Fallout: Heading East

[Wyrmalla]

Hmph, I played the PS1 Aladdin game, but that was only because all I cared about was graphics.



Hmn, that was actually a pretty good game come to think of it. That or I just took what I could get back then and didn't know about the wonderful world of PC RPGs (I played Morrowind for a year straight when I first bought it, then when I came back to it I discovered what these weird things called mods were...).

[Messyart]

Oh wow.. The graphics were actually better on Aladdins gentle features with the old sega!

[Wyrmalla]

Well they weren't as bad as Tomb Raider 2. "Why do I keep dying? I jump off this tall grey thing into the green thing! That's water right?!". No, that'd be Lara leaping to her death repeatedly into a patch of lichen. The water was the blue dot next to the green dot in the sea of brown. Huh, now that's something that never made it into the movie (oddly the pixelated 300% blown up boobs did however. Funny that). 

[Messyart]

Best memory of Tomb Raider as a young boy...
My dad, playing with a much older friend of mine (he was about 10 I think) and my dad laughing as he side-stepped Lara across a wall.

"Haha, Tomb Raider with pyramid boobs!" He said with his mightiest laugh.
I didn't get it.

[Wyrmalla]

@ Messyart

Bewbs are awesome.

Right, today's efforts. These came out a little darker than I wanted, but they aren't entirely terrible right? An old paint brush thick with hardened paint worked well as some patches of long grass I think. I should head out to the park and find some sticks and pebbles to tart my bases up sometime though, as they can be a bit samey.





Onto the next batch, two Raiders and the guy in Metal Armour. Luckily with those ones I won't be painting much black (well bar with the Metal guy). Nah, back to good old browns, reds and oranges ~ my favourite painting colours.

[Wyrmalla]

What I managed to finish off today.

A Nightkin Master armed with a makeshift flail made from a car engine block (why ever there's still petrol fuel engines about in a world that moved over to electrical ones I don't know...).



The base model is a Nor'okk, Ettin by Reaper. I just did some repositioning with the arms and removed a head, then greenstuffed on a poncho thing. I had planned to stick a little stealthboy somewhere about it, but the thing would be so small and fiddly that I don't think it would've added much to the model.

A Raider Champion, or other similar elite type.



This, like the other humans I've been chucking out this past week or so is based on a Wargames Factory GI model. I greenstuffed on some armour (like the T-45d chest piece) and added a shotgun  (from Statuesque Miniatures) and face mask (from Dust Tactics). I suppose should I make some more Raiders he'll break up all the models that're wearing bondage wear and not much else.

And last a guy in some Lightweight Metal Armour (from the Fallout: New Vegas pre-order DLC if you didn't know it was in game btw).



As per the WIP I posted earlier, this is another greenstuffed feller. I need to get better at sculpting as I kind of prefer having models that I've worked on myself as opposed to ones which are straight out of the blister pack (and well that way I can also makes things closer to stuff from the games too). The helmet's by Crooked Dice btw.

I have three models in combat armour, a Raider with a chainsaw and a Super Mutant left to paint. Hmn, when that Super Mutant's done I may post up a line up of the other ones that I have just to show off how big Reaper's models are in comparison to the Mantic models that I own (I don't have the Vinni one btw. I can't stand having the exact same models as everyone else. Weird that). There's still a half painted shack that needs finished too, but its easier for me to paint figures, so that's been set aside for a few weeks (and that's probably why I have tons of models, but barely any of my terrain painted. ...Well when I say barely any I mean that I have enough to cover a table right now, but there's still boxes of unpainted stuff that needs some loving).

Anyway, there's your lot for this evening. I'm still considering making some more models based on the armour sets from the latest games, so... if anyone happens to have any requests, I'm open. I just want to improve myself enough that its not the models that are crap, its just my painting.

[Wyrmalla]

I've had a go at a few Raiders based on those from Fallout 3 (just the basic armour sets, not the Pitt ones).These still need tidying mind, and yeah, I'm not the most fantastic sculptor. =P

Right, WIPs. First, Raider Blastmaster armour, both female (a Molotov Cocktail and a Service Rifle) and male (with a Combat Knife and Tommy Gun).


And Raider Badlands (Colt M1911) and Painspike (Crowbar) armours. Man those little spikes were a right bugger to work with, which is why I just went for plain old bolts after a while.


The female models are WGF Zombie Vixens, and the male one is made from mostly GI parts (the torso's off of a Perry kit though). Heads are Maxi Mini/ Brother Vinni (youknow it'd be nice if there was a set of punk heads out there in a similar pack). Huh, I should make a ghoul with one of those female zombies (uh, a shapely ghoul, the zombies in that kit aren't very emaciated. Great for corpses though).

[Constable Bertrand]

Oh I do like bucket head, or does he prefer to be called Mr Bu-kay? it's not a tamiya 1:48 bucket?

Those raiders look great. Have you considered do I g a highlight layer after the wash? I think it would help them stand out a bit and bring out the details.

Cheers
Matt

[Wyrmalla]

I picked up three boxes of those tamiya 1/48th vehicle stowage kits, and well just looking at that little bucket on the sprue as it sat there tingling at me told me I had that I had to use it for something. I'd like to think that the guy shoved it on one day thinking it was a good idea, then found out that the thing was stuck after a few too many hits on the noggin. ^^'

High... light? What's that? Hmph, sorry, but I suck at painting. I ah, probably should though, as well those models do look a bit dark. I suppose I should hunt down a tutorial on how to apply one of those, would did you call them, highlights? o.0

Ah, and dammit. I had a game lined up for next week, but my opponent cancelled on me. Eugh, its such a bother to find people to play it here for some reason, so that's kind of a buzzkill. That said on the same night at my club the guy who brings along a transit van full of stuff to sell's bringing more... stuff to sell. Yeah, buying things fixes everything.

And MajorTalon that's the guy who had the Knight model armed with an SVD, so if you're reading this somehow, I'll prod him about that mini (though he does have a couple of thousand models, so asking about a particular one may fail to jog his memory).

[Wyrmalla]

Huh, now whatever could these be? As ever, still a massive WIP (they're missing bodies-well mostly- rope, and maybe some loose cable)



Don't ask me why I put them together, whims I guess. I suppose these can go along with some Legion tents I have whenever I can bother putting those together, though for full effect I aught to make another five of these (as well, having a whole road section surrounded by these would look cool, as do they take zero effort to make). Anyway, they beat buying a kit (not to fault zizi666 and his excellent telephone poles mind you).

[zizi666]

Nice.
I wouldn't put them in a Legion camp though. Seems difficult to get some sleep with those victims constantly wailing and crying 

[Raxxus]

Could you post a size comparrison to a hasslefree fig and one of those gasmask heads?

[DELTADOG]

Man since I read your thread im wondering one fact: Why the hell does the man invest so much effort in cool conversions and Scatchy`s then he paint it up and THEN yes THEN he drown all the hard work in this awkfull, shiny, detailseating, brownish sewer-ink?

So plz tell me why are you doing this?

[max]

Like your latest raiders, some really cool conversion work on the armour!

[Wyrmalla]

@ zizi666

Well that reminds me of one Roman officer who enjoyed the groans of his soldiers so much that he broke the stick that he was issued to beat them with through hitting them too much (and these were sticks that were made to be damn tough). Naturally he was murdered horribly one day by his own men. But anyway, I mean more just generic "Legion Terrain" when I say encampment, youknow just tat up boards that have a bit of Legion influence on them (I suppose the same will go for NCR, BoS, Raider and Tribal terrain sets too at some point, as right now my stuff's all over the place).

@ Raxxus

Here you are. Hasslefree make larger models than most, so they fit the heroic scale Maxi Mini heads all right I suppose. Maxi mini's are made to go along with Games Workshop's "we don't know how to scale" miniatures though, so they can be a bit big.

*Knight, Hf White Ops Solider, WGF Gi, Hf Bubba/Elvis Impersonator



@ DELTADOG

Hmn, because I don't know any better? I usually paint the primary colours onto a model, giver those each a bit of ink in their respective colours, then go over those with a lighter shade of those colours. After that I go around the edges with some black and apply a few light specks to the odd bit. I've never been an amazing painter, so that's as best as I can throw out without learning a better way unfortunately. Though particularly I my pallet's made up mostly of browns, creams and oranges, and I find that I don't deal with the darker shades of those too well (ie that Raider in Leather Armour). I guess I'm still developing a style, and at least my better paint jobs are miles ahead of what I was churning out a few years ago (before I discovered the wonderful world of ink washes).

I'm putting together another five telephone poles to go along with the initial batch. At the moment I'm still pondering whether to use string about the base or just plunk on some greenstuff. Meh, I'll see. I may just buy some of those telephone poles zizi666 used for some unbroken ones, as though these look decent enough, if I double or tripled their length I'm sure that's just asking for breakages (the foot holds in particular aren't held on too firmly).