I recently posted my first 5 man NASA Crew for LUNAR, so today its time for the People's heroes from the CCCP!
Again these are 32mm models by Black Site Studios - the 2025 plastic releases not the resin/stl versions. Decals by District Miniatures.
I really enjoyed painting these models, all of which are subtly different, using the following paints:
- White undercoat
- Heavy drybrush Corax White
- Thinned light brown GW contrast paint
- Wraithbone drybrush
- Orange trim - Macharius Solar Orange
- Visors - Hoplite gold speed paint (Army Painter) with Reikland flesh wash
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| Image from 'For All Mankind' |
Moon Basing- AK Lunar Desert basing material
- Drybrushes:
- medium sea grey (Vallejo Model Color 70.870),
- Astonomican Grey,
- Corax White
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Comrade Vasily redefines the "Tactical Rock", as well as the iconic phrase "We will Bury you!" |
These suits depict the original Soviet suit, the Kretchet-94 designed to support the N1-L3 program including EVA activities up to 4 hrs in duration. It was the world's first semi-rigid space suit which included an aluminium alloy torso for micro-meteor protection, so in many ways it had advantages over NASA's A7L suit worn by APOLL 11-14 crews.
After the 1971 Soyuz-11 disaster, in which 3 cosomonauts died during a depressurisation emergency, it was superseded by the Sokol-KV2 design, which clearly took lessons from NASA.
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