Post-Apocalyptia, Part Two - 4-29-18. Did you think I was done?

[horridperson]

Neat stuff all around!  Your pictures as a guide the 3D prints didn't look too bad.  They definitely looked as though they were intended for a fantasy setting rather than the PA repurpose you pulled off.  Nice result;  I think they will grow on you.

[Sinewgrab]

Neat stuff all around!  Your pictures as a guide the 3D prints didn't look too bad.  They definitely looked as though they were intended for a fantasy setting rather than the PA repurpose you pulled off.  Nice result;  I think they will grow on you.

I hope so - I think I need to do a big ass trading post game soon, with all of my various 'shops' and 'carts'.

And my latest build - I guess I am too into the settlement system in FO4, cause now I am building things I do there as a regular occurrence.

Who doesn't love orchards?







So, I used some HO scale fruit trees, and then some "grass" off a mat I found in the bargain bin at Michael's.  I tend to plant a lot of razorgrain as well as mutfruit, for its use as brahmin bait.  I have a few left, and may just create another smaller orchard as well.  I wanted to make it look like the settlers were watering the trees regularly, so I added ink to darken those areas.

[supervike]

Fantastic.  Your tabletop has to look pretty damn impressive, with this all laid out!

[Sinewgrab]

Fantastic.  Your tabletop has to look pretty damn impressive, with this all laid out!

I will say that I am not embarrassed to put a game on it.

And my latest addition - I found a cheezy little motorcycle in the $1 section of the local mart, and found that the orc legs I had in my bitz box worked great, and then the body, and a crypt ghoul head, and now I have Fratelli, the traveling Ghoul tinker, on his prized touring bike.





He may not be pretty, but no-one turns away his technical expertise when they realize he has kept that bike running for 200 years...

[Dr Mathias]

He may not be pretty, but no-one turns away his technical expertise when they realize he has kept that bike running for 200 years...

Sort of like Rudolph the Reindeer, ridicule him until you realize he can provide something you need

I like him, cool concept and seems to go together with the bike quite well.

[Sinewgrab]

Now, I will admit, I use the ad-hoc wear what you can find attitude of the post-apoc world as an excuse to paint all kinds of figures, base them the same, and multipurpose the hell out of them.  These guys can go into BoB, post-apoc, Pulp, WWW2...Mostly Pulp Figures, but I have no idea where I got the Captain from.

And thus, the crew of the Carp, my riverboat.



The Captain



His wife and first mate



And the two deckhands, one with monkey, the other with wine.

[horridperson]

Your repaint of the trailer took it from questionable to fantastic!  Weathering looks great and now it doesn't look like a dwelling for happy go lucky garden gnomes .  The riverboat crew is looking good as well..Are they stuck ashore or is there a riverboat in their future ?

[Sinewgrab]

Got this for them...built it the same way - to use for multiple periods.  Boats just don't change that much when they aren't military...

It was in use in my just-posted AAR...check the far right of the photo.

[Sinewgrab]

So, recently I combined an order with a pal of mine, for whom I paint terrain in exchange for monetary compensation, for a lot of Sarissa Precision buildings.  I owe him about 8 hours of painting at the moment, as between Bolt Action and Fallout, I have a need of ruined bombed out buildings.

But first, I did a couple of their North American cabins.






I learned some major things here - one, these are REALLY easy to build. I built the 13 houses I had ordered in less than an afternoon.  Well planned by Sarissa.

I also had to modify my usual painting style to use for these.  The detail is not as deep as plasticville or gw plastics, so you have to modify your drybrushing and washes to work.

And most irritatingly, there is nothing that is helpful on the net (that I could find) that tells me what colors might have been used on homes like this in the trun of the century.  I wanted to paint them in such a way that they could be used for VSF, Western, Pulp, WW2, or Fallout.  Is there anything on what colors might be used in America at the turn of the century?  F*** no.  You're on your own, maggots. 

Grumble.

[Infovore]

The US Library of Congress has some photo collections on-line. There may be some help in this one - although it is 1939-44, so the period might be a little late 
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsac/ Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs

[Ultravanillasmurf]

The US Library of Congress has some photo collections on-line. There may be some help in this one - although it is 1939-44, so the period might be a little late 
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsac/ Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs

Fascinating photographs.

Nice buildings, Sarissa do seem to know what they are doing.

[HerbyF]

And most irritatingly, there is nothing that is helpful on the net (that I could find) that tells me what colors might have been used on homes like this in the trun of the century.  I wanted to paint them in such a way that they could be used for VSF, Western, Pulp, WW2, or Fallout.  Is there anything on what colors might be used in America at the turn of the century?  F*** no.  You're on your own, maggots. 

  The choice of colors varies widely from one area of the country to another. In some areas the still painted building in the kind of bright colors used in the Victorian period, others were more into a more modern & subdued. In some areas anything other than a good whitewash was thought to be over the top.

[Muzfish4]

Nice work, interesting to hear how well the Sarissa buildings go together.  Food for thought once I've got my Knights of Dice stuff finished.

[dinohunterpoa]

Sinewgrab, I've got good results with mdf buildings by scoring and carving the boards with a modelling knife in order to get a more textured effect - time consuming but nice.

This picture is of a historically-accurate 1:43 diorama of Nenana Town, Alaska, at the mid 20s; as you can see, most sand coloured and light woods colours on the buildings:

 



 

 

[Sinewgrab]

That's very cool, but where are the sources?  That is my main grump. One would think there would be sources for such things all over, but the crickets are deafening...