01 January 2011

1/72 Scale Dropship - Something New for the New Year

I wanted to start the year off with something non-historical, and have some pictures here of an old AMT 1/72 scale "Runabout Rio Grande" Star Trek Transporter that I bought on e-bay about a couple of months ago.









Rather than the standard Star Trek white, I painted it in an olive-drab/green colour to use as a kind of near-future military dropship.

You can see it here with some crewmembers - actually NATO pilots and a maintenance guy - who says they won't dress like this in the near-future ?









Unfortunately I mistakenly put the overhead drive sensors back to front and it's too damn late now to fix it now (Mr. Spock would not be amused)

It's a lovely sturdy model and could make a nice focal point for a game with some colonial space marines which I'm currently working on (along with dozens of other projects in parallel which I keep picking up, putting to one side again, picking up again.. .... you fellas all understand, it's a common affliction in our hobby ;-) )

Happy New Year to all out there.

John