Visit to Eureka Miniatures, Australia

[Brian Smaller]

Just a post about my visit to Eureka Miniatures in Australia.

Cheers
Brian

https://woolshedwargamer.com/2024/12/01/eureka-miniatures-visit-melbourne-australia/

[syrinx0]

A great place to get unique figure sets.  Nice to know where Chloe resides too.

[rct75001]

The new location looks so much nicer for them to work in than the old casting shed.  Thanks for sharin gthe photos.
Richard

[Dubbya]

Brilliant! I'll miss visiting the old store and picking my own miniatures, but I'm glad they have a better setup.

Their 28mm Hawkmoon range is still up, it doesn't include the earlier models (different sculptor?) though.

https://www.eurekamin.com.au/index.php?cPath=87_126_874_855&sort=3a

[carlos marighela]

Nick is one of life's true gentlemen. Lovely bloke. The new digs are a much better production facility although the next door neighbours are unlikley to prove as weird or fun. Who can forget the 'Comedy University' that was next door?

You can still visit, it's just that you need to make an appointment. Which reminds me... I need to do just that.

[mikedemana]

Wow -- that's awesome! What a great guy. I love Eureka's lines and own a handful of them. Happy Birthday! My present to you is to NOT sing you a sea shanty... 

Mike Demana

[carlos marighela]

Wow -- that's awesome! What a great guy. I love Eureka's lines and own a handful of them. Happy Birthday! My present to you is to NOT sing you a sea shanty... 

Mike Demana

The Seaman's Mission is a truly odd building. Faux Spanish Mission style in a sort of greyish, bleah coloured stucco with an enormous foreshortened concrete tit on one end.*

It's sort of marooned these days between the arse end of a spectacularly awful discount mall, what effectively becomes the on ramp for the West Gate freeway and the route through to Port Melbourne and is cut off by six lanes of traffic from the former docks, which have become the re-invented and oh so imaginatvely named 'Docklands' precinct. A windy canyon of pointless sterility, second to none.  Shitty urban design at its worst. The actual docks these days are miles away.

* For avid fans of ferro-concrete breast-like constructions it should be noted that Melbourne is also home to the Coburg Town Hall, a fine example  of the genre and one whose nipple remains intact. 

[FramFramson]

Nick is one of life's true gentlemen. Lovely bloke. The new digs are a much better production facility although the next door neighbours are unlikley to prove as weird or fun. Who can forget the 'Comedy University' that was next door?

You can still visit, it's just that you need to make an appointment. Which reminds me... I need to do just that.

Can confirm. Nick is a very fine fellow.

[Shahbahraz]

I'm still shitty with him as he reneged on his promise to swap an army for my pants. It's a long story.

I remember his shop in Elsternwick from 30 years ago, the ones with tons of second hand Hinchcliffe on the tables in teh front room.

Years later, after I moved to Canberra, when we bough  our house, someone had scrawled a name on the cover for the electricty meter. 'Nic Robson'.  And our very good friend (nothing to do with wargaming) who lived in Canberra, had known his family in the UK.

Real life is often stranger than fiction.