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 GrimDork wrote:
Hah, I think I saw maybe one video of Nukabreak or w/e it's called.. didn't realize there was a lot more. Good to know.

Yeah the vids linked by Wyrmalla are all the shorts made into whole seasons, which came out to a 2 episodes for TV compiled together. what a deal eh?

And well, now for something completely different...

...I think I said the exact same thing when I started posting Stalker models in this thread too.

Aye, so I bothered to fix the light bulb in my room (...more daunting a task than it sounds, bloody impossible to find those things), so managed to take some pictures of what I've been up to lately (the rest's going to be dumped into my S.T.A.L.K.E.R. thread). I talked about this stuff already above, so I guess I'll just post my efforts.



You can definitely see the difference in Studio Miniature's two Walking Dead lines. Rick looks a bit weedy compared to the Governor I think. They'll do though, and if they come out with another model for the Governor I'll pick him up too.

There's the models as they are now. I'm not sure if there's much else that I can change before I paint them. What about the Governor's head? I tried to find one that resembled it the most, but is it all right or not? Is Rick's hair long and scraggly enough (seriously he was rocking a receding hairline before)? Anything else? I'd like to get them close enough you see as they're based on actual characters unlike a lot of my other stuff youknow.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
And well, now for something completely different...

...I think I said the exact same thing when I started posting Stalker models in this thread too.

Aye, so I bothered to fix the light bulb in my room (...more daunting a task than it sounds, bloody impossible to find those things), so managed to take some pictures of what I've been up to lately (the rest's going to be dumped into my S.T.A.L.K.E.R. thread). I talked about this stuff already above, so I guess I'll just post my efforts.



You can definitely see the difference in Studio Miniature's two Walking Dead lines. Rick looks a bit weedy compared to the Governor I think. They'll do though, and if they come out with another model for the Governor I'll pick him up too.

There's the models as they are now. I'm not sure if there's much else that I can change before I paint them. What about the Governor's head? I tried to find one that resembled it the most, but is it all right or not? Is Rick's hair long and scraggly enough (seriously he was rocking a receding hairline before)? Anything else? I'd like to get them close enough you see as they're based on actual characters unlike a lot of my other stuff youknow.

Gov's head does look a bit bigger, but there are differences in the actors like that anyway. Rick looks still so out of it, but then again, in any post apoc setting, people can be in any state of mind as such worlds are depressing,,,,,well, except for a certain merchant who is researching a book for wasteland survival, nothing seems to phase Moira Brown

Aye the Governor's head is made by Warlord Games, who are on the larger size of 28mm, but not Heroic. I haven't basecoated him yet, so he may yet have his head changed.

I have however painted Rick.



Here's the original model for comparison. He's come out a little yellow in the picture, but isn't that bad in person. Meh, I quite like how he turned out.

I remember watching a firend prep a IG company using their germans. they seemed smallish compared to the GW IG.


Is that Rick as a zombie?

Warlord's stuff is actually pretty large and chunky looking, its just that Heroic scale stuff is so ridiculously proportioned. I'll see what other heads I have perhaps.

Aye they made zombie versions of all their survivor models as part of their stretch goals. I'm not entirely keen on seeing any of the ones I have as zombies though, even if I have the models. ...Alternative scenarios perhaps? Hey there's still always a chance for them all to become zombies at some point. Glenn not so much...

I'm sitting here painting models for my S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stuff right now (which I just updated that thread for, the first time in two months). Expect then for me to be updating that thread for the short term rather than this one. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s kind of there to keep things varied on my end so I don't burn myself out with one topic. If Fallout 4's going to be announced soon though, that may push me to change my focus again.

Sounds like a plan

 Wyrmalla wrote:

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Cool battle report, your fallout stuff is inspiring. seeing it on the table... Wow! I've loved fallout since about 3rd grade and this really captures it the cars, the warehouse the general clutter, even the death tokens! Thanks for sharing

Just found out my chosen Vault is in FO-4
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Hype 1:30

^So This will be the first FALLOUT that player goes back to the Reckoning Day! the 22nd October 2077!!! and must survive the postwar world.
Tell me about this golden dome. and there's an airship. Don't say that few years after. America has been invaded from the east. possibly by Great Britain (?!)

There's a 'U.S.S Constitution' with jet engines shown.

And few years after the 2077. Enclave has not been 'awakened' .. yet. I guess that the antagonist might be an eastern invader.

FALLOUT 4 TRAILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd forgotten about that ....Feth yes! I'd better get a move on and finish New Vegas.


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 Lone Cat wrote:
^So This will be the first FALLOUT that player goes back to the Reckoning Day! the 22nd October 2077!!! and must survive the postwar world.
Tell me about this golden dome. and there's an airship. Don't say that few years after. America has been invaded from the east. possibly by Great Britain (?!)

There's a 'U.S.S Constitution' with jet engines shown.

And few years after the 2077. Enclave has not been 'awakened' .. yet. I guess that the antagonist might be an eastern invader.

China.

 Lone Cat wrote:
^So This will be the first FALLOUT that player goes back to the Reckoning Day! the 22nd October 2077!!! and must survive the postwar world.
Tell me about this golden dome. and there's an airship. Don't say that few years after. America has been invaded from the east. possibly by Great Britain (?!)

There's a 'U.S.S Constitution' with jet engines shown.

And few years after the 2077. Enclave has not been 'awakened' .. yet. I guess that the antagonist might be an eastern invader.

When they say Commonwealth, it is not Britain, it is the actual state of Massachusetts is full name the "Commonwealth of Massachusetts" hence the idea of the "Commonwealth" with the M.I.T. making for advanced tech and developments leading to Boston being quick to recover and lead the rest of the Wasteland in many areas.

Rather, I think the tutorial and introduction to the game takes place around 2077, while the main game takes place post-Fallout 3 or even post New Vegas. We're seeing the Brotherhood of Steel fly around in Vertibirds after all.

But, early days and all that, nothing but speculation right now.

It does remind me a bit of the structure of Van Buren, which also had a pre-war segment, with the rest of the game taking place post-war.

Right then, from the Fallout 4 Trailer, here's what I presume to be one of the Diamond City guards. Yeah, I am in quick aren't I?



Of course this is partly guess work as the guy in the trailer is a bit blurry. He's wearing circa 50s Catcher gear by the looks of it, with those bar shoulder pads that I couldn't get to look exactly right. I went for a baseball bat as the guy in the trailer looks like he has a BAR style rifle, but I couldn't place it exactly.

 Lone Cat wrote:
^So This will be the first FALLOUT that player goes back to the Reckoning Day! the 22nd October 2077!!! and must survive the postwar world.
Tell me about this golden dome. and there's an airship. Don't say that few years after. America has been invaded from the east. possibly by Great Britain (?!)

There's a 'U.S.S Constitution' with jet engines shown.

And few years after the 2077. Enclave has not been 'awakened' .. yet. I guess that the antagonist might be an eastern invader.

It could be that you're only running through a simulation. It could be that the main character was put on ice and was woken up recently. Vault 112, a step up from 111, was the one that Tranquility Lane took place in, so either or may be true. Or none of the above...

The Airship's a nod to Tactics I suppose, which had the Brotherhood using them. Though the actual flying ship's probably more rule of cool. A lot of that I assume is mid to end game stuff in any case.

I doubt the Enclave will show up. OK I fething hate not, at least not as an actual force, maybe as remnants or in references.

Commonwealth refers to the Commonwealths of the United States. They're super states, as in rather than being a load of individual states the US was made up of amalgamated Commonwealths.

It could be the Brotherhood, it could be another faction, but I doubt that. Presumably they'll tie 3 and 4 together a bit, with the Capitol Wasteland's lot maybe heading north once they heard about all the tech.

@BrookM

It seems to be a dead ringer for the Van Buren opening. In that you were a pre-war guy trying to get into a Vault, as soldiers in T-45d miled about. However the film also was to open in a similar way, with it coming across as if the protagonist was taking a pre-war train, only for it to turn out that the train was on rails and it was just a simulation to take people away from the drudgery of the Vault.

Like I said, "Welcome to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts"




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It just means that the state is a commonwealth of the towns and villages residing in the borders

Aye, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is part of the New England Commonwealth. ...Bit awkward to say that.

Anyhow I painted the guy that I posted earlier. I'll have to wait till the game's out to find if I actually matched that outfit well enough. If not then he'll easily do as just another wastelander of course.



Not sure if the dark skin and the leather really match up much, but I've always been horrible with that skin tone anyway. He's based on the guy in the foreground of this blurry image. I really dig the concept. The place is called Diamond City because of the shape of the playing field, and the local security force totes about in the Baseball armour. Its cool, and certainly a different take on the usual American Football armour that everyone wears in the genre (I wonder if Bethesda were deliberately trying to subvert that).



I couldn't tell if he was wearing a helmet or not, so I gave him a baseball cap with one of the Boston Redsock's logo on it (even though I doubt that's the team that's going to turn up in the game).

That image is bigger, I can see he is wearing his head cap backwards, the bill is protecting his neck from sunburn.

Boston is noted for their Baseball team, the Boston Redsox, not their football.

He is looking pretty good so far.

He's wearing this cap specifically.



Damn, I have another baseball cap wearing head with the cap turned around the other way actually. Hmn, might see about making another of these guys in that case... That explains at least why I thought he was wearing a helmet, as all I could see was this round thing on his head, not the bill part of the cap. =P

I probably should download the trailer and sit there picking through the thing second by second in case I see something else. But yeah, screw that, I'd never see enough detail. The guy above was already pushing it.

No worries guy in trailer is packing a gun, either a SAW or older Browning .30

At 1:40 is the "Mysterious Stranger" so I guess that perk is in, the Super-mutants are that far North, different varieties of "protectron", a odd looking Mirelurk, (Sea-lurk, Maybe), well detailed Deathclaw, the detailed out Vertibird witht he doors open, so much new stuff to take in.

Messyart, the guy who made the Deathclaw I have, is currently raging out that after ages spent retooling his existing Deathclaw model, Bethesda redesigns the damn thing!

I'm just hoping the bathrooms stay the same...

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Messyart, the guy who made the Deathclaw I have, is currently raging out that after ages spent retooling his existing Deathclaw model, Bethesda redesigns the damn thing!

LOL! and I have the Brother Vinni variant, which I could have made a beaked bird like monstrosity. Still, one must do what one can.

More the point that if higher res images of that Deathclaw come out then that's a perfectly good opportunity to resculpt Messyart's model myself and make the new version.


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 Dr H wrote:
I'm just hoping the bathrooms stay the same...

Take that as an excuse to make even more bits and pieces sir!

And here's a second guy too.

Nothing like a well protected diamond!

Woo terrain!




Crap I need to make that sign too.

This is a Plasticville diner that I've modified to look a bit like the one from the newer Fallouts. The original building was a third of the size, but I extended it to be wider so its a bit more usable as a gaming piece. I've started on the interior, adding a tiled floor and some rudimentary bits for the kitchen (plus some stools that are unseen). Still to do of course is add in tables and chairs, bits of tat for the walls and other bits to make it fit in with the style a bit more. Just so as its not too cluttered obviously so that models can actually fit into the thing.

Aye there's a wee cooker in there too that I may show off seperately in case anyone wants to see it. I don't know if I'll glue it in or not, but probably will for ease. Its not like it took me much to make it, so I can easily churn out some more in case I want to make some more kitchens (its just two bits of balsa for structure with plasticard stuck on top and a green stuff stove on the top, I'll throw up a tutorial in case anyone's interested. ...Not me telling Dr H to make some kitchen appliances or anything).

Wyrmalla wrote:

 Dr H wrote:
I'm just hoping the bathrooms stay the same...

Take that as an excuse to make even more bits and pieces sir!

I do have to re-make the moulds for all the bathroom things anyway...

Wyrmalla wrote:Woo terrain!

Woo terrain, indeed.

. ...Not me telling Dr H to make some kitchen appliances or anything).

aagh, they are on the list... the very long list... the list of things that I have yet to make that now includes re-making things I've already made...
I have this wooden hut kit to do first. But next time there will be more Fallout items...

And good job on the baseball chaps too.

Oh nice! gotta have a diner for a fallout setting!

I had an itch to check this thread out after hearing the news about Fallout 4. Nice work on the Diamond City guard's armor.

I was up all night awaiting my exam results that were up early this morning. In that time I crammed in a hell of a lot of episodes of the Twilight Zone, oh and played with my dollies a bit.

First then I bring you (oi there's meant to be a fanfare playing right now) another one of those Diamond City guys. This time packing something with a bit more punch than a baseball bat.



Again he's a Wargames Factory American Gi with greenstuffed on armour. The shotgun comes from their female Survivors kit. Originally that guy was going to have a Fallout 3 style Combat Shotgun, but the PPSH-41 SMG that I had him carrying looked too titchy unfortunately. If I were to make more of these guys then I'd probably leave off the armour, just for some variety. Though why ever would I want more?



Next then is something else that I decided to work on this morning. I posted that I had bought a few bits and pieces last year, and some of them would go on to be Floating Eyes from the original games hopefully. Well that never happened, as like a lot of things I have too many ideas to actually make a move on most of them. However, here's a WIP of one of those robots.



...Not its not an Eyebot.



Also there's a rusted metal set of shelves that I painted that could possibly turn up in the diner. Possibly, as I had painted up another set of shelves with canned goods on it, but I can't for the life of me remember what I did with those. =P

+100 internets for Warriors reference.