Star Trek Prelude to Axanar Blu-Ray Artwork

Recently Robert Meyer Burnett, Alec Peters and Christian Gossett hosted a contest on Facebook for a  donor to contribute designs that would become the cover of the Blu-ray disc. 

Cardassian Ocett Class Light Cruiser Painted

It's finally painted!

Cardassian Bok'Nor Freighter

This freighter featured in 1 episode of Deep Space Nine was one of many redresses of the Merchantman Freighter first seen in Star Trek III.

On The Bench: 1400 Cardassian Ocett Class Light Cruiser

Here's a few pics of a Kitbashed Cardassian Ocett Class Light Cruiser.

The core of the Ocett Cruiser is a Kazon Torpedo (the most useless Trek kit ever) with wings fused from an AMT Galor and detail parts form a Warp Models Keldon Class Cruiser.

Fresh out of Drydock: 1400 Cardassian Civillian Transport

This was a quick and dirty little kitbash I threw together while I was working on my Njal cruiser. It's mainly the head and tail of an AMT Cardassian Galor kit spliced with pieces from the Klingon BOP kit and a couple of extra details added to help them blend together.

I decided to go with a totally radical color scheme for this ship completely diverging from the usual Cardassian Ochre and going to a more blue/gray scheme. My logic behind this was based on the fact that this isn't a military ship, so it probably doesn't have to conform to the usual Cardassian Military painting aesthetics. Several layers of black wash and a few PNT Graphics decals later I have the finished product.

Fresh out of Drydock: 1400 Cardassian Njal Class Attack Cruiser

Here's some painted pics of my newly finished 1400 Cardassian Njal Class Attack Cruiser.

The cruiser was painted with Tamiya & Testors spray paints, CItadel & Vallejo game color and a healthy amount of washes / drybrushing. The Cardassian script was hand painted and the insignias were from a PNT Models Decal sheet.

On The Bench: 1400 Cardassian Njal Class Attack Cruiser

Quick update, just some primed pics.
The detail really comes together now that it's even toned, however I see a few airbubbles in the resin I missed and a few areas where panel need more cleaning. I just need to fix those, give it one more quick coat of primer, then the painting can commence.

On The Bench: 1400 Cardassian Njal Class Attack Cruiser

Recently I managed to win an OOP Federation models Cardassian Hideki class scout ship off of ebay. One of the first things I noticed about this model was the superb casting quality and the over all nice size of the model, however the detail was very inaccurate based on the reference I have of the studio model. I still wanted to build the kit regardless but I decided to have some fun with it and make it into a smaller 1400 scale Cardassian vessel.

The first thing I did was add much more surface panel detail all over the dorsal and ventral sides of the vessel made out of thin sheet styrene. Tons of greebles were added to the dorsal sensor strip along the spine and built up a shuttle bay in the rear of the vessel between the crab claw. Circular panel lines were scribed on the top of the crab shell with styrene scribing tool mounted in a large compass and very small pyramid shaped disruptor pods were added from a regular AMT Cardassian Galor model I had lying around.

I decided to add some crazy piping along the sides to bulk up the section behind the crab shell using interior sketches of DS9 as reference to mimic Cardassian pipe work with tube styrene. Then I built up some cowlings on either connecting end of the pipe work and added more greebles in the recess areas of the cowlings.

The front disruptor bank was where the cockpit used to be on the ship, but a cut slice with a Dremel tool and some sheet styrene took care of that. I made the disruptor bank itself out of Kneadatite putty and thin strips of sheet styrene. Kneadatite putty was also used to sculpt the impulse engines and fill in gaps around the bridge dome.

The next update will be of the vessel primed gray.

Fresh out of Drydock: Cardassian Freighter Groumall

One of the few times I will build a Trek kit in 2500 scale is either when the ship would be way to big to display in 1400 scale or it just simple isn't made in 1400 scale. This is an instance of the latter. The Groumall is Gizomtron's 2500 scale "Military Freighter" packed with awesome detail and an awesome price of $20. Great for a weekend build. Here's some painted pics of this tiny beauty. The only thing I added was color PNT Graphics decals instead of the black and white Gizmotron decals for the Cardassian emblems on the rear engine unit.

Fresh out of Drydock: 22nd Century Cardassian Freighter

Ah here's one I resurrected from the grave; a very old-school 22nd Century Cardassian freighter.

I built this puppy from scratch about 8 years ago from an assortment of leftover pieces and broken models. Design wise I wanted something that was a cross between the Merchantman styled vessels and the Sulaco from Aliens. The main hull panels are a chopped and rearranged AT-AT walker. Most of the front sensors are from a Nostromo kit, a Droid STAP, some more AT-AT and some Gundam Missiles. The engines and assorted piping is primarily from Anakin's Podracer kit with the remaining pieces coming from assorted Gundam models and a Klingon Bird of Prey.

I pulled him out of storage recently and decided to give him a new and improved paint job. Primarily brown and desert Sand with a simple masked panel pattern and a lot of dirty washes. I added hull damage from a PNT Models Battle Damage decal set. I also added Cardassian insignia from a PNT decal sheet.

Over all I'm very pleased with the new paint job. There were a lot of happy accidents during painting that normally would be an issue, but in this case worked out just fine. Such as all natural paint chipping, cracking, splotchy ink washes and hull distortion. I think in the circumstance it adds to the over all junker look I was going for with this freighter.

From The Archives: Macro Trek Resin Carassian Galor Cruiser

Here's some pictures of an old Macro Trek Resin Carassian Galor Cruiser I built about 14yrs ago. At the time, it was the only Cardassian Galor kit on the market. Recently I dug it out of storage, dusted it off and redid the black base.

This Model has been re-detailed in several ways in an effort to bring the model closer to what few reference photos I had back then. The underside of the command saucer was lacking so I used sheet styrene re-detail that area. The dorsal "hump" was just completely wrong, Heh. I sawed it off sanded the area smooth and completely built a new "hump" from expoxy resin & sheet styrene. Everything else was minor details, filling airbubbles, and fixing gaps.

I don't recall how I painted her, but I know that there were no Cardassian decals at the time, so I tried to freehand the icon. Doesn't look so hot now but it's a reminder of how far I have come since then with my painting skills.