Thursday, March 12, 2026

Star Fleet Battles - Mines and Drones

 In February, I made some mine and drone markers for used with Star Fleet Battles miniatures.  

The Mines are just beads with a straight pin through the center, mounted on my typical fighter stands.  A single bead represents a small mine, with two stacked beads representing a large mine.  I'll probably make some more in different colors to represent captor mines equipped with weapons.

I searched for packs of small missiles, torpedoes, etc, but given that I will ultimately need hundreds of drone markers, I opted to keep the cost down and just make them out of bits of small diameter plastic rod with points sanded on one end.  Kzinti are red, Klingon are their distinctive blue-grey, others will carry the color of their ship hulls.

A tray with 24 small space mines.  
Kzinti drones can be seen in the background.

This tray has 12 large space mines and 12 kzinti mines.

A Romulan Sparrowhawk light cruiser, chased by 
drones and running into a mine field.


Not any great accomplishment as scratch-building goes, but fast and inexpensive.  War is near.

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