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Shacks, shacks, shacks shacks...




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Aye I painted up those shacks that I was making. I had these done earlier, but there was a wean running about my house all day yesterday intent on destroying these things.










Outdoor toilet (courtesy of Dr H), how à la mode.




Need more graffiti? I can see myself going over them again a bit.

I flung together a set of fences as well. Hmn, I may see if one of the guys at my club wants these actually, as he's been bugging me for the past year for some.




I can't spell! ...I caught that spelling mistake as soon as I did it ...then continued to paint them just as is. Don't worry, that friend can't spell for gak either. ^^'

Ah, as I won't be keeping these myself I can get away with having more Cookie Monster graffiti.



So to do then? I'd like to work on more pavements, but I'm out of plasticard till Friday because ...screw you craft supply store for only placing orders once a month. Hmn, but I may see what I can do about the modular streets anyway. Come to think of it actually I bought a load of telephone poles from one of my flgs that's closing down, so I could see how many of those I could do before Tuesday (run them alongside the highway).

I could actually see those shacks and walls in fallout they look so pretty, or ugly, whichever way you see it!

He has a way with post apoc grunge

Little one running about eh? biggest threat to the Wasteland ever! Touching everything with sticky wet fingers!

Like I said I'd like to have some of these done for a game tomorrow. Here's seven of the twelve 1/32nd scale Italeri telephone poles that I picked up. I popped on a few Tamiya signs, made a few transistors and added loose bits of wire. I don't know if there's much more I can do to these before I paint them, though I'll probably make some broken ones when it comes to the second batch (these are just enough to cover a highway, if I make more then I'll spread them out among city streets).



Maybe I could think about adding some bird's nests?



There were some concept art images for the lamp post clusters in Fallout 3 that I'm considering applying to one of these telephone poles actually. Youknow just a pole covered in crap. Perhaps I'm over complicating what really should be just basic telephone poles, but making them a bit more interesting keeps my ...ah, interest. Something like this. Damn, which didn't I think of security cameras and mobile phone transmitters?



Though I yeah I need to make some of those snazzy traffic light clusters too at some point.

Will these do for Fallout? I'm in two minds about using them. They suit urban environments from the early 20th century, but I wonder if they'd suit Fallout. Hmn, maybe if I replaced the bulbs with tesla coils?



Or maybe I'll just go for something like this. I donno the hood these things have on them just doesn't scream Fallout to me.



Nah this is more “Fallout”. =P



Aye, in other news I was out swatching in model train shops (oh and Maplin too) looking for bits and bobs to make a network rack out of. ….Because I need a network rack for reasons (for that office block or something). Sadly I didn't find much bar some bits to use as vents, but I'll make do with balsa and clay probably. I'm going for one of these in case you're wondering. It should be generic enough to churn out a couple of I need them for a control room or something.



Have I spammed enough images for one day? No? Well as I got away with it yesterday...

Aye, well I managed to finish off those telephone poles pretty promptly (...publicly politely) last night after posting, but damn you Dakka for your appending posts system!





I blacked out the street signs as countries do in the case of invasion ...but really its because I couldn't be bothered painting any (and having the actual names might not make sense). One of them has Beijing written on it in Chinese though.



Not having those shacks to work on any more's allowed me to get back to the street sections. Here's some quarter length sized bits.



Which are just super interesting and awesome.



Plus I made a rather gammy looking alley piece section as well.



That's spilled paint btw, not a giant mutant pigeon crap.



To liven things up then, and because I'm not sure if my camera will be agreeable tonight, here's some pictures of some of my newer terrain set up together.

A merchant caravan encounters a group of Raider Chipheads in the ruins of a city. (*Spoiler, given the scenario of tonight's game I don't think it'll go well for the traders)



Cleaning standards have gone way done since the nuclear apocalypse. Somebody's raided both a shipping pallet supply store and its neighboring warehouse and just made such a horrible mess. For shame!



Aye, well there's your lot for today. I'll see what I can do about pictures tonight, but nae promises as as ever screw my club's lighting.



...The Cookie Monster thing maybe becoming out of hand. Hey it livened up that road section part in the middle right though?

Great scenery. I need to cobble together some shacks like yours.

Tell me abit about the King James Bible seen in Honest Hearts... Is it the bible that every anglophonic christian prefers? Isn't there a mormon-specific scriptures featured in game?.

I know that The Bible is a collection of christian scriptures where the most 'basic' scriptures in the Bible is 'The Old Testament' ( Itself a collection of books relating to the 'history' of Judaism, and a complicated system of rules and prohibitions.... similar to 'Shariah' in Islam ) and 'The New Testament' (focused on the life of Jesus Christ, his 12 Apostles, and big name saints venrated by EVERY different churches of Christianity, the rules were simplified). Which 'book' within the collection of Bible Graham prefers to read, recite and teaches his followers to do so? or is it possible to cram an entire collection of Bible into one tiny pocket book?

Hey Wyrmalla, did you see this recent release?



http://worldsendpublishing.com/

They've also got a nice assortment of Fallout and other post-Apocalyptic inspired minis in their store: http://worldsendpublishing.com/shop/

@ Lone Cat

Joshua Graham quotes from the King James Bible I think yes. So despite him and others being Mormon they have copies of that version for some reason. I don't know much about the Later Day Saints (bar that one South Park episode), but yes I'd think that they aught to be reading their specific holy book. Either Mormons can treat the King James Bible as their holy text or that particular group of them mixed something up somewhere down the line and started using the wrong book. Obsidian are fairly on top of things most of the time, so they must have had a logical reason. The Wikipedia page says they have their own version of that particular edition if that's anything.

...Sorry seriously this song is playing in my head so loud that I'm losing my train of thought a little on this subject.




Dum, dum, dum, dum dum...

@ BrookM

Aye I've seen that. Its made by some guys that came out with Fallout themed terrain previously, but I guess they now want to make some money off it so have changed the setting slightly. I already have a ton of models to deal with unfortunately, so whilst some of their stuff is nice I'd probably wait till there's a decent amount in their online store before buying anything. ...That and I'm pinching my pennies right now in preparation for a show on Saturday and the prospect of my government uni monies being cut for the summer. =P

Summary of tonight's game from my perspective. ...A bit of a bloodbath for the hapless mercenaries attacking the Raider's fortified position. I'll see how the pictures turn out, but I think enough of them made it through to post something masquerading as a battle report.

Just read through it. seems that all you would need are the rules set and just use the terrain and miniatures you already have Wymalla.

I painted some things.




Right away I go now.

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What? Ah hell fine.

I have exams this week so no real time for much unfortunately. There was a show that I bought some crap at, including the Wargames Factory Survivors that I made those Vault Dwellers above from. Ah, but yes, sorry if anyone's holding out on any progress, leave that till the end of the week when my exam's are all over. ...Then maybe I'll post up that game report from last week. Unless I just forget about that and go work on something else.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
I painted some things.




Right away I go now.

…

What? Ah hell fine.

I have exams this week so no real time for much unfortunately. There was a show that I bought some crap at, including the Wargames Factory Survivors that I made those Vault Dwellers above from. Ah, but yes, sorry if anyone's holding out on any progress, leave that till the end of the week when my exam's are all over. ...Then maybe I'll post up that game report from last week. Unless I just forget about that and go work on something else.

Tell me about Vault 67 Please. Is it control vault or 'test vault'? (And which experiment did the Vault assigned to?) And where in the United States is this vault located?

Also what happens to Britain by the 2277? How Allistair Tempenny crossed Atlantic Ocean and resided in a 5-star Hotel in The Capitol Wasteland? if the aviation is very limited by then. Did he uses sailship or steamships (assuming that the coal is not yet depleted anywhere).

Its actually Vault 47, not 67, but I forgot the number that I'd painted on my other Vault Dwellers. Not that it matters, neither one exists in the canon.

*Thinks up some fluff

This particular Vault was set to open 15 years after the War (an adequate time according to the scientific pamphlets distributed throughout the vault). The residents however voted on the matter and it was decided that they would vote every ten years whether or not to open the Vault.

After forty five years of being closed the decision was eventually made to open the Vault. There had been plans in place to do this for decades, with teams clad in environmental suits working to patrol and prepare the surrounding area. Eventually the Vault's G.E.C.K. was deployed and within the year a pre-fabricated settlement had sprung up around the Vault's entrance (located in what had been a disused quarry).

Though not part of the Vault's experiment perse, the lighting in this Vault was set to be just a bit too bright (presumably a hardware screw up). Conformity was key, and like many other Vaults a security force operated to enforce this. In preparation for the eventual opening of the Vault, residents were involved in a program of survival activities, such as farming and self defense ...however for the most part these were based on literature written before the War (which was optimistic about the post-War world to say the least).

By the 22nd century the state of the Vault is unknown. None of its residents are known to have contacted NCR officials, as is information about the lands across the Colorado scarce. A Brotherhood patrol out of Maxson recorded encountering a Wastelander with a Pipboy that matched the Vault's repository according to their scribes, but their meeting was brief, and the Knights had other concerns at the time than exchanging pleasantries with tourists.

* Summary: A Vault located somewhere in the Southern United States with the typical spectrum of residents. Experiment unknown, bar the opening date. Last known status: a naive and insular settlement, but with a good enough start to possibly survive and thrive. << That bit about the Vaulter in the last paragraph is a reference to a character that I came up with, but have never bothered to properly write up anywhere.



IIRC Tim Cain said that Allistair Tenpenny traveled to America in a plane (which still operate to an extent in the US too), seeking his riches (implying that the UK was in a worse state than the US). Moriarty the bar owner also traveled from the UK, but I think he was brought as a indentured servant. Desmond Lockhart the Ghoul spy from Point Lookout painted a spy system similar to what you'd seen in the book Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy.

Europe was already blowing itself up before the Great War. The Eurozone and even the countries that were part of it had broken up into warring states. Josh Sawyer wanted to make a game set there, where the player would take control of a squad of British soldiers who'd hop between countries in whatever vehicles they could find, scavenging what fuel they could as they rushed to the Atlantic.

As far as tech goes some British gear turns up in the series. In fact the SA80 service rifle used by the armed forces here was apparently used by the US military at one point before being used by National Guard units. I'd imagine the same rifle then saw service with the Canadians, and the British may even have been supplying Canadian guerrillas at the time of the war (if they had the resources that is, youknow with the whole of Europe going to hell).

Hmn, I think I've gone on about this before. Search back in this thread and you'll probably turn something up on the subject. =P

Nice conversions, I still have craploads of their survivors on sprue lying about with nothing to do with them, I may have to try that as well.

Great models

This thread is making me itch. Its an itch that just...won't...stop.

I'm really starting to fall in love with the Falllout universe. I've completed 90% of Fallout 3 (bar the Point Lookout DLC, various side quests and one or two vaults) and I've just started on New Vegas. (and I'm actually enjoying the "Wild West" setting more. Washington DC, with all its metro tunnels and city ruins felt too...claustrophobic. I like Open World wildernesses).


This is very bad for my wallet. I've already got several armies/collections/projects on the go...

SAGA (Dark Age Historical skirmish game by Gripping Beast).
Lord of the Rings SBG (my first ever wargame and still my favourite).
Warhammer 40,000 (haven't done much for the last three years but I haven't sold it all off...yet).
Dungeons and Dragons.
I bought the Bolt Action rulebook on a whim.

God damn...I need to discipline myself. You're not helping.


(And please take this rant as a compliment btw).

On my painting desk is a LOTR Spider Queen which I hope to use for D&D (I've never played D&D, and yet I'm hosting a campaign. Diving straight into the deep end).

Super crappy WIP images to the max!



I'm slapping together a scientist type. This one's based on the fat body that comes on that sprue. Paint her up in Vault Tec colours (its not as if other factions would bother to recolour the thing either). Oh right the head's one of the new Department X alternative heads that Crooked Dice just came out with. I picked a few up at a show, though reconsidering I should have came away with even more.

Fallout 4 is due for announcement soon, so what's that going to do to you? Hell what's that going to do to me? :(

Hmph, play enough of New Vegas and you'll start to miss the cities. That game lacks city environments for the most part, or at least not on the scale of 3. Which I suppose sets the two games apart, but I'd like to return to an urban setting again with the next game (which is due a city, plus the surrounding countryside/forests).

But yeah, I at least try and keep myself to one system and setting. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s distracted me a little, but that's still using the same ruleset as this. I'd rather come away with something that is well developed instead of half finishing a load of other projects (ignoring that I have so much unpainted Fallout stuff). Meh, this is a skirmish game anyway, so I can be flippant with what I make (gangs can be as unified or rag tag as needed).

Ah, though aye, when Fallout 4 comes out expect me to do some bad things when it comes to this thread.

Fallout 4, by Bethesda? If so, ugh, another buggy release that needs a load of fixing before it works..

 BrookM wrote:
Fallout 4, by Bethesda? If so, ugh, another buggy release that needs a load of fixing before it works..

But hey, Guillermo del Toro's studio is doing the theatrical trailer, so there's that.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Super crappy WIP images to the max!



I'm slapping together a scientist type. This one's based on the fat body that comes on that sprue. Paint her up in Vault Tec colours (its not as if other factions would bother to recolour the thing either). Oh right the head's one of the new Department X alternative heads that Crooked Dice just came out with. I picked a few up at a show, though reconsidering I should have came away with even more.

That looks to me like one of the "Ghost People" from the NV Sierra Madre DLC. Albeit a rather fat one.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Ghost_people

 Squidmanlolz wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Fallout 4, by Bethesda? If so, ugh, another buggy release that needs a load of fixing before it works..

But hey, Guillermo del Toro's studio is doing the theatrical trailer, so there's that.

Ooh really? Woo!

Fallout 4 being made by Bethesda just means I'll have a game to tide me over till Obsidian makes their own one. Skyrim was a big step up from Oblivion however, so if 4's that comparible quality boost then I think I may feel better about this one than I did 3 (which was far too generic and poorly written). Again though, even if it doesn't meet my lofty standards there's always the next game after that. =P

In any case though I'll be happy for another Bethesda open world RPG whatever it is.

Edit: @ Shadow Captain Edithae

I actually have a Ghost People's gas mask sitting there, but never bothered to turn it into a full model. That and the Hirst Arts Mold pieces for a Spanish Villa...

I dread a bethesda Fallout 4.

I don't think their will be much left of fallout if their in charge of writing again.

On a more positive note your sculpting is as always very impressive and true to the games.

A forest setting might be cool.

Large swathes of this (Chernobyl Red Forest)...



Punctuated by the occasional radiation free oasis...



And occasional small-mid sized town.


(I'm embarrased to admit this...but Forks, Washington - the setting of the Twilight vampire series is the first thing that jumped to mind when it comes to "small American town surrounded by a forest wilderness".)


We've had the dense urban environment (F3 - DC Wasteland), and the vast mostly empty desert wilderness (New Vegas - Mojave). A dense forest setting might be a nice balance between the two. Hell, maybe it could be set in Canada.

And I know Fallout 3/DC Wasteland has some stretches of natural wilderness, but its not quite a forest. Though I haven't explored the entire map yet (haven't found that sentient ghoul/tree hybrid called...Harold?).

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
A forest setting might be cool.

Large swathes of this (Chernobyl Red Forest)...

Spoiler:

Punctuated by the occasional radiation free oasis...

Spoiler:

And occasional small-mid sized town.

Spoiler:

(I'm embarrased to admit this...but Forks, Washington - the setting of the Twilight vampire series is the first thing that jumped to mind when it comes to "small American town surrounded by a forest wilderness".)


We've had the dense urban environment (F3 - DC Wasteland), and the vast mostly empty desert wilderness (New Vegas - Mojave). A dense forest setting might be a nice balance between the two. Hell, maybe it could be set in Canada.

And I know Fallout 3/DC Wasteland has some stretches of natural wilderness, but its not quite a forest. Though I haven't explored the entire map yet (haven't found that sentient ghoul/tree hybrid called...Harold?).

Oasis is at the top of the map North, central lines, there will be radiation spots, destroyed rail outside of the entrance. There will be a mountain with a path, the green seedlings will tell you are closing in, then a hooded twig wearing type will confront you. he will then let you in with the right dialogue

There mods for Fallout 3 that go, "hang on a second, isn't DC state pretty green in real life. I mean I get it, the whole let's emulate the look of the first two games, but damn they were set in California. Cali's already a desert, and the originals had plenty of trees!". ...Well in a less long winded fashion. Ok, yes they wanted to go for a certain look, but yup, I did give Fallout 3 at least a couple of playthroughs with it looking like this.





* Vurt's Flora overhaul is the mod btw. He did a similar one for New Vegas (and Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim) that turned that from a desert into something a bit more lively that matches the real Mojave. People wonder why I cover my bases in flock and flowers? Look at the real bloody desert.



But I digress a little...

Its a great moment when you're lost in a forest, with no idea where you are, only to find out that you're standing outside of the National Guard Armoury in the heart of DC without a clue you'd been in a city the whole time.

But aye Point Lookout was a decent enough environment. If they can do something like in the images above then I think that I'll just love the environment. Failing that then that particular mod author will no doubt release a mod that manages it.

Ah, but aye I say forest because what I know about the game so far, which could be false, is that its inspired by the Postman, and so set around MIT. In my eyes that state's pretty woody, so it'd be weird if they turned that into a desert like they did with Washington (and such a massive wasted opportunity). My guess is they'll have desert areas which then mix with dead forests moving into full overgrown areas and marshes. Of course the engine probably couldn't deal with all that flora, but again leave it to that modder to fix that. =P

There is Oasis in the north of the map yes, which is a bitch to find unless you know what you're looking for (either find a mad hermit hiding out in a church who has a map, or start looking for a broken overhead train track and patches of green on the ground till you see leafy bushes). There is actual forests in Fallout 3 however. On the edges of the northern borders of the map there's hills covered in dead trees, but I guess extending those down into the main part of the map would ruin the desert look too much.

DC is so blasted as the maps for Nuclear attacks I once saw showed that Russia was going to drop about a dozen heavy duty warheads or more on it

Regarding your fantastic Vault Dwellers Wyrmalla, are there any conversions in particular that you made from the original WGF models? You've added pip-boys, armour, a shield. Were those sculpted from scratch, or sourced from other kits?

I should write this stuff down, there are some great ideas and work in this tread. I'll get on and do my own Fallout miniatures, right after I finish my Raven Guard Space Marines, Lord of the Rings figures, D&D figures, Anglo Saxons and Late Romans (actually, I haven't got any Romans yet...I just...want some...after playing Attila Total War).

Its late, but not in America land right? Right!?



Aye I felt like I needed a bunker. ...For reasons. And Stuff!

Oh screw you guys I'm going home!



Bonus points that the base for that bunker is the piece of card that I used to take a picture of that Scientist on earlier.

Oh aye and the black thing in that shot is a basecoated sniper for my S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stuff that's been sitting unpainted for about a week. ...He was to hand. He's sitting there with three Pseudodogs needing some love, which well ain't gonna happen till I run a game with all the other crap that I've made for the game, but haven't used yet.

@ shasolenzabi

Literally just watched The Road. Now there's what happens to the biosphere in this kind of situation.

Or not actually, that resulted from something like Yellowstone blowing its cap. Nuclear War not so much. I mean the world would still be screwed, but radiation doesn't have such a disastrous effect to just outright kill everything forever. Nah, look at Chernobyl. If it weren't for the odd mutation you'd think the place was one of those abandoned towns out in China. Fallout 3 cemented that the nukes used in the Fallout games had a low explosive yield, but high radiation output, but yeah its down to the wacko science the game's use that DC looks like it does (the devs themselves said that if they were trying to be realistic then DC would just be a flat plain).

@ Shadow Captain Edithae

I cut the legs and torso apart first and twisted them a bit, mixed and matched the odd set. I cut the shoulders so the arms were in different positions, as with the heads. Yeah, I sculpted on a load of crap too. The regular Vaulter has a belt and collar added, along with a cable thing over her left shoulder. The other pair have added armour (the shield I nabbed from an Offensive Miniature's Riot Police Officer. I posted the model way back in the first post of this thread). Oh, and yeah I did the Pipboys too, but I was lazy with most of them as you can only really see the one on the baton wielding Security Officer.

But aye, I use Wargames Factory models for a lot of my stuff. They're generic enough to use for whatever, and are simple enough to cut up and repose. That and you can buy thirty of them for about £15, so they're overall a decent source of armatures for someone who doesn't want to sculpt stuff from scratch (which is a big thing. All I need to do is add on the armour and crap). Trawl through my thread and you'll see the variety that you can get out of those kits. I mean I have the same base models appearing again and again as completely different things.

These are the same model. The old guy in the second pic I mean. =P

I'd be surprised if Fallout 4 doesn't take place in the Commonwealth, to be honest. There's so much talk of the Commonwealth and the Institute and it'd be such a new place to explore, while still true to the world that Fallout 3 established for so many fans.

Will this bunker also be desecrated by the graffiti of hippies?

I like the bunker - and it definitely needs a load of hippie graffiti like the BOS bunker in hidden valley! REally nice bit of scatter terrain, but it could be a good centerpiece for a themed game - Maybe both sides want to get into the bunker before a sandstorm rolls in, but no-one wants to share? Could make for some fun "take-and-hold" style games!

On the subject of videogames, I do quite like the idea of a forested fallout 4 - although can you imagine roaming a forest at night and running into a Deathclaw?
At least in NV, you usually have a long enough LOS to put a few Anti-Materiel rifle shots downrange before you get eviscerated - screw facing a 'claw at close range, especially on harder difficulties... It seems to me that Vegas rewarded long-range sniping, whereas FO3 was a bit more claustrophobic, and you rely more on your close-range guns, at least in urban areas. Old Olney... dear sweet god, Old Olney tunnels... O.o

I heard somewhere before about the next game being set in the Commonwealth, and after replaying "The Replicated Man" on FO3, I think it could be an interesting place to look at.
I hope if they do set FO4 there, they incorporate some of the creepiness, insanity, and comedy that the Old World Blues DLC for Vegas had - The Think-Tank are some of my favorite videogame characters, I'd love to see more of that glorious retro/sci-fi silliness to lighten the horror-y bits.
Also, I really hope they keep the reloading mechanic, special ammo, and weapon repair kits - those are the things I miss most from Vegas when I go back to playing FO3!