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Sorry for any lack of updates. I've been out of the country and otherwise dealing with coursework, so ah, nae model painting.

Terrain update I suppose. The lovely Red Racer is our model for today showing off scale. ...Hmn, I need more women with fire axes.

Barrel fires or whatever they're called. They've been unpainted for over a year now. =(


A little grouping of chairs about a campfire. In Fallout 2 there's a similar scene in Klamath's Trapper Town that I felt like emulating a little. Hmn, maybe because every time I play that game I go there and rob the guys that're standing nearby.


Loose piping (intended to have been a bundle used in construction that's been knocked over). Difficult terrain for fighters to scramble over. I suppose that with all the shacks some construction materials could add a bit more depth to the setting.


Barricades based off of the ramshackle sets found in game. I'm intending to create a few groups of different types of fences, three man height (corrugated, mesh and ramshackle) and three waste level (corrugated-ie motorway barriers-, probably chicken coop mesh style and ramshackle).


Barricades. These go along with a few other pieces that I posted ages ago here. That rear one read's "Aret!" (which I misspelled. What a tool), which means stop in French. Name that reference! Oh, there's a lovely picture of kid's balloons on the rear side too. =P


A shack. Just a little one mind. I've left off any graffiti so that any boards don't look over saturated with it. Its just bits of randomly cut plasticard with various textures and balsa wood rods (plus the odd bit of Hanomag).


I've came across this truck that I've let fall by the wayside. Looks like something Russian to me. Is it fine as it is, or should I make it faction specific (ie raiders). I'm thinking that using it as a generic goods/troop carrier is its best use, with perhaps optional removable stowage. There's a canopy for the rear somewhere too.


I have some market stalls sitting that need finished. After those its the ramshackle fencing and a pair of cars/barricades, then whatever else perks my interest. Besides those the models that I plan to use for NCR Special Forces were waiting for me once I arrived home a few days ago and are sitting on my desk in preparation for a bit of green stuff at the moment. That's left me with both them and NCR Veteran Troopers to paint, which I'm pondering which to prioritise (heh, which isn't a problem, because I really want some of those gas masked mooks ...wait they're both wearing gas masks ^^). My desk's gotten a little cramped in of late with WIPs. =/

And er... the closing image. I tidied my painting table*! Seriously. That's the after pic.
*Formerly the computer/painting table till that thing melted.


Toodle pip.

Cool bits of terrain, you certainly knock them out for being out of touch.



















BTW....9 days left in League terrain comp!!

Nah, that stuff was laying about mostly painted before I went off gallavanting abroad (in the far off land of Northern England...). I just added a bit of static grass and acted like I painted it all up in a giffy.

Yeah... I posted in the thread a while backing saying that I probably wouldn't be able to manage to finish my own piece. ...Ok I could, if I pushed myself to do it, but real life's limited my time a little with its surprises lately.

Hey I'll see about finishing what I have built for it sometime (heh, maybe as my next competition entry). I managed all the little pieces, but the main building (with interior) and intact plane haven't had a start. =/

I feel bad about my own thread now, but so little time to get stuff done.

Glad to see that this one is back up there again though!

Oh nah. I'll just leave all my stuff unpainted for another week yet. I have some NCR stuff set up in neat little rows for painting right now in the most intrusive place possible on my desk so I can force myself to paint them soonish. There's more terrain coming, but I couldn't be arsed finishing it to go along with the last post (mostly market tables; I'll see about painting up a few taster pieces for future sets too maybe). Ack, and I'm forgetting about the Wasteland Settlers that I've had built since last week that need painting (though they'll probably go in a post along with some militia and maybe some odds and ends- that caravan guard on Dewback's still not finished).

Whatever. Go paint yer stuff or write a lovely little story about one girl and her pet robot/Deathclaw/Ghoul/vending machine. Your blog's stuck all the way back on page six of this forum. =P

Still, a LOT of shanties and other terrain enough to make a trhiving post apoc town

Looks liek you could run a huge table worth of 7TV. The terrain has a great consistency running through it. Looks like it'd be a blast to play with!

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Oh nah. I'll just leave all my stuff unpainted for another week yet. I have some NCR stuff set up in neat little rows for painting right now in the most intrusive place possible on my desk so I can force myself to paint them soonish. There's more terrain coming, but I couldn't be arsed finishing it to go along with the last post (mostly market tables; I'll see about painting up a few taster pieces for future sets too maybe). Ack, and I'm forgetting about the Wasteland Settlers that I've had built since last week that need painting (though they'll probably go in a post along with some militia and maybe some odds and ends- that caravan guard on Dewback's still not finished).

Whatever. Go paint yer stuff or write a lovely little story about one girl and her pet robot/Deathclaw/Ghoul/vending machine. Your blog's stuck all the way back on page six of this forum. =P

When I have the time, I will, but right now I'm up to my tits in work and up to my neck in store related stuff, bleh I say, bleh!

@ shasolenzabi

Or a not so thriving one... Jericho (the ghoul town that's littered with nuclear bombs) is still planned, as have I laid out ideas for Legion specific terrain (if I can get a hold of corpses for all the crucifixes).

@ gunslingerpro

Youknow originally this all started with me wanting to make a terrain set for my club that could be used across game systems. A shanty town would work for modern and futuristic games, and could have been added to our existing, game specific, sets. None of the terrain was meant for Fallout (actually it wound up more geared towards zombie games), but once I started adding models to it and looking for more inspiration the Fallout elements came in.

Hopefully when its all finished I'll have enough terrain for various scenarios, from shanty towns to just ruined stores by the roadside. Certainly there's enough models chucking about now for some interesting scenarios (tis a pity I can't get hold of players with sufficient knowledge of the games to get any in debth background writing).

@BrookM

Quit your whingin'!


Tonight, more terrain. Goody. =)

Market tables. The one which are single tables are from Ainsty Casting, whilst the others are just made from bits of plasticard and balsa wood. These go along with the market stalls which I made earlier. When I first put all these together (I've had them for almost a year) it was because of Shadowrun Return's street markets which provided plenty of inspiration. I'd like to make a bus turned thrift store at some point like the ones from that game (I have another in use as a house amongst the shacks too).
*Taken as separate pics because the lighting was being an arse to me. =P


And a WIP that I've been wanting to do to go along with that bus wall that I made earlier, and a host of other vehicles turned township defences. These are based off of the barricades that were found in the earlier games and Tactics. Yes, they're not 50's cars, but they were dirt cheap to buy... I'll probably go for a half dozen of these along with the other vehicles to create enough for a small town (with another optional wall set with a firing step to stand behind it).

...That and the other ones I've made'll take a lick of paint along with the next batch of terrain that I work on maybe.

And next up some NCR specialists. Here's a WIP of two NCR Special Forces soldiers and a test paint scheme for a combat armoured NCR Veteran Infantryman. Infantry are so much more enjoying to paint than damn terrain (which probably explain why I have an excess of them and barely any terrain finished ...other than that big pile in the corner. Bah!).

Love all the little market stalls, you're going to have to put up some 'location' shots of shanty towns soon....

May not be 50's style cars but with a bit of paint they'll do just fine as barricades

Interesting that you enjoy painting the infantry more, I tend to find it the other way round (on those rare occasions where I do pick up a brush)

@monkeytroll

I'd like to make some arty farty pictures, but ah... I suck at photography. We'll see...

With terrain I think what I dislike is the large blocks of colour. On the smaller models there's more going on in a smaller space. Maybe that, or that just because terrain's larger it takes longer to churn it out. ...Perhaps the reason why I've painted a lot more of the little bits like shipping pallets or barricades than the pile of shacks that haven't seen a lick of paint since when I first built them last year. =/

I forgot to detail the car wall thing. A tad useless of me to have posted just a pair of cars piled up on top of each other with a couple of wood struts.


With all the holes in those I bet they'd suck as actual defences. Then again I think the ones in game had corrugated fencing behind them. Still I guess against vehicles I'd prevent the vulnerable fences from being rammed. Realistically your average human could just clamber up these things, but I suppose if they're being shot at by the defenders on top of them at the time that may be a tad problematic an ordeal (even if there isn't a firing step behind them it'd still be an obstacle). In 7Tv I allow players to climb up nearly anything as long as there's handholds anyhow. =)

So could pass for orky barracades as well. Inspirational as always.

Those womble-mobiles just need plenty of rust and grit and dirt with just a little of the police imagery left to give a hint of what they were, and how they served.

Liking the sellers tables.

 Wyrmalla wrote:

Gasp! Is that... a Ghoul?? What is that head? I love it.

Nice work on the terrain as well, you may not enjoy it but at least it's looking good!

Hey ghouls are people too! they need security like any other group eking out an existence from the nuclear sandlot

@shasolenzabi

Those decals are stickers, not painted on unfortunately. I've seen 50's era Highway Patrol cars at car boot sales before, so maybe that's a future task. I'd really like to use vehicles from that era as opposed to the current three for a pound cheap modern ones. Perhaps one day I'll come across a decent lot of retro futuristic ones and dump all these ones on someone.

@facekickery

Yeah, its a veteran NCR Ghoul. As most other factions dislike them (yeah, they are people!), I'm chucking in a few with the NCR for a bit of variety. ...Ignoring the two all Ghoul remnants factions that is (though I'll probably buy some more zombie heads and make a couple of Ghoul mercenaries/settlers at some point too). The head's from Maxi-Mini's zombies set (and probably my favourite one out of the set. I used it previously with the American Remnants Sniper I made earlier).

Ah, and there's a Ghoul Cavalryman made too that I said I'd chuck in for you earlier. I'll paint him up in... twelve months.


A pair of irregular units not found in the games now. NCR Veteran Troopers; a step up from the average trooper, with more experience and better gear and NCR Special Forces; a block ops unit that deals with the Republic's dirty work. Just something to add a bit more depth to the faction's armed forces (and hopefully not pants on head dumb in terms of fluff).

New Californian Republic
Veteran Troopers(West Wind Secrets of the Third Reich American Infantry)


Equipped with post-war combat armour (inferior to the pre-war version, but a step up from the leather armour that the regular troopers wear), gas masks and high calibre rifles. These troops represent those few that've survived since the initial pacification of the Mojave back in 2270, and been favoured enough to enter this specialist unit.

Of course most soldiers that have served that long would probably have taken their paychecks and gone off homesteading, but I guess there's enough out there in Hsu's position not to be noticed enough for promotion either should they stay. Mind that my games are set during the NCR's campaign across the river, before they'd been bled dry and lost their best soldiers at the Divide, so the NCR may still have had the resources to create such units.

They're West Wind Americans without any conversion work. I've kept a few of those gas masks for use with raiders in future to recreate a piece of Fallout 3's concept art (which along with a load of riot shields I picked up and night sticks'll give me some cool looking blitzer types). Visually I think they fit in decent enough with the regular troopers. Their counterparts in the Legion would be the guys with the tommy guns.

NCR Officer (The Assault Group)


An Assault Group SAS soldier (only available with orders over £30. ...I picked him up for £1 secondhand) with a headswap with a Maxi-Mini zombie head and greenstuff beret. Not many ghouls enter the military (to reference Chris Avellone, "if you're going to live forever, who'd want to get shot at in the small wars of these new nations?"), but I guess that those that do are capable enough to climb up the ranks fast (well mostly. There's plenty of ex office workers turned ghouls out there). I just didn't like this model's original head and had a zombie one to hand. =P

Woo, that the first beret on an NCR officer I've made. For some reason I keep forgetting that they wear them.

NCR Special Forces (Empress Miniatures Modern USMC)


A black unit in operation under the NCR. These guys carry out the Republic's dirty work, and those assignments that aren't suppose to enter into the public eye. Universally they're issued with equipment above and beyond what the average troopers (though the Rangers, in a less uniform fashion, still have better gear available to them).

Canonically questionable (I base them from the Boulder Dome mod, which overall couldn't care less for the fluff), but I suppose possible. They serve a role similar to the Rangers, though they're actions are dictated by their handlers, rather than them deciding things based on their own intuition. Like in that mod I'm thinking that these guys aren't nice people, or at least they just think that whatever they're tasked to do is for the good of the NCR, in spite of any moral repercussions.

I'm liking Empress' modern's range, so I didn't alter the base models much. The only real additions were the occasional pauldron and knee pad (to accommodate scrambling in rough terrain/kneeling). I swapped out the heads for either zombie ones, for the inclusion of Ghouls (who would have loads of experience, and perhaps respect the ethics of the unit given how the pre/post war world operated) or stuck on a gas mask. They all have greenstuff hoods too to protect them from sandstorms ...and well just to make them look bit more shady.

Both of the above units give me more options for scenarios involving the NCR other than just using the regular troopers, or Rangers (who don't really have the numbers for proper battles). Meh, I just like creating the models. Perhaps at some point I could run a campaign involving the various units in specific settings (Specialists/Cavalry- remember I had NCR Cavalry?- sabotaging enemy supplies, with the Veterans holding the line against an enemy assault and the regulars off ...regularing. ...). Hmn, I think I need some vehicles to carry these guys in now... Ah, future updates for the NCR (for fanboys of them who care? ...Ok for myself) will include the aforementioned Cavalry, perhaps a few more Heavy Infantrymen, and more of the Special Forces and Vets (I just couldn't be arsed painting the rest of them).

After this lot? Hmn, I'd like to finish some more terrain. I have some Wasteland Settler types basecoated, but some more terrain pieces would probably serve more use. I've sketched down some ideas for faction specific terrain, which I think would be great for boards, though beyond sticking together the bits of signage I think that that may be left till I've finished off my existing pile of crap. Meh, we'll see what happens.

Trey here
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOT-OF-4-MARX-PLASTIC-SPACE-CARS-VERY-NICE-/201035948520

Those would be perfect ...but that seller isn't shipping to the UK, pity. Its nice to know the source of those vehicles though, as I've seen others using them for Fallout. I'll have to give a look out for some Marx stuff at show, though I'm thinking that it may turn out to be a bit pricey (though I suppose it wouldn't be difficult to cast up a few copies given the simplicity of the designs). =)

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Those would be perfect ...but that seller isn't shipping to the UK, pity. Its nice to know the source of those vehicles though, as I've seen others using them for Fallout. I'll have to give a look out for some Marx stuff at show, though I'm thinking that it may turn out to be a bit pricey (though I suppose it wouldn't be difficult to cast up a few copies given the simplicity of the designs). =)

I think I might have a spare set of those cars nocking around if you are interested ? Let me check if your interested PM o yes I live in the UK

Good on ya LDD!

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Good on ya LDD!

I try to help out where I can plus I had a spare set got carried away on the auction

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Good on ya LDD!

I try to help out where I can plus I had a spare set got carried away on the auction

LOL! funny thing about the vatar you chose LDD, I keep hearing R. Lee Irmey saying your lines LMAO

Impressive updates Wyrmalla, seriously impressive

 shasolenzabi wrote:

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Good on ya LDD!

I try to help out where I can plus I had a spare set got carried away on the auction

LOL! funny thing about the vatar you chose LDD, I keep hearing R. Lee Irmey saying your lines LMAO

Dam now I am hearing it as well

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Good on ya LDD!

I try to help out where I can plus I had a spare set got carried away on the auction

LOL! funny thing about the vatar you chose LDD, I keep hearing R. Lee Irmey saying your lines LMAO

Dam now I am hearing it as well

Makes me wonder what my avatar does to folks' heads, LOL

For some reason makes me want to go out and order chinese food ?

* Ignores talk about Chinese Dragon Drill Instructors serving noodles to the privates.

I picked up a load of junk second hand tonight (most of the stuff that I bought from the same guy the last two times is sitting unpainted still FYI). This was amongst it all. ...And well its being posted tonight as it was already painted. However, that's not to say I didn't repaint it. I gave the whole thing a wash, including yellowing up the teeth. The original model was also brown as well. Really the only bit that I didn't touch was those rosey red lips.

Wastelanders
Albino Wanamingo


After the Chosen One wiped out their largest nest in Redding, sightings of these rare beasts (dubbed "Aliens" at the time, though since then Wanamingo has come into more common use) has sunk. By the 2270s the sight of these mutants are rare at best, with not but the occasional shriek heard at night or rumours about mercenaries disappearing around natural cave systems and abandoned bunkers. This case appears to be an older survivor of its kind. Showing clear signs of mutation, perhaps from a birth defect as with the more recent spawnings, or originating from a dose or two too many of radiation, somehow this creature's become even more horrible looking than the average. Rarer still is its albino colouring. Clearly it must have once been an alpha male of a pack back in its species hayday, but since then its become nought more than a ill spoken of horror to frighten children or to gloat about drunkenly within Republic barracks.

I'm unsure about the source of this, or even what its called (I was told its a D&D monster, beginning with an "O" I think). I just looked at it and thought "Hmn, if I painted that up in a lovely shade of purple like a particular sex toy that'd look like that thing from Fallout". Not wanting to ruin the paint job however I left on the third tentacle and leg. Should I find another though I'll hack those off.

The D&D monster is the Otyug? still good monster and fluff

Yeah, its an Otyugh, which I found out searching "D&D tentacle monster". =P

Don't ask me the manufacturer though. ...Its the first thing that appears when you search "Otyugh model". I couldn't be bothered actually clicking a link beyond that though. Its half two in the morning people. This is prime Youtube time, not Holmes level sleuthing!

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Yeah, its an Otyugh, which I found out searching "D&D tentacle monster". =P

Don't ask me the manufacturer though. ...Its the first thing that appears when you search "Otyugh model". I couldn't be bothered actually clicking a link beyond that though. Its half two in the morning people. This is prime Youtube time, not Holmes level sleuthing!

I tend to keep odd hours,. so I do some of my best sleuthing at night