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Miniatures Adventure => Post-Apocalyptic Tales => Topic started by: magnusthetraitor on 01 July 2015, 11:20:59 PM
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Hey guys, I've started work again on some post apoc stuff to fight against my super mutants, which I shared here long ago. Here they are, for reference!
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zOqM72x_bIE/VZRnfbIqSfI/AAAAAAAAalM/6Xf0uQ5cBFA/s1600/mutantposse2.jpg)
And here is the first of my tribal raiders:
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M0IpvugYQKg/VZQzNfMWIvI/AAAAAAAAakk/Mm6wbwbNc2g/s1600/raider_green1.jpg)
This guy is a WIP, based on a mix of Woodland Indians and Post Apoc Survivor pieces. He is a Dead Snake, a tribal raider that inhabits the northern Oregon and southeast Washington area. I have yet to add his spikes and rivets to the green stuff armor pieces. The bearings on my dremel went out just as I started turning the spikes. :-/
I'll be painting him up in the style of the war boys from Fury Road.
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Sweet ! :-* :-* :-*
specially these guys :
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zOqM72x_bIE/VZRnfbIqSfI/AAAAAAAAalM/6Xf0uQ5cBFA/s1600/mutantposse2.jpg)
I wouldn't mind seeing some more shots of them (really like the bear trap as a weapon)
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Your off to a great start with those mutants and Dead Snake. Looking forward to seeing more of them. You can say that the Super Mutants came from the old Umatilla Chemical Depot.
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Great work on the muties, can't wait to see how the raiders shape up! Looks like the Indian parts mix well with the Survivors.
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Great work on the muties, can't wait to see how the raiders shape up! Looks like the Indian parts mix well with the Survivors.
http://www.twistedironindustries.com/2015/07/fallout-tribal-raider-gang-test-mini-wip.html?m=1 (http://www.twistedironindustries.com/2015/07/fallout-tribal-raider-gang-test-mini-wip.html?m=1)
I have a few more pics in my project log showing the work I did to make it fit. Size wise they are excellent, but take some work to make the clothed to unclothed transitions work.
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Thanks for the link
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I got the spikes added on to my raider. A few more pics at my project log.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rVHN59C0gqw/VZWGpvGpYnI/AAAAAAAAam0/jwpWSGR6jC8/s1600/raider_spikegreen4.jpg)
Filed and cut brass rod and styrene rod, drilled and glued in for stability. Looking forward to painting this guy!
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Really great job on this guy - like the way he is coming together.
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Think I might need to make another trip down to Michaels
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Ogres as Supermutants...I cannot believe I never thought of using those...and I play WHFantasy. (sigh)
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Enormously cool stuff!! :o
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Awesome stuff. Love the mutants and the raider is an ace start. You should add a follow gadget it to your blog.
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I blame you. Went and bought some of the wood land natives from war games factory to make some tribals and warboys riders.
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I am looking forward to seeing your work! I got a lot done this weekend myself. First, a painted example! He was my color test to see if the desaturated look would be alright on the table top. I had to go a little more extreme contrast than I thought I would, leaving the skin dead white instead of just extremely pale. Most of the color on the model is rust on the metals. It looks nice on the tabletop.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3kBXvOpuQlU/VZrFnFuDuLI/AAAAAAAAasI/u7ghuh3yh2Q/s320/raider_color4.jpg)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0C3V1AypI-g/VZrFnMAbl5I/AAAAAAAAasU/GC5zTyke1uk/s320/raider_color2.jpg)
I got the rest of the warband (for now! mwahahahahhaha!) put together and green stuffed as well. Here is a group shot:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cAcMG1-Jj5c/VZqqsXS8TiI/AAAAAAAAapw/HzOO3OpevbE/s320/2015-07-05%2B21.13.24.jpg)
I was a busy fellow over the holiday weekend. I had a day off work without kids or SO, so nothing to do but slave away at the bench.
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That should give me enough to play with for a while, don't you think?
I have some spear-armed figs in progress, but I haven't gotten a good "explosive-tipped spear thingy" together yet. I'll figure something out. These figs are far more fiddly to work with than the GW mutant heroic scale I've worked with in the past, so weapons are kind of fiddly.
You can get some bigger pics at my blog: http://www.twistedironindustries.com/2015/07/dead-snake-war-band-wip-and-painted.html (http://www.twistedironindustries.com/2015/07/dead-snake-war-band-wip-and-painted.html)
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Very nice so far, like how well the Dead Snake scout painted up. I can't think of any idea as to what to use for an explosive tip for the spears ether. Maybe grenades or molotov cocktails tied to the ends?
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Very nice so far, like how well the Dead Snake scout painted up. I can't think of any idea as to what to use for an explosive tip for the spears ether. Maybe grenades or molotov cocktails tied to the ends?
I found a nice youtube clip of the mad max scene in question:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6exnpC8_zkc/VZsVdEyiS4I/AAAAAAAAato/f85GPFs08hE/s1600/witnessme.png)
Looks like a slightly wider bit of rod, with some feathers or streamers sculpted on behind it, and a slightly rounded tip with a button or dot at the extreme end. Way less complicated than it was in my head...
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So pretty much a bomb with a pressure trigger. should be pretty easy to make.
Now how to represent them in the rules. Maybe a javelin with increased armor pin.
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(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vgB88rY3M94/VZwEbC8rXPI/AAAAAAAAauk/yzUYJHGh0RY/s320/explosivespear1.jpg)
This is what I worked up as a test. Apologies for the crappy pic, I snapped it in a hurry this morning. He looks a little too shiny and chrome. :-p
As to the spear? Close enough, I think! Some green stuff feathers or streamers would make it look nicer, but the core shape works.
In This is Not a Test, I'm starting off running them as grenades. They have a limited ammo; and you can throw them. Not so much a melee weapon unless you are having a bad case of the Witness Mes. A thrown spear with a set strength of 7 and Ignore Armor 1 would probably do it, too! I gave him a machete in a sheath so he can hack at people even if he throws all of his explosive-tipped spears.
I figure I'll post up this pic in the TNT facebook group and see what folks brainstorm. Since I'm running these guys as Tribals, your basic rank and file warriors have something called Rag Tag, which limits the equipment they can have to a fairly low value of 15 bottlecaps. It turns out Grenades and a Light Weapon come in nicely under that threshold, so I can have a swiftly charging pack of loonies armed with explosive sticks. My dreams, they are coming true!
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Seems like a great idea to me. Grenades and blades would be just their thing. If the bombs don't get you, they will get up close and spike you in the back.
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Sounds good and looks great mate. :-*
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These look really great Magnus! I was going to use my Muskets and Tomahawks natives as tribals, but these are really the ticket!
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I've been painting up tribals whenever I could over the last few weeks. Here are all the painted figs I have so far!
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZagwXkLsk8Q/Vcjrq942Q1I/AAAAAAAAa9k/znx0z82u0jU/s1600/IronSnakes_080815.jpg)
However, I've experienced some of the most lethal gameplay in any campaign game I've ever played. Despite winning 3 of my 4 games, I've paid dearly in the lives of my men. The grand total so far is:
Strife the Champion
Boner the Warrior
J Man the Scout
Hulk the Berserker
Milk the Tribal
with an honorable mention of Lizmajic, who is out for the next three games.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kkDg4g_m5fo/VcjtN_gSNAI/AAAAAAAAa94/3Q9jiEhqI7Q/s1600/ohdamn_080815.jpg)
This pic is showing the results of the third and fourth games.
Our little league of This is Not a Test has between 8 and 10 players right now, and my dead pile is bigger than EVERYONE ELSE COMBINED. Son of a... I need a good medicine man but I can't afford one after vainly attempting to replace all of my dead warriors. It is hard being a cannibal warlord.
On a positive note, the spear-wielding badass pictured above is now a member of the warband and will get painted up soon! He is Nub the Warrior, and he has a great deal of work to do.
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*Wow.* It's hard out there for a tribal.
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I don't think the medicine man is doing his job.
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I don't think the medicine man is doing his job.
I know right? My Shaman is really focused on psychic death bolts applied liberally to enemy brains. A healer he is not. He is the skull-masked gentleman in the pic with the warclub.
There is a psychic healing ability but it is a random power on the chart.
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We all have are talents
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You know how much I love this warband. I am thinking about coming up with a more friendly injury table that folks could use. That might make an appearance in the second book. Not mandatory, but for those that want a wasteland with a little less bite. For now, get a sawbones!
Joey
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Nice to see them painted up dude they look ace :D
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Got five more in painting queue right now. You know, to replace the soul crushing losses. ;-)
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I dragged out an old Marx Cars of the Future from a few years back and made a mold this weekend. It got a new windshield sculpted on beforehand. As soon as it came out of the mold, my son grabbed it and started zooming around the house with it. Luckily I had some resin on hand and cast a few more up so dad can play with toys too!
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5XPkNJVNv3A/VdIMa8ZNdrI/AAAAAAAAbEI/bv_0JNO3Wkw/s1600/cars1.jpg)
For folks who weren't lucky enough to pick these up when they were on ebay at $10 for four cars, I'm sorry. They are a cool addition to any post apoc table. I wanted more though, and don't want to pay the $50 price tag they go for these days (if you can find them!). So I found the terrain at the club that sheltered this beauty and ripped it right off the base.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XyFOQmWramY/VdIMa2YG82I/AAAAAAAAbEE/3bppHYnwS30/s1600/cars2.jpg)
That is okay though! The old one was painted up really fast for a tournament we host, and it looked like crap. Now it will be replaced by some nicely painted wrecks like this one.
I painted up the base color first, then the windows and seats, then the bumpers and tail lights. Then the rust got splorched on with a piece of sponge. First Rhinox Hide ( a really dark brown), and then some Trollslayer Orange got mixed into the palette. A combo of those colors was used to line and add rust drips. Then the brighest orange was applied splotchily in places.
After all that was dry, a bit of black lining where necessary and a light wash of Agrarardexeasx Earthshade in the crevices and for another layer of weathering.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-StWrGmiiltI/VdIMa90mb-I/AAAAAAAAbEA/k7p1EbxOZls/s1600/cars3.jpg)
The Iron Snakes know that the best place to look for radioactive gum and gas masks is in the glove box of old convertibles!
Now I gotta go find the rest of those cars and make another mold or two. I want a proper parking lot, damn it!
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Dude that window work is bloody sexy. Also, the weathering is so spot on.
Joey
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Dude that window work is bloody sexy. Also, the weathering is so spot on.
Joey
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