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Title: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: stone-cold-lead on June 15, 2011, 11:13:31 AM
Finished these off a few days ago.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/sturmhalo/SovNBC1small.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/sturmhalo/SovNBC2small.jpg)


Very tempted to get them a nice BMP-2.

Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: Christian on June 15, 2011, 11:22:05 AM
Holy crap they are good!
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: Calimero on June 15, 2011, 11:47:36 AM

 :-* Perfect PJ
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: Andym on June 15, 2011, 11:54:42 AM
Great stuff! Good painting!
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: Remington on June 15, 2011, 01:51:04 PM
Wow, they look great. Amazing paintjob but also really nice miniatures. The white mask makes them look very spooky.
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: FunkyBrush on June 15, 2011, 05:10:46 PM
top-notch painting
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: ErikB on June 15, 2011, 05:13:37 PM
How... how do you paint like that?!?!?
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: uti long smile on June 15, 2011, 05:16:24 PM
Wonderful!
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: stone-cold-lead on June 15, 2011, 06:44:02 PM
How... how do you paint like that?!?!?

 :D

They just come out like that.

Thanks for the comments all.  :)
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: Harwood Hobbies on June 16, 2011, 05:18:19 AM
Awesome work!  I love the highlighting.   :-*
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: MadMö on June 16, 2011, 07:52:01 AM
They look fantastic!
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: Centaur_Seducer on June 16, 2011, 08:06:49 AM
Superb! :-*
I've been watching them, but couldn't really decide whether they were good sculpts or not. Apparently, they are :)
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: stone-cold-lead on June 16, 2011, 08:51:43 AM
Superb! :-*
I've been watching them, but couldn't really decide whether they were good sculpts or not. Apparently, they are :)

Yeah they're quite nice sculpts. Clean sculpting, pretty sharp and they're quite simple models as well so not too taxing to paint. Only thing that I would criticise on them is the fragility of the gun barrels, with the the PK machine gun barrels being the most delicate.. They're very thin which looks to scale but they're easily bent out of shape.
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: Centaur_Seducer on June 16, 2011, 09:04:13 AM
Thanks for the feedback!
I'll put them on my Metro 2033 project list :)

(Which is due somewhere around 2056)
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: carlos marighela on June 16, 2011, 09:16:10 AM
Excellent work. It makes me a little sad though, my efforts with same figures fall a long way short. :(
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: Ulu Elsomalien on June 16, 2011, 12:37:31 PM
I'll put them on my Metro 2033 project list :)

(Which is due somewhere around 2056)

 :-* I love the Stalker taste :-*
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: infelix on June 16, 2011, 07:32:56 PM
Wow that´s some nice painting.
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: 6milPhil on June 16, 2011, 10:59:40 PM
I'm a big fan of the Eureka ranges, nice to see them stunningly painted.
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: Bako on June 17, 2011, 10:45:20 AM
So smooth. They're great!
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: G2 on June 17, 2011, 03:34:16 PM
Very nicely done. I have tried to paint the same minis, but mine did not come out nearly as nice as yours. But we did both paint white gas masks, I think we must have used the same reference image/s.

Only thing that I would criticise on them is the fragility of the gun barrels, ...
I completely 100% agree. I have actually snapped two AK-47 gun barrels, and becaues of that, it has put me off purchasing any more of these really nice minis.
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: stone-cold-lead on June 17, 2011, 08:27:14 PM
Very nicely done. I have tried to paint the same minis, but mine did not come out nearly as nice as yours. But we did both paint white gas masks, I think we must have used the same reference image/s.
I completely 100% agree. I have actually snapped two AK-47 gun barrels, and becaues of that, it has put me off purchasing any more of these really nice minis.

I was lucky with mine. Whilst some were horrendously bent out of shape I did manage to carefully bend them all back into position. Things got a little tense with one of the PK barrels though. Trouble is if they snap you've got not way of pinning them back on because they're so thin.
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: G2 on June 17, 2011, 11:51:07 PM
Trouble is if they snap you've got not way of pinning them back on because they're so thin.
Exactly correct. I was thinking of using the pin as a barrel, and maybe a small blob of Green Stuff for the front sight. But I fear that I may just ruin the rest of the gun, by drilling into it. I might bring up the weak barrel problem, next time I visit the guys at Eureka (their shop is only a 5 min drive from my house).

You can see a couple of my WIP NBC Soviets here in this tread
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=30426.0 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=30426.0)
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: Cultist #3 on June 18, 2011, 05:03:25 AM
Amazing paint!

I have a squad of these and a BRDM2 from Red Star miniatures, all very nice models.
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: Raxxus on June 20, 2011, 07:04:26 PM
these look awsme :o

might have to get some ;)
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: stone-cold-lead on June 20, 2011, 08:09:17 PM
You can see a couple of my WIP NBC Soviets here in this tread
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=30426.0 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=30426.0)

Like the alternate colour scheme, and good use of an AT-43 walker.  :)
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: Sterling Moose on June 23, 2011, 12:01:51 AM
Nice!!
Title: Re: Eureka Soviets in NBC suits
Post by: Doomsdave on June 24, 2011, 01:48:04 AM
Wonderful PJ's.