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Lots to go back over, but rest assured that it's all lovely.

Good idea with the Quonset Hut build.

and I like the monument and all the pictures.

Good luck with the exams too.

I don't deal with praise well...

...Or another night at my club where I have to clean up all the droll off my stuff with a tissue afterwards. I kid.

Aye I'll see about uploading images of the game that I ran tonight here in a bit (though blame my internet connection if they don't appear till tomorrow). Whether or not I narrate a battle report around them is up in the air, but it going beyond just a summary is unlikely as typically only the first couple of images turned out all right (the lighting in my club sucks, and only becomes worse as the night drags on).

Actually as I write these posts as I upload the images, as in hours before they're really submitted because of how long things take to upload, here's the summary. ...Luckily not much happened in the game. It ran on for seven or eight turns, but in that time it seriously only amounted to two ongoing melees that drew in most of the models. The other minis just sat in the background trading shots every now and then unnoticed.

The scenario (which as I was short on time today wasn't written on the fly. Nope, I didn't write one at all, seriously it was "me hit you with bat till you die" levels of mediocrity): Patrolling the surrounding wasteland around their Vault, a group of Vault Dwellers - made up of a security detail covering a scientist - enter the ruins of a nearby settlement. However, as is always the case, the place wasn't as abandoned as it first seemed...

The board!!!






The sides!!!




The ridiculously blurry images that you can hardly make out!!! Is that a pigeon?!

...Ah, no. Well maybe I'll see about uploading the rest of the images that I could salvage later on. =P

A summary: The Raiders set up most of their forces on the opposite board edge from the Vault patrol (who were bunched up together on a road). Some Raiders however, just going about their business were deployed in the middle of the board. As the Vault Dwellers had initiative they spread out into a nearby warehouse as half of their number carried on following the road (though seeing a road block they were forced to stop and take in the situation). The Raiders began to move across the board, still unaware of the intruders. This carried on for a while until a raider, wearing a busted CRT monitor on her head (known to the others as Commodore ...because references!), spied one of the Vaulters checking out the warehouse through a window.




The Vaulter was hit and quickly went prone. Hearing the shot everyone started to move to more tactical positions, with the Vault Security Sergeant quickly rushing up the center of the board, Protectron in toe. As she rushed forward the stricken Vaulter in the warehouse lined up a shot on Commodore and turned the raider into a bloody pile of guts and grissle (...because I was using those Bloody Mess markers for everyone that died during this game, i.e. blood and guts were everywhere). A raider opened up on the sergeant with her Uzi, but missed with every shot. Again she fired and this time the Protectron exploded (...in a fine powder, as I haven't made a marker for destroyed robots yet). The sergeant unloaded her pistol into the raider before her, but it went click. Out came a needle filled with some Psycho ...and well it was on (I'm saying that like some big haired rocker from the 80s btw).



Meanwhile the handfull of Raiders that had been occupying the center of the board at the start of the game had moved up on the Vaulters position through a collapsed warehouse. They were unmolested largely, until the Sergeant's Deputy spied them and laid ran out to lay into them with her baton. She gave the Raider known as Buckethead (guess where that name came from...) a good twack around the head with her baton ...before he whirled around and well ...I pulled out another Bloody Mess token.



The combat with the Sergeant carried on for more turns. By now she had drawn in half of the Raider's force, taking on three raiders and two dogs at once. The combination of Riot Armour and a shield was making her a hard target to take down, as she eventually laid low the dogs and Uzi armed raider. Ah, but then I mentioned that yeah stab proof vests don't do much to stop bullets, and Indiana Jones style a raider pulled out his pistol and just shot her in the face.




The combat outside the collapsed warehouse continued. By now a Robobrain had entered the fray and was proving a tough nut to crack. However the stalemate turned (...a stalemate because the Robobrain's only means of attack was to emulate one of those inflatable waving hand things you see outside of car showrooms) when a Mr Handy robot appear and plunged its spinning bonesaw into the backs of the raiders. ...Who then turned into powder as by that point I'd somehow used up all the blood and guts tokens. Little did their logic processors count on the Raider's leader (a thuggish guy wearing a welding mask and the remains of some T-45d power armour) throwing himself through the warehouse's window and unloading his shotgun into the Mr Handy. The Robobrain tried to knock him out with a psychic blast, but all that lead and asbestos into the guy's welding mask blocked it .




We ran on for another turn, but it was getting late unfortunately. The raider that had capped the Sergeant ran at the Vaulter that had been sniping at his side the whole game (the one that had killed Commodore, and was so skillful - cough bent as hell - that she could shoot into melee and nail the Raiders without hitting the Sergeant). He emptied his pistol. He missed. It jammed. ...He threw his pistol at her. ...She turned into a pile of bone and gristle.



And with that one act, even though there was half a turn to go, I started packing up. Half of each side were dead, but the Vault Dwellers had a chance of making it out without losing many more of their side. They'd reconnoitered part of the settlement and marked it down as a clear danger zone. The Raiders slinked back to lick their wounds and ponder what the appearance of those strange people in blue suits could mean for their future prospects. The Vault Scientist who had literally spent the whole game staring at some cacti in her deployment zone traveled back to the Vault with a fat stack of notes about that particular species adaptability in its new habitat that I'm sure the Overseer would be super interested in.

...

Aye, well in lieu of taking pictures of the new bits that I'd painted for that game (more pavement sections and some concrete barriers) there's the above images to suit for those. As I seriously can't be arsed searching through the box of terrain that I took along tonight for those individual pieces.

I have a few more bits of pavement to finish then its onto some caravans, a diner and another brick ruin (if I ever bother to order in the loose bricks). But ah, leave all that till I can be bothered to paint anything else. Tonight's game did highlight some issues I have with the system which I'm currently using however. I'll have to see once I transition over to the This is Not a Test rules, but there were a few things that came up that irked me now that I've given that other ruleset a look over. Swapping over to the other rules isn't something I think I'd be comfortable with at the moment though, not least because there isn't a hard copy of those rules available yet (and I CBA printing off the .pdf as they'd just be messy with all those loose sheets of paper).

Hah, neat battle report, and that terrain is just amazing and atmospheric as hell Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing!

Sounds like the Vaulters needed help from Herbert "Daring" Dashwood and his stalwart ghoul manservant Argyle!

Coming home last night and sitting up to a silly hour after watching a trashy movie (Night of the Comet, featuring Chakotay from Star Trek: Voyager) I felt like doodling. ...I haven't drawn something in years.



Ah, so yeah if you're not into my waffling then wander off now. I hear there's good things down in the off-topic forum.

Aye, did I mention I had little stories in my head about the Fallout series? Play a game long enough and that happens. Mind those Vault Dwellers from Vault 67? Well this character's tangentially related to them.

She's a well traveled mercenary from out of the Southern States. Travelling as those types are like to do looking for work and salvage to sell. Whilst seeking refuge from a rad-storm one day in the ruins of a city for some reason she allows a naive seeming wastelander into her shelter, and well as these things go, the epic adventure began.

....And youknow other bullgak.

The two travel the wastes, heading West in search of a so-called prosperous nation out there at the behest of her companion (who has a fixation over this Vault 8, a Control Vault, whatever that means, but that gizmo on her arm might have something to do with it). Frankly she keeps the scrot with her because she has a way with tech and picks the best pieces when it comes to salvage. That and this whole heading West thing seems a good idea as any with the way the wind's been going.

See my Fallout models are set around the time when the NCR was still ranging out East over the Colorado river, when the Legion was first making an incursion on their outlaying forts and settlements. This character though, she's from before even that. During the NCR-Brotherhood war and when the Caesar was still gathering the tribes. Put two and two together and there's a good reason for leaving the Mid-West around that time and high tailing it over the Colorado...

Ah, so this is me being a tad bored and trying to form a bit more of a solid image of the character. She's wearing a set of stripped down standard issue Combat Armour over a fur lined puffer jacket (to protect against all the sand storms) and beneath that is a one piece uniform with mildly Enclave themes (...). Her weapon of choice is either a Dragonuv style AK, or a Wattz-2000 Laser Rifle, I haven't really decided yet youknow.



So aye, just laying out a character that I may well turn into a model at some point. I have an existing model that looks a bit similar as part of my S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stuff, but ah, put that down to me being unoriginal with my designs.

Colour's not my strong point obviously, but hey if people actually care about this sort of thing I might just sit and sketch out some other characters (like her companion perhaps, or youknow perhaps bothering to get back into drawing crap again).

...Yeah maybe models are more of my strong suit? Not that that's saying much.

Thats fantastic.

I can't even do decent stick figures....

Ah yes, Night of the Comet, the memories
.

Not so bad a sketch up, and the rifle mod looks nice as well.

Wattz-2000 Laser Rifle would make me think "Long-Las", I am already bad enogh in power armor and the zhuenlong AK shouting "For da Emprah!" each time i kill an enemy in my FO-3 on my X-box-360

Well there's always this gun too. =P



But yeah, that is one sweet looking AK. It reminds me of the older battle rifles the Soviets used a little with that stock and magazine style.

...Though you could just go the whole hog shasolenzabi, buy the PC version and play as an actual space marine.



And now sitting here doing a paint by numbers thing on that sketch that I posted. Gimp is a horrible name for a program.

It is, isn't it?

I remember my art teacher back in secondary school asking what programs I used. ...She stepped back a bit when I told her that. She was also confused by DeviantArt too, thought it was some BDSM site. =P

Ah yes, the Plasma rifle with the tri-blades!

I have thought about the skins and weapon mods, I saw the Bolt gun mod was just too easy for the player to easy kill supermutants though, very potent how they made that.

Why add on a separate bayonet when your gun have one as standard? ...Even if the energy weapons in the Fallout world is known for how pernickity they can be even to the slightest bump (the ones you find in the games aren't the top of the line models, they're the surplus crap that only survived because it was built robust enough to last).

I played the game with the damage set way up. If someone wasn't wearing some sort of armour they'd just instantly gib pretty much. However strap on some gear or have thick skin and things start to be a problem (I remember when the Enclave turned up in 3. I went from tearing through people with a modded up AK filled with armour piercing bullets, to not even being able to take out one guy in Power Armour with a few clips. ...Though then came out the anti-material rifle). In the base game enemies can take a clip to the face and still keep on coming at you (though there's also a mod that instantly kills enemies, unless they're wearing a helmet, if you hit them in the head), so aye, a gun that acts like it should would make things seem a bit odd if you mixed it in with the vanilla guns.

...Though a gyrojet style rifle that somehow uses shells is hardly acting properly in the first place. =p

As a side note, there's a mod that adds gyrojet weapons to the games too. Because well, those things fit the setting perfectly (just a shame they aren't in the vanilla game).

LOL! The actual gyrojet pistol, had the ammo not been such a problem, it may have gained popularity. some collectors do seek the guns out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet



100USD per shot is like a poor man in the 40k RPG having to buy a single bolt for a bolt pistol, or a 50-100 shot las gun pack for a las rifle or pistol.for a mere 10-20 thrones

The issue with Gyrojet weapons today is that the powder's degraded now IIRC. So you can buy a "bullet", but there's a chance of misfire (which you don't want given the price). Its been a while since I looked into the matter, but Forgotten Weapons (one of the most awesome and informative channels on Youtube) have a few videos on the subject. There are current R&D groups looking into similar weapons however (guided rockets this time), but there's a whole load of quirky projects happening out there, so that's not to say they'll ever go into mass production (why fund some weird weapon when we can go about hitting each other with rocks still).




The point made in the above video that these things were useless bar at short range seems to be the largest issue with those weapons. Of course they were an early development of the technology, so the newer Gyrojet style weapons in the works right now are presumably better in that regard. Then again though, I still can't imagine them being too great (we're decades away from the world of lasers and power armour sci fi's always on about, nah this is the crap that looks like it was duct taped together and is likely to explode or misfire point of development, if that).

I could see such weapons cropping up in the Fallout world however. I mean they did see use in the real world to an extent (in a handful of cases that is, and I doubt they fared well in the jungles of Vietnam).

Enclave would have them most likely though. They have a LOT of gear in decent condition.

I felt like coloring in yesterday's sketch. ...Not as a painting guide or anything. Nope...



http://frufruhm.deviantart.com/art/Wasteland-Merc-Coloured-535864347

I'm super amazing at using Gimp to color crap.

How is this related to wargaming? Well other than being a painting guide if I ever turn her into a model ... ...seriously there's a guy who's posting images about how he's renovating his new gaming room in his thread!

Query and such. ...Ah, is the Walking Dead Fallout, or do I have to start another thread? Or shall I just count this guy as a survivor out in the wastes?

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Query and such. ...Ah, is the Walking Dead Fallout, or do I have to start another thread? Or shall I just count this guy as a survivor out in the wastes?

He'd fit right in very well in a New Vegas/Mojave Wasteland setting. Just give him a Sheriff's hat and hes a down on his luck small town sheriff.

Rick's done, but the lightbulb in my room burst so I'll have to wait till some natural light crops up to actually take any pictures of the WIP (...or youknow I could just replace the bulb).

Next up, this guy. Again another conversion of a Studio Miniature's model to bring it more in line with the Tv show (I'm going to replace his head. Not a full outfit conversion, as his Tv outfit post eye loss is radically different from the comic, though the show also greatly expands his character).



Eye patch or no eye patch? Hmn...

If you have the model that resembles the Gov when he was presenting himself as a "Nice guy" then no eye patch, but have one with the eye patch ready for when he becomes all out in the open and nasty!


I would use the rick style mini as a down on his luck sheriff

Walking Dead itself is not post nuke apoc, it is post infection apoc

I run zombie games along with my Fallout games too actually, so these Walking Dead minis would suit that (and all the Fallout terrain does for the US too). Hmn, as I don't post here often enough anyway I suppose I could roll in my zombie stuff with this thread unless the updates become really out of hand, in which case I'll just paste everything into a new thread.

This is the model I have for the Governor. Its one of Studio Miniature's earlier Walking Dead line (they had a Kickstarter for an expanded range, but sadly the models aren't for sale yet).



I'm currently considering swapping out his head and removing his Steyr Aug so that he resembles that image that I posted more.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
I run zombie games along with my Fallout games too actually, so these Walking Dead minis would suit that (and all the Fallout terrain does for the US too). Hmn, as I don't post here often enough anyway I suppose I could roll in my zombie stuff with this thread unless the updates become really out of hand, in which case I'll just paste everything into a new thread.

This is the model I have for the Governor. Its one of Studio Miniature's earlier Walking Dead line (they had a Kickstarter for an expanded range, but sadly the models aren't for sale yet).



I'm currently considering swapping out his head and removing his Steyr Aug so that he resembles that image that I posted more.

Ah he does look mean there! Studio Miniatures? I am familiar with the Hasslefree miniatures, and they did some mini that also work for the range.

They're similar to Kev White in that they make pop culture inspired miniatures. Yes they were formally sold through Hasslefree, but when I asked them at the show that I was at I was told that they're moving all their stuff onto their own site. The issue is that none of their stuff from their Z-Clipz kickstarter is on their site right now, and off of the top of my head (from what I saw at their show) that included most of the main characters - Tyrseese, a newer Michonne, Rick and Carl (...not Laurie, she was already out, and also screw Laurie), Glenn and Maggie, hmn ...and a bunch more you can probably find images on their Kickstarter page.

...This metal's harder than I thought. Cutting off the Governor's right arm to replace it with a more casual pose is going to take more resculpting that I first thought. =/

I actually like the Governor's original model (the gun's a bit iffy however), unlike either of the Rick models that they came out if. If it could pick up another one cheap enough I may actually do that. However I much prefer how the Tv represents the character, as seriously in the comics he's literally a character that turns up, acts like a crazy person then dies (the books at least develop him). That's a big thing with the show due to its run times, that it expands on the world and plots more, not that I dislike the comics at all of course.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
They're similar to Kev White in that they make pop culture inspired miniatures. Yes they were formally sold through Hasslefree, but when I asked them at the show that I was at I was told that they're moving all their stuff onto their own site. The issue is that none of their stuff from their Z-Clipz kickstarter is on their site right now, and off of the top of my head (from what I saw at their show) that included most of the main characters - Tyrseese, a newer Michonne, Rick and Carl (...not Laurie, she was already out, and also screw Laurie), Glenn and Maggie, hmn ...and a bunch more you can probably find images on their Kickstarter page.

...This metal's harder than I thought. Cutting off the Governor's right arm to replace it with a more casual pose is going to take more resculpting that I first thought. =/

I actually like the Governor's original model (the gun's a bit iffy however), unlike either of the Rick models that they came out if. If it could pick up another one cheap enough I may actually do that. However I much prefer how the Tv represents the character, as seriously in the comics he's literally a character that turns up, acts like a crazy person then dies (the books at least develop him). That's a big thing with the show due to its run times, that it expands on the world and plots more, not that I dislike the comics at all of course.

Well, there are so many characters to make. The one character, Carol, played by the actress who went to look for here kids in "The Mist" also would be good.

Yeah the new white metal alloys are tough and a pain to cut and work with.,

For TV they did alright developing the governor for the time constraints of an episode.


I have seen some decent low cost fallout fan made movies, I wonder if they would ever make a movie based off fallout as they have worked on for Halo? (Microsoft has sunk crazy money into Halo projects)


Okay yeah, those are the ones I saw on Hasslefree All the survivors, and the zombies

This is the range of models that are coming out from that Kickstarter (including zombie version of all the survivors). Not all are from the Walking Dead, plenty of 80s pulp and I see a little someone from Zombieland in there.



His line in the Tv series when he kills Caesar Martinez and takes over that group after Caesar expresses that he doesn't think he can keep everyone safe (including The Governor's new family) is, "I don't want to!". He doesn't want to be in control all the time, but sees it as the only way to keep the people he cares about safe. If Caesar hadn't said that then there wouldn't have been the second siege of the prison in the Tv series, hell Blake would have just driven off never to be seen again (if it weren't for Deus Ex Machina zombies blocking the road that one night).

...The comic's version however has nowhere near that depth. He's just a dick that knows he can control people through exploitation and fear. Least the novels bring him more in line with the series in terms of character development, especially as they show him transforming over the apocalypse from just your average quiet guy into that monster (bonus points that you spend the first novel thinking his brother, the mad guy, is the one who becomes the Governor, as opposed to the quiet one...).

What as in Nuka Break? Really that series is the be all and end of for Fallout fan series (bonus points that the second season was partly written by Chris Avellone and had Obsidian's leads playing characters in it).

Oh so looking forwards to those made into minis!

And as a reward for their awesome work, they made a weapon for New Vegas, the Nuka Break as a super-sledge like weapon, Studio ought to make the Nuka-Break characters

At the show that I was at I was told they'd be out soon. ...Soon of course being based on a similar time unit as "Valve Time" meaning that it could be weeks or months until they crop up. =/

6.50 into the season finale of the second season has the character Twig pull out that very weapon...




Yup, a character from the series Nuka Break pulls out a weapon named after the series...

Yep, I found that also amusing and cool. I am a fan of that work, and others as you have seen.

One of my Role play sessions of the Dark Heresy came to an end on a world like new Vegas, an old mining colony that had been forgotten, isolated, a las rifle was a "Fancy shootin' eye-run"

The team had to be sparing of their better weapons ammo, or use the simpler slug tossers of that world. Umber hulks were the death claws of that world, and all the creatures the faced, then they discovered the planet had their own green skinned problem from a Rok that had crashed, there were mercenary grots who would work on tech for a fee.

An unfortunate chain of prometheum exlplosions at a deep desert promethium refueling station/inn/food and water stop is what ended that campaign for many of the acolytes. all up in flames and a massive mushroom cloud.

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.