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 Wyrmalla wrote:
The tower's a bit big, so I haven't been able to finish the painting of the frame just yet. As the picture of it without paint wasn't amazingly clear though, this should give a better indication of what the model actually looks like.



Messy, messy table right now. Eugh, its always like that when I'm building something. That pile in the back will be spare pieces and the tower's control building...

Anyway, still lots to do with bit, but the paint's still drying so I can't do much other than post a progress update (well I could work on something else, but Forrest Gump is on and that has my attention). .

Back in the 1980's I found my basic training M-16 had issues.
1) piston rings(yes, the bolt for the firing pin had piston rings), if the vent holes in the piston rings lined up the rifle became ineffective, less efficient, I had to fire using the charging handle and collect the tossed fresh blanks in an excercise and reload them into the magazine. My Sgt asked why I was "John Wayning" my rifle.
2) Jamming issues, the magazine would at times depending on the spring double load and one bullet may have it's casing dented, or explode the rifle
3) Not robust, the fibre glass hand grips could not handle impacts from another rifle.
4) if the vented screw at the butt got dirt clogging it, the rifle kicked more .

Not sure how bullpups worked as I never handled any, I did see the older one used by the French when they were co-exercising with the Germans and us as in 1984, we thought the Soviets may still come rolling into Germany.

Good progress on the tower.
What are the triangular bits you've used for the framework?

@ Camkierhi

So's your face!

@ shasolenzabi

Bullpups seem to be the way everyone's going these days. Now I don't know about it personally, but it seems like a case of the engineers saying "they're more efficient", whilst the actual guys firing them find them to be trickier than your standard layout. Though that's just the point made by the odd documentary and people on the internet, my friends who use the SA80 and Tavor say they don't have any issues at all (even the left handed guy with his SA80, the Tavor at least allows for either hand). I just wonder if there's any reason at all for using the older layout, or if people are still producing guns like that because its what soldiers are used to and its better to just iterate on older designs than scrap them for new ones (I mean the US are moving onto the FN SCAR when nearly every other world power's using bullpups). Who knows. Give it 50 years and I guess we'll see what the results are (and everyone'll be wondering why we ever used hand held guns at all, I mean drones are the way to go).

Ah, but on the difference between a US M16 and the SA80. To me the M16's just a piece of mass produced gak, but it serves its purpose. I mean it would've been replaced years ago if Colt didn't keep slashing the price and the US wanted to fork out the cash swapping out the thousands/millions of it and its variants in service right now. The SA80's not much better though. The original gun was just a mess, but the newer L85A2 is decent enough. They still look like bricks though,( and weight the same compared to an M16), have gone thirty years without much modification to bring them in line with modern guns (bar the odd sight replacement and addon, though those haven't been widely distributed), and well, they aren't up to scratch compared to what other European forces are using. Well they're aren't quite as shiny, and perform the same job well enough, but its nice to have something that isn't a total brick. The Tavor however just blows the M16 out of the water, its just a pity that it hasn't been adopted by other countries (bar outside their special forces).

Woo, gun talk!

@ Dr HM

The tower's a kit by Fenris Games (I bought it because they have a discount running right now on everything). Everyone else seems to buy the oil donkey thing, so I went for something different and bought one of their other kits. However looking at the bits right now it would be really easy to make the same thing out of plasticard and tubes, but it didn't cost me much, and I didn't really got to the site for just that, so I can't complain.

I will say in retrospect though that I would've made a tower entirely from scratch however. I mean not just because I could, rather the one by Fenris games is in a style which makes it difficult to use in games. The interior has an access ladder running along its length, however various platforms themselves are difficult, if not impossible to actually position models on once the rest of the kit is put together. So, given that the interior's no use for gameplay, that just leaves the base, which is also quite busy given me bulking it up a little. I would have been better making a tower which is more in line with the Fallout 3 concept art (which has no access ladder, but rather the interior's full of cables and tesla coils) and be done with it, but well, I'm building this kit, so the deed is done. I don't know how much use having two towers on a single board would be, but building another one in future's always an option. Not a likely one though, as I have other crap to work on and if I follow up every other side project I'll never finish anything.

In other news I want to make one of these out of foam.


See, had you thinking I wanted to be practical there. Bet you feel silly.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Ah, well that's going to be much easier. Still, I would say you're probably better off just buying in some other company's sci fi models if you're wanting a better variety than GW can offer. Then again with a sizeable bits pile you can probably achieve similar results. Meh, maybe I'm just biased as the GW models. ^^

Taarnak has a sculpting thread in which he made a set of Combat Armour too btw. He's a much better sculptor, so maybe his greens will give you a better idea on how to go about sculpting up a set of that armour yourself. His is based on a Wargames Factory Survivor rather than the GIs mine are.

Thanks for the mention W. I had been following your progress more on LAF than on here and totally missed this.

I've been working on my Deathclaw sculpt and have gotten an NCR Trooper mostly finished. Not a lot of time to work on stuff lately though since I started my new job in February (amusingly, at a nuclear power plant). NCR guy is based on plastic Void Junker legs and a Space Marine Scout head. I'm adjusting the proportions to better match the head (as I hate GW's proportions as well). I'll try to get some pictures up in the next day or two.

Loving your progress here, and all the fluff discussion.

~Eric

Well Lead Adventure's where I update more often with WIPs because of how it handles posts (I can post more than one update a day I mean, bloody "automatically appended next post"). That and well Messyart and Deltadog are on there, so I can jump on them and prod them with requests for new dollies whenever I see them on (which reminds me to finish painting some of the new stuff Marc sent me. Damn, I think I've kept him waiting for ages, crap). But hey, its nice to see new stuff from you (...even if it isn't posted here), and well especially if its post apocalyptic.

Ah, and on the subject of updates I've done bugger all these past few days with handling my uni application and giving my room a clear out (which has led onto me quitting that half way through after I had a gander at the ebay prices of some stuff I've found doing that). My weekly club's tomorrow night, and though it isn't one of the big trading nights, I am swapping a copy of Dark Future for some terrain. So, I'll see about posting whatever I procure (using fancy words there) and possibly some painted stuff too (if I can be arsed finishing any of the stuff that I've been working on).

The last few days its been damnably hot, so I've either been outside or tidying crap. My painting area's piled under gak which shouldn't be there, so to summarise, nout has been done since the last update. Well, perhaps not quite. =P



I found that in a doll's house shop for £3. I suppose it fits the style (though I did want to add a big vent on the front bonnet, but couldn't my hayfever/laziness meant I couldn't be arsed) and period, and well those old converted ambulances are cool. Ooh, it just struck me I had a Doctor's Bag as one of my scavenger token markers (which I posted way back, its one of Miniature Mojo's bits) that would look appropriate sitting next to this thing in games. ...I mean if we ignore the crudely written words "No Medicine" scrawled across the rear window by its former owners (which I assume the mobs didn't respond to well, as the interior's covered in blood and their a mummified corpse on the front seat).

Besides that I've picked up a load of Plasticville buildings as part of a trade for a copy of Dark Future I said I would. They amount to three caravans and a diner, which are all already built, but won't take much to take apart again. Why would I do that? Well I looked at them and thought they're too big and interesting to have just blocking up space on a table, so I've decided to have a go at making interiors for them. Yup, that doesn't sound like it'll be a bitch of an effort at all... But anyway, that's a job for another day, but I'd like to have them worked on after the radio complex thing.

On that topic the tower's now mostly assembled and painted, its just a task of adding on all the extra bits and bobs onto the frames that're now attached to the main tower. I also have the fuel tank thing mostly painted as well, but its low on my priorities. Now the effort's finishing the building itself, which I haven't worked on since my last update on the subject. I picked up some textured placticard though which will be used on the hatch thing to make it look a bit more interesting (see, my slow pace turned up something positive), so that'll be worked on at some point soonish.

I picked up some foam to use on urban buildings or something. To see what its like to work with though I've made an art-deco statue thing like the ones in Fallout 3. Its built from a core of foam covered in milliput. Its the first time I've really worked with either material or sculpted a face, so be gentle with the critic.



It still needs a proper nose and ears, as is the base not finished yet, but I thought I may as well show the thing off before it sits half painted for a week. If I make another one I'll probably cover it in graffiti, but this one will most likely just be bare stone (with wear of course), and well maybe "Fascist" sprayed across it. I'm out of milliput though, so I'll leave off making any more (of course that's the reason, not that I already have too much to work on already).

If I can be arsed cleaning up my painting table then I'll see about finishing off the tower. I've already been up for about twelve hours though, so in short "screw that noise". I could probably finish the statue though, but as there's not much left to do with it before its painted, there's no point in posting it again until then. Meh, I'll find something to blither about next update (even if it is "I've been too lazy to tidy up all this crap").

I'm keeping weird hours at the moment, hence the odd time I'm posting this thing at. Anyway, I woke up and painted the statue (now with 100% more moustache ...and bird crap).



That was fun to make. Still looks like a cologne bottle to me though.

Ecto-1 looks a bit worse for wear

Statue looks good, although now that you've mentioned it, it will forever be known as 'Fallout-For Men'

Youknow what I wouldn't put it past the pre-war Americans to have had radioactive perfume that glowed.

Another ruffian to go along with the rest of the Raider troupe. Yeah, at this rate I may have a model based on each of the sets from Fallout 3 (hmn, and the Pitt too), which would be really cool. This one's based off of the original concept art for the Raider Iconoclast armour, not the one which made it into the game if you're wondering, as well its so much cooler (buzz saw glaives => autoaxes).



The base model's a wargames factory Russian, with the head coming from a Secrets of the Third Reich Russian (I think) and a buzz saw from a Mega Minis Vengequan (or whatever they're called, post apocalyptic elf things I bought just for the saws). I'll be swapping out the guy in leather armour with a pistol for this guy in the zombie game I'm running on tuesday, as well he looks so much better, and yup, buzz saw glaive > Colt M1911 (actually yeah, as that thing just creams zombies, instead of pissing them off like the pea shooter).

A WIP for a Ghoul mercenary (or something).



He's wearing bits and bobs of combat armour and riot armour. I donno I just had a spare body on my desk and felt I had to do something with it. Same again, a Wargames Factory model (American GI), with a Secrets of the Third Reich German Zombie head and American M1 Garand thing, plus a load of greenstuff. =P

Oh, and I added a load of bird gak to the statue. Its perhaps not a realistic level, but I felt like it needed it anyway. I've been informed that the crap's from seagulls, not pigeons. ... I forgot to finish the nameplate too. The original writing's worn off of course, but someone came along and spray painted over it with the word "Fascist" to be helpful to the post-war population.



Yup, anyway I'm pretty chuffed how this thing turned out. I ...ah, should finish my other stuff now though.

Well here's the Iconoclast Raider. Inadvertently he wound up looking like some sort of medieval militiaman thrown in the Fallout world.



Some ghoul wearing a set of BADTFL issue combat armour (well well parts of one) and carrying some sort of DMR (which totally isn't a Secrets of the Third Reich M1 Garand). So, let's assume he's either an ex-soldier or he just came upon some military grade gear. Whatever, another mercenary type to go along with the other combat armour wearing models which I've made.



That pair'll turn up in my zombie game tomorrow as survivors. For Fallout games though that's left me with about eight raiders now, which perhaps might be enough for most games, but I'll probably make more so I can have a bit of variety. The ghoul's part of the better equipped, or well at least military grade, wastelanders I have. I'll probably need more generic types than Raiders, so I'm always on the lookout for cool armour sets from the Fallout games to copy (I based this one off of a cosplayer, sort of). Its one of my plans to put together a game which involves maybe half a dozen mercenary types scavenging an area as they fight off randomly encountered beasties, as a group of Raiders patrols around the middle of the board where the best loot is kept. I probably have enough models for that already (minding that there's models like Ghoul Clint Eastwood and the guy in looted platemail), but hell its always better making even more dollies. Anyway, I have a game to write up some paperwork for, so that's yer lot. Bugger off now. =)

Good work on the statue. Looks really good.

Nice work on the others too.

Project log summary: can't be fethed fiddling about with the radio building too much at the moment so its been shelved (never to be seen again). Onto the next thing that I'll slowly lose interest with.

I've not been in the mood to put the effort in with the radio building these past few weeks having been stuffed up with hayfever and the weather being terrible (or as those who can deal with the sun would say, "fething amazing"). Instead I'm moving onto the next thing I thought I'd do, and well hopefully I'll finish this lot off ...hopefully.

This is a WIP shot then of the layout for a diner which I picked up a bit ago. Its based on the Plasticville kit (which'll be obvious by the big words "Plasticville Diner" on the front unless I can find something to chisel them off with. This plastic is hard as hell. I'll change it into something more appropriate like "Dot's Diner" instead if I can), though looking at it I quickly came to the conclusion that the base model's just too small to actually fit anything in. To that end I'm extending it slightly so it can accommodate a bar area with the possibility for stalls, but in all likelihood the place will wind up mostly gutted so models can actually move around it in without too much hassle (so I guess the image below represents a pre-war version of the layout).



I've begun work on the Plasticville parts, making new panels to extend it (where the door on the right of the diagram is is where the side wall originally ended, instead the door's now sitting in the middle of three panels, rather than two) and wondering about what details to add to the interior (kits by that company aren't meant to have accessible insides, so there's quite a few tabs and other bits that need to be removed). I'm looking out what bits of furniture can be added. The bar itself could be made from just blocks of foam with plasticard faces. As far as stools go those would probably have to be custom made. Ainsty Castings do Diner Booths, so those are covered, though the issue there is that they're a bit big, so I don't know if I could fit them in without sacrificing other elements. That's all yet to be seen though, and this is really still just in the planning/ let's build some crap on a whim stage.

The diner's one part of what I had planned after the Radio building. The Tower itself however will be worked on before that, as its almost finished (its really just tidying it up and adding a fence which I have ready made and just needs a quick rust paintjob. Along with the diner I have three trailer park homes that I'd like to give interiors too, though the issue with those is that they're pretty small in terms of gaming pieces. Whilst they are realistically scaled, if I were to give them full rooms there wouldn't be anywhere to place the models, so I'll have to think about what I'll be doing with those (probably limiting them to either one large room with less functionality, or making two or three smaller rooms with maybe the odd blown out wall). That's hassle for another day however, and the diner came across as being much easier to work with, which is why I've made to begin work on that first. I will note though there's an issue with me not having any chequered plasticard. I have some being ordered in at a model train shop near me, but I was quoted as it taking a fortnight to arrive, so I won't be able to put any proper work around placing things and adding rubble until that turns up ...which means I could wind up losing focus a little. I'll see, and well if I'm not working on one thing I'll always start on some other thing cool (there's always that pile of shacks that needs to be worked through... Though personally I'm aiming for buildings which evoke a more obvious Fallout theme to casual viewers. I mean 50's ruined buildings as opposed to shacks, which albeit fitting Fallout, don't scream it). Anyway, I'm rambling a little here, this is the base diner model followed by the diner from Fallout 3 that I'm (sort of, but not completely) attempting to emulate.

But I liked the radio tower??

No worries, totally with you on the hayfever, fething summer.

Looking forward to this one though looks interesting.

Oh the Radio Tower's going to be finished, its just going to be free standing for the immediate future (I mean come on I spent £20 on the thing, I'm not wasting it). The building that goes along with it is just taking a bit too long to build, so I'm losing my enthusiasm for it. I'll come back to it later, but I'd like to work on something else first so I'm actually doing something productive. So tomorrow or more likely the next day I'll see about finishing the tower and a set of mesh fencing that I've had for ages that'll serve as their own separate terrain piece. Along with that I'll see about posting the crates and the Bloatfly Bites stall, and maybe a WIP or two if I feel like making anything new (uh, I have one thing sitting on my table right now as an armature, but I'm really iffy about following through with it). I suppose its easier for me to work on smaller things rather than big terrain pieces, which I suppose is why I have so much scenery still left to paint. Anyway, that's the plan. Gimme another year and maybe I'll have finished all the stuff which I've "planned" to do in this blog already (it was just over a year ago that I first made those shacks btw, and only about a sixth are painted. Luckily this is the only game I'm collecting models for now at least, so that's where all my modelling time's going towards at least).

Ah, a post apocalyptic diner

Life's decided that it isn't having me play with my dollies this past week (Ubuntu why can't you be nice and work like a Windows OS?), so I haven't achieved much. The Radio Tower is now pretty much done, I just need to finish off some fencing before I post any of my new painted bits. The next thing I'll be working on won't be the diner. I'm setting that aside until I can have a hold of the tiled plasticard for its floor and to pick up some furnishings (nudges Dr H ). So instead it'll be a pair of shacks that're next due a paint job.



Those've both been sitting unpainted for over a year now. They're from before I started using balsa wood for the shack's frames and instead were put together with just odd bits of sprue. The time scale for having those done (and uh, all the other stuff I've been painting this past week) is naturally entirely based on whether or not I can manage to have S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Lost Alpha working on my Linux laptop of course.

Looking forward to pics of tower.

Those shacks look great., a lick of paint and they are awesome.

Life aint fair much, keeps getting in the way.

I haven't finished off any painting, but I can show off some WIPs at least. What? Hey WIPs are just as good as painted models. Hmph.

These are due to be used as statues. In pre-war America I imagine government and wealthy buildings to be covered with these things (more so than buildings are today. I mean I don't know about the US, but here in Scotland all of the old expensive buildings are pretty full of such figures). These still need to have a bit of sculpting done on them (ie just basic tidying, though the female model is going to be turned into a Valkyrie like the ones in Fallout 3) before I mount them on plinths. If I ever make any urban buildings I'd like insert statues like these into the walls, but at the moment because I don't have any these will just be free standing.

Oh, and the fellow with the rifle's not a pre-war statue. I seen him and though he's too large to work in 28mm, he makes a good statue. He'll work as part of some sort of NCR Ranger monument.



Here's a pair of Brotherhood Paladins too; one more complete than the other.



The T45-d guy could serve as a Senior Paladin for the existing Paladins in power armour that I have. The other one is the basis for another suit of T51-b power armour. Its build similarly to the one I already made, with most of the parts coming from a Games Workshop Chaos Marauder, though once I'm done with it not much of the original model will be visible. As far as the .50 Cal HMG goes I'm debating how to feed the ammo into the gun. A box will probably be fine, though a belt fed backpack might look better. Meh, I'll see what I feel like making.

Aside from those there's some models set aside to use as NCR Troopers (this time armed with proper AR-15s instead of M1 Garands) and tribals, but I haven't put enough work into them that I feel like they're worth showing. As far as what's being painted right now I still have the radio tower, along with some fencing to enclose it and those two shacks to work on (plus some other bits I'm forgetting). I haven't had the time nor the enthusiasm lately to work on those, but its not like I have any games to plan for at the moment so I don't need to rush anything out just yet (not that that's the only reason for me to finish anything of course).

 Wyrmalla wrote:
...pick up some furnishings (nudges Dr H )...

Huh, what? Yeah, yeah... sure... soon... ish...


Good work on the huts and the latest chaps and statues.

I picked up some armatures recently. I don't think I have enough female models, so I slapped these together. I aimed for them all to be raiders, though the one with the axe and cricket bat looks more like a tribal. The pair in the second shot are wearing suits of metal armour scavenged from old robot parts and computers. I really liked that idea when looking through Fallout 3's concept art (which didn't really make it into the game, bar with the Eyebot helmet and I suppose Metal Armour itself, though it isn't obvious), so had a go at some myself. I have another two to be make, which runs me out of different CRT monitors (the one here has a Friend Computer terminal from Paranoia, made by Games Workshop in the late eighties judging by its sprue, whilst the other has a regular Fallout computer). Well, I mean female chip heads, they'll need male counterparts as well at some point. I may (may) have a go at making an actual weapon from the games as when looking at the lady with the Paranoia monitor I did think she would look better carrying a Wattz 2000 Laser Rifle, but that's down to my ability, not my ambitiousness.




Nout again on the painting front. I have stuff that could be finished easily, but I can't bother myself to work on it at the moment. I have friends back for the holidays, and its difficult to find the time to paint when you have one of them crashing over every now and then (I mean for reasons other than her picking up my dollies and cooing at them). So for the immediate future progress, as I suppose it always is, is down to me finding the interest to actually work on one thing, instead of meandering off to look at something shiny elsewhere. Bleh, toodles.

Nice GS work. Looking good. Like the monitor-heads.
Reminds me of the character out of "Dead Leaves".

They do strike me as something you'd see in Tank Girl or one of those comics (I can bet you at least one perp's sported on in Judge Dredd at some point). Youknow I suppose, despite the thing being heavy and impeding movement, that one of those old monitors could batter off a baseball bat if you're lucky. You'd probably suffer a concussion, plus numerous other reasons for not wearing a monitor screen on your head. ...But Awesome but Impractical is what the Fallout world is about.

Ah, those old steel bodied monitors, like a bulky helmet, hopefully with straps and padding inserted to keep it in place and also to avoid ringing inside for her head.

Modern, cheap Plastic electrode ray monitors just would not do as plastic will not handle the pounding of a bat or sledge in Post-Apoc melee fights.

Oh I've dropped enough plastic monitors to know just how flimsy they are. ...I actually have some 28mm LCD monitors for some reason (probably to stick on walls as they're thin enough to be panels), but they're so thin they'd suck as helmets.

I'd hoped to do some painting over the next few days, but as I have people staying over that's not really all to viable (for one I can't actually access any of my stuff because there's someone sleeping on top of it). Instead here's some WIPs that I'd hope to have instead worked on. Bleh.

With the statues I've decided to mount all of the ones I posted earlier on plinths (which I think I mentioned, but meh, I'm saying it again to remind you). Here's two matching ones. The circular base on the front is suppose to be used to represent a government seal or something similar, but that's going to be down to me either sculpting one up from scratch or getting a hold of a pair of quarters or something.



I've put together some more Raiders too. The two on the left are women based on the same armatures as the previous ones, whilst the other's based on a Wargames Factory plastic German (which I picked up a load of with the armatures on the cheap). Uh, its coincidental that they're each armed with German weapons. The CRT monitors are made by Ainsty Castings. Their resemblance to the ones from Fallout 3 is purely coincidental.



Hmn, these could represent Raiders inhabiting a more urban setting where robots and computers are more common. That would've been cool in the games actually. As you enter urban areas you find the locals wearing different kind of clothing than those out in the wastes. Pre-war clothing and outfits made from scrap are more common and perhaps the style of armour is different too; with clothing perhaps being more streamlined to deal with moving through the rubble, or heavier in that combat could be more often than not done at close quarters.

I'll have these painted up sooner or later. All these models are giving me a decent pool of Raiders to pick from. I prefer making Raiders to just the regular folk youknow, but I aught to make up some not so crazy looking survivors. Then again I could do with some Slavers... (though hmph, Vinni has all those enslaved women yet no Fallout 3 Slave Collars. Git)

Because I have a picture, here's an updated shot of the Paladins. Neither's finished yet, but there's been a bit of progress on the T51-b one.



Oh and I painted the white bits of backing plasticard I use for taking pictures on if you didn't notice. Hmn, does it look better like that? I just felt that with the stuff painted it'd give more of an impression of what the models look like on a board or something. That and I can fart about and stick down bits of terrain in the back of pictures if I feel like it (if I think Ramshackle Curtis asked me ages ago to take pictures of models with terrain, something I didn't follow through with).

Anyway, there's what progress I've made. The Radio Tower should be posted whenever I can take pictures of it, as are the pair of shacks I have almost finished. That won't be happening until I kick my friends out (some time next week by my reckoning judging by the state of hangovers), so take that as your fill for the moment and off with ye!

Well, got back into the new Vegas version for now, trapped in Sierra Madre!

Heh, try playing Dead Money with Hardcore mode turned on. The Cloud isn't a massive threat in the base game, really it just corals you into going certain ways till you have Deans perk. When you have Hardcore Mode on though, phew, then it just makes the whole place even more deadly. Try having a constant health loss. As ever I played a game that was modded to hell, so at least I could find a gas mask and have my character wear that to stave off the Cloud (though it would've been nice if you had to chance the filters in it rather than it being a straight breath anywhere thing). Come to think of it I'd have my character walk about with a gas mask in the Mojave too. I guess it was a roleplaying thing. Whenever I walked into a rad zone I'd have them put on their gas mask (which obscured their vision Metro 2033 style btw). Hmn, I really should replay New Vegas now, though bugger trying to make it work with my Ubuntu laptop.

Ah, and side note. I think I made some Ghost People yonks ago. No idea what I did with them, but youknow, they're here somewhere. I'm hesitant to make DLC specific mobs as well, they don't really appear outside of their locations, but Ghost People and Marked Men would be cool. Actually I have Lobotomites planned, its just buying the right heads (which I'm hoping to pick up at a show next month), which are all right for using anywhere on the West coast (sort of, they were cut from the original game as a random encounter, but found themselves in that DLC instead, because youknow, waste not want not). Anyway, those kinds of things could be planned for in future, as I do like the idea of making models that people can look at and instantly think Fallout, rather than just generic retro-futuristic post apocalyptic stuff (the retro-futuristic part being optional half the time).

Paladins are fantastic! Although that .50 is a bit weedy IMHO

I've considered that, but that thing's a 1/48th one, so is the right size for the scale. I could probably find a different gun or replace the barrel with something more substantial though. I think I have one of the Necromunda .50 Cals somewhere, which was going to be used on a raider or something, but may look better on that Paladin. Meh, I'll see. Oh and btw the pistol hand on the other guy;s going to be replaced too. I just have it like that because I forgot to resculpt it at the time. So yeah, he isn't going to holding his gun in a dumb way (though he still won't be wearing his helmet, but of course they aren't very heroic). =P

Yeah, to match 40k scales, you still look weedy with 1/35 scle .50 cals.