Really Retro Lunar (3D Vostok Print)

[HerbertTarkel]

I was a HUGE DBA fan back in the day. I sold off all of my armies, though. Props to you for continuing to paint them.

Oh, and love the lander, too. Great stuff!!

Mike Demana

Me too! Fanaticus forum was my jam. Still have some of my armies in photo anyway on there!

Anyway, the retro moon stuff is so hard to resist. !

[Cat]

I was a HUGE DBA fan back in the day. I sold off all of my armies, though. Props to you for continuing to paint them.

And I was the one who bought your Vikings!
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We still do 2.2+ at least once a month.

[mikedemana]

Good God - I completely forgot that! 

I was actually not aware that we'd met in person... 

Mike Demana

[Cat]

Good God - I completely forgot that! 

I was actually not aware that we'd met in person... 

Don't think we've met live, unless it was at an HMGS-E con long ago when the DBA ghetto was still running strong.  You had posted the armies for sale on your blog.
 
Indeed, we all still mourn the loss of the olde Fanaticus Forum.
x_X

[Cat]

It's been a chill and windy week here in New England, but today was downright balmy — 54º and not much wind blowing.  So a good day to spray paint outdoors.
 
I had picked up a pair of 30" x 46" slate gray rugs to use for game mats.  Sprayed with Krylon Stone Texture paints, using a black & light grays can low from one side, and white and grays can low from the other.  Doesn't look like the directional difference will matter much in the rug pilings, but I'll use the same technique on scatter craters and rock formations later.
 
The Black Site bases are 32mm.  I'm using larger figures on larger bases (4cm clay poker chips), and making my own measuring sticks (increasing from 1" to 3cm units).  So the 30' mats will work nicely.  The extra width will be handy for multi-player games.
 
The rugs came folded in quarters.  I had unfolded them and rolled them up last week when I got them home.  Creases are still there, and obviously picked up paint patterns.  That will be handy for any scenarios that call for quartering the board zones.
=^,^=
 

[Cat]

Fresh off the friend's printer, a Vostok 3KA capsule to use as a crashed terrain/objective.  Printed at 185% to bring the crew descent module up to 66mm diameter and 1/35 scale.
 
The later Voskhod capsule is nearly identical except for the cylindrical equipment module added to the top.  With the top of the descent module plowed into the moondirt, this model will do nicely for a Voskhod without needing any kitbashing. 
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https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/vostok-3ka-youri-gagarine

[carlos marighela]

I like that! Clever idea and quite fascinating all these lunar modules.

[Cat]

It's certainly quite fun digging back into the space joy of the 1960s!
 
Historically, the Voskhod was not a lunar module, but it works fine for a lunar fly-by in retro-SF of the future as envisioned from 1963. 

Voskhod 2 was used for the first EVA by Alexei Leonov in 1965.  Proposals for a Soyuz lander were drafted as early as 1963, but no one outside of a a very tight security circle was aware of that.  Soyuz 1 launched in 1967, alas with the first in-flight fatality of Vladimir Komarov.
 
If anyone had included a Soyuz looking lander in speculative fiction created in 1963, the KGB would have to kill them!