2024 Painting Log

I don’t think I’ve ever agonized so much over what color to paint a batch of miniatures. At first I was going to do these as the characters are pictured in the Star Schlock game artwork, but the cut of the uniforms doesn’t quite match — I think the models would end up looking like they’re wearing painting smocks, or cooking aprons.

I’m a huge fan of the 1980s Star Trek movies, so I thought maybe I’d try doing them in the red jackets the crew wears in those. Although not as colorful as the original series or Next Generation TV uniforms, the movie uniforms are still color-coded, but it’s just the collars and shoulder and sleeve trim that denotes the department, with white, beige, grey and light green replacing yellow, red and blue. I decided against this, however, as the collars would be too small to really see on the models, and having them all in maroon and black would look pretty dull on the table top.

I looked at some of the uniform variations from the ’80s movies, and also at some fan-created variations. I even went as far as grabbing images of the unpainted models from the Star Schlock website and scribbling on them in a paint program just to get an idea of what they might look like with different color schemes. I also looked at similar shows like Space: 1999 (far too much beige).

I finally settled on a mix of Star Trek original series and movie-era colors. I switched the red and yellow department colors to what they use on Next Generation, so the command officers are in red — I thought this would make them easier to spot on the table. The group of 5 landing party officers are one unit in Star Schlock, but I decided on a mix of yellow and blue just to give them some variety. The robot was a no-brainer.

That’s all the Star Schlock starter set models painted — now to find time to actually play the game…

Next up I’ve got some more Mythic Battles Ragnarök figures primed, and also a pretty impressive Savage Core model. But I really should start on my Terrainfest project…

2024 models painted so far: 227, for 6 different games