The Great Southern Wastelands

[AngusH]

This thread will chronicle my attempt at building a post-apoc table. I'm a huge Fallout fan, but I'm aiming for a more "near future" table, rather than the retro-sci fi feel of Fallout… although it's awful tempting to grab a nuka-cola machine or two! My plan is for an urban “downtown” post-war wasteland set in my hometown of Sydney AU, and while I would like to keep the table “system neutral”, after working my way through GMG’s Nicklecity series on YouTube I’m pretty big on This is Not a Test at the moment.
   
I've never done much with terrain outside of painting the odd bit of generic scatter terrain, so it's been a real learning experience for me so far. Shipping from Europe or the US to Australia is always a pain, but the terrain has been arriving much faster than the minis, and the Easter long weekend saw me really work my way through a good deal of stuff. It’s amazing how therapeutic painting terrain is, versus agonizing over tiny details on minis! I’ve also learnt to love cheap craft paints, after quickly working my way through some of my Vallejo dropper bottles…

[AngusH]

Naturally the very first bit of terrain you buy for a near-modern post apoc table that you definitely don't want to give the retro sci-fi vibe is.... a giant WWII rocket! As soon as I saw this on Urban Construct's site I had to have it.

(apologies, my photography skills are rubbish)



The actual cast quality is reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally rough, which meshes OK with the post apoc setting anyway. I think the rocket will work best as objective markers than what I had originally envisioned, which was to have it inside a church to be worshiped by crazed cultists ala Beneath the Planet of the Apes...

[AngusH]

I also tried my hand at painting rust for the first time. I watched about a half dozen videos on YouTube detailing different ways to do it, before deciding to do something crazy - I looked at images of rusty dumpsters and tried to emulate those instead. I'm not overly happy with how it turned out, but I think they will look fine on the table mixed in with everything else.

[Mr. Peabody]

Your image isn't working for me.
I took a look at the link and can't find a way to resolve it for you. But maybe someone else here can?

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Really looking forward to following your progress! 

[commissarmoody]

Sadly the images are also not working for me ether.

[AngusH]

Thanks! Hopefully that should be fixed now, it had been awhile since I embedded dropbox images.

[commissarmoody]

Works his fun now

[Mr. Peabody]

Oh, yeah! Totally worth the wait. 

Following this thread with enthusiasm. 

[Ultravanillasmurf]

The bins look fine, the rust is great but the green is a bit dark.

I will be interested in how that rocket paints up.

[Muzfish4]

The dumpsters look fine. I'm doing a couple now from Knights of Dice (KoD) which will end up looking pretty similar.

Speaking of which, I see you're in Australia. KoD have a pretty good post-apoc range and they're having a sale at the moment:

https://www.knightsofdice.com/store/

I'm not affiliated with KoD but I have purchased from them and can recommend their products.

I'll be following this thread with interest.

[AngusH]

Thanks for the comments folks!

Speaking of which, I see you're in Australia. KoD have a pretty good post-apoc range and they're having a sale at the moment:

https://www.knightsofdice.com/store/

I'm not affiliated with KoD but I have purchased from them and can recommend their products.

I'll be following this thread with interest.

I'm actually really happy to read this - I put in an order a few weeks back (alas, pre-sale....) with them that I'm expecting any day now. I really like the look of their stuff versus other MDF terrain I've seen online, and the fact that it's Australian is just the cherry on top. I also grabbed the TNT rule book off them.

[AngusH]

I came home yesterday to three packages on my doorstep. To quote my wife, "It's like your Christmas fell in April"... Majority of these were ordered 4-5 weeks ago all from different retailers, which shows how consistently bad shipping to Australia generally is!

In the bundle was my first post apoc minis - Savages from EM4, and Street Judges & Ruin Raiders from LA. The Street Judges and Ruin Raiders look great, but I was especially blown away by the EM4 minis. They really should update the pics on their website, because the minis look 10x better in person than they do on the store page. It's not the paint job or anything, just some bad angles and small pics that don't show off their line at all.

The savages look the part for either raiders or tribals, but I'm not sure what to do with the Street Judges and Ruin Raiders yet. I've got some power armour guys on the way from Brother Vinni and the Street Judges would probably work as Preserver elites, with the ruin raiders as rank & file or specialists. My goal was to have 2 full warband options to be able to run some demo games, and I think these minis give me that.

Of course, my self-control being what it is, I'll probably end up with more than that... Some of those brigade games post-apoc mutant minis, oh my....

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Are the EM4 figures the Copplestone sculpts for the Grenadier Killzone game?

The thug figure (which looks like a Terry Gilliam character) makes a good clone/vat grown minion.

[AngusH]

Are the EM4 figures the Copplestone sculpts for the Grenadier Killzone game?

The thug figure (which looks like a Terry Gilliam character) makes a good clone/vat grown minion.

Nope, although I'd be interested to see those guys if you have a link?

I grabbed the scavengers from this range: http://www.moonrakerminiatures.com/savages.htm

[Leigh Metford]

The Em4 Future Skirmish range is in fact the old Grenadier range sculpted by Mark Copplestone, to accompany which Nick Eyre wrote the 'Kill Zone' rules. Copplestone's own Future Wars range was a direct continuation/replication of that range.