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Okay, I see it now, I got confused by the imagery of the people standing around hoping to be let in, then nuke shock waved.

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all nicely aged and rusted and weathered

Larger image? Oh hell has that bloody wiki turned the image that I posted into a thumbnail again? The thing's like 800x600 pixels when I post it, but for some reason everyone else sees it as like a 100x150 sized image.

Ack, well, here's the thing as it is right now. I've ran out of clay again as I underestimated how much I'd use today (this whole thing equates to six sticks of milliput, or nearly £15 if you include the plasticard that I mounted it on. Eugh). That probably won't be till Friday though, because I CBA paying a £4 train fair to pick up a £3.99 box of milliput (each box has two sticks in it btw) and I need to go into town anyway that day. Meh I have some Caesar's Legion guys mostly painted to post in the mean time though.

So, that piece is worth over 24USD. Still that you made one so quickly is amazing

Mad Max is just out and we've had the Fallout 4 trailer, so now the tshirt site Qwertee's came out with another two designs based on the Mad Max series (with a bonus Vault Boy appearance). Not models, but I may as well plug that site anyway. You can buy the shirts for the next 48 hours over there (though the price goes up slightly after the first 24).

Very nice!

I put these aside to work on the Vault elevator, but taking a break from that I've had the time to finish the Legionnaires.

These guys are made from Games Workshop's Lord of the Rings Uruk-Hai Scouts. I swapped their heads gave them new weapons and greenstuffed on some armour.



Admittedly I'm not sure if I'm happy with these. Well what I did with them is fine, its the base models that I'm iffy about. You'll see that the guy in the next picture is a lot more anatomically proportioned, whilst these are suffering from the Games Workshop school of anatomy (i.e. we're all dwarfs with no abdomen or necks). I was going to make six guys based on those models, but I'm not so sure anymore. That said I do have other models that I can use as a basis for more Legion models. Oh, and these are replacements for the models that I made last year. I'm not happy with those ones at all. They've been stuck in a box with a lot of my older stuff for months now, so at least I'm now able to run games with this faction again now that models that are a bit more up to par. =P

And a Veteran (or maybe a Decanus, nah just a Veteran) made from a Wargames Factory survivor.



He's in the exact same pose as Bucket Head, a raider who I made ages ago similarly armed with a sledgehammer. I thought I'd set him apart by giving him baseball gear as opposed to football armour, which gives him a different silhouette than the rest of the Legionnaires.

With the handful of existing Legion models that I think that I can salvage there's enough there to run a Legion party in games I think. With these I'm trying to keep more in line with how the game represented the faction, rather than going off and doing my own thing a bit. Anyhow, till next time. =P

Caesar's men are on the loose!

Looks great, still.

This week's been a little time intensive for me, but with E3 coming up tomorrow I felt that I should power through and finish the Vault Elevator, looking a bit like a pulse mine from Fallout 3.




I'm assuming that this is just another take on Vault entrances, rather than being unique to Vault 111. Hopefully in the game we'll see various types of entrance, including the more traditional gear in a wall style. In any case I kept the Vault number in the center of the gear, but for ease of use obscured the number (it says "Vault 67", but its difficult to read).

I'll try and nab someone to run a scenario featuring this and the diner that I made come Tuesday, but don't hold out on that.

Oh I know where I had the idea the elevator was a simple disc. In the sequence with the people locked outside just before the nuke hits, the artists apparently had been toying with different ideas, the gear is painted in yellow around the disc shaped elevator, then after wards we see the gear shaped hole that Dogmeat? is looking at in the images we posted.



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That gear shape fits more with the Vault tech concepts though.

Aye and like I said before you can see that there's no gap between the central disk and the gear. Rather its just an indentation. There's metal in that gap, the "disk's" just there as a pattern to make it resemble your typical Vault door with its concentric circles. So the design didn't change at all. =P

That red valve you see in the "after" version, is also a completely different kind of valve in the "before" version.

I assume that the intention with the valve was that it would be attached for some purpose and could be removed. That's fine, but that doesn't explain how it was attached later. I mean if it wasn't there when the bombs hit then what wastelander came along later and attached it? Woo design oversights! Possibly its there to operate the elevator, but that seems like a really cumbersome process. However I see no other mechanism for doing this (like the traditional wall mounted gear's control panels).

The original has random bulbs strewn about it. The older one is missing these, though oddly the pre-war version seemingly already had a load of these missing.

A ton of bolts are missing from the post-war version.

To the left of the entrance there's a concrete platform with some industrial machine on top of it. In the post-war version this is missing, though it may be just down to the shot.

The player character in the tutorial must arrive late to the party or something, as all the boxes outside dissapear between the first time you see the vault and the nuclear explosion. There's a scene missing from when you're running up the hill to the Vault with all the crowds then the Vault is sealed and the nuke goes off. That or there isn't and the later scene is a dream or something. In any case something's missing. =P

That non-power armoured guard looks like he's wearing a newer style of Vault Security armour. The blue jumpsuit certainly looks odd with the armour, but there's some design departures from the standard jumpsuit.

And so on...

Inspired by last night's E3 Fallout 4 show off, here's a Raider kitted out in bastardised T-45d Power Armour.



He still need to be greenstuffed, notably his head's going to be different when he's finished rather than the generic helmet he has on right now. He reminds me a bit of a Space Marine Librarian actually.

What was the original model? Thats fantastic.

Brother Vinni T-45d Power Armour of course.

Fantastic looking stuff here, Wyrmalla!

Really makes me wish they'd do a Fallout tabletop game!

Ah, well you converted it well. Didn't recognize it at all.

I actually know a guy who pitched a Fallout board game to Bethesda. They turned him down however and he hasn't continued with the project (in an official capacity, he just changed the name) because they were asking for a silly amount of money for the rights. Its the same reason why Taban dropped their Fallout miniature's line too.

How does Brother Vinni get away with it then? The power armoured guys look like a direct copy.

Because he's Russian, and in Russia they don't give two feths for intellectual property.

He's since moved from Russia however to the EU. Since then he's stopped making models that are direct rips (his Deathclaw looks weird). He did receive cease and desist orders from the guys who own XCOM however when he came out with a load of XCOM models. Bethesda oddly, and they must be aware, haven't pulled him up. Odd in that they charged an arm and a leg for their DOOM models. He's ripped off Bioware too, but yeah, I guess those companies either aren't aware, don't want the legal hassle (doubt it), or are fine with it at the moment till they come out with their own line of miniatures. He won't be around forever anyway (though most everything on his shop's the result of commission work that he's chosen to mass produce. He receives a lot of work like that, notably for a company that wanted knock off Bioshock models that they've then gone onto sell themselves).

Can't wait till Nov-10

I was waiting for something from you, it looks awsome.

Pyroclast's a word right? ...Ah, it sounded cool to me when it came to mind, but ah, an Iconoclast's someone how destroys icons. Pyroclasts apparently destroy fire then? So what? He should have a water cannon? A Cyrolator? ...Screw it, Games Workshop can get away with using that dumb name so can I.




Well then. Inspired by Fallout 4's Raiders in Power Armour, here's one similarly equipped and toting a home made flamethrower. Of the hast tag gang apparently. I wound up giving him a Motorocycle helmet with some bars over the visor a bit like Knight's helmet.

A pyroclast is one of the rocks thrown out of a volcano.
A pyroclastic flow is the result of the column of ash/gas collapsing and flowing down the sides of the volcano.

Hot, fast, ranged death. No need for a water pistol.

Looks good.

That is one nasty looking raider to deal with!

Wow, between the conversion and the paintjob, that raider came out great!

Eep, don't mess with that guy.

Saw a weird model on a Warhammer Proxies group on Facebook. Looks like an armoured car, might fit in well in the Fallout universe aesthetic. Maybe a Brotherhood of Steel APC. What do you think, Wyrmalla?

Takom eh? That'll be a 1:35 kit, prolly too big.