class light cruiser

Finally, toward the front we have some minis from the old Citadel spaceship range (the smaller ships):

• Asimov-class escort cruiser
• John F . Kennedy-class cruiser 
• Spaceship 51
• Spaceship 45 

If you're curious about the paint scheme, it's my usual three-color drybrush method--metallic black, metallic gunmetal gray, and metallic silver in this instance--with running lights picked out in bright red and green highlighted with lighter shades of those colors.

Not Galactic Knights ...

... but they work pretty well as cargo vessels for that or any other game. 












The three largest ships are Federation ships from the old TSR sci-fi roleplaying game Star Frontiers (more precisely, from the spaceship combat game Knight Hawks): 

The big ship is a Federation battleship, and it weighs in at nearly half a pound!  I also have a pair of Fed destroyers:

The two small craft come from Citadel Miniatures old spaceships range.  The top photo depicts SCP4, the Asimov-Class Escort Cruiser.  The bottom pic shows SCP5, the John F . Kennedy-Class Cruiser

These spaceships should see some action as transports for ground forces in my GK game at Millennium Con in November, Assault on Regulus IV.  Hope to see you there.