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LOL! Based on the way it all goes, making my armies into a Post Apoc world would almost make them nations!

Well given that they've been shooting at each other for a while I'd say realistically they'd already look fairly post-apocalyptian. Hey you can only launch so many Deathstrike Missiles at a place before its just dust and road warriors.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Well given that they've been shooting at each other for a while I'd say realistically they'd already look fairly post-apocalyptian. Hey you can only launch so many Deathstrike Missiles at a place before its just dust and road warriors.

And between my artillery and a deathstrike launcher, well, post apocalyptic is possible.

I've been lurking around your blogs for a while now and I just wanted to say how awesome everything is in them both. You really nailed the feel of Fallout. I've never seen or played S.T.A.L.K.E.R., but I feel like you are doing it just as well as the Fallout stuff. Very impressive!

Hey thanks man. Churn out enough models and eventually you'll hit the right look right? Heh, well at least now I'm aiming for less bulk as far as output goes so perhaps the newer stuff hits the look better. As for what S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s like in comparison to Fallout, well hmn. ...Overall the word grey comes to mind. There's always just this little bit of whimsy to Fallout, even if it is hell of depressing. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s good old Eastern European "things hit rock bottom, then somehow, like always, they always got worse" (...that's my horrible remembering of an old Russian quote). Anyway, thanks for popping in and well the general posting, now here's an excuse for some image spam. XD








Grey!!!

Cool images, and some real pics, not art, They have 3 zones around Chernobyl, well the first few Kilomters surrounding it is the extremely limited high rad zone, then there is a mid zone where limited exposure time is a little longer, the 3rd zone if I recall correctly is the longest period of walking around but all zones are not classed as good for one's health w/o protective clothing, the immediate zone requires protective gear no arguing!

Mid zone it is strongly recommended, and seems that is the case of the guys in the images

the least toxic zone one is merely advised to not sit on the ground or any thing in the zone, do not pick things up, and to wash off your shoes ASAP.

Gas masks recommended for zones 1 and 2, especially if attached to bottled air in zone 1.

I did watch the documentary on what they had to make do with when Chernobyl went, most exposure they had allowed per shift was 2-3 shovels worth and get back behind shielding, they wore some odd makeshift rad gear, many still did not live long after the exposure to the high rads.

Many brave unsung heroes back in 1986.

Cool images, but how would that car's headlights still be on?

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Cool images, but how would that car's headlights still be on?

violators of quarantine were just shot, bullet holes in the windshield helps tell that tale.

Or it could be the result of an anomaly.

That bothered me too. Those two Stalkers probably flooded the thing trying to cross that makeshift bridge, or someone else did and they're just coming across it. That or the Zone's a strange place and the light's are still on due to supernatural means and those guys aught to be high-tailing it promptly.

Yogscast Sips is doing a let's play of the original Fallout (with an Int 3 character at that. ...Its become a series about advocating mentat addication). He's just entered the Hub's Old Town area, which contains a lot of industrial lots. What drew my attention there was the warehouses dotted about the place, and being that everything in that game seemed to be shaped like a cube, something that would be quite doable.



So what is there to say about what I've made? Hmn, well first I'm not going for a like for like reproduction. One because I'm not amazing at building things and too this is all the corrugated plasticard I have left so I had to make do about the sizings. This is still a major WIP, and so missing things like the doors and windows (well bar that one in the back). Oh and a bathroom. Always with the damn bathrooms... I guess this is just a small storage lot rather than an actual workplace perhaps?




A balsa wood frame as always with plasticard over it. Its sitting on an A4 sized sheet of plasticard in case you want to know the size (I'm still limited with how large I can make things due to the storage containers I keep everything in for transport).

Argh, and here's me noticing that I totally forgot the vents above the doors! Crap. Okay the thing's not tall enough to accommodate them, but I actually spent the time to make one of the things only to bloody forget about it!

Yup, so yes, more Fallout stuff, I knew I'd get back to this setting eventually. As I type this I've also begun on an expansion to my road system as what I have at the moment constitutes a small highway rather than something which would suit streets. Its something I planned from the start, so what I've thrown together right now was already in some state before (though what I have is hardly worth posting right now, its just various sections of sandwiched together balsa, plasticard and cardboard - done that way to prevent warping). So the current lot of road sections amounts to three long ones the length of the existing bits I have, plus four short bits half their length (which will be made into two T-Junctions and two straights). I'll be glad to have those done, but I'm already thinking about what else to add to them (telephone poles, jersey barriers, street lamps, a car park and pavements come to mind. Eugh...).

Ack, but I'm blethering on a bit. Here's where I currently am then. My shift in priorities at the moment then will be towards Fallout again, as I have enough new S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stuff already for whenever my next game of that is. ...And well if there is any sort of Fallout 4 announcement coming up (which I've totally not been keeping track of) then perhaps its appropriate to get back to this setting.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Oh and a bathroom. Always with the damn bathrooms...

Yay, Bathrooms!
You knew I'd say that, didn't you.

Nice start.

Reminds me of the LP of Fallout 2 they did over at the Something Awful forums, where the PC was also of questionable intelligence: http://lparchive.org/Fallout-2/Update%201/

Dr.H provider for post apoc toilet facilities

Oh didn't you know? This is going to be an offsite bathroom supply store storage facility? XD

...I really need to remember to include one of those next time though. Seriously everyone must just crap outside or in a corner in the buildings I make. The pre-war world was a horrible place to live in in more ways that one.

God BrookM how much of the game did they make it through like that? Hang on they did it all didn't they? Tsk, I always play high int characters unfortunately. Talking people to death is always fun.

They played through the entire game like that, though at one point the character takes a mentat by accident and becomes a well, more adjusted person for it.

Very Nice!

Here's the expansion to my road system then. ...Or well at least an initial one, I'm still short on some bits. More of the same here really. Three long and four shorts (enough for a four lane highway).





Yeah I'll have shot of them all laid out together whenever my next game is. =P

I'd like to keep adding bits, particularly corners, so I can have a proper set to work as streets. Ah, but that'd mean having all the doo das as well, I mean they'd look out of place without having pavements running along side them (...and the hassle involved in making them modular). Oh, yeah, like the other roads these are a sandwich of cardboard, balsawood and plasticard, using this tutorial as a basis.

This goes along with them too, and perhaps has been a while coming as it slipped my mind to make this when I made my other signs. I probably should make another one for four lane highways, though this will do for the moment.



Another typical balsa wood monstrosity.

Ah hmn, right. I suppose I have to bother my arse to finish the warehouse now then right? Hmph, but those window panes are a right pane in the arse to make. Hmn, I may board up a few just an excuse to avoid them...

Heh, well building on what I posted last time, I've gone onto making pavement sections to go along with those roads. Early days yet, these are just corner sections (hmn, though perhaps I should make that more obvious with more angles). I tried to keep these relatively plain so terrain can sit on top of them without too much bother (and so they can stack for storage too). However I may glue on the odd fire hydrant in future.



And the roads and pavements together along with some tat.



They fit together a bit more seamlessly than in that image, its just that the surface beneath was uneven. =P

Here's that highway sign painted up too (partly courtesy of the Great Khans and Big M.T.). Rusted to hell as ever.



I'm fairly happy with things are going then with this stuff. I may have a go at more street sections, though I won't hold out on having any more finished for a game on Tuesday (which is a zombie one btw, but I'll use this crap for it). Anyhow, there's yer what... bi weekly update? Hmn, ok its better than just being a monthly thing at least. Ah, on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. side of things Lenin's still missing an ear, so ah, nothing new there for the foreseeable future.

All looking crumbling and rusty as good post-apoc scenery should!

Always a stunning thread to visit

Cool streets. I really like the blocky building, too.

Those streets are so cool. Excellent work, as usual.

Well on a whim I decided to make a billboard to sit alongside the roads (two actually, but I hadn't started on the second when I took this picture).



Simple enough to build really, I mean so easy that I made another one quick enough. I think it looks pretty decent myself, just have to see how it turns out when painted. =P

I've made more pavements too, though haven't bothered painting them (I doubt I'll have enough black paint left to base coat everything). I already know the roads and pavements that I have aren't enough, so making them will probably wind up being an ongoing thing. Meh, at least none of this stuff takes much effort to throw together so I can churn it out pretty quickly. Hmn, I could do with some street furniture, vending machines, benches and the like, which I guess I could look into making (or just pick some up online, we'll see). Laters.

Can't wait to see the bill boards all adorned with Corvega ads and dirtied and crumbly!

Meanwhile, have a song related to the thread

Roads, paths, sign and billboard all looking excellent.

I like the broken parts of the paths in particular.

Also, if you haven't seen it yet, I've given you a graffiti shout-out on my latest project.

The things people make...

...That's actually pretty well written.

Tsk, we could have just met up and had me paint silly things all over your models Dr H instead of you forging my signature! My lawyers will be contacting you over this shortly.

I left off posting this because I was expecting to run a game tonight that I would have taken pictures of. That's been postponed till next week however.

Ah, so here's the painted highway billboard. The other one is a bit more beat up. =P




So next week will have to be the highway game that I had planned. Its a zombie one, but it'll be using the Fallout terrain. Tonight I wound up doing a zombie rollplay that is going to be an ongoing thing. I'm a biker who was delivering cash to the club's safehouse. On the way he had to stop because of a car crash blocking the road (which he eventually pushed out of the way). One junky tried to attack him, but he immediately cave in his side with a baseball bat (he said don't try anything...). Two others, obviously tripping, were stuck in their car, and by the way that they acted like hell was the biker going to help them out. So he pushed one car out of the way and went back to his bike. The wounded, thought dead, junky tried to go for him again, so he unloaded his pistol into it, got back on his bike and drove away. ...Ah, not before he took his wallet. Hey he had the stash to deliver and the police would find them soon enough, they were clearly goners anyway.

Yeah I lost like a million karma points.

Next week's scenario then, because I committed to playing other people, but the rollplayers are continuing our game, will involve that biker. He's driving to the safehouse still to drop off the money. I ah, don't think there's any deserts in Kentucky however...

I just clicked on this because I saw it on your sig, and this is pretty amazing. Good job.

Ah right my sig. ...Yeah I keep forgetting to stick those links in a fancy banner (that's what the things in the first post were for) instead of plain text. Dakka's testy about the size of those things though, so I haven't bother my arse.

The scenario for the zombie game's written now (I'm not sure if I should start another thread for my zombie stuff, but I don't post enough here, so I may as well keep it to one place). It'll start as a generic fight between two rival gangs (ok one's a "club"), with one side hitting up the other's safe house due to the odd absence of police recently. It'll run as a regular scenario until someone decides to start shooting. Que that one scene from The Walking Dead where the zombies all start turning towards a distant sound and forming a herd. Yeah as soon as a shot's fired the zombies will start moving onto the table and I'll announce that the original objectives I gave each side have ah, been reprioritized a bit. The zombies will have the same points as both living sides put together, so hopefully those players will have the savvy to stop shooting at each other and maybe start boarding up the safehouse.

...Or in other words everyone's going to die horribly.

My rollplaying character will be one of the bikers, but I've decided that if he dies I'll just pick whoever survives as my new PC. ...Which shouldn't be too difficult a choice based on the survivor rate from previous games. =P

Aye I'll see if I can post what I've done with the biker gang so far maybe tomorrow or the day after. I'm not sure if I want to make up new models for the other gang too or just to use my existing models. Probably the later as I tend to be a lazy ass. So far its six guys and two dogs, with two of those being new patches just wearing hoodies instead of biker jackets and just carrying pistols (the safehouse had been emptied of guns due to the rest of the club hitting up some meth labs ...or something, leaving the new patches behind, who inevitably spend the night getting drunk).

Billboard looks great. Nice work.

and ta. I'm impressed that I managed to replicate your signature without even seeing it. Took me ages to get my old bosses signature right, and I had to look at it each time.