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Ah, got to love how they get rid of bad memories.

Squats? Yeah the Tyranids ate them.

But they have resurrected in the Mantic-Verse as Forge Fathers

Lazily recycled from their fantasy range may be a better description.

Also, that Humvee, for a moment there I thought it was an expensive Tamiya kit!

That Tamiya Humvee with the box on the back? Yeah I kept seeing that in one of the model shops here, but balked at the £20 price (the same went for a 1/56 scale US staff car that was the same price). Aye, the Humvees that I have are just diecast Victoria ones that usually go for like £5 on Ebay. You can't do so much with them, but I don't have to as most Humvees use the same chassis and bodywork, but just change the roof and doors (which are plastic on the Victoria diecast).

Making this Humvee's made me discover how simple it is to build a new cab for one of them. I originally bought the three humvees to use for whatever, but one of them was for my S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stuff. Perhaps after I've finished with this one (which is being painted right now, but I've been out all day) I'll make that Ukrainian variant that I was peening for a while ago. For all that these things are made of paper, they are quite smexy beasts. Hmn, Landrovers still win every time for me. Blame that on me being a smarmy Brit (or rather Violent Glaswegian actually).

Aye, and talking about Ukraine, Mad Max Humvees are a real thing...



Not least when looking at early Iraq war ones. Blame that on some idiot throwing out rear echelon vehicles into a combat role without upping the armour. Reasons why Humvees are being phased out finally...



Improvised armour is such a cool thing to look into.


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Heh, and damn how could I forget about this thing...



From the minds that brought you BMP turrets held up by wooden frames on the back of technicals...

Yeah weird stuff!

Well for this week's game at my club I ran another game of Fallout (no crap, that is the name of this thread). Not many pictures as its a tad awkward doing that during a game.

Scenario: A group of Mercenaries are contracted to blow their way into a Vault. They must plant the explosives on the central ring of the Vault elevator and have it explode. Additionally they recquire that at least half their number survives in order to hold the position so that nobody makes it into the Vault and tampers with it before them. However the Vault's located on the territory of the local Raider gang. Its their objective to kill at least half the Mercenaries number and have at least half of their own survives so they can oust the intruders. Whether the Vault is blown up or not doesn't matter to the Raiders (though it might if weird crap starts pouring out of it...).






The Mercenaries were made up of six models. One leader armed with an AK. Two veteran mercs with SMGs, and three regular mercs with Semi-Auto Rifles. All of them were wearing body armour and one of the veterans was carrying the explosives to blow into the Vault.



Meanwhile the Raiders had nine models. Their leader was kitted out in a suit of Power Armour and carried a flamethrower. One Raider had body armour and an Auto-Axe. Another had an SMG. The remaining six were a mixture of baseball bats and pistols, and compared to the other Raiders only had one hitpoint each.



The Mercenaries deployed along the board edge to the right of the Vault (referencing the first image). The Raiders were on the left, but could place a third of their men inside the Diner. I was playing the Raiders and my opponent was the Mercenaries (but obviously he knew how bent guns were and I'd give one side a crap ton of them).

I won the first ton so moved first. Being fairly close to the enemy and armed with close combat weapons the Raiders inside the Diner spread out. One armed with a shotgun, and as the first action of the game, somehow nailed one of the mercenaries who was covering behind a car. The mercenaries returned fire and killed the guy with the shotgun and another Raider, as the rest of their number moved into cover around the Vault. The next turn the mercenaries strengthened their position and laid down some fire on the advancing Raiders, wounding one, but not downing him.

Following that the Raiders gained the initiative and the Mercenaries Diner flank started to crumble as their men were assaulted in close combat. The Power Armoured Raider approached moving between the cover along the mesh fence. This was noticed however, and though missing him, the baseball bat wielding Raider beside him went down. After this things didn't look good for the Mercenaries. They lost a guy to the Auto-Axe Raider on the Diner side and moved in another to cover. The flamethrower wielding Raider had moved close enough to fire his weapon and easily burned one of the Mercenaries to a crisp.

By the Vault the Mercenaries had decided that their position was untenable and so the guy holding the explosives ran to set them up (using a special ability to move further than he was supposed to that turn). With no hope of disarming the explosives, or rather not caring about them, one Raider jumped the barricade he was behind to shoot the Mercenary in the back as he retreated. As he moved forward the explosives went off and he was turned into paste.

Despite blowing open the Vault things just weren't going their way. Another Mercenary went down in the melee on the Diner side. As the explosives Mercenary retreated more Raiders moved up on his position. Their leader laid down some more fire and wounder the enemy leader, but he quickly hurtled towards her. Power Armour enhanced strength doesn't suit well with a regular human in Combat Armour and he yanked her up by the head and well ...crunch. At that point both sides had lost more than half their starting numbers and the game had run on for about five or six turns. The Vault had been opened, but neither side could hold the position. As a result it was declared a minor victory for the Mercenaries, but with nobody around to secure the Vault anybody could come along in the meantime before another group of Mercenaries could be funded.

Meh, a silly little scenario that was an excuse to use the newer terrain that I'd made. What did I take away from it? That I should make some hills and dirt track roads so that I can run a proper wasteland game instead of having them always tied to civilization. That's fine as I already have a hill with a bunker inside of it, though I'm not quite as enthusiastic about making generic terrain like that as I am regular miniatures as they have less character. That I need to put more effort in to learn the This is Not a Test ruleset was something on my mind as well, though I'm begrudged to read the thing off a tablet during games rather than a hard copy.

Anyhow, what am I up to? The Brotherhood Humvee's being painted at the moment. There's rubble piles in my to do pile, though yet again the Enclave are being put on a back burner as I reprioritise (they'll be painted one day...). In the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. world I've put more work into the wooden house I was making, though as usual I've ran out of balsa to make that (eugh, silly me forgot that I was making the whole thing out of one size of wood, but I'd been buying the same amount of all the sizes I used instead of just that).

That model translated pretty well from the sketch, I like it!

That terrain is stunning, would love to play on a table like that.

Okay I was just playing the Reilly's Rangers tonight, and she had a nerc band around 6 strong at one point according to her notes, but had suffered losses and replacements

Sifting through my "to do" pile I pulled out some crap that I was working on last year. This started out planned to be a maintence building for the radio tower I came out with back then. Now its destined to be the basement of a building that's mounted on top of a concrete platform.



What's left to work on is all the wonderful gap filling. I still haven't entirely planned out what the rest of the building will look like so'll have to pull out the good old measuring tape. The plan's to have the building that sits on top of this maybe filled with computers and tape machines, with the basement having generators in it. I'll see what happens. =P

And here's some progress on that building.



Perhaps its a bit clearer where I'm going with this now. The basement sits there in the middle of that concrete platform and will then be covered up by a building sitting on top of it. The platform itself is just a vague frame right now obviously and needs more work done to it. Meh, early days.

Looks like it will start big, then have the ability to have floors removed as the teams make their way through to sift the post apoc "goodies"

Does anyone sale Marx cars of the future?
I'm having a hard time finding these....

By the way, you guys are really talented!

Marx wrote:
Does anyone sale Marx cars of the future?
I'm having a hard time finding these....

By the way, you guys are really talented!

Short answer: No. Long answer: Not unless you happen to know someone who already has some of their own and is willing to part with them. There's threads over on Lead Adventure all the time asking about where to find some, and that's about the sum of it. I have some myself, though I'm hesitant to paint them as I know how difficult it is to get a hold of them. =/

Thanks a lot, I'll check it out.

Have a nice day.

I've been painting the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. cabin for a game on Tuesday today, but I came across something accidently that looks like a cool thing to bring to the Fallout universe: the 1960's idea of what a "Future Soldier" would look like.



"The future soldier should be able to operate independently for days on end, but with all the top of the line useless doohickery don't expect for any of that to have the electricity or fuel to run after even a couple of minutes".



Least they got the M14 and AR right. Well maybe not the wood stock. Hell if this is what they thought 1965 soldiers would look like I think the minds of that time seriously thought we would be using laser guns and jumping about in power armour now... Its not coincidence that Starship troopers was written in the same year this came out. =P



I can go through the above description paragraph by paragraph, but I think jet pack belt is enough of a summary.

More here: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/behold-the-soldier-of-the-future-of-the-1950s.223574/

And isn't it just glorious? I was already planning out what parts to use to make one as soon as I seen him. Youknow seeing this actually makes me want to see that as the pre-war military uniform, I may just request that a modder more capable than I make that...

So aye, maybe expect a WIP to crop up eventually, even if I already have a million other things being worked on. I just thought this'd be interesting to see given the setting.

I don't go out without my welded nylon underwear.

And must remember to hold a piece of plastic up to my face when a nuclear bomb is about to go off, plastic is amazing stuff.

I wonder why the explosive fox-hole digger didn't catch on? Probably something to do with not being noticed by the enemy.

It's easy to take the proverbial out of the past, but they did get close to some things there; Image intensified goggles, layered armour (Nylon is similar to Kevlar).

Just not with the rocket pants.

Oh those are infra-red goggles sure, but this is from a time when infra-red scopes on rifles looked like this.



* not shown, massive backpack sized battery pack that you had to change out after every shift of sentry duty.

So sure they'd be wearing those goggles, but they'd need someone to be following them around with a big light box so they'd actually work...

I can just picture soldiers breaking their bones as they haphazardly leap about in the air with those waste mounted thrusters. That and just set their trousers on fire...

But yes, you can see where some ideas went, though for the most part that's some big wigs throwing out silliness without caring about their practicality or the technology of the time. In other words perfect for Fallout, heh, especially considering that the average soldier of the time was wearing WWII era gear, just with some added lasers.

Well, the soldiers back then, 1965, did get the Flak-Vest (I got to have one in service, a heavy shrapnel stopping vest with a high collar to deal with exploded ordnance pieces slapping you when grenades or such went off in combat. The Steel pot also was in service until 1985 when the kevlar helmet took over. The rifles from 1965 till now became the M-16 (not the greatest rifle, but it was a new concept back then.

And the problem with Nylon and plastic, they found that will melt if the soldier is caught on fire by something nasty like flamers or napalm

You could say that someone from now went back to the 1950s and described a modern soldier. The big wigs back then took that idea and interpreted how they could, whilst sticking in their own "improvements". We could probably go further back and see what they fought soldiers would look like ten years in the future back in 1920, etc. For the 50s at least that concept's particularly interesting as the whole Fallout franchise is based around the 50s idea of what the future would look like (and this being taken from the actual military rather than some sci-fi comic brings it a bit more down to earth).

A shame then that nothing exactly like that guy's cropped up in the game so far. I guess though that flak jackets don't quite have the retro appeal in the media as WWII GIs, even though aye, what they were wearing back in the Korean War, hell the Gulf War, looks ancient compared to the plate vests of today.

Well, also, they did get more interesting with the regular G.I.s wearing the combat armor, which Riley's Rangers, Talon Company like to wear in FO-3, FO/NV has the beefed up combat armors, and they look retro-modern, or heck even tabletop game good. It seems specialize units trained for and got the power armor. The bulkier advanced combat armor looks as bulky as the old flak vest I got to wear. In fact the helmet seems to have the visor (they also tried a H.U.D but the computer system is too expensive for our large scale forces, so just special ones get the advanced toys IRL, but also the device on the side, looks like they tried laser designators for the helmet as well as a plas-ceramic plate





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I do however like the advanced riot armor found in Lonesome road that when you go sneak mode, you get infra-red imagery to see w/o need of a light.


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Power Armour was becoming standardised by the time of the war, with the front line units in China wearing it (the background makes a thing about the US steamrolling the Chinese as soon as this happened, but it could just be propaganda). Obviously the National Guard and other active personnel would still be wearing the older gear though (even if Power Armour had already advanced enough and had enough made to relegate the T-45d suits to rear echelon use).

I'd think that the variants of Combat Armour were either a stop gap between the regular suits and Power Armour, or had been exclusively developed for special forces like you said. In comparison to the regular sets they're much bulkier, so I guess they wouldn't have lasted long as at least Power Armour had the weight compensation to justify that. They look like they're trying to fit in all the features of Power Armour that they can onto a non-exoskeleton platform. Not perfect, but ticking enough boxes to issue the armour as ready for the current iteration of warfare, just. Given that the Chinese had Power Armour hunter units I don't think that any set of Combat Armour would have been able to withstand the firepower they would be going up against (luckily then the Chinese still had hard round service rifles in use as opposed to the laser rifles the Americans were then using). Like trying to stop a .308+ with a vest rated for 556 rounds. Better than the .45 rated one you were wearing before, but it still can't stop a .50 cal. =P

Though aye, like I said the Fallout 3 Combat Armour was designed intentionally to look like a GI's uniform. Maybe not the torso parts, but the clothes beneath are a straight rip. The original designs were a bit more sci-fi styled, but I guess they went for a more utilitarian look instead.


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Aye with the Advanced Ranger Combat armour, other than being an excuse to reuse that armour set, that's another example of the variance in what was used. Evidently the riots got so bad before the war that they had to start kitting out dedicated military units to quash them with their own suped up versions of the standard police riot gear. Its glazed over in Fallout 3, but Van Buren and New Vegas do point out that Marshal Law was declared just before the war and the food/ vaccine riots were really getting out of hand on the West Coast.

I see the power armor and combat armor and other variants as competing contractors trying to get a piece of the Uncle-Sam war pie.

Riots would make for the need for better tactical armor by the Police as the America of FO is one of a repressionist police state


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Poor hippies, they I think got turned into robo-brains by the gov't based on things found in notes on Lonesome road.

That's a thing that I like to promote in games and well miniatures too. There shouldn't be only one version of a set of armour, gun or vehicle. Where's the prototypes. the legacy versions? Where's what the competition came out with? My tank here had the same overall profile as a Leman Russ and the guns look functionally the same, but it isn't a Leman Russ model. No this is what this Forgeworld in this sector came out with, as youknow it is a rather large galaxy and they have had 10,000 years plus to design something else. =P

Just before the War happened marshal law was declared in the US for a couple of reasons. Lack of resources, representational activities, and uh, like half the country dying to an American made virus which would then go onto become F.E.V. (though that came after people were already rioting, its effects were worse because everyone was bunched up together in those). Hmn, I suppose that's why the riot armour needs an advanced gas mask too then...

Aye the Robobrains are made from prisoners. Just what their crimes were I assume varied... Given the pacifist nature of the ones in New Vegas having that relate to the hippies in Lonesome Road is a good tie in (which I completely overlooked).

I've been wanting to use that title for a year now. Originally it was penned in for an update which would have shown off a ton of different Enclave stuff which ...is currently sitting unpainted in a box, but well seeing as I don't really go for the same scale of groups as I used to here's the same update for my current work ethos.

I don't have particularly much Enclave stuff painted right now, at least not in a state which I'm happy about. So for the latest iteration of the faction I think I'll need the backbone. Here's a Enclave Trooper in Advanced Power Armour Mk1.



He's made form a Dust Tactics American in Power Armour (I don't know what they're called, but the same models are used for a few units). I reposed him slightly, gave him a new weapon and swapped out his head for a Brother Vinni one. Other than that its the paintjob and the preexisting resemblance to the in-game armour which sells it. People who have the memory for it may remember seeing this model a year ago unpainted... Yeah, I do get around to finishing stuff off eventually.

I've also repainted the surviving Eyebot as well (the other one wandered off mysteriously the first time I ever used it in a game...).



Nothing major. It was more about bringing the model more in line with how the rest of my current stuff is painted as well as modifying the Brother Vinni miniature so it looks more like the actual robot (his is missing the aerials and laser blaster).

Anyhow, here's an update to this thread inspite of this week's focus on the Stalker stuff. Frankly I just peg onto whatever I feel like at the time, but I have a game of Stalker this Tuesday so I've been focusing more on that lately. Ah right, and I have that 1950s future soldier being painted right now, but I forgot he existed as I painted this Enclave stuff. Maybe tomorrow then I suppose.

As Dust is back in a "local" supplier, I may have to order the vinni heads alone and get the dust P.A. troops and head swap, my enclave is just 4 men strong. B.O.S. is 5 men. some dust squads with the right look could also be fit to other factions.

Oddly enough, the US Power Armor for Dust does fit nicely with the Enclave designs, and the Axis P.A. looks more close to T-51 P.A. I see why you put the B.o.S> head on the Axis Missile launcher body.

Trooper is sinister-looking, but maybe needs a little more contrast to make the details pop.

So, some power armored commandos arrived,,,,I had not seen their arms were bare, I must use gray stuff and make them powered arms, I am now challenged to try sculpting what was not there.......Yikes!

Yes!!! Enclave! For old glory, indeed.

Love the Eyebot. I'll be following this more now since I just fell in love with Fallout recently.

Just not sure if I can chop and swap the weapons on the right arms of the Axis/B.o.S/ suits w/o mangling them.