Miniatures Update

I've added the women to the Paper Miniature Maker.

I've made a few changes. They now have entire alternate right arms. This may change again if I decide to give them Phaser Rifles.

I've also made the workspace wider and made all front and back views seperate so that the miniatures may be spaced however you see fit.

None of these changes have been implemented in the Male section but will be soon.

You can get to the Miniature Maker by clicking here:

Star Trek: Crew Replicator

Enjoy

Crow

PS - how's about posting some of your characters here?

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Been waiting all weekend for you to finish the fems. Excellent work. Here's my first try at Cmdr Powers:

But the 'nearside' green hands (Orions in Starfleet...COOL, I happen to have one as a nurse in my game) are a little low. They block the wording (minor problem, but one none the less).

Say SC, how close are you to adding the 'blank' uniforms, like I suggested (I'm guessing they're somewhere below: adding other species [both threat and non-threat], and adding 'dress' uniform...am I right?).

Cmdr Powers is cool! Nice one.

As for the hands misplacing. Yeah, I noticed that myself. I'm not sure what's causing it. I find that if I refresh the page it often sorts the problem and spaces them properly.

As for blanks, well I'm not sure what you mean, sort of the entire miniature-maker again but just in black and white?

Well, maybe if there's a huge demand for it. I've an awful lot that I'd prefer to do first though.

Regards

Crow

Looks like i've got no excuse now not to start working up the crew of my TOS USS Hermes, DS9 USS BonHomme Richard, TNG USS Vigilant and after - DS9 USS Pioneer.

Scarecrow, I wish there was an award or something we could give you for this work. It's spot on, and if Decipher had any sense they'd be pushing to make this an official resource on their website.

Great stuff and thanks again.

regards

Renny

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I've also made the workspace wider and made all front and back views seperate so that the miniatures may be spaced however you see fit.

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I kind of liked it the old way, easer to go from the bottom of the page back to the top without loosing your parts.

As for images Ok

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I've added the women to the Paper Miniature Maker.

I've also made the workspace wider and made all front and back views seperate so that the miniatures may be spaced however you see fit.

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Andorian Females do not fit in the workspace well. The antenae is to high.
Splitting the sections up that are linked on the males. BAD idea. It was twice as long making my NPC Andorian Engineer then it did my Vulcan Commander. Keeping it linked allowed less placement time. Making it look parallel. Now I have to do that Manually? on every piece? I do not like it.

Now What I like
Better job in the design this time around the art is crisper. More races which I can not wait for the Male extentions on. The hairstyles for women better than the men. The faces are great. We can make Minatures for Women and Men!

I'd love to see more races showing up like Regulans, Alteods, etc. More enemy races and such. Klingons, Romulans, Borg, Dominion, Ferengi etc. I know this takes time and these are a phenom job.
It's cartoony but that is cool you see the features and that is important on the size of these when they print.

Okay, that thng just rocks. That's great! Ever think about doing other time periodes? Could be neat for Holo-deck adventures or even other games!

Just plain neat.

Thanks all.

A few people have commented on the seperation of elements in the females section. My reasoning for this was that it allowed you to space the elements as you saw fit. This, I decided would help when I added Phaser Rifles as it would allow you shift the front and back views nearer or further apart depending on how much space you needed between them. A few people have said that they are not keen on this new feature however and I have to say that whilst I don't exactly consider it hard work, it is annoying having to drag-scroll-drag all the time.

I have had a brainwave on this front. I may try flipping the elements so that they face away from each other instead of towards each other. The outside edge doesn't change. The arms either hang by the side of the figure or they fold across it. The inside edge does change depending on what the characters are holding and if I were to swap these edges around, it would make use of the fact that you have to trim the outside edges down close to the figure once it's printed anyway.

It's a definite future revision allowing the elements to be attached again but retaining versatility.

Phew!

Crow

Great tool, but all this dragging around is 'inconvenient, certainly since there is only one spot where you can put each 'item'. Why not make it clickable instead. So if I click that arm and that head and that hair it appears in the image instead of having to drag all these things to the precise exactly same spot?

Thijs

That would be ideal, but sadly I'm an artist, not a coder and so I can only use scripts that I find for free on the net :(

Crow

Well I am a coder and I was thinking of having a play with this to see if I could make it more cross-browser compatible (I hate having to switch to IE just for this).

I think I could quite easily knock up a system that's quicker to use, positions things precisely and works in IE5+, Netscape 6+, Mozilla and Opera 7+ (all assuming JavaScript and CSs enabled). I'll give it a go over the weekend and report back on Monday. Then if Scarecrow likes what I've done he can take that and use it.

Absolutely. That'd be fantastic. Let me know what you come up with.

What I'd ideally like is to have the workspace and then a series of buttons allowing you to cycle through the various options. This'd make the screen much smaller.

Or maybe have just one example of each item and then buttons to scroll through the colour variations.

Failing that a script that made items jump from their page space to the workspace and then back again if clicked on would make things much easier than drag-scroll-drag!

Thanks for taking the time and let me know if you need anything.

Crow

Scarecrow, here's another site you might want to see.

http://fff.fathom.org/heromaker/index.fhtml

It's not at all like the program your working with, but it might help inspire some of the items that have been mentioned.

Scarecrow, I'd like to add my own plaudits to those already logged about your site and the work you're put in. Simply ... you rock.

I can't wait to see what else you have lined up. If you'll permit, I have a few suggestion: other Alien Races (Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians and so forth; maybe even Ferengi), Starfleet Dress Uniforms and Environment Suits would be great. As to a possible collaberation with Identity Crisis, I look forwards to future developments with interest and anticipation.

All power to you and may the Great Bird bless your future endeavours.

Since you have Andorians how about Chakha as one of the things you can hold?

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Cheers, Liz.

Nice to see someone using it aswell =)

Crow

I am using it as well. Great work! I love what you have done with the replicator!

I'm planning on using your paper minis when I run Perditions Flames for my group. It would be soooo nice if the replicator supported Klingons. :)

Baring that, is there any chance you could post a single Klingon paper mini for use with Perdition's Flames? :)

Thanks much,
-MC

How bizarre is this! This thread has been dead for months and I just happened to look it up this morning for no real reason. Next thing I know, it's alive again! Wierd in a twilight zone kind of way...

Klingon minis - yeah, they're on the to-do list right after I've finished upgrading the federation crew. I've done the female Enterprise, TOS Pilot, TOS and TMP pages so far but I'm not going to upload until the whole lot are done. So it might be a while.

However, having said this, I think it's a great suggestion and I might do a handful of fixed minis for use with Perdition's flame; Davis, Korris and some klingon soldiers.

Watch this space.

Crow

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How bizarre is this! This thread has been dead for months and I just happened to look it up this morning for no real reason. Next thing I know, it's alive again! Wierd in a twilight zone kind of way...

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I've been sending you good vibes for the past few days since I found your replicator. ;)

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Klingon minis - yeah, they're on the to-do list right after I've finished upgrading the federation crew. I've done the female Enterprise, TOS Pilot, TOS and TMP pages so far but I'm not going to upload until the whole lot are done. So it might be a while.

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That is great news!

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However, having said this, I think it's a great suggestion and I might do a handful of fixed minis for use with Perdition's flame; Davis, Korris and some klingon soldiers.

Watch this space.

Crow

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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

This rocks, 'crow! I'm already setting up minis for the crew of my Star Trek: Centennial game... :)

Scarecrow

So glad to see this thread is back up and running.
I've been churning out miniatures for a while now (30 odd for TOS crew, + player characters from the three or four other campaigns we've run over the years).
The thought of new miniatures to come has just made my week :D

Really like the idea of scenario personalities as well.

Regards and good vibes also

Renny

That's awesome. Thanks.

Hey S-crow, go to see your still on this side of the lawn.
Like the Klingons you’ve done, and really looking forward to Romulans, Borg, and other races ‘down the line’. And on that note:
http://startrekanimated.com/exetercomic.html
This months ‘issue’ of the ‘Star Trek Animated/Adventures’ comic features a story with M’ress as the central character (though I think the Caitian/Regelian male look different than depicted).
Oh, Arex is there too (though most poeple down care for the 'original' Edoans...think thats right:confused:)

Myself, I’m working on a three-tier system ‘miniature-wise’: paper (well, cardstock), plastic, and metal.
‘Paper’: Printouts of really minor NPC, ‘crowd filler’, and so on.
‘Plastic’: I have a whack of plastic ‘Fleet Action’ miniatures ‘Starfleet’ (albeit all male humans), which I converted to cadets. I also have a set of Borg. Just wished I got the Klingons and Ferengi. Also wish that Action Fleet did Cardassians and Romulans, but oh well.
Metal: I have a set of the LUG miniatures, I also converted a Reaper miniature (the second ‘Cleo Goldpaws Weretigeress’), and I’m looking at other possible miniature to convert, so even if Decipher won’t ‘get going’, at least I’ve go my own stuff.

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Hey S-crow, go to see your still on this side of the lawn.
Like the Klingons you’ve done, and really looking forward to Romulans, Borg, and other races ‘down the line’.

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Well, yes, I'd definately like to do some more but I really want to get the Miniature Maker updated to the new version first. I'm sorely tempted to do some Romulans and maybe Ferengi, Cardassians and Jem Hadar in the same style as the Klingons though.
Something else I'm considering is a Constitution Bridge paper model in the same scale - 28mm as a start to a whole series of downloadable paper model sets - but that's an entirely new ballpark =)

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And on that note:
http://startrekanimated.com/exetercomic.html
This months ‘issue’ of the ‘Star Trek Animated/Adventures’ comic features a story with M’ress as the central character (though I think the Caitian/Regelian male look different than depicted).
Oh, Arex is there too (though most poeple down care for the 'original' Edoans...think thats right:confused:)

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What an EXCELLENT site! I'm going to enjoy reading those over the next few days. I've always REALLY liked the Caitans and Edoans since I first came across them in the FASA RPG (I really don't recall them from when I watched the animated show as a nipper) and I like the idea of Alien crew members that are more than just humans with bumpy heads. As a result, Caitians and Edoans have always been prominant UFP races in my games.

Crow

Scarecrow

A 28mm scale Constitution bridge ? Yes please :D
Can I help in any shape or form?

I've said it before and i'll say it again, your work is exceptional and each new posting you make brings a smile to my face with the possibilities of the stuff you've got planned.

More power to you

Regards

Renny

Well, we'll see. It's not power I need more like 36 hours in a day - then again, don't we all =)
I hope I won't dissapoint.
Cheers,

Crow

If you were to do no more from this point on then i'd say you've still done more than enough.

:D

Regards

Renny

You know... I still have one of those paper model Enterprise bridges that were part of the PR for STMP- Unassembled. I put one together when it first came out and the humidity down here in the South destroyed it within four months along with the similar starship model.

Would your model be anywhere near as complicated? Or were you thinking something a bit simpler?

Well, that's an interesting question. I have never seen the TMP promo set so I can't really comment. I was planning on doing something as accurate as possible without being ridiculously fiddly. I guess what I mean is realistically proportioned and shaped and accurately scaled but not including insane details that would result in constructing and folding microscopic pieces of paper.

I'll have to see how it goes.

Crow

Hey everyone, I just ran across this and had to share:
http://www.eurekamin.com.au/cgi-bin/...iction&cat_id=

Hope that link worked, if not then head to eurekamin.com, then scale (28mm), then science fiction. Look at the ladies and gents at the bottom. Neat huh? And the fact you pass by Cylons, Rebels, SG-1 ‘baddies’, and space cat-girls…well:).