ANYTHING Fallout related I will agree with... within reason... so long as it doesnt include those chaps I saw one guy wearing in FO3
I find when im swimming through irrated waters... at full health... I drink the water.. for the sole reason that it lets me the tainted water I swim in!
also brother vinni you are too cool... FO3 and Bigdadys!?!?!
Munda is done for now...my focus will now be Fallout gaming. I am the only person in the entire world who designed a 28mm Nuka Cola machine that I know of. This is my new Long-term focus.
REAL supply drop this time!
Canadian Raiders (RAFM), Mad Puppet Raider leader (apparently with an itchy sack ), French bases, and Russian RobCo, err. mean RoboGear sprues
No, these were just cheap ebay finds. Thanks Vik, she is always on the lookout for more Dwarves. LDD the stuff coming out of Russia for gaming these days is awesome isn't it? That fort thing is no exception! If Zvezda is carrying that peice, we will see it in the US soon, since IMEX is the US distributor for Zvezda,I think Dragon Models is the same parent company in China, they also make a very popular line of military model kits, as well as accurate 1/6 scale stuff.
Yes, there was loads of kits in that line including minis OK they might not be that great but they have conversion potential just depends on the scale
I dont know who the UK distributor is or even if we have one shame they have a lot of potential indeed
Dragon does make a line of 1/6th scale figures I have a few of those as well, actually mainly the earlier releases including some exclusives (including the winter Gerhard which was hard to get ) but I am looking at selling these now.
LDD, it says:
MadLab73
by players for players
Dist. by: Taban Miniatures
www.taban-miniatures.com
I paid $10 for 10 bases..even imported! That's cheap!
Here is a Raider Juve
With baseball bat and added 10mm Submachinegun from our ol buddy Zinge
Automatically Appended Next Post: ..And YES I cleaned the mold lines up just now so
Looks like those kits aren't available in UK yet, that site has English options, but when you click over you can't access any of the sci-fi kits.
UK distributor is The Hobby Company limited, based in MK. From a quick look at their site there didn't seem to be an actual store though, so not sure if they're just trade distribution?
Got my eye on a couple of the Dragon armour kits, da boyz lootin' fingas is getting itchy
Raiders look sweet kitted out with some decent dakka. The juve looks like he needs some more bats so he can repair his one though
And Raider Thug "Dunlop"
He's just stock because I think the shoulder armor made from tires is awesome and the Chinese Assault Rifle, while undersized, is still perfect.
*shivers* ahhhhh! good to see you finally back in the hobby action again! the raiders are looking very good! tho some tweaks if possible could make them perfect...
the baseball chap could look better if you could do something about the clip of his SMG... looks fishy in these pics...
the autoshotgun while cool as hell could look better if you make a new stock for this one... the current one is way underproportioned as is...
by the way... those stel plates are a very good looking background for your mini presentations...
as for the dwarves... okidoki... was just thinking about your better half when i saw these... but i will keep my eyes open if i happen to see others send my best wishes !
lone dirty dog wrote:Yes, there was loads of kits in that line including minis OK they might not be that great but they have conversion potential just depends on the scale I dont know who the UK distributor is or even if we have one shame they have a lot of potential indeed
I own pretty much the whole Robogear range (those sprues Dave just bought must be new, I hadn't seen them before) and I can tell you, the scale is to large, but they have potential for machinery etc.
You can order bitz from those kits via http://www.hoardobits.com/ I had the luck to find I german online shop that cleared its stock of robogear two years ago. It was a 75% discount on kits that were already incredibly cheap. A package of two army deals (50 miniatures each) for 30€ and the likes.
No problem. Just looked up my saves for FO3 and that's a total of ~370 hours. I know I passed 1000 hours for Oblivion and I recently passed 700 hours for Skyrim... Consider yourself enabled.
Call me when you break the clock, like you could in FFVII... the clock stopped registering after a while... god knows how many hours i had put into that game, considering all characters were levelled to the max....
so... he is gaming like blazes in FO and still has time to unpack suply drops, chat on dakka and also is able to paint up minis...which leaves me asking... is dave only able to do this while wearing pampers?
Viktor von Domm wrote: so... he is gaming like blazes in FO and still has time to unpack suply drops, chat on dakka and also is able to paint up minis...which leaves me asking... is dave only able to do this while wearing pampers?
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! omg dave you just gave me a pants tent showing me those sprues and I've already found them and will be buying some tomorrow to build what i hope will be an awesome Gothic grim dark surgery room or Xenos dissection room? :-) gonna be saweeeet!
And on a side note, i haven't forgotten to send you the machining tools, i just want to get some other bits and bobs to send to you to make the package worthwhile :-)
Cool, thanks Nerd, no hurry on that stuff, I have a bunch of casts of the floor tiles for you, I haven't heard back from Galorn about the mold yet though, I figure I'll send you samples of all of them, then you can pick which ones you want a mold of.
Vik, the shotgun stock was properly sized, but I had to cut it down to fit into his arm, what do you mean fishy on the SMG?
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@Childe- you can get away with lying to her, but each step you do properly or improperly during the whole "Wasteland Survival Guide" questline has an effect later on.
The questline is a pain in the ass, but there are 15 variations of permanent perks you can get modifying poison res, Rad resist, DMG resist, Crit chance, sneak, medicine, speech, and Health, from +2 to +6 depending on how well you do on the guide. Entire sets of random mini-encounters throughout the wasteland are also tied to this quest.
If you convince Moira not to write it in the first place, you take a huge Karma hit and get the dream crusher perk:
"Something about your presence dampens others' desires to excel. While it can be a drag at parties, it has the happy coincidence of lowering an enemy's chance of a Critical hit on you by 50%. A dull bore is a safe bore." She still gives you a 30% discount and her repair skills improve.
If you write a good guide, you'll encounter random wastelanders hunting molerats who say things like "because of this guide my family is up to two meals a day now" etc.
The questline is a pain, but well worth doing it right, and worth doing all the bonus objectives.
well the position of the mag of the SMG looks a bit wrong... you know...that old second edition bolter problem... i always thought that bolter looked akward due to the clip...:
can´t really explain it... maybe just ignor my ramblings^^
and...when looking for a bolter pic i found this conversion...nice, eh?
Automatically Appended Next Post: and i like the moira questline... she is so cheery in this godforsaken land... a little ray of light!... and her naivity is really sweet!
and well the only long time plan in life i have is... to make it last as long as possible want to see my kids grow up to be men... main goal in life so to say...
It was out of scale just a bit in the end I've redeemed myself since those amateur days Vik
In anticipation of my Armorcast Pack Brahmin arriving, I built a Scavenger with cigarette and Nuka Cola-holding hand
Body, slung hunting rifle, and left arm are from Wargames Factory WW2 Late G.I. Sprue
Left arm is from Warlord WW2 Late British Commandos Sprue
Head is a West Wind Productions G.I. in jeep cap.
Nuka Cola bottle is from RSJake
Cigarette is the barrel from a grease gun from the same G.I. Sprue, glued between his fingers then cut off
Then this guy can be used as a Caravan guard or just a generic Wastelander.
hmmm... not too sure on the skinny one but you hit definitly full makrs on the last one... and here the autogun looks way better ... stock look more fitting too...beside... the pose with the stock over the arm is just awesome cool... like the british soldiers wield their LA85 and other guns...
It was out of scale just a bit in the end
I've redeemed myself since those amateur days Vik
Believe it or not, the Scavenger is the same scale body-wise as the guard, The guard's shoulderpads are just too big, I've taken a lot of screenshots and have been studying the different clothing. He's supposed to be wearing Merc armor..
See? Shoulderpads too big.
Brother Vinni's only oversight so far
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oh yeah... now that you named it you gotta do it!!! with GS flames you know you need to get this done!!! by the way... since you mentioned OSL... this might be the right project for that idea see... best laid out plans and all
I've been working on my own Pst_Apoc wasteland scenery for 40K, Fall-out, Terminator, Inquisitor and Falling-Skies type games for a good year, but I've not made anywhere near as much progress (or achieved anything like your level of excellence).
Okay, I'll stop gushing now. I sound like the announcer at a Royal Wedding.
Some of this stuff is fairly old, but as requested, here's a small selection of my recent Post-Apoc stuff. Some of these I painted for myself. Others I painted on commission. I don't have photographs of most of my Post Apolcalypse terrain unfortunately (and most of it is now down in Folkestone) but you can see some of it in this battle-report:
28mm Vault Dwellers and robots using Copplestone Casting and EM4 miniatures sculpted by Mike Copplestone:
A Wastelander medic (Infinity Szalamandra pilot miniature)
Survivor kids from Hasslefree Miniatures:
These ones are either from Reaper's Chronopia range or are converted Reaper Legends:
Some Necromunda miniatures:
And some random's from various companies:
Scenery:
And some scenery. Mostly made from toys and the like:
Sorry about the length of this post by the way, my post-apoc enthusiasm got the better of me. My terrain making "skills" (such as they are ) are pretty poor, but you can see some of my later Post-Apoc stuff if you follow the links to the battlereport at the top of the page.
Oh wow man! Great figs! Great scenario, and it looks liek it was a great game too!
I love the bus, that's a nice piece! You've probably seen my initial work on a Corvega Atomic V8, I have plans for a Nuka Cola truck, a City-liner bus, and of course, the cool Atomic Pick-up truck from New Vegas is a must as well.
Don't worry man, posts are never too long here, you're stuff is great! You obviously have a good grasp of basic hobby techniques, really the only thing that will help you improve and hone those skills is just building more stuff. Learning by doing is the best thing you can do. We are also a helpful bunch, always full of new ideas and techniques, freely shared.
... Yeah I stole something by accident on the aircraft carrier once.... that was the biggest fight I had ever gotten into... I ran out of ammo... and I had A LOT of ammo...
i cleaned rivet city just for the lulz... sometimes the mood takes me this way... there are always savegames later on to go back to...
and dave... cool strips... where the hell did you find them?
oh and at lead legion... cool bunch of minis and terrain... my top favorite among the many is the fridge... i hope someone is making notes here... a fridge is something i bet would look cool on a certain themed board
Yes but I hit Rivet City when you were supposed to get there... so early levels... which is why I ran out of ammo so much... than god for moira and her quests for giving me free shiz is all I can say...
A lot of product ideas (perhaps not good ideas, but ideas nonetheless) have been floating around my head a lot lately. Fridges and lockers (with separately cast doors) to name a few. I've been hitting the print screen a LOT as I walk around trying to think what would people want in their Fallout games to make them more immersive?
Viktor von Domm wrote:hehe... tho i never really had any promblems with theft... i either kill the other guy afterwards anyway or i let it go by^^
hard to just kill the guy when it was the entirety of rivet cities security staff and floating bots...
dsteingass wrote:A lot of product ideas (perhaps not good ideas, but ideas nonetheless) have been floating around my head a lot lately. Fridges and lockers (with separately cast doors) to name a few. I've been hitting the print screen a LOT as I walk around trying to think what would people want in their Fallout games to make them more immersive?
would love to see how you'd make castable lockers and crates with removable lids
well... i tell you what... i will run a killing spree through rivet city soon... i am currently heading there anyway and i am inbetween LVL 7 and 8...so i am not overpowered^^
and dave... yeah... nice ideas... if possible... the illuminated advertisings would be a nice thing... could be done with thick wire...or right into the sculpting mass and produce a negative in the first place...just an indent so to say....
maybe you could do some of these cool looking doors? the ones that close rather slow...with the mechanics and so on?
Ah dammit Dave, i just spent 100 bucks on terrain stuffs! got 3 of those kits for the 28mm scale off ebay and 2 of the ruined building ones! and then browsed rfm and found what i'd been searching for for literally about a year! yep, you got it, just scored 5 of the clear experiment tanks, one with a woman floating and one with a giant brain! now just need to find out how to fill them with clear resin?...... hint hint anyone ;-)
nerdfest09 wrote: Ah dammit Dave, i just spent 100 bucks on terrain stuffs! got 3 of those kits for the 28mm scale off ebay and 2 of the ruined building ones! and then browsed rfm and found what i'd been searching for for literally about a year! yep, you got it, just scored 5 of the clear experiment tanks, one with a woman floating and one with a giant brain! now just need to find out how to fill them with clear resin?...... hint hint anyone ;-)
not intending to be flippant but.... buy clear resin.... and fill them after painting?
I've never worked or bought any resin so i'm starting from scratch Galorn :-) that was the idea to fill after painting hopefully with either a clear resin or if i deem it can be done a slightly tinted fill? can you give me any tips on what to buy and how to use it?..... i'll put you on my christmas card list :-)
:S well I've just walked into Vault 112 for the first time... bloody weird having an 8 year old girl speaking in a male german accent... I blame you Vik!
AnUnearthlyChilde wrote: :S well I've just walked into Vault 112 for the first time... bloody weird having an 8 year old girl speaking in a male german accent... I blame you Vik!
AnUnearthlyChilde wrote: :S well I've just walked into Vault 112 for the first time... bloody weird having an 8 year old girl speaking in a male german accent... I blame you Vik!
AnUnearthlyChilde wrote: :S well I've just walked into Vault 112 for the first time... bloody weird having an 8 year old girl speaking in a male german accent... I blame you Vik!
AnUnearthlyChilde wrote: :S well I've just walked into Vault 112 for the first time... bloody weird having an 8 year old girl speaking in a male german accent... I blame you Vik!
that was a russian voice!
sounded German to me
Well Dr Braun is meant to be German.
SEE... I know a German when I hear one... how in gods name you thought he sounded Russian I will never know Panda...
Panda the Cold War is over, it looked like we in the US won, but we all know in the end, Russia came out better and we are slipping thanks to corporate elites vampirizing us along with the banks!! LOL! Chaos owns their souls!
shasolenzabi wrote: Panda the Cold War is over, it looked like we in the US won, but we all know in the end, Russia came out better and we are slipping thanks to corporate elites vampirizing us along with the banks!! LOL! Chaos owns their souls!
Plus China won that side of things if we're sticking to FO:3 analogies
Btw, FO:3 question... should I be higher than level 6 when you do Vault 112? I only ask because FO is so free roaming that I wasn't sure if you should be a set level or what not?
While trying to find a decent video of 112 to get Vik to point out if it was a good German voice, I found a lets play that had them clear it fairly easily at level 6. 112 is pretty much the easiest vault you'll ever clear.
n0t_u wrote: While trying to find a decent video of 112 to get Vik to point out if it was a good German voice, I found a lets play that had them clear it fairly easily at level 6. 112 is pretty much the easiest vault you'll ever clear.
I was more concerned for what came after 112 lols... oh and this vid will give you a decent voice for the weird german girl... also... the guy narrating it is funny as hell... it's like he's reading my mind lols... crap maybe I should do a video of my game play... having said that I'd most likely scar peoples tiny minds...
no, you can be any level there, there is no combat, you don't even need to do any of psycho Braun's quests, just talk to the old lady, go to the abandoned house, touch the objects in this order: radio, pitcher, gnome, pitcher, cinder block, gnome, and bottle, then fire up the Chinese Invasion and you're done.
Automatically Appended Next Post: And btw, it's the 21st century, borders only exist on political maps, nationalism is an old, outdated 19th century idea, and only exists in our heads as artificial ways to divide people, joking is always fine, but let's not make it personal please?
dsteingass wrote:no, you can be any level there, there is no combat, you don't even need to do any of psycho Braun's quests, just talk to the old lady, go to the abandoned house, touch the objects in this order: radio, pitcher, gnome, pitcher, cinder block, gnome, and bottle, then fire up the Chinese Invasion and you're done.
Automatically Appended Next Post: And btw, it's the 21st century, borders only exist on political maps, nationalism is an old, outdated 19th century idea, and only exists in our heads as artificial ways to divide people, joking is always fine, but let's not make it personal please?
Cheers dude!!! muchly appreciated... plus I've started the psycho stuff, so I may as well finish it lols... call me sadistic, but its fun lols.
Personal? what? did I do something again without realising?
Doctor Stanislaus Braun is the Overseer of Vault 112, locked by his own choice in a Vault-Tec prototype simulation in which he appears as a little girl named Betty. Before the Great War, he was a brilliant German Vault-Tec scientist, the head of Future-Tec and the creator of the Garden of Eden Creation Kit.
Maybe the VA wasn't so great?
Has to be one of the more interesting people in that game though. Hearing about it you just think you're going to find nothing but a dead vault with perhaps a trace to the GECK in it, but soon enough you find out the secret behind the place and are sort of disappointed with Braun.
n0t_u wrote: Ja, dass ist faszinierend herr panda.
Doctor Stanislaus Braun is the Overseer of Vault 112, locked by his own choice in a Vault-Tec prototype simulation in which he appears as a little girl named Betty. Before the Great War, he was a brilliant German Vault-Tec scientist, the head of Future-Tec and the creator of the Garden of Eden Creation Kit.
Maybe the VA wasn't so great?
Has to be one of the more interesting people in that game though. Hearing about it you just think you're going to find nothing but a dead vault with perhaps a trace to the GECK in it, but soon enough you find out the secret behind the place and are sort of disappointed with Braun.
I'm already disappointed with Braun, he's a complete fruitloop lols
and for my own opinion... braun could have sounded way more german than this... his "W" and so on the lack of sharper "th"´s ... a comedian german but not a real one...
and actually... if you bother me with calling me a german... well two can play the game and i can start from now on bother you with true german language here...(bothers me the whole day no end by the way)
and for my own opinion... braun could have sounded way more german than this... his "W" and so on the lack of sharper "th"´s ... a comedian german but not a real one...
and actually... if you bother me with calling me a german... well two can play the game and i can start from now on bother you with true german language here...(bothers me the whole day no end by the way)
haha fair enough...
I'd just use google translate anyways
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dsteingass wrote: I can't help but laugh when I hear a German try to say "Squirrel" in English though...it always sounds funny
lmfao... yeah I'd forgotten about that one... there's a few others I forget that sound funny too.
oh, and sorry Childe, I spaced out today with the half-assed replies, sorry..
I was really covering for my occasional "Elton John Money" jokes or occasional jibes about the French surrendering, and I didn't want any readers to take that seriously So you are free to make all the German jabs you'd like! Vik can take it
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Viktor von Domm wrote: oh fu... i just had a look at my papers... naaaawwwww... no way... i don´t have the chest for a betty...
well going on what betty looks like, I can only assume your chest is bigger than hers... *goes off to add pamela anderson's breasts to the image I made*
BAH... somehow a quick 20 minutes turned into three hours of FO:3 ... but... I did Level 3 Times and finish that damned survival guide... I also seem to have perhaps maybe gone a bit evil thanks to Dr Baum... I be an Evil Raider Nao
Oh and dave... I was putting these together on Tumblr, and thought they may be useful for you as well!
This seems like a good place as any to ask, but Malifaux? what exactly is it? and what kind of % are plastic models? I saw some on a website i kinda liked the look of but wanted to see what it's all about from the horses mouth so to speak :-) seeing as how Dave has some sweet miners etc. a few pages back...... quite a few now...... apparently because of Rogue Wolves ;-)
Malifaux is a city between alternate dimensions where winds of magic are harnessed and souls of people can be used to power steampunk stuff. Imagine anything from old West type buildings, to Victorian castles. There are several factions present, The Guild are the relentless Capitalists hell-bent on mining and exporting soulstones to Earth, The Arcanists (my faction of choice) are the Steampunkiest, they also control the Miners and Steamfitter's Union, which is the arch-nemesis for the greedy Guild. The Guild is often responsible for unexplained cave-ins, mysterious deaths, and other nefarious typical Robber-Baron-type behavior towards the workers who make them rich.
Malifaux is a skirmish game, but uses a deck of 52 standard cards called a "Fate Deck", instead of dice, where you can literally use the card suites as ways to "cheat fate" of combat and actions.
Wyrd originally cast everything in metal, but now they are going digital like all modern mini-makers, so their new plastics are able to look exactly like their concept art (since they use the same files), they are the cleanest plastic miniature casts I have ever seen.
The only bad thing about the game is Wyrd's partnership with Terraclips for their "official" terrain, it's crappy card-based terrain, not fit for any self-respecting gamer's table IMHO
dsteingass wrote: Malifaux is a city between alternate dimensions where winds of magic are harnessed and souls of people can be used to power steampunk stuff.
i totally not agree with that statement... dave´s output and specially finished outputs exceeds my own many times... well known fact
monkeytroll wrote:
dsteingass wrote: Malifaux is a city between alternate dimensions where winds of magic are harnessed and souls of people can be used to power steampunk stuff.
Oh, like Milton Keynes then
this is very funny tho i still don´t kow about milton keynes...
dsteingass wrote: Malifaux is a city between alternate dimensions where winds of magic are harnessed and souls of people can be used to power steampunk stuff.
Oh, like Milton Keynes then
Funny 'coz its true!
Viktor von Domm wrote:yeah ok... but where is the funy part? why does it sound a bit like a british bermuda triangle whe brits talk about that city?
dsteingass wrote: Malifaux is a city between alternate dimensions where winds of magic are harnessed and souls of people can be used to power steampunk stuff.
Oh, like Milton Keynes then
Funny 'coz its true!
Viktor von Domm wrote:yeah ok... but where is the funy part? why does it sound a bit like a british bermuda triangle whe brits talk about that city?
see?! that´s the thing i want to discover... i think i´ve read in some of terry pratchetts books some hints to that theme...
its hard to describe or get unless your British as well... its a sense of humour and irony that only exists in the UK... it's an anomaly tbh.
monkeytroll wrote:It's something to do with anomolies in the space-time continuum caused by an unprecedented number of roundabouts compresed into such a smal area.
oh, and I am sad to report that Dishonored is not the game I thought it was going to be. Still a good game, but it's more like Assasains Creed I think, If you like that sort of game. Or perhaps I am just completely jaded by the Awesome Open-world of Fallout, I dunno. For some reason I played it for a couple of hours , but it just made me want to fire up New Vegas.
dsteingass wrote: oh, and I am sad to report that Dishonored is not the game I thought it was going to be. Still a good game, but it's more like Assasains Creed I think, If you like that sort of game. Or perhaps I am just completely jaded by the Awesome Open-world of Fallout, I dunno. For some reason I played it for a couple of hours , but it just made me want to fire up New Vegas.
FO and AC are too different to be compared tbh. FO is FPS with a large slice of plot, whereas AC is a humongous peice of plot with an RPG side to it.
having said that, AC:3 is supposed to be a lot more free roaming than previous games, and is set outside New York circa American war of Independence.
I looked at Dishonoured for the first time the other day, and it smacked of steampunk-esque AC... which was a let down tbh. Especially for a Bethesda game...
AC just isn't the type of game I enjoy personally,(I have not played any of the AC series)...too much subterfuge involved, I prefer a Straight-up fight, preferably at medium to close range wielding shotguns, especially shotguns.
>And yes, Dishonored is all about plot. You sneak over a fence, and you need to listen to long, slow conversation dialog..all the damn time. And if you miss something, you can't replay the holotape, so I don't have any idea what to do. Basically, you were framed for the murder of the Empress, so you want to get even, I understand that part. However, it has a morality engine, I need all the runes I can get, because those buy spells, but to get one of those runes, I had to infect a still of bootleg Plague Elixer with the very Rat Plague that is responsible for the corpses that are EVERYWHERE, no place for the dead, they are filling river barges full of corpses, but they are just everywhere. You can play the game completely non-lethally, but I don't want to.
dsteingass wrote: AC just isn't the type of game I enjoy personally,(I have not played any of the AC series)...too much subterfuge involved, I prefer a Straight-up fight, preferably at medium to close range wielding shotguns, especially shotguns.
>And yes, Dishonored is all about plot. You sneak over a fence, and you need to listen to long, slow conversation dialog..all the damn time. And if you miss something, you can't replay the holotape, so I don't have any idea what to do. Basically, you were framed for the murder of the Empress, so you want to get even, I understand that part. However, it has a morality engine, I need all the runes I can get, because those buy spells, but to get one of those runes, I had to infect a still of bootleg Plague Elixer with the very Rat Plague that is responsible for the corpses that are EVERYWHERE, no place for the dead, they are filling river barges full of corpses, but they are just everywhere. You can play the game completely non-lethally, but I don't want to.
You see I like the subterfuge tbh, I loved MGS because of that, and I'm a historical nut so AC makes the nice transition of both worlds.
You make Dishonoured sound better than it first looked tbh... I might pick it up eventually when its cheap or on pre-owned then. I like the idea of the non lethal approach, too many games where murder is key these days, so it makes a nice change imo.
hahahahaha yeah, makes sense... I have clynical depression, paranoia and anxiety... If I keep killing things in games, I'm afraid I'd do it in real life lols
OK fell in late but Milton Keynes is built on a grid system (new concept to the UK ) hence every few yards you come to a round about, basically once you get in to it you cant get back out
I have relatives that live their …….. well survive their at least
Also Dave thought I would post these they turned up today and well they were better than I hoped they would be, they are also a hard plastic so converting should be fun
Oh Cool! Those Marx cars look great LDD! Not much need for conversion at all! Maybe just some dents and broken glass/missing trim, etc.
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Yes, I need to do something about the light bleed-through, one fething thing after another..
No, I just like the look of the cars and they turned up in a search on ebay, I have to say I am glad the plastic is a hard plastic and not that soft crap.
I bought 3 sets of 4 cars so a little conversion work will be done here and there, so maybe a slightly damaged car may appear with some work
I was going through some old stuff and found a load of conversion bits and minis and thought they would make a nice gang, then I needed vehicles as well but wanted something more civilian style
Hence the search on ebay and these popped up and I thought of your thread and FO and had to buy them, well come on the look is to cool not to use, the gangers will be slick stylised gangers with a sci-fi feel to them.
I agree with El Vik on the bleed-through issue. After it's painted, I doubt there will be any bleed-through. However if you are still concerned about it, prime and paint the inside around the lights too.
As for the rest of the 20+ pages I had to catch up on....
Wow.
You just do the coolest stuff Dave!
But after you posted the game shot of it, I think you need to build a Nuka-Cola Fridge as well!
I don't think paint will be enough on the bottom, will it? I'll have to cover the sides of the LEDs with something so it doesn't bleed that rectangular light chamber under the interior. I really bit off more than I can chew with this damn project, it's gotta get done, and I still haven't even started on the rear circuit, nor do I know how I am going to get the rear fin tail lights to be lit. That plan went ploin-shaped too.
LDD, would you be willing to part with 1 set of them?
Automatically Appended Next Post: Thanks Jake! I think you are right..the fridge must be done.
If those LEDs are just for the light out the bottom, you could potentially seal all around the LEDs with opaque glue (like from a hot glue gun thing). That would stop the LEDs from lighting the rest of the area.
Those Marx cars DO work well LDD
http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=18609.0 Speaking of tinfoil, I've seen people take the marx cars, cover them with foil, then use the foil as a mold to make a bunch of them for scrap piles too.
It is a 39" long kit of the USOS Seaview, a fictitious privately owned nuclear submarine, it was the setting for the 1961 motion picture Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
I'd have thought that primer and paint would hide those rectangular bleedthroughs, maybe a coat of black inside if you're that concerned - I'm assuming the circles are downward facing spots? It's been a while since I last saw it in action so can't recall the layout
Yep, they have clear lenses that I glued in already too, so I'll need to carefully mask those inside and out. It just keeps finding ways to piss me off.
dsteingass wrote: Yep, they have clear lenses that I glued in already too, so I'll need to carefully mask those inside and out. It just keeps finding ways to piss me off.
Yeah, feel your pain. Some models just seem to want to make things difficult.
It's not the model itself, it's flawless. Everything fits absolutely perfectly, just like all new digital-designed kits, it's my damn fool ideas to light it that have given me problems for months now.
This big 8-window model? Or the 4-window model? -The 4-window TV version is a smaller scale, but has more detailed interior rooms than this bigger one does for some strange reason.
@ LDD- Man those cars are wicked awesome! They remind me a LOT of the Limos for the Genestealer Cult posted in White Dwarf many, many (many) years ago. Those are so perfect. I want one. Or two. Would fit on my board as wrecks, or even functional vehicles. Stats for Necromunda maybe.
@ Dave- You'll find a way out of this at the last minute and produce something incredible (again).
Is it just me or is Briancj not around lately? I'm losing track of almost everything so I might have missed something.
Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:@ LDD- Man those cars are wicked awesome! They remind me a LOT of the Limos for the Genestealer Cult posted in White Dwarf many, many (many) years ago. Those are so perfect. I want one. Or two. Would fit on my board as wrecks, or even functional vehicles. Stats for Necromunda maybe.
@ Dave- You'll find a way out of this at the last minute and produce something incredible (again).
Is it just me or is Briancj not around lately? I'm losing track of almost everything so I might have missed something.
Apparently his job has been busier than expected. add in some truly craptacular weather to drain your soul... (I've been WAY less productive than I could have been...)
Sweet project! I have a Honda Accord model car I want to 'play' with but i don't know if anyone would care to watch me butcher a model i haven't played with for about 18 years!
HAHA Thanks Vik!
Corvega Door Shield, this was the easy part of the conversion
Fire Hydrant weapon and shopping cart backpack with plasma grenades all have to be scratchbuilt still.
The trolly was the first thing I noticed when you downed the Behemoth outside GNR lols... I walked up to it... looked at it, and went "that is a big trolley and fire hydrant"
Do you have any idea how much I want to steal all of your FO themed models... they are some of the coolest ones I've seen on this (nearly 400 page (congrats!)) thread!
Been a while since I saw one so can't recall if this is correct, but haven't the trolley back-packs been convertedby the behemoths?
The wire under the handle (the rear of the trolley) removed and wire added over the top, so that when it's worn there's just an opening at the top?
Whoa thats a cool behemoth! The door, hydrant and necklace are great but the shopping cart and power armour arm brace are phenomenal!
Thats so cool how the mesh and wire became instantly recognisable as a mini shopping trolley, they would be great as scenery outside the front of a super duper mart =)
i think that trap door thingy where you push the trolley usually will flip inside the trolley room... remember those cages made from trolleys all over the game? just the same principle...
and i would add at least one solemn cartweehl to the mix...just for the lulz...
and you gotta love your PC inventivness...that hydrant... needs to be done for scenic casting purposes too!!!...
Of course vik I seem to have forgotten how shopping trolleys are constructed Once it's on his back the flap would drop down to form the'back' of the pack.
Thanks guys! The shopping cart was all from experience, actually When I was a kid, my Mom worked at a Grocery Store that was, at the time, largely unchanged from the 1950s. I must have remembered the 50's styling and shape subconsciously of the cart
And yes Vik, You are correct about the flap that allows them to be stacked upat the front of the store or in the cart-corral thing out in the parking lot! Monkey just helped translate your idea, that was the secret that was escaping me
:/ Dave... you won't like me now... but... I just had another look at the Behemoth... and its shopping trolley is weird... the opening is at the top... not along the back like you'd expect... its a bit silly... but yeah it's like its squished the trolley onto its own back :S
Oh I'm not too worried about the opening, the top is solid mesh in trhe front-on pics, I'll probably just leave it open as-is, it demonstrates the general idea enough methinks
Looks nasty and mean and bloody huge dave! awesome conversion with the car door, i like it :-) the trolly will look sweet when he's all painted up..... all painted up..... hmmm hint hint, might get you to 400 pages faster too ;-)
dsteingass wrote: There will be no bulking, sorry You're telling me that the FEV virus would mutate them all precisely the same way?
Besides, the primer is drying.
And it's better than anyone else's Behemoth mini!
ok...that scaleshot really helped to put us into the right perspective... it is really huge... we need to see it beside a catachan
and well... thanks monkey for translating my gibberish
and IF you would want to enlarge the head... just add a big helping of liquide green stuff ... you couldnt probably ruin it...as all the unevenesses you would create would look like outstanding veines anyway...
Automatically Appended Next Post: by the way... what´s that behemoth mini from? can´t recall that atm...
It's From Dark Age Vik, Mongo, a member of the Outcasts faction (cool Mad Max style minis)
http://www.dark-age.com/ This may help the scale perspective
dsteingass wrote: Yeah, just waywatcher green glaze, blue ink, red ink, athonian camoshade, and nuln oil. I need all the help with definition I can get
congrats on the 400! and btw there are the west coast super mutants are green, while the east coast super mutants are yellow, its because they where .. mutated at different military bases
Rogue Wolves wrote: congrats on the 400! and btw there are the west coast super mutants are green, while the east coast super mutants are yellow, its because they where .. mutated at different military bases
spoilers dude... some of us are still yet to finish the game
dsteingass wrote: Brother Vinni's SuperMutant is a Dead Ringer for Meansonofabitch from New Vegas
His skin is very green, they are not all the same
Yeah two different FEV sources, those ones are from the Mariposa military base while the FO3 ones have a sort of mutated form of it. The difference was the FO3 strain made them grow further as they aged and made their faces stuck the way they are.
Should also make some Nightkin eventually.
With Tabitha of course. and perhaps Lily.
Born in 2078, Lily lived a simple life in Vault 17 - until the Master's army raided the vault. The 75-year old grandmother was dragged outside, where she saw the sun for the first time.
Lily was then dipped in the vats of Forced Evolutionary Virus, emerging as a super mutant. She became one of the Master's elite guards - a nightkin - working sometimes as a spy or an assassin.
Fallout New Vegas, they're a type of super mutant called nightkin. Basically like the other western mutants, but they're stealth based being addicted to stealthboys causing a fair amount of mental issues with them. Pretty much they don't like it when someone can see them and will usually fly into a rage about it.
Looking at it they were in all of them except FO3.
Totally agree love the conversion work (plus some dam fine minis witch I have to buy know ) the door is cracking and the fire hydrant looks great although I think the top section needs a curve to it.
The shopping trolly is cracking love that, I might not really like the game it but the creativity it has inspired is worth it
I have nothing to add other than...... 400! ...... congrats dave! that's great and in a year? wowzers..... you must be totally cooler to hang out with than me!
Yes, it was the first Generation Super Mutants created at Mariposa which made the smart SuperMutants in all colors. In this way, FO:NV has more in common with the older games fluff-wise. FO:3 is understandably different, as the East Coast story was largely untold until then.
All of it is the Enclave's fault ultimately though.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Perhaps this snippet from the Fallout Wiki will help the great skin color debate
Average super mutants stand approximately 10.4 feet tall (although they typically stand with hunched backs that reduce them to about 7.8 feet) and weigh around 800 pounds, possibly even more. Their skin color is predominately grayish green in case of Mariposa mutants and yellow with tints of red and green in the case of Vault 87 ones, although some mutants with other skin colors also exist. Their skin is extremely tough, and their muscle and bone structure are enhanced well beyond the human norm.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Super_mutant
I think I'll Commission RSJake to help make this one happen once he gets his family all settled in Even a Pip-Boy arm bit (or a multipart?) would be worth having!
Automatically Appended Next Post: I guess I'll just kep auto-appending until some good samaritan clicks me
Skin Progress
I'm not sure, it's a swirly radioactive mix of color, that's for sure Done in EXACTLY this order
Left to Right
WW Green glaze, Lamenter's yellow glaze, fuegan orange, cass yellow, and ath camoshade shadows
the skin color reallly comes along pretty well... i was ...again... very skeptic...and again unneeded...
and dave??? it seems you never run across a laser gatilng before? by the way... is that your player or lady geeks one?... i am asking because when i started for the second time i changed sexes and now i look at a firm female bum much more interesting now to endlessly run through the wastelends^^
Automatically Appended Next Post: and yes... another yellow coat of glaze might be helpful here...
also... could you describe how the new paints work? i think you are able to give a good description... i seem to lack a basic grasp of understanding here...
That skin tone is working out really well. The supermutants look very cool.
A bit more yellow wouldn't hurt, but they look pretty close to what they should as is.
The additional bonus to playing as a female character is if you take the "black widow" perk you get a damage bonus against the opposite sex and most of the baddies are male...and that's a good excuse unless someone catches your girl wearing a nightdress...
OK they might not be that great but they have conversion potential just depends on the scale 
trolley and fire hydrant" 
