The sculptor who did the Klingon never did the next one and doesn't answer email. I have found a new sculptor who can do them, but given how many things I'm in the middle of, Leanna told me not to start talking to him until I have the deals done with starmada, silent death, and victory by any means.

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 05:10 am: Edit

http://uk.geocities.com/wayne.peters@btinternet.com/trekminis/index.htm

make your own trek cardboard crew figures

By Fulvio Capparella (Fulvio) on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 06:28 am: Edit

Why ADB don't ask to Mark Copplestone of the Copplestone casting the entire range?

http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/

Surely he will make masters very well and in a very quick time.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 11:01 am: Edit

Shipping costs and import duties would pretty much kill any deal with a UK casting house.

TFG used one before and it was nothing but a money-losing nightmare.

The general concept of just finding somebody already in the business and telling them to do it for us is a good one (one we have tried to use), but it has problems. We cannot sub-license, so if such a casting house made minis we would have to distribute them, and none of the casting houses want to do that. They want to sell the minis themselves and pay us a royalty, which the Paramount contract speifically prohibits.

By Reid Hupach (Gwbison) on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 10:20 pm: Edit

Hey SVC, Prime directive Hmmmmmm.... doesn't Steve Jackson games HAVE a mini molding machine they use it for their OGRE minis.

Since Gurps does Prime directive maybe you should cut a deal with Evil Stevie.

Just a random thought

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:28 am: Edit

SJG got out of the mini-casting business sometime after 2003.

By Reid Hupach (Gwbison) on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 09:34 am: Edit

Not really they still occaisionally do a few minis. they still have the machine to spin out a few, they just aren't doing full production.

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 01:39 pm: Edit

Gray Cat (Richard Kerr) does that for them.

By Patrick H. Dillman (Patrick) on Thursday, December 04, 2008 - 06:10 pm: Edit

I know it was discussed up thread, but with the recent upserge in price for all types of metals, what is the plan for any eventual PD minatures? Plastic, resin, metal?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, December 04, 2008 - 06:45 pm: Edit

1. Find sculptor who doesn't flake out.
2. Dunno, never got past 1.

By Andrew Gelbman (Madprophet) on Sunday, July 26, 2009 - 11:59 pm: Edit

Victory Forge makes a line of figures that look like they are SFU compatible.

http://www.victoryforce.com/Victorypfigspacefarers.html

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Monday, July 27, 2009 - 01:04 am: Edit

Say, those are pretty cool.

By Sean O'Carroll (Terryoc) on Monday, July 27, 2009 - 08:21 am: Edit

They'd be more realistic if the redshirts were lying on their backs with smoking holes in their chests. Otherwise, pretty good.

By Charles Chapel (Ctchapel) on Monday, July 27, 2009 - 06:03 pm: Edit

They have a causalties pack of 5 prone figs that includes a pair of boots standing.(smile)

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Friday, October 02, 2009 - 12:43 pm: Edit

SVC-Perhaps in the new time structure a little time to go into looking for a sculptor?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, October 02, 2009 - 01:21 pm: Edit

It's in the customer request department, at least for now (at least, I just put it there, having previously forgotten it). Until some things get done, there aren't going to any new categories. They cut too much into "core design time" as it is.

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 03:23 pm: Edit

Would it be possible to make new masters of the TFG Federation Marine minis so they could be put back into production?

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 04:53 pm: Edit

What I meant to say was can new masters be made from the old fed marine figures.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 06:20 pm: Edit

No, it would not be possible. First, the minis were just plain awful, and second, the "divorce deal" did not give us those rights (which they wanted significant amounts of money for, and we were not even interested in doing them if they paid US to do them).

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Friday, March 19, 2010 - 12:23 pm: Edit

Would it be possible to hire a local starving student artist as an intern to sculpt some greens for PD minis and then have Bruce Graw cast them?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, March 19, 2010 - 01:13 pm: Edit

Yes, if you know of one, let me know.

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Friday, March 19, 2010 - 01:30 pm: Edit

could you advertise throught the same place that you find your graphics guys? Is there a collage or university in Amarillo that has art majors or sculpting classes?

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Friday, March 19, 2010 - 02:13 pm: Edit

Follow up to above post. Amarillo College lists two sculpting classes on their website. Here: http://catalog.actx.edu/search_advanced.php?cur_cat_oid=7&search_database=Search&search_db=Search&cpage=1&ecpage=1&ppage=1&spage=1&tpage=1&location=3&filter%5Bkeyword%5D=sculpture&filter%5Bexact_match%5D=1

ARTS 2326 sculture I and ARTS 2327 Sculpture II You would think they would know of somebody.

You could try here as well: http://amarilloartinstitute.org/about/

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, March 19, 2010 - 04:44 pm: Edit

There may well be, but there are only so many hours in the day for me to work on such things. I cannot exactly cancel CL#41 to spend the time talking to people who might know a sculptor and sculptors who might know how to do this and might actually perform. I suspect the thing to do is talk to a professor about making this a class project with a potential prize.

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 09:05 am: Edit

SVC, the class project avenue might have a good shot at success, although it might take a bit to get it worked into the department's schedule. Sometimes it takes a full year for a prof to be able to plan his course around such a project. If it isn't a do-able, the prof may have other suggestions that can be followed through. Sounds like a Marketing Monday (so you have something to market) or a Customer Service Wednesday (as customers are requesting it) project!