After literally years of obsessing about this project in multiple scale, Black Site Studios release of plastic Astronauts and Cosmonauts had me scrambling for my credit card (visits to the Smithsonian Air & Space museum and the NASA Marshall rocket centre this year also helped!). This year's painting challenge prompted me to finally get them onto the painting bench
Here are my first five NASA crew, mostly with a range of improvised and much deadlier (but temperamental in lunar conditions) equipment, battling with their Soviet counterparts!
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| AI background generated on ChatGPT |
These boys with the "Right Stuff" are ready to defend their Apollo site and scientific equipments in the face of Communist aggression!
These are 32mm plastic figures by Black Site Studio, which I reviewed late last year:
https://tasmancave.blogspot.com/2025/12/review-lunar-astronauts.html
The decals add great splashes of colour and are by District Miniatures, including the original NASA "meatball" logo:
https://districtminiatures.com/collections/black-site-studios-lunar-32mm
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| The original NASA "meatball' logo, designed in 1959 |
Comrade Cosmonauts of Roscosmos coming next!
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| "Moon Marines" artwork by Fána Smetana Source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/BXXxB9 |
