#starfleet wars

[oldschoolfrp]

I saw Monday Knight Productions among the vendors at the Enfilade! convention this past weekend in Tacoma, WA. They had a large display of their Galactic Knights spaceships, originally released in 1978 by Superior Models for the Starfleet Wars game and distributed by Alnavco. Old ads and reviews mentioned their size but I still wasn't prepared for how massive the largest pieces are. The Avarian Super Galactic Dreadnought in the first pic is at least 6" long, cast in thick solid metal, and the largest space station ring is even wider. All the original sculpts appear to have been kitbashed from tiny greeblies in the classic sci-fi spaceship modeling style.

[oldschoolfrp]

Attack of the greeblies -- Super Galactic Dreadnoughts were large metal starship models by Superior Models, Inc, distributed by Alnavco in the US and Citadel in the UK (ad from The Space Gamer 29, Metagaming, July 1980)  Monday Knight Productions now makes these in metal and resin, along with the rest of the 5 Starfleet Wars fleets under the “Galactic Knights” name.  Alnavco is in its 52nd year of business and now owns and makes Superior’s 20th c naval lines.

[oldschoolfrp]

Comparison of spaceship miniatures by Valiant, Superior, Eisenwerk, and Zocchi, from Michael Willner’s review in Ares magazine 5, SPI, November 1980.  Valiant is still making their Stardate 3000 range, and Monday Knight has Superior’s Starfleet Wars under a new name.  Zocchi’s Star Fleet Battles ships went to Starfighter Shipyards.  Eisenwerk’s ships were still OOP last I heard.