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Hmn, which piece is this? The Fallout 2 one looks like the M2A1, but to me the New Vegas one looks too big to be one of those (probably just my lack of knowledge saying that. They're probably both 105mms). I've said to the guy at my club who's selling off his father's massive collection to see if he can find one, but well, its massive so the chances of finding anything's low.



Whilst doing my DeviantArt trawl to see if anything cool's been posted lately I came across this. Not exactly my thing, but youknow if anyone wants one they're for sale. As ever from glorious mother Russia, where copyright doesn't exist. =P

You may be better off asking the resident rivet pickers or grognards for an answer on what the type may be.

Or just pick up the first artillery piece I can find for sale at my club and leave it at that (though hopefully not a German one. There must be an entire German division in all those blister packs). The gun I posted up there'll do, but I don't think the aesthetic fits Fallout very well and would rather just use a WWII-Vietnam era one instead (its not like Obsidian cares too much about making up fictional weapons too much. Well actually they weapon models in New Vegas, whilst looking like real world guns, J.E.Sawyer pointed out that they're actually a mish mash of things). I'll see if the guy I asked comes up with anything on Tuesday, as it'd be nice to have a howitzer positioned behind some sandbags just to complete the military base's look. Ah, but failing that I can just say that "its been 200 years, you seriously think this place wouldn't have been picked clean by looters. ...Oh right, the killer robots", as a reason why certain bits and pieces are missing.

Oh and speaking of robots I forgot that I have a few more of them being painted up right now too. I was meant to paint them as part of all the Enclave stuff I have, but as I moved away from being focused on the factions to smaller scale bands of wastelanders they've sat in a box for a good while. They're not high on my priorities given how much other stuff I have to work on this week, and that they are perhaps a bit less versatile than say a cacti patch or ruin in terms of how much use they'll get. Meh, but they're there, and might show up in the military base scenario if I do manage to run Saturday's games.

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Hmn, which piece is this? The Fallout 2 one looks like the M2A1, but to me the New Vegas one looks too big to be one of those (probably just my lack of knowledge saying that. They're probably both 105mms). I've said to the guy at my club who's selling off his father's massive collection to see if he can find one, but well, its massive so the chances of finding anything's low.




More likely a 155mm Howitzer, they are pretty big guns.



Whilst doing my DeviantArt trawl to see if anything cool's been posted lately I came across this. Not exactly my thing, but youknow if anyone wants one they're for sale. As ever from glorious mother Russia, where copyright doesn't exist. =P

Oooh, shiny! Must haz link for buying!


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M-114 155mm Howitzer



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or the M-1A2 155mm Howitzer

@ shasolenzabi

The seller just says "send me a note" on their DeviantArt account. I was actually pondering how to actually buy the things too (for one a price list would be useful). If you want one make an account on that site then send them a note (which I assume is a private message, its been years since I used one) and use your PayPal.

Oh right sure, they make shells in sizes larger than 105mm.

Well surprisingly those huts arrived. I was quote between the 15th and something like the 27th, so I find it rather odd that they turned up today. Hmn, perhaps they just gave out a generic delivery period for all orders, including international ones, rather than when shipping to somewhere just across the border. Yeah, sure, anyway...

With the huts I'll probably just put them together as is. I had a notion about lengthening them with some extra corrugated card I have, but looking at how that'd turn out I prefer the look of the shorter ones (that and if I kept them all the same length that'd help with storage). Its not like the ones in New Vegas (and possibly Fallout 3, can't remember if Broken Steel had them) were that long to begin with anyway. Whatever, I'll have those worked on over the week. =P

What can I say? Oh yeah, the cactus patches are done-ish. I kind of want to add some flowers to the Prickly Pear ones just to liven the things up a bit, as right now they're a bit too green. Here they are as they are at the moment anway.





Aside from those there's a set of army tents (made by Renedra) which I thought I'd put together just in case the huts didn't show up. unfortunately I've ran out of three of my paint colours (you guessed it, yellow/brown, red/brown and ...dark green) so I can't really do much with those, or the base of the watchtower until Monday when I can pick up some more paint (eugh, I was going to buy that paint on Wednesday as well ¬¬).

Priorities this week are for the watchtower to be finished, with the huts and tents carrying on after that's dealt with. Really I'm just wanting to clear out what terrain I have sitting here at the moment so I can play with it at the weekend. Anything other than that's an extra which I'm not sure I'd be able to manage given how much I actually have to paint. So the robots might not see a lick of paint, but the Mars Attacks! Ruin, little that I've posted about it, is close enough to bash through closer to the date. Well there's your lot for tonight, now to actually make a start on some proper work. =P

Nice work on the rusty vehicles and I like the sign, mines and unexploded shells (although I don't think they should have the bevel at the back, not that that is your fault, as shells tend not to be fired with the casing attached. Maybe that's why they are unexploded...)

Nice cacti too, look good.

Yeah that Half track looked well aged for several centuries f weather beating and rust. Those cacti make me wince at how close that trooper is.

I will have to try my deviant art account to see if I can look that pin make up and find their price for it

@ Dr H

Hey yeah on the shells, that's really weird... Its not the firs time that I've seen craters with cases in them rather than shells. Maybe the modeler just though having a blank tail end didn't look too interesting so added the bevel? Hmn, or in the magical world of Fallout they fire shell which have miniature shells inside of them, this is just the casing from the smaller shell which flew off? ...Or other totally plausible reasons. =P

Anyway, in other news I have four of these fellers on order from down South. They'll go in along with the Crooked Dice ones that I already have, and the King that Messyart's also making whenever he finishes it. I've already pondered a little scenario involving a group of wastelanders collecting the eggs amongst some rad pools which the Mirelurks are using as spawning pools (as a bonus Messyart's models each come with some eggs, so I should be able to throw together a few objective markers that way). Anyway, you can buy his Crab Boys Lurkers or any of his other post-apocalyptic minis by contacting him on the Lead Adventure forums (you need to make an account first, but well its not like thats much a hassle. He also takes orders through his email, though I'd say that it'd be easier just signing up to that forum, plus its not like he's the only one punting stuff through that site's post-apocalyptic board, so you'd be missing out on similar minis).




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Hey someone asked what happened to Texas here once. I answered it as fully as I could with the information available (that it was a cutoff lawless place, till the radstorms ebbed and the Legion rolled in). Well a group's actually making a mod for New Vegas set there and well, at least the concept art looks cool, plus it has Avellone's backing. Its early in development, but something that those still playing New Vegas may want to keep their eye on (I expect the fourth game to be out before this is however). I'll just hope that the story's not as weak as Brazil or Boulder Dome, but I guess if Avellone's interested he'd point them in the right direction. Right, there's this random information thrown at you. Too far away and underdeveloped for my current setting, but I like seeing the concept art for ideas. Damn, need to paint my Combat Armoured Glowing One at some point.


Oh look giant mutant Armadillos.








(Yeah there's actual custom models, but meh, go look at the Facebook page for those. This is just an image dump =P)

AH! TEXAS! Awesome find there. Thanks for the info.

Heh, see there you are. I knew I wasn't imaging that... Well if you're interested in the area there's the mod for you ...whenever it comes out.

Oh and they actually have an official website (a fancy one too) and Twitter too in case anyone's wondering. I'm not playing any of the games right now, but if this kind of thing appeals I may start mentioning worthwhile mods here every now and then. I'm meaning whenever 4 turns up probably, as I've only just recently replayed New Vegas, and bugger sitting down and reinstalling all those mods again (hell I haven't gone back to Skyrim because of the hole of mods that I'd have to spend the day downloading).

Crap, and wow! Its this thread's one year anniversary. Holy gak balls. Damn, I should have done something. ...Feth. Uh, any ideas? ...? Huh, that's surprised me.

Yeah I'm still lurking in the shadows. Biding my time to comment on something. So far everything I approve of, so don't have much to say. Thanks for the Texas info.

Okay now, back to the shadows.

No news is good news...

That or everyone's dead, in which case like hell I'm sending a party over there to start chipping people off of their laptops.

Fair enough, all the glue I'm huffing whilst making all this start makes me fairly content (all the magical unicorns trotting about me as I do it also help, but they're down to the glue).

Hmn, I may have to dub Saturday's game (if it goes through) as my anniversary one. I wonder just how many of the models from the first post I'm actually still using. Mostly just the characters and BoS ones. ...I think some of them haven't even seen a table once.

My plastic cement is non-toxic and lemony smelling.

Liking the ideas for Lonestar, I also have seen some youtube fallout Texas rangers

Fallout in Texas!

But master that is where the forbidden game resides!

You have incredible talent and as a Fallout lover, this has just amazed me...
Outstanding work- all of it..

Oh, and where abouts in Scotland you from, mate? I'm just near Glasgow

@ Gregga

Literally "Glasgow, Scotland".

I turn up to the G3 club every once and a while to run Fallout or zombies games, or more often than not hang about and jump into someone else's thing (I suck at planning ahead). Its the largest club in the city, so most in the area tend to go there. That said it does only run on a Tuesday night, and well its not like there isn't others, so I suppose not everyone on Dakka about Glasgow goes there. =P



Right, feck. Well its been a week since most of this was actually painted, but through the wonder of not bothering my arse to take pictures you're just receiving them now.

The pictures I took during the game I ran last week didn't turn out very well due to the god awful lighting. Ah, but maybe that's for the best as the game kind of devolved a little into the players just seeing who could get away with the dumbest thing before I would stop making up rules for the situation.

Yeah I'll see what I can salvage, but the only decent shots I think I have are just of the layout. ...An actual battle report for that six hour game would lead to Scanners style head exploding at the silliness. Moonshine and can openers were involved anyway.

Anyway, so as for what I managed last week, here's the load of military terrain I was working on. I will point out that I wasn't able to run the actual military base scenario I had planned (in fact all I managed was the BoS assaulting a Raider camp in some ruins one), so none of this has actually been used in a game yet.

First the Guard Tower. Eugh, I know now why I use balsa wood for a frame, not for the whole damn building. This thing broke so many times through accidentally dropping it during painting it. I'll just have to careful with it like the Radio Tower (which btw has lost its topmost antenna for like the third time already). As I've probably stated, this was made from balsa wood, plasticard for the planks, and some corrugated plastic for the roof. I tried to keep to the original design as much as possible, even if that meant people'd be a bit exposed as they ran up the planks to the topmost part (I guess you man it before the enemy are on you, or if you need to leave the thing under fire you just nose dive off the back)




Then there's one of the three Dust Tactics Quonset huts. With this one I added mesh to the windows as I really didn't like how they just gaped open. I also stuck on some shutters and chimneys to the rood, along with the general crap about the base. I'm surprised some of that didn't come with the base kit, but I guess they're cheap for a reason.




And last on the military side of things, some Renedra generic tents which I painted up in an Army green. Just so I can fill out a camp a bit more, as my games are run on 4x4 boards, which leaves a lot of space that needs to be filled (luckily I have plenty of cactus patches at least).



As for what I've managed this week, well that amounts to just these two. I managed to paint these relatively quickly, though I still have another two and some egg mount objectives to work on (plus maybe a human hunter model kitted out in armour made from Mirelurk shells and carrying a claw topped spear). These are made by Messyart over on the Lead Adventure forums, where you can PM him if you want to pick up some along with the range of his other minis (£5 for one + an egg clutch).




And a comparison shot with the Crooked Dice Envoy I was using as a Mirelurk expy (a Rocklurk), and the usual Hasslefree Bubba. Everything bar Bubba in this shot's on a 32mm base.



Hmn, now I think that's everything. I have that Mars Attacks! Ruin still sitting on my table in need of finishing, plus some other crap. Given that all I managed this week was two Mirelurks though, I wouldn't rate the chances of having any of that done promptly (least because I have some deadlines rapidly coming up). Ack wel, there's your lot for today anyway, I'll ponder what to work on next and maybe have something else done next week, or at least try salvaging some of those game pictures. Till then, ciao and such.

Nice! no wonder mirelurks are so tasty, they are eastern blue claws! very fine dining crab meat wise. and also very quick with their claws! Now for garlic butter!

Oh damn yes. Looking at the images all that meat does look a might tasty. Like hell I'd touch a horseshoe crab which Mirelurks are based ...through personal experience having smelled a pile of dead ones once (the wikipedia page says they're used more often as fertilizer). This is coming from a guy who doesn't eat much seafood of course, but well honestly (turning this thread into a culinary discussion), this or this? =P

Actually, grew up chowing down on these little beauties

... I noticed your location once I had posted and couldn't be bothered to edit aha. Keep up the good work!

Yup, not much has been done, so the most that I can show you is this WIP. A Tribal kitted out in armour made from Mirelurk carapace. I wanted him to not look straight like a Mirelurk, so didn't go for the portion of shell which covers the head. So he has the underside of the Mirelurk covering the front of his body ...because I had to make him look like one, and I guess even if that area's not armoured its better than nothing. His back is the same, but with the upper part removed (I was going to add this as a shield, but CBA), and the legs as bracers. The base model's a Perry tribesman, with a Warlord Games British head and a claw from one of Messyart's crabs (...so I now have a Mirelurk short of a claw, guess it'll be a dead one or I'll have to find a replacement).



Okay, rambled a bit there. There's that guy. Because of lighting he's standing on top of one of the rad pools I'm making. The lumpy green clay bits are patches of that weird fleshy fungus which appears near water sources. Yeah, I really never clean that water glass. =P

Nice work! I also like the mirelurk claw shell spear

Checks date of last post. OK pretend this is still December. No hang on screw that I'm not sending out any more presents.

Well this stuff has been sitting in a pile for like two months now, so the time has come (wait, gimme a sec to start playing the Conan OST)...




Right, epic soundtrack in place. Ah, anyhow I've decided to go back and finish some of what I last posted here. ...or mentioned here. ...or youknow just stuff. Sorry this has gone a bit awry from the epic return and all, hmn, here this is more appropriate.




So back on track, here's what I could find which I could manage to finish quick enough to post here before I have to go back to the a bit of uni drudgery.

Starting where I left off with the Tribal who's kitted himself out with Mirelurk chitin armour. Its been a while now, so I'll say again, this uses a Perry African Tribal model as its base, with the rest of his outfit and armour being sculpted. Oh, and namely the claw from his spear comes from one of Messyart's crabs (yes that does mean that I have one which is sans a claw...).



But what does that fellow hunt? ...Ah wait I've already posted the Mirelurks right? Damn. Um. ...Oh, yeah, omelettes. He hunts omelettes.



Those are mostly the eggs which come as extras with Messyart's Mirelurks. I made a few piles of my own as well. Terrain or objective markers in the odd scenario involving hungry wastelanders.

Bloop. Blup. ...Bopple.

…

...sizzle.

Sizzle? Oh god its burning through my suit! Blargh!




Heh, a few pools of toxic waste for the good citizens of Ghoultown to bathe in. These turned out all right actually. Well the bubbly green bit did. Fairly simple to make as they're really just a border of sand on a base with the odd barrel chucked in. The barrels are by Tamiya, the loose tires are from those Russian diecasts and there's little bottles of beer too made by Meng Models.

Oh god its in my eyes! ...Wait why do I have eyes on my fingers!?



There you've had you're fill (hopefully more of the eggs than the toxic waste, though personally I'll just stick to regular food). In the pipeline's more S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Stuff, but there's a few Fallout bits handy which I probably aught to finish soonish as well. Ack well, I'm off to glurg some RadAway and have the autodoc relieve me of a few extra limbs.

A Fallout themed update?

With soundtrack?

And some great stuff?

That fething Conan video's making me want to go back and try making Skyrim models again!

Rage!!!

FOCUS!

Oi I just bought some Humvees. That means I'm doing good right? ...Youknow buying more crap when I haven't finished the current stuff? ...That sounded like a better idea in my head.

...Ah, and this Tshirt literally just went on sale minutes ago. I mean seriously? Come on!?

LOL< as both are made by Bethesda software, why not skyrim based tribals or raiders?


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Those models, conversions and paintjobs are utterly brilliant. Which game do you play with them?

@ shasolenzabi

Don't push me man!



Heh, nah seriously before I started that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stuff I looked into making models from Skyrim. There problem was that I didn't want it to be just a Viking project and wind up playing Saga all the time when I wasn't playing it. Hmn, but yeah I did have ideas of where to take it and I was considering using the rules from this Viking skirmish game that I saw at a show for it. ...Yes, because that game only uses a handful of models per side that does mean that I wouldn't have to go all out on it like I have my other projects. Yes, even though that is a factor I would still need to make dozens of models and a load of terrain anyway (I'm seeing the Nordic ruin tiles right now...).

@ Singleton Mosby

Which ruleset? I use Crooked Dice's 7Tv rules as a starting point. The rules for my game are kind of a mish mash of their various games based around the Action Engine. Mostly though I get away with their Post Apocalyptic 7ombieTv rules however if I could say there's anything that they're directly based on. However on top of those rules I've written plenty of my own which either change mechanics or add new ones, plus the general new chracters, weapons and vehicle rules. Ah, and the biggest change when I run games (originally I took part as a player, but I've found myself being a GM more often than not lately) is that they can play more like a role playing game than your typical skirmish game. If a player wants to attempt to interact with their environment like trying to open a locked safe or the bullets that they fired missing their target, but that target's standing in front of a nuclear powered car, well I'm fine with allowing that.

Most of games last for the three hours that I have at my club despite each side only having about a half dozen models. The one game where we had eight hours to play and people had a dozen models each really did last those whole eight hours. ...It was quite frankly insane by the end of it however. Like Fallout insane