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i dont use a lightbox. i take the photos directly with my iphone. I place the mini on a handle blue tacking it to the top, and photo it against a piece of white paper. The only thing necessary is a bright white light bulb.
Of course the iphone has its drawbacks and is not as good as a good cam + lightbox but the effect is quite good enough. Check my plig for the results. its really simple. The photoshopped pics are just that.

I knew there'd be a moto-chariot in the mix!

Hey you done a lot since I been away! keep up the good work!

I've been playing Starbound, which's ground my productivity to a halt. ^^

New Californian Republic
Ranger



I've no idea what the original model is, I just found it along with a few others at my local market. £1 for it. That's me now got one of each of the types of rangers from New Vegas; Veteran, Patrol, and the regular ranger (ie the ones who don't wear armour, though I expect have the same rank as the patrol ones). Her skin's a little too dark on her face due to me having mixed up my glazes. =/

Wastelanders
Tweaked



That's a legitimate title. This one's from my Chaos army (note the giant star of chaos...). I thought that it might make a nice mystic type character for a darker faction, or just as a wandering character. He/she could make a nice little addition to a scenario, popping up guiding one of the sides to an objective, but having unknown intentions.

Terrain

Market Stalls



Just match sticks and spare bits of plasticard. The crowd barriers are by Ainsty Castings, though there's plenty of other bits and bobs in there.


And a fortified wall for towns or the like (it could be used to block off city streets too). Its a poundshop toy bus. I may have a go at making another for a gate, though I have a dozen of the things sitting about, so there's plenty of opportunities. Hopefully, in the distant future, I'll have enough junk walls made up to make a little township like Scrapheap (which is just the Junktown map, but I felt like being a neckbeard and referencing some obscure location instead). The graffiti on the side's mock Chinese propaganda reading "Fencui si ren bang : Smash the Gang of Four" and "Wei renmin fuwu : Serve the people". The one over the red star is something else, I just copied that one from some graffiti over a Chinese embassy, so I'm assuming its anti-communist instead.



Oh, plus a dumpster. This one's taken from a toy truck. I may buy up some more, though I don't know how economical buying them for a pound each is (though actually Ainsty casting charges something like £15 for two...).



Here's a shot of my proposed scheme for the Vault that I have planned. Yes, it will be an inhabited one. However, in my typical style, that's not to say it'll be clean. It wont be rusted to hell or anything, but I'm going for a worn out look. This particular piece's for the engineering area (I ran out of the right bricks quickly, so I've not managed to make much), with the whole thing intended to be modular. Its made from Hirst Arts molds.



Anyone know what these are? I bought them along with the earlier ranger. Some of them look a little Blake 7ish. Yes, that paint is damn heavy, as is half the cloth painted like skin (ya perv). Have a last wee look at them, as I expect to be chopping at least a few of them. The guys in long coats in the second image for instance may become Chinese Remants, whilst I'm not so keen on the proportions of the mad scientist, so he may need to have his arms amputated.



I may give more terrain a go this week as I feel that I've made a decent enough impact on the unpainted model front for the moment (I still have a pile of them sitting in a box though). Yes, that chariot thing is still not finished, as do I have a few more bits and pieces sitting half painted too. Aside from those the main shanty town shacks are a bit of a bore to paint, but there's still plenty of other bits to make my way through. Meh, maybe the allotment plot, I dunno. Quit forcing me to commit.

Absolutely love the wall, you've really got the weathere/worn look down to a T, it looks fantastic.

And, the insides of a vault?? That, I can't wait to see!

I've been a bad person and gone shopping today. Suffice to say some more remnants will be appearing in future, but not all necessarily Chinese, though more on theat when I get around to un-boxing them. The Chinese soldiers are taking a back seat until my FLGS manage to get a box of Wargames Factor Russians in. Yesterday's output now...

The Brotherhood of Steel
Brotherhood Elder (Bought along with those other mysteries)


I didn't really like the model, so... crap paint job. Moving on...

Wastelanders
Super Mutant (Mantic Games Ogre)


And a terrain piece. That's a Miniature Mojo wolf if anyone's interested (and not me toting that great wee store or anything...). The car's a die cast that I bought from Poundland. The walls are Tamiya 1/35 scale brick walls.



Ah, and I pose ye a question three. Or just one. How's this look as an American jet? I spent a while in my other FLGS (there's like four) looking for one that resembled those seen in Fallout 3. As far as I can tell this is the closest approximation. Well, its closeish. There was another version (this being the naval one) that was closer, however I wasn't quite wanting to fork out an extra £5 for a terrain piece. I'm intending to use it as a terrain piece, ie a crashed one. Should I feel sufficiently flippant with my cash in future (or come across one on the cheap) I may just buy the regular one, and perhaps a Chinese MIG too to work as similar terrain as well (or maybe a flying one like one of the original Fallout's loading screens).




Next up? Um... Hmn, I have some half painted terrain sitting on my table. ...But that's a tad boring to paint. I have Enclave planned, but I promised those to myself as a Christmas present. Hmn, well I could always paint those twenty dogs I bought today. Oh my life is just a non stop thrill show.

Just for your own information, and future reference, the aircraft in Fallout looks more like an F-80 Shooting Star fighter

Heh, that's the second person that's called me on that.

Thanks for telling me that though. I don't think I seen any of those in the model shop today, but yes, that looks perfect. I haven't played Fallout 3 in monthe, so when I was picking up a plane it was a little half remember set piece. Oh well, the one I picked still looks quite suitable in my eyes to serve as an American jet fighter in the Fallout world. The US mothballs everything, so perhaps when they were scrambling their jets that particular one was thrown up as well (or its just another jet in US service). I guess I'll have a look out for one of those next time, though thanks, its not as if I have a hard enough time not buying stuff as it is. ^^'

I think it's probably close enough, sure it will look good once it's been completed.

Fantastic job on the ogres by the way, that's a really cool conversion.

Well today I was buying in food for Christmas dinner. I happened to pop into Pound Stretcher for the first time in years and happened upon these. So yeah, an aircraft graveyard may be on the lines in future (or perhaps I'll just use the wings for walls Megaton style, or strap on some wheels to the fuselage and use them as raider buggies).



And I may as well throw in a quickie of yesterday's shopping too. Some of it I have plans for, the rest was just cheap. *Kleptomaniac Uh, ignore the shoe.


Besides that I've been working on some ...things, but as some of the bits I'm needing are being shipped in from Russia and Poland, they'll take a while to appear here (what you like seeing headless models). * Bats eyelids

As real life's gotten in the way today I've not managed to finish anything of note, so sorry about the amazing pictures of boxes. There's a bit of terrain for me to work on and hopefully stick up tomorrow (though my camera's owner is being a bit of a grump about me using it), but till next time. =P

Oh, and I just bought Project Zomboid, so buh bye updates (nah, I'm on holiday, so productivity for everyone!).

Nice choice of authors on your bookshelf. Ahh, been missing a bit of book porn on the forums lately....

Looking forward to some battered old caravans too.

@monkeytroll

Eugh, don't say that. On the shelf above that I have some of Brian Herbert's work (unread).

Anyhow, two points that I may need some help on. One, could anyone suggest appropriate insignia for some US combat armour? I mean the markings borne on the shoulder pads and chest piece (if any). I could wing it, and fluff wise the style may differ from the real world ones, but I'd be happy if anyone who actually knows about this kind of thing could help me.

Second, I'm looking for some Maoist slogans to plaster on my Chinese remnants vehicles. Ones from actual Chinese vehicles from the 40s-60s would be nice, but I'm not bothered. I could just bother one of my Chinese friends, but I know full well that they'll just have me paint "Oh my gawd, Ponies?!".

Anyway. At the moment I'm painting up some Viscous Dogs/ Raider Guard Dogs for a bit of clutter. After that I have a BA-64b sitting on my desk, with another one still in its box for use with the remnants (and possibly Raiders with the second one). Hopefully that little scout car will look good all rusted up and with a nice golden star painted on the side. There's also a KV-1 sitting about somewhere to give the remnants more armour, though I'm a bit iffy about what to do with it exactly. I may just go the route of what I have planned for the T-34 and remove the turret, turning it into a Kangaroo of sorts, but I haven't really thought about it considering the main reason I bought the thing was that it cost less than the scout cars did.

American armoured divisional insignia from WW2, the number dictates the division, such as this is the patch for the 4th division.




Allied Star carried by most American vehicles (as well as the other allied vehicles)

Best I can come up with right now!

The power armoured soldiers are part of the US cavalry IRC, though I think they have different insignia. At the moment as far as the Americans go I was wondering what some US border guards stationed up in Canada would be bearing on their armour, as the models I'm using are fairly heavy in cold weather gear. Fallout: New Vegas had a suit Army combat armour, but it was lacking any insignia, though I may use the colour scheme (its really just meant to be the armour from the first two games, whereas 3 reskinned it to be suitable for deserts).

45th Infantry Insignia, Oklahoma national guard, It used to be a swastika until the rise of the NASDP came to power in Germany, then it turned to the Thunderbird, a native American symbol. You could use an exsisting symbol and twist it to fit the world, as for border patrol.



However, this link may prove useful
http://www.flickr.com/groups/788950@N20/pool/tags/insignia/

and for military insignia
http://militaryinsignia.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/insignia-of-us-army-infantry-divisions.html

hope any of this is helping!

Well its for some American troopers wearing the remains of winter combat armour. The Dust Tactics Americans have a different look than those seen in Operation Anchorage, however I would think that soldiers stationed in Canada over the winter would be wearing something a bit heavier and not quite so tactical (and besides all Bethesda did was retex and remodel the base combat armour a little). Hmn, I may sculpt a patch onto their sleaves looking at those you sent me, and go for an American flag on one shoulder, and another unit designator on the other. A little strip to represent the patch for the soldier's name could go across the left breast of their combat armour too. Ah, plus a separate circular patch to emulate the Border Patrol insignia. Meh, such details won't probably be too noticeable on the models, but I'd like to give them a go anyway.

Ah, well. To let that particular cat out of the bag, I've been considering making some American Remnants. Similar to the Chinese in their introverted attitude to the rest of the wastes, with a bit of introvertism, but also an inability to integrate with the rest of wasteland society due to it being an unknown, and a fear that they won't be accepted due to their ghoulish nature. I'm over thinking their background a tad, though I feel I need to justify to myself why the remnants exist at all as a faction where others have moved on.

Tah necrovamp for those links. New Vegas' inclusion of the 11th Armoured Cavalry Regiment (albeit with slight differences to their insignia) sets up a premise that the US retained at least some of the real world units. Of that list you referenced the 10th Mountain Division or 23rd Infantry Division's markings appeal to me (not at all because the latter's using Scottish symbols...). I guess a group of surviving soldiers could be made up of the members of various regiments. Thinking about it I could very well just not add any particular regiment insignia at all, the soldiers having removed them to represent a brotherhood above their old organisations, or they could still be wearing them due to a sense of duty or nostalgia. Perhaps I'm over thinking little details that nobody'll ever notice? I suppose at least it could be used in their background fluff should I right up a battle report for any games I play with them.

It may be a while until I can work on either force of Remnants due to waiting on orders from abroad of parts. It may also be a while before I can take any more pictures too due to issues with the camera's owner. Still, hopefully whenever I do manage to take photographs next I'll have more stuff to show off.

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Ah, I also I just came back from watching Anchorman 2. I may just paint poorly translated Brick Tamland quotes on the side of my tanks instead. The first armoured car I painted has things like "成, Cheng" (referring to Chairman Cheng, the leader of China before the war), "残余, Remnants" and "猎犬, Hound" (just a colloquialism for the cars) written on it, but on the next one I may just paint "卷饼, Burrito!" instead. ...Pity I don't know any Chinese gamers to call me out on painting dumb stuff. ^^

Leftovers or remnants of America, I thought that was the Enclave!


Powered armor from Brother Vinnni is very FO-1 and 2 ish, New Vegas remnant PA suitish


of course the guy which holds the gatling gun I have as if he were the hellfire armored trooper


I did find this amongst my wanderings


Looks almost like the RNC veteran rangers


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Scary looking poster for the Enclave

Oh I have Enclave Remnants too on the way, but I just felt like going for some ghoulified American troopers considering I'm making Chinese ones. There was a terribly written mod (Bolder Dome or something) that included them, so what the hell?

The guy Vinni makes with the gatling gun's actually wearing Vault Tec Power armour, a mod for Fallout New Vegas, and partly based on a suit from Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. He does however sell Hellfire helmets implying that he did have a go at them once, but never produced the full models. * Wow, those are crap textures in that Fallout 3 screenshot btw. Is that the console version or something? 0.0


I'm going to be using Dust Tactics Paratroopers with different heads and a bit of conversion work as my Advanced Power Armour Mk1 troopers (Enclave Remnants armour). Though as with the ghouls I'm waiting on the heads being delivered.


As far as the un-powered armoured Enclave troopers for the moment I'm considering the Mantic Games corporation troopers. However I have ordered in some alternatives models to give a try, but the concept art piece seems a bit more suitable (heh, its been years since I last saw that one). The Enclave did equip its troops with combat armour (a few of the soldiers at Navarro wear it), but Fallout 3 chose to just show every solider in power armour (presumably as they were combat squads rather than on garrison duty). Given the crude looking nature of the armour I went for calling it an early iteration of that particular variant, whilst it looks closer to to T-51b than the T-45d, thus the later model number. ...

And I do happen to have a folder on my computer right now full of relevant posters to use later on. I'm trying to stay away from the Advanced Power Armour Mk2 considering that my Enclave are remnants, not those that appeared in 3. The Mk2 armour went into mainstream use after the destruction of the oil rig, so it wouldn't be seen in large numbers outside of those Enclave stationed in Washington DC, or at least linked to that group somehow.

My FLGS has a sale on their Dust Tactics stuff which is why I've been buying it up. The Axis Heavy Recon Grenadiers are going to be joining my Brotherhood of Steel as T-49a power armour, a prototype suit that was never produced in the same numbers as the revolutionary T-45d or T-51b suits. Meh, I just like the look of the models and wanted to use them for something (yes I'll have a go at adding some shoulder pads to better fit with the right aesthetic).



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Oh and when I say I have a folder of posters, I mean lots of posters. I gave it a bit of a clearout a while ago, but its sitting at about two hundred and fifty Fallout or culturally relevant pictures right now. ...Yes, lots of art deco styled movie and game posters too. Youknow, because I've already spammed Super Mario graffiti everywhere, so there's no point in following through the adhering to fluff pretence too much.



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And that flag in that poster you posted shasolenzabi is wrong! Sorry, but sake they even had the cheek to overlay the correct Enclave one over it. !

Yeah the enclave stuff was in the 360 X-box FO-3 add on for the Broken Steel

Insignia on models at this scale isn't really needed, but it would add a nice bit of depth to the models, especially when you add the background that you just wrote. Other people may not know what's going on but you will.

Plus there's a little sadist in me that wants to see you paint these tiny things on these models!

Well my FLGS still hasn't ordered in those Russians for my Chinese Remnants, so they're going to have to remain shelved till some time after the new year. Yay. =P

Anyway... (damn, its been three weeks I've been waiting on that boxset to be ordered...) ...uh, updates!

The Brotherhood of Steel
Paladins in T49-a Power Armour (Dust Tactics Axis Heavy Grenadiers, heads from Brother Vinni/ West Wind)


Just the one, I'm awaiting my order from Brother Vinni and I'd prefer to have most of them helmeted. The angle's a little crap, but the poses are better on the unpainted/ unheaded ones. =P

As I'm using the Allied power suits as Advanced Power Armour Mk1, I wound up with some Axis suits on the side. These ones looks somewhat similar to T51-b, but a bit less techy. As a result I'll be using them as an early prototype of one of the later armour variants. There was a decade of development between the T45-d and T51-b suits, these were an early deployment of T49 series. By the time of the US invasion of China I would imagine they would have still been in wide service (T51-b was standard issue, whilst T45-d was used by the national guard and some mainstray units), but due to the rapid development of the armour they wouldn't have been produced in the same numbers as the two mentioned types.

These suits look kind of like a stopgap between the two mks. Overall they have the more rounded shape of the T51-b, but have a cruder look associated with the earlier suits. The shoulder pads are also more angular than the T-51b, as are there energy packs on the back like the one featured on the T45-d (the little box on the back of the waste). They look kind of like early prototypes rather than full production models, or perhaps they're just earlier mks than T-49a (its an arbitrary number, I just thought the models looked like something between the two suits shown). Whatever, I'm rambling. ^^'

Wastelanders
Vicious Dogs (Zombicide Zombie Dogs)


Lots of models, excuse the lack of focus, sorry.

A pack of rapid dogs to swarm upon unwary travellers in the wastes. Beyond roaming about, they could serve as Raider guard dogs too. The torn flesh makes them look much more feral than those that I've previously made. They're a little large, but I suppose that's just because they've had to develop that way to fend off the other beasts of the wastes (and hey, a little radiation and mutation is the best way to help a young pup grow).

Remnants (I like to order things by specific factions, with everything else going in the "Wastelanders" section. As I'm adding more the smaller factions will receive their own sections too << OCD).
BA-64b "Hound" Scout Car (Tamiya)


What a sexy little beast. I dunno, I just like the model. The shop that I bought it out of had another two, so I may just buy those up as well and turn them into raider buggies (they do have a certain look to them). I felt like the remnants could do with their own vehicles, beside the T-34T, and these looked quite suitable. I would love to find a BTR-40 for them, but alas I can't seem to find a single manufacturer of them in the right scale (or any scale for that matter). Judge Dredd featured one strip involving Mongolion raiders (flying red flags) attacking Hondo City (Japan) with a couple of troops riding one of those, and well it looked damn good.

Largely in use by the USSR and China post WWII, these scouts cars and their later derivatives would see use throughout the twentieth century. By the late 21st however they had been superseded by newer models, though were still seeing use in the hands of either country's allies and in some backwater guard posts. By the time of the Great War however the Chinese deployed a number of these scout cars in the US for the use of its insurgents, exploiting its small size to hide in within goods shipments and the like (*). 200 years on these cars still remain in the hands of their Chinese owners, their sturdy Russian engineering and generations of hardy improvement and upkeeping leading to them remaining to be an valuable asset. Despite the remnants holding onto a number, the majority of such infiltration vehicles were destroyed soon after their deployment. The remainder that have survived see rare use by enigmatic courier companies and the occasional band of highway vagnabonds.

*Yes, this is me just adding to the fallacy that the Chinese deployed military equipment on US soil alongside their insurgency operation. I would imagine that any insurgents would be better served using a regular car as opposed to one of these, but military equipment does give off a different impression.

Chinese Drone Units (Dust Tactics Paratrooper backpacks)


Seeing as I'm using the bodies of the paratroopers as Enclave troopers, I've been left with a couple of spare jet packs. I guess the Chinese have a somewhat more utilitarian look to their drones, compared to the world of tomorrow(!) style American ones.

I have a walker (did I mention I bought walkers ...hmn) sitting half painted on my table right now that may wind up in Brotherhood hands, though I'm undecided. The Legion Chariot thing is still unfinished as I keep becoming distracted by shiny things. I'm also undecided about giving it a rider, though if I do it would have to be magnetised to alternate between being based and riding, as would it be limited in posing (ie he'd need to somehow hold the reigns of the vehicle whilst also not looking silly when not holding them).

Anyone have any requests for what I should move onto next? I mean rather than my usual "ooh that looks cool!" affair. Hmn, here's a shortlist: Crashed Aircraft terrain, Chinese Remnants Tanks (a T-34 APC and/or a KV-1), a group of Shi (Urban Mammoth Triads, I'll call them "Imperial Guards), or some miscellaneous terrain (probably camper vans/busses).


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Ah, also I'm looking for either a Soviet BTR- 40/ 152 or an Israeli RBY MK 1 for use with my Chinese Remnants. All of which are a bit niche (...despite seeing wide use), so a compatible scale may be a bit iffy to find, if any miniatures can be found at all. A site called Company B are intending to make the BTRs, but they seem to not have worked on them in a while, so I'm not holding out on buying any from there any time soon (...though they may turn out to be my only option). As for the RBY MK 1 I'd really like one to emulate one featured in the 2000AD Judge Dredd spinoff story Tiger Sun, Dragon Moon, which was in use by post apocalyptic Chinese forces and looked rather neat painted up in their colours. However I am open to suggestions of other similar looking wheeled vehicles that have a kind of blocky look to them, as it wouldn't take much for me to justify one showing up in the Remnant's hands for whatever reason. So if anyone happens to be able to place any of those it'd be appreciated.

Man, the new stuff looks awesome.
Great job!

Nice work here, keep it up

My Reaper order arrived a few days ago. I've still to sift through it, but here's the wee bit I painted.

New Californian Republic
Rangers (Reaper, various, just search Cowboy/ Western)


More plain clothed rangers, to allow for less militant scenarios. By that I mean ones not involving the regular troops, rather a group of rangers duking it out with the locals.

Wastelanders
Giant Rats (Reaper)


* Horrible focus. I may just take pictures of individual groups next time. =/

Some critters to act as GM controlled models (...I mean npcs... things). That's eighteen of the blighters to go along with my four rat swarms. They'd work well in scenarios taking place in Vaults (ie the rats have chewed in and a small force of Vault Security officers have to go deal with the vermin- then the real boss shows up. ...I donno Glowing Ones of something- which they were actually running from), etc.

Bark Scorpions (Reaper-- bit moot stating this)


Yup, more of these too.

Besides that. Some teasers for my entry into the League of Riveters competition. Teasers as in I've not finished anything else. =P

"Way out west beyond the great dust bowl the airmen connect the shattered remnants of what's left of society. The Long Haul's the watering hole and clean (well they're not full of rad mites ready to bite your butt off) beds for those pilots making this hard journey coast to coast. Little more than a shack surrounded by the scrap of a history of failed expeditions, its a welcome residence for those that find themselves on its doorstep. The pilots come here to stop up over their trips, to sit down and tap Old Sue's keg of bitter, to catch up with old acquaintances and remember better times. Its walls are littered with tails of the wasteland from those that've braved its harshest confines. Scribbles in a dozen languages, from the old world and the new, dot every surface (even the grog mugs); messages for old friends, leads to riches, and of warnings of disreputable traders and places that no sane pilot should fly (that that discounts but a few). A crap hole by even a scav's standards, and by most of its patrons too, but home to those few who're still keeping those townships that cling on connected, the hubris of a vital network, if little more than a shack made from the wreckage of those that tried and failed, but at least were remembered (if only by a slanderous remark scratched into the wall of a resthouse). "

You can tell I spent a massive amount of time on that...

A sign made from a crashed aircraft wing. A Mustang I think. * Oops, the star's upside down.


The proprietor of the "Long Haul's" residence, a beat up caravan that sits around the back of the resting spot.


The aforementioned down aircraft. It still needs a base and some gap filling.


And a bit of exterior fencing. This bit includes an old flagpole along with what was intended to be a washing line, but I just went with some little flag things instead (because sculpting clothes is finnicky).


Those models in the background of the last two are my future Daughters of Hecate. I'm kind of regretting buying the resin versions of them rather than the metal ones though, as the detail's a bit faint on them. =/

Always good for having boundary markers

The caravan is fantastic!! Although it needs a bit of weathering! It looks like it just came off of the assembly line Some kind of toy?

I agree... the caravan is mind-blowing wyrmalla....wow...this will be an awesome scene...

Awesome thread thanks

Excellent. And inspired.

Looking Good!