Fallout: Heading East

[Dobbie71064]

Love your miniatures!! Im defiantly looking into the Offensive miniatures riot police for a small vault security force.

I wouldnt base the chariot myself unless you find it fragile.

[Wyrmalla]

I've been playing Starbound, which's ground my productivity to a halt. ^^

New Californian Republic
Ranger



I've no idea what the original model is, I just found it along with a few others at my local market. £1 for it. That's me now got one of each of the types of rangers from New Vegas; Veteran, Patrol, and the regular ranger (ie the ones who don't wear armour, though I expect have the same rank as the patrol ones). Her skin's a little too dark on her face due to me having mixed up my glazes. =/

Wastelanders
Tweaked



That's a legitimate title. This one's from my Chaos army (note the giant star of chaos...). I thought that it might make a nice mystic type character for a darker faction, or just as a wandering character. He/she could make a nice little addition to a scenario, popping up guiding one of the sides to an objective, but having unknown intentions.

Terrain

Market Stalls



Just match sticks and spare bits of plasticard. The crowd barriers are by Ainsty Castings, though there's plenty of other bits and bobs in there.


And a fortified wall for towns or the like (it could be used to block off city streets too). Its a poundshop toy bus. I may have a go at making another for a gate, though I have a dozen of the things sitting about, so there's plenty of opportunities. Hopefully, in the distant future, I'll have enough junk walls made up to make a little township like Scrapheap (which is just the Junktown map, but I felt like being a neckbeard and referencing some obscure location instead). The graffiti on the side's mock Chinese propaganda reading "Fencui si ren bang : Smash the Gang of Four" and "Wei renmin fuwu : Serve the people". The one over the red star is something else, I just copied that one from some graffiti over a Chinese embassy, so I'm assuming its anti-communist instead.




Oh, plus a dumpster. This one's taken from a toy truck. I may buy up some more, though I don't know how economical buying them for a pound each is (though actually Ainsty casting charges something like £15 for two...).



Here's a shot of my proposed scheme for the Vault that I have planned. Yes, it will be an inhabited one. However, in my typical style, that's not to say it'll be clean. It wont be rusted to hell or anything, but I'm going for a worn out look. This particular piece's for the engineering area (I ran out of the right bricks quickly, so I've not managed to make much), with the whole thing intended to be modular. Its made from Hirst Arts molds.



Anyone know what these are? I bought them along with the earlier ranger. Some of them look a little Blake 7ish. Yes, that paint is damn heavy, as is half the cloth painted like skin (ya perv). Have a last wee look at them, as I expect to be chopping at least a few of them. The guys in long coats in the second image for instance may become Chinese Remants, whilst I'm not so keen on the proportions of the mad scientist, so he may need to have his arms amputated.




I may give more terrain a go this week as I feel that I've made a decent enough impact on the unpainted model front for the moment (I still have a pile of them sitting in a box though). Yes, that chariot thing is still not finished, as do I have a few more bits and pieces sitting half painted too. Aside from those the main shanty town shacks are a bit of a bore to paint, but there's still plenty of other bits to make my way through. Meh, maybe the allotment plot, I dunno. Quit forcing me to commit.  :*)

[commissarmoody]

You can use Tweaked as a "Daughter of Hecata". Make a nice counter to the Legian troopers. Post-Apoc amazons.

[Wyrmalla]

A Daughter's model would in my eyes look quite differently. Not quite so armoured as the Tribals from earlier in the thread (they had mirelurk carapace on them, like FOOK, a Fallout mod, gave the Tribals from Point Lookout), rather if I were to make them I'd begin with a female model with minimal clothing. I'd plop on a hood and loincloth, then load her up with a bunch of beads, bangles, and other tat. Something really barbarian styled, with tattoos and bits of jingly bling to make them look like the polar opposite of the Legion.

[commissarmoody]

Might start with the Wargames factory Amazon's. They have bear legs and you can us there breast plats as a base for some kind of shell or bone armor. Maybe change there heads out with the WGF female survivors.

[Wyrmalla]

Nah, I don't think I need thirty of them. 

Reaper have some nice figures that I may use, should I ever get around to ordering anything from them. That site just has so many models that I find if can't buy one thing without picking up a dozen more...


( I'd stick a Russian style gas mask on this one perhaps)

[commissarmoody]

Nice, what model number are they?

[Wyrmalla]

@ commissarmoody

I just stuck in "Shaman" as my search criteria and they popped up.

77121: Liela, Dark Elf Wizard Though that's the resin one, there's a pewter version too (for about $4 more)


03656: Witch of the Dark Moors

I did place an order with Reaper yesterday for the first model ...amongst some other things. Damn those shipping costs though £18 on a £30 order. Meh, I'll call it a treat. Hopefully by the time it eventually arrives I'd have gotten around to finishing off the rest of the Tribals to an extent.

[Wyrmalla]

I've been a bad person and gone shopping today. Suffice to say some more remnants will be appearing in future, but not all necessarily Chinese, though more on theat when I get around to un-boxing them. The Chinese soldiers are taking a back seat until my FLGS manage to get a box of Wargames Factor Russians in. Yesterday's output now...

The Brotherhood of Steel
Brotherhood Elder (Bought along with those other mysteries)


I didn't really like the model, so... crap paint job. Moving on...

Wastelanders
Super Mutant (Mantic Games Ogre)


And a terrain piece. That's a Miniature Mojo wolf if anyone's interested (and not me toting that great wee store or anything...). The car's a die cast that I bought from Poundland. The walls are Tamiya 1/35 scale brick walls.



Ah, and I pose ye a question three. Or just one. How's this look as an American jet? I spent a while in my other FLGS (there's like four) looking for one that resembled those seen in Fallout 3. As far as I can tell this is the closest approximation. Well, its closeish. There was another version (this being the naval one) that was closer, however I wasn't quite wanting to fork out an extra £5 for a terrain piece. I'm intending to use it as a terrain piece, ie a crashed one. Should I feel sufficiently flippant with my cash in future (or come across one on the cheap) I may just buy the regular one, and perhaps a Chinese MIG too to work as similar terrain as well (or maybe a flying one like one of the original Fallout's loading screens).




Next up? Um... Hmn, I have some half painted terrain sitting on my table. ...But that's a tad boring to paint. I have Enclave planned, but I promised those to myself as a Christmas present. Hmn, well I could always paint those twenty dogs I bought today. Oh my life is just a non stop thrill show.  

[Ramshackle_Curtis]

Nice! Can we see a set up with the scenery and figs in please?

[Wyrmalla]

You mean a picture of all my scenery and models together, or just that latest one? Um, if the former ah... I don't think I have the space. I did play a game using my terrain on Tuesday, but only with the painted stuff, and it took up two boards. So I could photograph it, but it'll take some preparation to create some dynamism, etc (and to either clear the dining table or just find a space on the floor).  If people want to see that then I'll chuck in the unpainted stuff too to give a feel for how much I have to hand (and I'm building more every other week, its a filthy, filthy habit). 

[zizi666]

IMO, except for the tail, an F9F Panther is a closer match to the Fallout jets :

[Wyrmalla]

Ah, but tell that to a guy who walked into his FLGS, remembered that they sold 1/48 planes, and picked up what resembled a half remembered set piece from a game he hadn't played in a couple of months. Meh, I suppose what I wound up with still has the right look to suffice. Hmn, I donno, that jet you suggested just doesn't have the right look to me. Maybe the one in game doesn't either, but the nose intake looks better with the older style to me than the more modern one.

*Edit

I've been informed that the jet in Fallout 3's actually based on one of these. Hmn, well knowing's half the battle kids. Eugh, guess that's another thing on the shopping list. ^^'

[emperorpenguin]

Yeah I bought an F9 model as zizi showed earlier this year. Love it, it was such a piece of serendipity to find it. No reason not to use yours wyrmalla, the US would have used a good few designs

[Anpu]

I think they both are great in a fallout setting. For me as long as it has the right feel it does not have to be a copy of something from the game.
Great choices of minis and terrain, absolutely love the chariot conversion.