Ships of the Line model kits on the way

Due out next month, Round 2 Models have announced a new range of Ships of the Line branded model kits! There will be four 1:2500 scale kits on offer, the TOS USS Enterprise, USS Reliant, USS Defiant, and Klingon D7. All the kits have previously been released as part of the Cadet Series range, but this time they come pre-painted, and as they are snap together kits too they'll be a quick way to build your own ships.

Each kit comes individually packaged, and is accompanied by a wide-format trading card, featuring related artwork from the Ships of the Line calendar series. The kits will be shipped in cases of twelve, with the Enterprise and Reliant being more common, with four of each in each case, while there will be two per case of the Defiant and D7s. So far only the Reliant has been previewed (image via Tower Hobbies).

Also new from Round 2 Models is their re-issue of the AMT USS Enterprise cutaway model kit. This 1:537 scale kit was first released a couple of decades ago, and the new release comes with an expanded decal sheet, a base, and a new box art (which you can check out after the jump, via Monsters in Motion):

Aliens trading card series

The latest range of Star Trek trading cards from Rittenhosue Archives focuses on Aliens. Coming in November, the new series will feature alien characters, exotic and familiar, from across the prime timeline. There will be one hundred basic cards, and a plethora of bonus cards, including:

• Randomly inserted sketch cards.
• 60 autographed cards, in 1 in 8 packs.
• 18 sticker cards, in 1 in 16 packs.
• Gold versions of the cards, in 1 in 24 packs.
• 9 "First Appearances" cards, in 1 in 24 packs.
• 9 "Quotable Klingon" cards, in 1 in 24 packs.
• 10 alien ships cards, in 1 in 24 packs.
• 6 alien badge/pin cards, in 1 in 288 packs.

You'll find five cards in each pack, twenty-four packs per box, and twelve boxes in a case. And there are further bonus cards if you're buying by the case:

• 2 case toppers, either a Borg or Klingon poster design by Juan Ortiz, 1 per case.
• Hand drawn sketch cards by Warren Martineck Card, as a 6-case incentive.
• Painted sketch cars by Mick and/or Matt Glebe, as a 9-case incentive.
• An archive box, with an exclusive "relic" card, as an 18-case incentive.

Regular and case-incentive sketch cards.

Juan Ortiz art reborn as trading card set

Juan Ortiz's TOS retro poster series is now complete, collected in a book, and printed on a myriad of other products, but there's still life in this art! Coming in June will be a new set of trading cards from Rittenhouse Archives, which will feature all eighty of Ortiz's TOS prints, and many other designs too.

The cards will come in packs of five, with twenty-four packs in a box, and twelve boxes per case. In addition to the base set of the Ortiz poster series, also mixed in will be:

• Autographed versions of the retro poster series (distribution not announced).
• Gold-based versions of the posters, with facsimile autographs from Ortiz (found in one in twenty-four packs).
• Ortiz's twenty-two image series of TAS poster designs (found in one in twelve packs).
• Sketch cards for each second and third season episodes (one hand-drawn sketch card will be included in each box).
• Autographed character photo cards (one of these will be in each box too).
• Seven portraits of the bridge crew (in one in twenty-four packs).
• Nine bridge crew "abstracts" (also in one in twenty-four packs).

If you buy by the case-load there are further bonuses:

• Each case will include a portrait of either the Enterprise or a Romulan ship. 
• Six cases will get you painted art cards, either "Ships of Star Trek" by Charles Hall, or "The Cage" Mick or Matt Glebe.
• Nine cases get you a "Mirror, Mirror" card signed by both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
• Eighteen cases will get you a special archive box for the collection.