Unidentified Miniature
Objects
I try and know my old out
of production miniatures, but there are
some out
there I can't identify. So I'm
calling on those of you with knowledge of
hard to find miniatures to help us out and
give names and information to the minis of lost origins.
ALL of the
original list Unidentified minis have been
identified, mainly thanks to Joe
Passarelli who was part of the crew that
made them. Jump
to the Identified minis
Click
on the thumbnails for larger versions of
the pictures.
Send your thoughts and
ideas on what they may be to dean@star-ranger.com.
If
you have any starship miniatures whose
background and origin is
lost to you, let me know and send me a
picture. If I can't tell you what it
is, I'll post it here and maybe someone
else can. Unidentified.....
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#9)
QT Solar Force ship?
Oerjan Ohlson sends
in top and bottom scans of this
mini. He says, "The model
is 2.5" long. The engines are
almost identical to the one on the
one GW re-issued for Space
Fleet as the
"Constellation" (though
the rest of the hull is quite
different), and the profile of the
*forward hull looks very similar to
the QT
NSF7"
"When viewed
from above, the ship has a long
narrow core hull which widens into
the engine section and a set of
"stabilizer wings" towards
the rear; the forward hull sprouts
two thick "wings" (between
0.6" and 1.5" from the
front, max span 1.2") carrying
weapon turrets."
12/20/2003 -
See the section for Unidentifieds #17
& #18 for more
information. Anyone know more
about its QT origins?
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#12)
Another QT Solar Force ship?
This
small mini has shown up in a few
recent Ebay auctions but hasn't
gotten a positive ID yet. It
is similar to many of the QT
minis that later were re-issued
under GW/Citadel's Space
Fleet line of miniatures.
12/20/2003
- See the section for Unidentifieds #17
& #18 for more
information. Anyone know more
about its QT origins? |
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#13,
#14, & #15)
Angular ships
These
came from Terry Shannon who has a
quite extensive miniatures
collection.
He
says, "The 3 to the left (with
accessory pieces) are obviously from
the same line and they look
damnedably familiar. I know I have
seen them before but can't find them
anywhere on the net."
10/23/2003
- Ken Bywaters writes:
"I
used to have a largish fleet of
these in the 1970s as a teenager.
Can't remember all that much about
them, but I think they may have been
made by Leicester Micro Models.
There were four or five different
fleets.
Your
#13 was, think, a
battlecruiser/carrier, which came
with the one fighter shown in the
photo. #14 was a destroyer
from the same fleet, and #15 was a
cruiser. There was also a
quite massive "Space Control
Ship", about similar in size to
a Ground Zero superdreadnaught.
There
was another fleet that had a
predominantly twin engine pod design
that included a destroyer and
cruiser plus a battlecruiser (that
had an extra dorsal engine unit)
plus a carrier in the Brigade Models
style e.g. external flight deck.
A third fleet had only
battlecruisers released for it as
far as I know, and that resembled a
cross between the GZG FSE
battlecruisers and the Superior
range. It was similar in shape
to the FSE battlecruiser, but
flatter and with a superstructure
only on the top face.
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#16)
Multi-part Freighter
Another
one from Terry Shannon. For
this one he mentions, "The last
one which has 3 hull modules plus
the 2 accessories is a total mystery
to me. It shares some design similarities,
again, with some Brigade models, but
I can't find it anywhere.
12/13/2003
- Tim Hughes writes:
"16
was produced by QT at round about
the same time. That is from their
space fighter range, which included
a
lot of ships that owe their looks to
Battlestar Galactica."
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#17
& #18) Citadel Spaceships
C43
These
are a recent eBay purchase for
me. Both minis from Citadel
Miniatures have "C43 Spaceship
$2.00" indicated on the blister
card, but they are definitely
different miniatures, plus they look
different than the one that is up on
Tom's Spaceship Miniature/Games
Lists website (Here)
So
does anyone know more about these
like if they had a unique name and
background for each mini or were
they all generic under the same
number?
12/20/2003
- I received the following
information from Paul Robinson:
Citadel used to
bring out a Compendium every so
often, which then became The Citadel
Journal. From the few that I have
seen, the Citadel figures were not
individually named prior to the
Spring 1985 Journal. Therefore the
packs only had the figure 'range'
number on them e.g. C01 = Fighters
(in plate , chainmail men-at-arms)
C02 = Wizards etc.
The Spaceships
were labelled C43 and Dreadnought
Spaceships C44. As far as I can
tell, they were only illustrated in
the Spring 1985 Journal and the only
other mention of the range was in
the Autumn 1985 Journal. Of course
sometimes figures would crop up
again for short periods of time.
Also bear in mind that sometimes
when a mould was getting worn, the
new 'Master' could differ slightly.
Here in the UK,
they were priced at C43 = 75p, C44
£1.95
Paul
sent the following images, click on
them for a larger version with some
comments on what became of some of
those minis.
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IDENTIFIED!
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#1)
Possibly
known as a "Recharge
Cruiser", who made this very
Star Trekish ship?
SF-3
Federation Recharger/Attack Transport
from Vulcan Models/Battleline
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#2)
From the
same range of miniatures as #1,
this could be the Light Cruiser
version. SF-2
Federation Light Cruiser from
Vulcan Models/Battleline Miniatures |
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Jim
says #1 and #2 are from Attack
International, a company run by Dave
Casciano on the late 70's somewhat
intended to support Zocchi's early Star
Trek game Star Fleet
Battle Manual. These
minis were part of a larger line,
consisting of mostly support
ships. #1 is the recharge
cruiser that was supposed to
recharge the matter-antimatter pods
on fed starships. Who sculpted
and cast them is unknown, but Dave
ran into them at a convention and
convinced them to allow him to
market them.
Joe
Passarelli emails me that he knows
where these came from...since he was
part of the company that made
them.
First
known as Vulcan Models then
later known as Battleline
Miniatures, they made a bunch of
spaceship miniatures in the late
1970's and at one point these minis
were listed as the Star Fleets
line. Originally they were sold
by Dave Casciano of Attack
Wargaming but later were sold by
the manufacturer. The minis came
with clear plastic rods as posts and
Star Trek insignia bases.
Joe
says Battleline has never died,
all masters and molds still exist with
the designer Joe Buscaino. I'm
trying to get more information and
pictures of the full line, just wait
and see....
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#3)
A Klingon mini of some type, pretty
small when compared to SFB
and FASA Klingon minis
SK-1
Klingon Battleship
from
Vulcan Models/Battleline
Miniatures
Joe
Passarelli indicates this is another
ship from their lines of Trek based
miniatures
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#4, #5,
& #6) The top right mini
is a Dominion Destroyer
Escort from Pewtercraft's
Galaktik Taktik
line. The left top (#4) an
both bottom minis (#5 & #6) are
very similar but unlike any other Pewtercraft
mini I have seen. What are
they?
#4)
ST-2 Tholian Heavy Cruiser
#5)
ST-4 Tholian Destroyer/Attack Craft
#6)
ST-3 Tholian Lt Cruiser
from
Vulcan Models/Battleline
Miniatures
Joe
says that the Pewtercraft
ship is a knockoff of the Battleline
miniature and it sure looks that
way.
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#8) A
rocket-like mini with several
engines in the back.
SZ-1
Zellphon Battleship from Vulcan
Models/Battleline Miniatures
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#7) A
fighter of some kind
Jim
says, this mini was part of a line
made to go with some Space 1999
rules he had written for Attack
International. The Space
1999 rules were created to make
use of the Eagles included in MPC's
old Moonbase Alpha model kit.
The rules reportedly got a good write
up in an issue of Strategy &
Tactics magazine.
Simon
Cook says "I have two of these,
and several other from the range. I
bought them in the late seventies.
(circa 1977?). It's long ago, but I
think they were Minifigs."
SS-10
Cehan Destroyer
Tom
Dye of MiniFigs USA (http://www.minifigs.com/)
has proven that #7 is the MiniFigs
SS-10 - Cehan Destroyer. Tom
sent me a scan of an old product list
along with an image of all the minis
out of a test cast of the very old
Spaceship line mold from the
1970's. Here is an image of the
the figure test cast as item SS-10:
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#10
& #11) Missile-Armed
Fighters
Another
couple of unknown from Oerjan Ohlson.
These are Silent Death-ish fighters
with definite missile on the bottom
along with turrets on the top and
bottom.
(Fab1)
Fabian Pirate and (RC-Falcon)
Rep-Com Falcon from Reviresco
http://www.tin-soldier.com/star/starnew.htm
10/27/2003
- Scott Bishop sends in the
identifying info that these these
two minis are from Reviresco
and says, "They're actually
really cool minis. John did a really
good job on the detail."
I
knew they looked familiar but I
guess the camo paint jobs on the Reviresco
site sufficiently hid how the minis
actually looked without paint.
Here
are a couple pics from Reviresco's
website:
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Fabian
Pirate |
Rep-Com
Falcon |
12/14/2003
- Lots of information on the origins
of these minis from Leland R.
Erickson (Miniatures Dressed to
Kill http://www.minisd2k.com)
John
McEwan may produce these fearsome
starships, but he didn't design or
sculpt them. Alan Wolf (ajwolf@webtv.net)
made the masters, working from my
original drawings. Both ships
were part of a larger series I drew
up for The Fighter Tactics Manual
for Iron Crown's Silent
Death: The Next Millennium,
specifically these were both concept
drawings for the infamous Black
Widow heavy fighter.
Alas, ICE didn't have the
budget, so the old 1st edition
Drakar gunboat miniature was recast
as the Black Widow. Not being one to
waste a good thing, I naturally
contacted Alan and John...
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