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Those gas masks are by Lead Adventure, they're a bit pricy by 28mm standards, but about the same price as most Heroic bits and bobs. I bought them with the intent to make some Lobotomites from Old World Blues, but they'll do for Raiders too.

Minis looking quite ready for Post-Apocalytia!

What were the base models?

The Raider's a Wargames Factory German with a Lead Adventure gas mask. The merc's just an armature with Wargames Factory female survivor arms and head. The astronaut's another blank armature with a Lead Adventure gas mask head.

Hmph, running out of those armatures unfortunately. They have served me well. :(

Wyrmalla. did you play Fallout 4 yet? if so what do you think about it? with the Enclave leadership absent... the Fallout 4 said nothing the remnants in the eastcoat. NOTHING! What happened to them? did the Eastcoast BoS killed 'em all in their punitive crusade? or the remnants joined other factions?

Do you think that the Commonwealth Minutemen welcom the leaderless Enclave goons? And what do you think about their late 18th century uniform? (especially Tricorne headwear)

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

Cheers.

Also, what do you think of this guy for a wacky Vault Dweller? Found it on Hasslefree Miniatures.



He reminds me of the teddy bear costume in Fallout 4.

@Lone Cat
I have a copy of Fallout 4, but my computer can't run it at all unfortunately.

As far as Bethesda's handling of the Enclave it seems like they used them up as the cliche villains then swept them under the carpet. From what I've heard the Brotherhood just took over all of their assets. As far as their members though, perhaps that's something for future DLC or mods, as Bethesda painted them as fairly straight evil guys. I can't see Bethesda being good enough writers, or wanting to rehash what Obsidian did with their Enclave remnants.

I can't speak for how Bethesda's Brotherhood or East Coast people would handle any remnants. I mean I could say realistically they would either integrate like they did on the West Coast, or be slowly wiped out. However again I don't see Bethesda being good enough writers to manage anything morally gray in that regard. It would be interesting, but I wouldn't hold out on anything in that regard.

Speaking of the period dress. The devs are playing up to cliches. Let's not question where all those outfits came from (hey it may be explained in game, but its purely a stylistic choice from my perspective). A uniform's a uniform though, and if it give their faction character then who's to argue with that? ...There's probably a bunch of guys dressed in theme park costumes somewhere.

@Shadow Captain Edithae

Speaking of theme park costumes... Its, uh, camouflage? ...A social experiment? Um, because, ah, when you're going to live on Mars there may be concerns over social profiling based on outfits. ...Yeah, that's it.

Apologies if this has been answered before (I've probably asked myself already), I've trawled through your thread and couldn't find if you've already answered as this thread is so damn huge.

What did you use as the basis for these Vault Dweller miniatures? The one on the left I think I recognize as originating from the Wargames Factory female survivor kit, not sure about the other two. Obviously the armour is greenstuff right? And what was the (trash can lid?) shield?

These are my favourite examples of Vault Dweller miniatures that I've found anywhere.

Wargames Factory female apocalypse survivors.

All three of them? And the weapon bits too?

WGF zombie apocalypse survivors set comes with a major armory to choose from!

Cheers, thought so but its hard to tell with all the changes Wyrmalla makes.

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Cheers, thought so but its hard to tell with all the changes Wyrmalla makes.

Male survivors sprue had the British bullpup as well as AK-47's so you could make survivors for many different nations, even an RPG!

IIRC, everything but the shield is from the same boxed set, it just involved a lot of greenstuff and sculpting to get the look done.

Yeah, everything survivors could need or want!

Those ones came out really weird in the picture. Their faces don't look like they're melting off in real life...

Wargames Factory female survivors with a bit of greenstuff. They're out of the box bar some reposing (the base model's are horrible in that regard), greenstuff armour and pip-boys, plus some added pouches. The baton's a golf club from the same box without the head and the shield's taken from an Offensive Miniature's British Riot Police Officer.

Probably aught to go back and remake those and the greenstuff' looks crap. =P

Anyway... A user over on Lead Adventure happened to send me some of his sculpts to play with. This Sentry Bot looked like it wouldn't take much to bring it up to scratch.



That's a 40mm base FYI.

Plus his original. Its made from one of those Space Marine vehicle crew models which arm the pintle mounts. I did what I could to make it look more like the in game robot.

The greenstuff looks crap? Hardly. Here's one of mine.

I'd take a knife to the edges of that greenstuff to neaten it up a bit. Besides that, what're you using to sculpt? I get away with cocktail sticks for the initial shape and smoothing, then needles for anything small.

#professionalism

Another image dump, like I just did in my Stalker thread. =P

Caravan Guard



Raider Tank



Lost Astronaut



And the finished Sentry Bot

A set of clay shapers from boyes.

Just picked a set of Unity Council Marines from Anvil Industry's Afterlife range. Have you seen that range? They have some really cool sci fi stuff. High tech stuff that look like the Chinese Shi, some cool robots. They even have some models that look like Chinese Stealth Armour.

I think they'll work great as Brotherhood of Steel Knights or Initiates in combat armour, which I suppose would be their version of "Light" Infantry. Do Knights always wear power armour, or do they sometimes make use of lighter armour? This is to flesh out my This is Not a Test Preserver warband. My Vault Dwellers are going to be Caravanners, the idea being that they're traveling the wasteland and trading with wastelanders to obtain supplies for their malfunctioning Vault, much like the Vault Dweller left Vault 13 to acquire water supplies and a functioning water chip.

The Brotherhood wears what they can get. Mods make it so Brotherhood soldiers have more variety in their gear, IIRC there was one in Fallout 3 which had Knights wearing Advanced Combat armour as a secondary suit.

Those Anvil models are too chunky for my tastes. They're styled after 40K's 80's proportions, which is something I hate. I'd rather just make my own guys in Combat Armour. =/

As for this thread, I haven't been arsed to make any Fallout stuff lately. I have a pile of Nuka Cola vending machines sitting half painted there, but other settings have taken over right now. The plan was to make some traffic lights for my existing urban terrain set, though my local art suppliers have been short on materials.

Those Anvil models are too chunky for my tastes. They're styled after 40K's 80's proportions, which is something I hate. I'd rather just make my own guys in Combat Armour. =/

Maybe. But my brother Vinni Vault Dwellers are fairly large and chunky too, especially in comparison to my Hasslefree Miniatures so they seem to fit well together. The Power armour guys seem a little small in comparison to the marines though.

Spent a few hours this morning assembling ten of the marines and I really like them.

How many tribals do you have? Just the Hobbit Hunter Orcs? Someone got great results combining the Warlord Games Zombie survivor and Woodland Indian kits. They have a great Mad Max vibe to them.

http://www.twistedironindustries.com/search/label/Fallout

Damn, that was last week you posted? Bah, not checking threads.

Those Tribals were going for pennies a while back, but I didn't look at them really as they sat next to the same company's crappy Romans. There's a show in a week here, so maybe I can have a look then.

As ever I'm still trudging through building terrain. ...More minis right now may well just land in the "future projects" pile.

In the meantime games wise I've not been doing much of my own stuff, rather I'm just playing with other people's minis. I'm running a zombie game tomorrow with my Fallout/ S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stuff as a stand in for small town America (...um, that town just so happened to have a lot of Eastern Europeans living in it). I've a load of Morrowind terrain sitting 90% done (blame laziness), plus a load of unpainted Stalker buildings. The push for Fallout is the little bits and bobs, but I keep forgetting to buy the stuff for traffic lights, and haven't gotten around to finish off my vending machines.

But again, there's a show in a week, so priorities may shift then, and seeing how things go tomorrow I might wind up running games more often. More games means a need for new stuff, so I'll see what people want to do.

Warlord recently purchased most of the wargames factory miniatures, and from what i understand, jacked up the prices considerably, especially the zombie survivors.


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As for my own projects, a friend has been paying me to paint his zombicide black miniatures, so I haven't done much of my own. Miniatures lately.

I did make a really cool Raider warlord with a chainsaw glaive and bloody flesh cloak for This is Not a Test out of a Mad Max Master Blaster miniature. Also running a D&D campaign.

Aye they're repackaging Wargames Factory stuff. WGF boxes were everywhere at the last year's show, so I'm wondering if the stalls shifted that stock or if they'll be selling the repackaged stuff.

I bought two boxes of the unreleased special forces troops. Warlord's pricing is a joke. Its Games Workshop bad. I spent £25 for 16 guys. Were they being sold under their WGF pricing scheme I would have gotten 48 models for that price.

The This is Not a Test kickstarter didn't really appeal to me much. It was there to shift books, but as I'm not caring about the models, for the same price it'll be sold in my flgs eventually. 7TV is still trundling on, though I'd rather use the This is Not a Test rules, but that won't happen till I have a print copy. :/

A friend's wanting to play Force on Force, and I guess I'll pick that up. I've modern Russian and Ukrainian forces, plus I'm about to pickup some Israelis. Don't talk to me about Israelis. I have four vehicles to fight alongside my non-existent army, for a game I'll probably barely ever play. The scenarios will amount to the Russians fighting the Israelis over their gas supplies or something (a sight that has zero chance of happening in the real world. ...Maybe the Israelis decide to back Kurdistan with boots on the ground and the Russians get swept into the mess like they did in Afghanistan).

The kickstarter delivers in September. You'll be waiting a while to get a book at retail. I was going to wait, but choked and ordered the PDF. Worked out well, I got a free $10 mini because I own the PDF, and I printed it off and put it in a ringbinder for my club. If anyone needs copies, I can print them off at home.

I am truly in awe of the fine work done in this thread

Wow, quality stuff here. I especially like the terrain

I've been too into Frostgrave lately to touch this thread unfortunately. I do have two weeks off coming up, but that'll be to make some cave terrain for Morrowind.

Whenever the This is Not a Test rules come out as a hardcopy I'll get back into playing Fallout games. Till then I've just been using the scenery for zombie games.

...I'll just ignore the box of unfinished urban terrain which I have for this. And the crashed Vertibird.

Maybe I'll get around to buying a new PC to actually play the latest game too.