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Its too damn hot today. ¬¬

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Updates. I said I was working on some bikers for a zombie game this week didn't I? Whilst I was priming them I thought, "hang on, why am I making generic bikers when I could tie them into Fallout?". So, yes, now I have Great Khans. ...That's how things work apparently.




As ever they're Wargames Factory models that've been hacked up and had Warlord Games heads stuck on. The dogs are from the Famer Maggot set by Games Workshop (probably OOP at their rate). Yes they aren't like for like reproductions of the in game Great Khans obviously, but they fit the look well enough. The two guys with the dogs are the new cuts (or rather just the new guys seeing as they're wearing hoodies rather than jackets). Oh, and the guy second from the right in the first image with the pistol is my PC, he's a dick. =P

What else have I managed? I knocked out these two as well. The Ghoul's been sitting unpainted for a year, whilst the Enclave Officer is something that came about through having left over clay. =P




And now I have an officer without any men to lead...

I did start on a pair of carts too, but didn't have the time to finish them. One's a wooden thing by 4Grounds, the other's made from the back end of a car similar to those that appeared in the original games. Expect them to crop up soonish about these parts.

That'll be it for today then. I'll see about taking pictures of the zombie game tomorrow, though it'll probably use a mix of my S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Fallout terrain, plus a bit of my club's stuff. Meh, its pictures, so whether or not I post them really comes down to their quality rather than their content anyway.

Despite being on holiday all last week that really meant that I was pulling double the hours at uni doing other work. Not the time that I wanted to work on this stuff then. Last night I did squirrel away a couple of hours nevertheless.

The warehouse has been painted at least. Its not a 100% reconstruction of the ones from the original games, namely because I didn't have the corrugated plasticard there to make it anymore complex, but I doubt anyone will be calling me out on that. A bonus with this one is that I've actually bothered to make the doors too. I know, a revolutionary concept indeed.





I said that I would post an image of the larger building that I'm working on last week. Ah, well I said that intending to work on the thing further then so I would have something more substantial to show you now. Well that didn't exactly go to plan.

Here it is as it stands currently, unimpressive as it is. Two A4 sheets across (double the size of the warehouse). That's the first floor, with a second one planned to sit on top. Its still early days yet, mostly what's been done so far is to build the basic structure and work out where its going to go.



The plan is to fill out the walls then add a layer of milliput over them, so I'm not too bothered about how rough it may be. The rear areas will hold stair wells (or maybe just one stairway on the left side and have the right one hold a cupboard or something). I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of this thing is, possibly offices or something. When its done it'll stand at about three times its current height anyhow.

...That is if I don't throw it out of a window when I realise its too large to store properly. ¬¬

Today I had to stay at uni longer than I wanted, so I wasn't able to finish much more. Namely I have two carts sitting there like 75% done , but meh I'll leave them till I next have the time and perhaps bung them in with an update to that building. I don't have a game of this for at least another two weeks, so there's no rush on anything new (and I still haven't used any of that highway stuff yet). That said I'd be nice if I had the streets done whenever I next play, so maybe I'll look into finishing more of those off (smaller pavement sections are a must for one). Oh well, till next time.

Looks great! I always love detailed interiors.

Great work on the warehouse. Looks perfect in it's grubbiness.

* images are different sizes here as I uploaded the first two to a different site as I was at uni at the time. So rather than the 800 x 600 box you're used to, here have some hi-res goodness. Oh god you can see just how crap the details are now. 0.0

Argh, here be ye pictures on what I been doing then.

...Don't ask me why that was in pirate speak. Hmn, must watch that second season of Black Sails some time.

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Well I managed to clear a few bits off of my table yesterday which is nice. Firstly here's the first pair of statues from a set that I made to go along with urban terrain. The WIPs were posted here last year, but I never got around to painting them as they'd seem out of place without a city to surround them. ...I still don't have that city, but at least I've enough for a small pit stop.



They're 32mm miniatures from some sci-fi game with head swaps and the addition of some weapons. The plinths are foam mostly with balsa wood. I did want to have some American coins on the fronts with the US seal, but never got around to actually finding any so I went for the single star instead (...which is from some glitter).

They'll stand next to each other framing the entrance to a building probably to give off an impression of old world glory and what not.

After sitting unpainted for something like eight months, I had a go at tidying up this shack as well. It cropped up in a tutorial I made a while ago, but somehow fell by the wayside.




Here's two carts as well. The wooden one is from 4Grounds and is a laser cut card kit that I bunged some crap into the back of (the little robot's meant for a bracelet. I picked up a load of them). The other one started as a kit from the movie Cars (I posted another one as the Legion chariot from yonks ago, still unpainted) that wound up being hacked up into this ...thing. Obviously the idea comes from the first two games in the series.



Those will fill out a wasteland settlement nicely. Ooh, or perhaps turn up in an ambushed caravan scenario. I already have the two pack brahmin so I don't think I need to turn one of these into a brahmin drawn gaming piece, even if that would be a neat idea. ...I do have another couple of spare cows though....

Next? Who the hell knows. I donno ...maybe another ruin or some crap.

Done? Done. Now sling your hook. ...Jim lad.

Very nice catch up Wyrmalla! I do like the rusty, grungy feel of Fallout you capture

Just browsed through your gallery of stuff. All of it is so well done. Makes me want to just break out my fallout games and just play through all of them.

I started playing Fallout 3 because of your blog, Wyrmalla. I've actually had the entire series on Steam for a year now (cheap bundle sale) but apparently F3 crashes a lot on PC's that have processors with more than two cores. I'm glad you motivated me to make the effort to fix it.

@ shasolenzabi

Other people make it so clean. ...I may have too, if I wasn't such a lazy painter. Dry brushing and ink save the day once more!

@ aw_man

Tah man. Hey playing through the games is probably a better idea than actually sitting there trying to build them. Heh, I should see if I have pictures of my room for before and after I started working on all this crap. ...I know people didn't used to hell at me about it so much back then. Happy times. Oh wait I didn't have these models back then either.

@ Shadow Captain Edithae

Aye you can fix that simple enough. There's a fix as are there similar models on the Fallout 3 Nexus that patch the game to work better on modern PCs. While your there spend the next day of your life downloading a ton of mods which mean you won't quit playing the game until either Fallout 4 comes out or the game becomes such a buggy mess that you can't run the thing any more without constant crashes (in which case that's your excuse to do the same thing again with New Vegas, and if history repeats go back and play the originals). Heh, knowing that I've spurred you to waste away your life and be non productive warms my heart.

If I'd known that I was actually going to post this I'd have bothered making it something more than a vague doodle. Damn, but seeing as I'm replying I may as well throw this up as well. I've started on a war memorial to go along with the other statues that I have. Its early days yet (the actual model's still a frame that I've just started filling out), but hopefully I should have something or other to post tomorrow.



If I knew you people were going to be judging it I would've spent longer than a minute drawing it! Everyone's a critic.

Yeah I've already downloaded the unofficial Patch from Nexus and tweaked the games files to lock it to two cores or something. I still get somewhat frequent crashes (once every couple of hours) but its an improvement from the crash every minute I was having before. I just compulsively quicksave every couple of minutes.

Quicksaving actually causes more crashes. There's mods that improve stability over on the Fallout 3 Nexus (the same mods work for New Vegas too btw). CASM replaces quicksaving by making a hard save every couple of minutes instead (you can change the occurrence and the amount of hard saves kept as backup as well). If you have mods then crashing's a given, but if you're sitting at around the fifty mark you shouldn't be experiencing more than one every couple of hours like you said. Its just a pity how unstable the game can be, but that's what Wrye Bash and FOSE are for. =P

I'm on a bit of a statue buzz right now, so I started on a new one last night. This one will be a war memorial, perhaps for the Mexican war of 2051. Its early yet, but turning out pretty cool. I want it to look a bit like one that you'd find in the real world mixed in with Fallout's aesthetics (the doodle I have for it has those mournful faces you see on buildings in the series on each of the top part's sides).



Just stuff to set any urban environment I make away from our own every so slightly. Yes you could get away with using some Fallout terrain in another setting, but there's other bits that look just a tad wrong. ...Saying that you do find weird stuff abounds in your every day city.

I worked on the large building a bit as well.Nothing substantial enough to post, but the next round of work I do on it should have the first floor filled out. Its coming along at least, but I wouldn't hold out on having it done before the summer.

So a small update today, but there's you clued in on what I've been up to. If I can have that war memorial finished then it shouldn't take long to paint hopefully.

Huge monument statue there!

Also, my own B.O.S. guys may look clean at first, but they are washed to a darker color, and then highlighted for worn away areas, the boots dusty

@ shasolenzabi

Oh hell right, I forgot you had your own Fallout stuff man (heh, which may explain all the posting you do in this thread). Damn, sorry for not checking it out more, I think I'll pop into it later (my default assumption with the other threads here on Dakka is that they're all 40K, so I hardly look at what else is out there).

I had some time spare last night and not willing to start on one of my other projects I thought I'd give the building that I've been working on another bash.



I've started roughing out the first floor (second if you're American), working out the wall layout and what not. Right now I'm concerned mostly with just setting out where everything will go and how things will fit together. Once I've made sure all four parts (ground floor, first and second, plus a roof) are flush then I'll go back and start on the detailing. Here's my current plan for how things will be lain out:



Awesome paint floorplans as ever. ...Youknow I've sat two semester long modules on Photoshop. You'd never know that with this crap.

My intention then is to have three floors and a roof (which will sadly be inaccessible due to the current base size). I'm not sure how it'd work as a gaming piece, so I've tried to make how models move about the place a bit dynamic. The stairwells at the rear will be partly collapsed, meaning models would have to move across the entire building if they wanted to reach the top floor (heh, unless of course they have some sort of climbing equipment ...which is a thing). So it wouldn't be a very efficient thing to climb, but that's kind of the point. Urban warfare's a deathtrap, and with all the cover and ambush points in this thing hopefully that'll be the case if players aren't savvy enough (or I use it in zombie apocalypse scenarios which means the survivors will have some sort of chance to thin out the herd).

I think then that I may be on track with this thing. I'll see what else I can do with it tonight. At my current speed I'd think that I should have the roof done in another two-four nights or so, but of course that might well end up taking over a week or two to actually fit in that time. In any case this thing's looking a bit more substantial than it was previously. I may not have it finished any time soon, but when its done it'll hopefully look pretty great on an urban table. Hey if it turns out well I may end up making something else on this scale so I can have a proper ruined city table board.

...Hmn, anyone else think that I've gone overboard with all this terrain considering that its all for a skirmish sized game on a 4 x 4 table? This twenty something page long thread may agree with that. ;D

Damn these are inspiring! I love the floor plans too, it's something im terrible about. I just wing it half the time and if I dont like how something fits up? Whoops blown out section...

I don't think this is overboard at all unless your feeling obligated to do it. What you have is great but if you feel inspired to keep going it only improves the game too.

I get distracted (from my minis) on my terrain projects all the time but in the end I love the result and you have to do what inspires you!

Oh I am liking that huge multi-storey building there! awesome!

Oh no worries, I cross all over the game universe.


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@ FearPeteySodes

Pft, floor plans, I hardly even touch those things unless I'm making something modular. Nah, I just make sure all the walls are the same size as I build things. ...Which ah, typically winds up not being the case, with everything sitting at a mild angle. Woops.

@ shasolenzabi

Soylent Cola? Heh. Those the ones dsteingass made by any chance? I aught to buy some, but for the amount I'd like I'm not sure if I'd be comfortable spending £5 each on the things.

Hmn, I wouldn't have thought of having one of those Vinni Paladin's pointing. I've noticed a lot of people using those models, but oddly nobody ever seems to give them an arm swap. The Gatling Laser guy can easily have his weapon swapped out for a regular rifle (I think I did that with mine, but its been ages since I even used those models).

Huh, well anyway its cool to see you're stuff too. Wait I remember seeing a Super Mutant with a heavy bolter too now. ...Ah, damn, you had to just bloody bring 40K into Fallout now didn't yah?


One more floor hashed out, now its just the roof to go before I go back and start filling in the gaps and adding a bit of balsa wood. ...After that then I can actually start on the proper details. =P



Currently its standing at roughly ten inches tall, with another couple going to be added on by the roof. Its not that heavy at the moment, but I can see it being once I start piling on the clay. Its occurred to me now actually that maybe I should fill in that middle window on the top floor and have a corporate logo on the front like the GNR building. Hmn, maybe...

Ah Wyrmalla, what does a weapon matter? it can stand in for one of any number of things a Supermutant can fight with.

Also, I was using the Supermutants as Ogryns, so I actually dragged Fallout into 40k!

Do you plan on making some sort of fallout-esque mini game with all those models or is it just for fun?

Huh? Oh I run skirmish scale games on a 4x4 table using a home brew version of the 7ombieTv rules system by Crooked Dice.




I'm running another game of it next week. A group of raiders have nabbed a merchant caravan and are holding the goods in the old garage their hiding out in. Some mercs are sent out to retrieve the goods (no care for the dead merchants obviously). I haven't been able to post many pictures of games lately, one because I haven't been running many, and two because the lighting in my club's been terrible for taking pictures. I'll see what I can do about it.

Nae pics tonight, sorry, as what I have isn't quite in a state worth posting. The building now has a roof ...so ah, yay about that. I'll still be working on it come Christmas no doubt. I'm painting up the war memorial and the second of those highway signs. A third centaur (by Messyart over on Lead Adventure, plug, plug, plug) is having a lick of paint too as I wasn't too happy about the first go I had. Before I went to my club tonight I couldn't be bothered painting much, but wound up making a few shipping ballets out of loose balsa too. Hmn, and what else? I started on adding more bits to my modular road and pavement sets as well, this time quarter sized pieces. Oh and a bit that'll do as an alleyway too, I'll make sure its mankier than the regular pieces.

So there's a lot on my plate right now I suppose. Not counting all the stuff that's sitting on the "to do" pile away from my desk. This is coursework submission season and I have exams soon unfortunately, hmn, but there's also the annual gaming show on the 9th of May to turn up to, so I may just wind up nattering on about what I nabbed there when that comes. Not sure then on how much work I can get done this week, though I should have something or other to post ...even if its just shipping pallets.

Solid updates. I'm in love with that officer you made, nice.

Before I went out to play a demo of X-Wing (decent game, nonsensical rules at times and I don't like the pre-paints) I felt like playing with my dollies. I couldn't be bothered painting anything I already had, so found some balsa and churned out a load of shipping pallets.



They're a step up from the previous ones that I'd made out of lollipop sticks. Pretty simple too. I have them pilled up as barricades there, but they're loose so they can be propped up randomly against walls or whatever as a bit of tat.

After I made it back I decided that posting shipping pallets here probably wouldn't be too interesting. I wound up painting a third of Messyart's Centaurs then (you can pick up one yourself if you send him a message over on Lead Adventure). I wasn't too happy how the first two came out, but this one's better.




Next week I have another game planned. The scenario, which has nothing to do with me just wanting to use whatever new stuff I've built, is pretty simple. A group of Raiders have hit up a merchant caravan and stolen their goods and brahmin. The guys who hired the merchant want their stuff back, so have sent out some Mercenaries to do so. The whole thing will take place around an auto-repair garage out in the sticks by a highway. Here's a hack job paint image of the planned layout, youknow just so I'm not talking at you about this. ...And because Microsoft Paint is the best piece of image creating software on the market obviously. =P



I started on more of those road and pavement sections too last night, this time quarter and eighth sized pieces. Oh and a bit that'll do as an alley between buildings as well. I was painting the war memorial and a second billboard too, but like I said I wound up making some shipping pallets when I got bored of those. Meh, I'll see what I can do over the weekend, though I have reports to submit and exams coming up, so don't hold out on me being that productive (or rather I'll wind up playing with my toys rather than working on real stuff obviously).

Keep up the awesome work! That 4x4 has the perfect terrain density for what I imagine for a Fallout board! The shanties are great. The bits on the roofs really add something extra.

Centaur looks right icky there! awesome work!

Here a WIP shot of the four shacks that I'm currently working on ...haphazardly stacked on top of each other because I CBA taking individual shots till they're painted. =P



Kind of makes me want to make this.



And with the one they're based off of for comparison.



When they're painted they'll look better, youknow with all the clashing materials, graffiti and posters. I won't have any more of the plasticard that I use to base these till next Friday unfortunately, so the next ones that I make will be using whatever of that I have left. So two larger ones are next on the chopping block I suppose. If I haven't said already these are to bring along to the annual wargaming show up here [url=http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/646705.page]to punt at the bring and buy sale[/ull]. Meh, I was wanting to see what people thought of my stuff anyway, so that's a perfect opportunity. If I still have any by the end of that they'll either be going into my existing pile of the things (because I can never be bothered painting enough of those), or maybe I'll toss them up here and see if they stick.

Ah, Ready Player One, excellent choice!

That will be a lot of scaffolding support, stairs, ladders and walkways added? Interesting idea, a apartment building made from RVs that are okay, or the shanty shacks all stacked like that.

It also reminds me of Container City in London

Well its a neat idea and I could actually probably do it with all the busses and RVs I have, hmn, but ah, well... maybe.

In the book the premise behind those is something like the world was running out of fossil fuels. People started migrating to the big cities on what little fuel they had left in their vehicles. When they reached them though they ran out of fuel, and nobody could afford to live in the cities. As a result the cars were piled up in junkyards and someone had the bright idea to live in the RVs. ...However space was at a premium, so they would up being stacked on top of each other like sky scrapers. Yes, the character in the book does make it clear how dangerous these are (with collapses being an occurrence), not just because some sections are only accessible by ladder.

Definitely a cool gaming piece. Though if I were to make some I'd have it so the exterior walkways can have models placed on them and maybe the top most caravans had interiors. Heh, I only meant that as a throwaway image, but damn, now I'm sitting here planning out how to make one. Definitely something interesting for post-apocalyptic and cyperpunk games.



In other news then... I have those four shacks being painted right now and should have them finished tonight. There's also ten scrap wall sections to go along with them. Ah, I could have had them done quicker, but I was kind of sort of being distracted watching The Wire and sitting on Facebook. ...Woo, professionalism!

Nice looking pallets there.

Good job on the Centaur.

Good luck with the shacks, hope they do well.