The Neutral Zone: Star Trek Wargaming

[major soma]

The Johnny Lightning stuff is good to game with. What bugs me about Trek models is the scale as you've seen is all over the place. Some of the kits which are meant to be in scale aren't the Romulan Bird of Prey is a great example. I think the Call to Arms ships will be a smaller scale although I can't confirm that. Your Saladin looks good BTW.

[Commissar Molotov]

Thanks for the post! I'm still waiting to receive two Konami D7s from eBay. Then we should have most of the ships we need. I'm just looking for a space station and some freighters - convoy defence would be a brilliant game!

[Hushrong]

I'm just looking for a space station and some freighters - convoy defence would be a brilliant game!

I think they are way out of scale but I do have the Botany Bay and the space station that orbits Earth from micromachine if you're interested

You could always make one too, perhaps similar to the one seen in the recent Star Trek film. It isn't as massive as the ones seen in the original movies and it is doable.

[Marauderk]

I used to play a ton of Star Trek Tactical combat Simulator and preferred it over Starfleet battle. I still have my box set somewhere.

[Commissar Molotov]

I said I wanted a space station...

I managed to find an AMT K7 Space Station for our Trek gaming:



I put it together this morning. What an awful kit! It certainly gave me an appreciation for the precision-tooled GW kits. Comparing this to the GW Valkyrie, for example, leaves both of them worlds apart.


You might recognise K7 from the episodes The Trouble with Tribbles and Trials and Tribble-ations. It's very 60s-retro, which fits for our TOS campaign.

Here's some pictures of the assembled model, with the ships we're planning on using for scale: