Back Again!

Its been a while since I posted. 

Honestly, I did not expect a large following, but it looks like there are quite a few people who have viewed the blog and liked what they saw.  I have even had offers for some of my custom figures--the Romulan Commander in particular.  While I am not looking to make money, I am happy to hear that my tiny contribution to the realm of custom figures is drawing attention.

I have come up with some new designs and have started playing around with some new characters.  Sadly, it looks like Minimates (like all other overpriced and under-produced Star Trek products) are a dim memory.  There shall be no more official creations coming forth.  Which means, if we want to see our favorite characters, we will have to make them. 

The great thing about Minimates is that they are easily adaptable.  Some only require minor re-ordering of parts.  Other figures may require re-painting or slight re-design.  Take Captain Rachel Garret of the Enterprise C. 


 This one was easy to an extent.  Take the Admiral Kirk figure 9from Star Trek II).  Place Nurse Chapel's head on the shoulders.  Remove the blonde hair and use sculpy to create her futuristic helmet-hair.  The hair was the most difficult part for me.  I am not very skilled with re-creating hair styles but I think I did a passable job. 

 

I will add a more detailed article about her in future.  Over the next few months, I will create some of the figures I have wanted to see--some of which were quite memorable.  I have tried to put these concepts into some order, like I did with my first offerings--doomed sister ships of the U.S.S. Enterprise.  While the muse may take me at any moment, I will try to come up with some order here.  Continuing with the "doomed starship captains" theme, I wanted to see if I could expand beyond the realm of the original series. 

Aside from Captain Garret, I have designs for Captain J.T. Esteban (U.S.S. Grissom)



Captain Clark Terrell (U.S.S. Reliant),Captain Ronald Tracy (U.S.S Exeter), and Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the alternate universe of Yesterday's Enterprise--you know it didn't end well.



Other concepts I am kicking around are Commander Hansen from "Balance of Terror", the Klingon Captain from The Motion Picture, Kirk and Picard from Generations, and a few others.  Hope you like them.