Fallout: Heading East

[Sinewgrab]

They are not too big - the one sideways in this picture is actually 2 of them glued together - if you look for it, you can see the seam.

[War In 15MM]

I don't know how I missed this for so long, but I'm really glad I got to see it.  Outstanding!

[Messyart]

  I'll get casting, then.

[Wyrmalla]

@ Sinewgrab

Hmn, I like the bare metal scheme you used on those. I was kind of thinking of going for a dark brown/red rust with mine, but I'm not so sure. I'm sort of in the process of just having terrain that's all orange right now given how much I just love rust. ^^

If I have those huts on order and that tower in the works I thought I may as well have some other suitably military terrain to go along with those as well. =P

Your average Willys jeep. I think a Bolt Action Long Range Desert Group one. I have another one spare if I ever want to use all the stowage that came with it (literally enough to cover every surface in kit bags). An M151 or M422 might be a more appropriate vehicle, but yeah, these were much easier to get a hold of.



As ever, what is with miniatures manufactures and their hard on for German kit? Eugh. A German bike, Warlord again I think, just as another bit of clutter. I have like another four of these (though two of them are more “heroic” in proportions).





I have what looks like an old Armourcast show model and this little thing came with it (the company's name along with the word “Terraform” and a phone number are stencilled on the faces). I scratched off the lettering and bunged on a plate with a circa WWII US Star. Originally I had thought out having the name of a camp on it, but that would sort of limit the background about the location ( I guess I could have gone for “US Military Base or something similarly generic). The star's recognizable enough though I think.



Urban War maybe? Sci-fi Romans anyway. Just a big gun. =P



Plus a few unexploded shells. Not that they're the same calibre as the gun is, but I donno, maybe someone was chucking these things at someone at some point. ...Sure. Ah, does brass rust?



The tower's being painted right now along with the cacti patches (though trust this to be the moment I run out of green paint). The tower at least will probably be done for Tuesday, but I'm not promising anything. Right, now three days left to finish this coursework instead of playing with my toys.

[kidterminal]

These look great with your rust color scheme I especially like the star sign. I think brass discolors like copper does not rusts.

[zizi666]

Cool stuff, again.
Really like the unexploded shells. real life bullet casings ?

[Wyrmalla]

That's what most people use, but no I think they're just cylinders with a cap at the end. I don't think they make cartridges that size on the smallest one that are too popular (even a .22's larger), that and the ends are flat, so I don't think they'd strike too well. Hmn, that has me wondering what I did with all the 5.56 rounds I used to pick up as a kid about the military training ranges (yup, go hillwalking in Scotland about a military base and its surprisingly easy to walk into a live fire range when there's no soldiers about. No signs and just a fence which looks like any other farmer's one). Though yeah, other than through that means I don't think bullets are too easy to come a hold of about here (bar the occasional case found in the street... Woo, Glasgow).

Just preempting the huts not showing up in time, I've started on a few Renedra tents. They're just going to be green with possibly some lettering on the side, so shouldn't take too much effort. I kind of forgot I had all these things. They were bought to be used as a Legion encampment or a regular wastelander one (though I have some Miniature Mojo ones still if I ever want to do that), but will do as military tents too (and its not as if survivors wouldn't scavenge old military gear and use it themselves. What else would the aid stations be outfitted with). Hopefully they'll be simple enough not to side track me from finishing off the cacti and watch tower, and I don't expect them to be (he says of course being short on time as it is).

[Sinewgrab]

@ Sinewgrab

Hmn, I like the bare metal scheme you used on those. I was kind of thinking of going for a dark brown/red rust with mine, but I'm not so sure. I'm sort of in the process of just having terrain that's all orange right now given how much I just love rust. ^^

If I have those huts on order and that tower in the works I thought I may as well have some other suitably military terrain to go along with those as well. =P

Since most of those were unpainted galvanized steel when they were being built, that's why I went for it.  For one, the galvanizing prevents rust, so you would only have rust appearing in areas of high wear - like the windows or doors (or so it was explained to me some years ago on a tour of an old WW2 era camp here on the west coast).  And no, brass does not rust, but so what?

I used a dark metal, drybrushed with a bright metallic silver, and washed it with a thinned out burnt sienna ink, and added splotches of black ink here and there to break it up.  Then, before the ink dried completely, I added weathering pigments here and there.

Love what you are doing here.

[Wyrmalla]

@ Sinewgrab

Bah! Eugh, just bloody go on and make your huts out of a resistant material. Hmph, can't a guy just paint everything brown? Hang on, Google-Fu to the rescue.



Ok, not quite as brown as I was looking for, but it'll do. Ooh, and its made me want to add mesh to the windows too.

Since yesterday what's happened? Well no epiphanies, but at least the huts turned up this morning. I was expecting them so soon, and I have other things to work on first, though its nice to know they're actually here before the game. My priority right now is for the watchtower to be finished, but alas I've ran out of paint (which is fun considering I walked right past the bloody shop that sells the stuff a few days ago). I won't be able to buy any more till Monday, so till then maybe I'll see what I can do without it, maybe not.

Ah, but I'm blethering a bit. I did manage the cactus patches last night. Ok they're not entirely finished, I'm kind of wanting to add flowers to the Prickly Pears, though not sure how I'd go about that (maybe adding bits of clay and painting those, or perhaps felt), just so everything isn't quite so green.





Yeah, I know that those species shouldn't be growing together. Blame a lack of variety in what companies make. I have a whole separate thread in the Workbench board just for sourcing desert plants, and those are the best that cropped up. I still want some Joshua Trees.

Crap, and its worth mentioning that the majority of these were made by Pegasus Hobbies. The cliche western cartoon ones are from the game Dead Man's Hand (which I find to be of a lower quality than the former, but they're certainly more robust). The Pegasus ones are based on the same models, just scaled up and down for the various sizes. So whilst the larger ones are strong, the smaller ones (not the smallest, the tiny cacti are a separate design) can be a bit spindly. Not a massive problem, but I foresee some breakages eventually.

And yes, those are impassible terrain. Well not strictly impassible, rather models can move through them as difficult terrain, but must make an agility test at a negative based on their movement (or something) otherwise they take a hit from all those spikes. ...Mostly because the things are so tangled together that I'd hate for a model to actually stop inside one as that's just asking for something to break. =P

Well anyhow, that's where I am at the moment. The watchtower is at the top of my list of things to finish, with some Army tents following that, and then the huts. I haven't forgotten about the Mars Attacks! ruin, but its far along enough that I could slap the last bit of paint on it closer to Saturday. Conversely despite the amount of stuff I have to work my way through this week, I also have a load of uni coursework to do as well, so it'll be a bit of a juggle between the two unfortunately. I expect to have the above done by Saturday, but anything else I'm uncertain about (I'm talking about extra robots for the military base scenario). We'll see. Anyway, toodles. =)

[Sinewgrab]

I did the flowers on my barrel cactus with a spot of the shredded foam flock for 'autumn colors'.  That may work for you as well.

And that is one really old quonset.  I love your cactus spots though.

[Wyrmalla]

Actually youknow what, my perception of Quonset huts as being rusted brown things is incorrect (well I wasn't saying it was in the first place). Looking at the Wikipedia article I've discovered that the ones used in America are a different kind from those in the UK. Nissen Huts are older structures which the American Quonsets were based on, and in particular don't use galvanized steel. So those corrugated huts I see about where I live which are rusted to hell are like that because they're made from a different material from the later US ones (though presumably Britain was supplied with a quantity of Quonsets during the war as well). Huh, so now I'm wondering if the people who I play with will know the difference between the two, and if their perception of what a corrugated hut should look like would be skewed by those seen locally. That or they've seen enough war movies that the shiny steel ones are what they're used to. Hmn, I'm pondering how long it would take for the zinc coating to wear away now. Ask says decades, but just how long would it take for the metal to reach the stage of the uncoated Nissen hut below? That's perhaps a redundant question given that the ones seen in the game, despite being fairly tarnished, don't display much rust at all. I guess I'll get away with whatever I feel like. =P

[kidterminal]

Go with what you feel is best if you like your rust brown palette stick to it.

[Wyrmalla]

Probably should be a comma in there, at least so people don't jump on here expecting to see me posting images about militarized pubic lice...

...Moving swiftly on.

I have photos of Saturday's game about, though they're not amazing as the lighting was horrible. That and well, after about turn eight we kind of threw the scenario about the window and just spent the remaining hours seeing who could out do one another with inaneness (there was a Paladin drunkenly blaring Elvis out of the windows of his car as he barrelled into Raiders...). I'll see, but I'd rather post this crap right now.

Well first off here's last week's produce. Who would like to chime in with the number of times I've dropped this thing and broken it? Seven, just during the painting. Yeah...




I never did manage to run any scenario other than the BoS assaulting the Raider camp one, so the military base has gone on back burner. Oh well, time enough to make more crap for that then. I didn't manage to finish more than one of the huts anyway.




I added on the window shutters and chimneys, plus some mesh over the windows. Yeah, I did wind up going for the brown colouring in the end. Surprisingly though most people did call it Nissans, one guy did name it properly. Meh, I'll have this on a table eventually for one reason or another.

Oh right and the tower's mostly balsa wood and plasticard. The hut's are from the Dust Tactic's Airfield accessories kit. Scroll back a couple of posts and I went into more detail. No need in repeating myself (or rather I'm just to lazy at the moment).



Could be more interesting, but here these are too. Renendra generic tents which I just painted up green really. Lotta booze about those given that they were supposed to be housing army boys... =P

Right, and to end the line up, something gribbly. Yeah, this is all I've managed recently, but I endeavoured to have had at least two of these painted yesterday ...if only as a respite after four hours of email writing.

So, a pair of Messyart's Lurker's/Crab Mutants/Entrepreneurial Super Crustaceans. As ever I was thrown by the quality when I first caught an eye of them in person. That's not a slight against the guy, rather that he continues to impress.




* 30mm bases btw. Not the 25mm Messyart used on his originals. That's just personal preference, but I do like having my minis with a bit extra space to stand on, especially if they're a wee bit larger than human size.

And a comparison with the Crooked Dice Envoy model which I've dubbed the Rock Lurk, and Hasslefree's Bubba. Hmn, need to repaint my older stuff at some point, or youknow just be less shit at painting in general. Youknow, usual issues.



Perhaps a little bluer than is expected, but I wanted to go with something a bit more interesting than what people were used to. All the images of Mirelurks I could find were a bit lo-res and has them look rather grey/pink. Not that I would, but that underside meat colour looks pretty edible to me.

There those are, I think that's everything. I'll see what I can stir up over the course of this week or next, but I'm kind of short on time for the moment, so any progress that happens is down to momentary whims. Bleh, anyway enough whining. That'll do for now.

[Messyart]

You made them beautiful   

[Constable Bertrand]

Mm, mutated blue swimmer crabs.
Tasty!    

Nice paint work on them Wymalla, they look tasty. I approve of the colour, and am secretly glad they are not rust brown too. I like the sludge water on the bottom of the base too. They are perfect!

The flimsy balsa card watchtower is really well done. It looks great.

Inspirational post mate.

Cheers
Matt.