“Revolutionizing safety for the future.”
Inspired by Wyrmalla's super-amazing awesome “Fallout, Heading East,” seriously, give his thread a look if you haven’t already, it's good amazing stuff all round.
I'm also a big fan of the Fallout games (Old enough to have played them when they first came out allllll those years ago! In a world when Interplay and Black Isle still both existed.. Wow.) and absolutely love the overall retro gothic styled setting as kicked off by Black Isle Studios and further expanded on by Bethesda and Obsidian. Sorry kids, Fallout Tactics is in my eyes as wholly non-canon as those other games we do not talk about, interesting bits of flavour fluff or not. biggrin
Anyway, I’m going to use this thread to keep track of various small mini projects, bits and pieces of fluff (Mostly this I think), stats for the various minis and if I’m up to it, special rules and whatnot for the Action Engine system from Crooked Dice, the system that I will be running this all under, just like Wyrmalla. This will be quite a mess most likely, as I’m not really one to plan things out good and proper, I’m just tinkering with and making this up as I go.
Most of the minis shown are from Brother Vinni, unless noted otherwise. Brother Vinni’s “Nuclear Sandlot” range is what really made me do this. Well, actually Wyrmalla’s thread and a convenient sale held by Vinni just while GOG.com was giving away free copies of the first two Fallout games, so I guess they’ve all been enablers! But Vinni’s amazing not-Fallout sculpts have certainly helped kick this thing into overdrive for me.
Also, quite a few models are not based as of yet or stuck to unfinished bases, shameful I know! When the budget allows for this it will be rectified post-haste! :*)
Let’s go look at some minis and discuss crazy ideas.
NCR
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First up, two Desert Rangers and a NCR Ranger, f.l.t.r.: Denise Tanner, Mikey Patenté and Lucy Hernandez, who are the current garrison of “Fort Dallas”, which really is less a fort and more of a scraped together outpost or watch station where the ladies and gent try and keep an eye on the surrounding wasteland for slaver and raider activity. They may be joined by regular grunts if good kits or sets can be tracked down that can be pressed into service with a minimal amount of converting. If not, they're S.O.L. and will have to patrol the wasteland by their selves.
The girl with the rifle is Dusty from the Bombshell Babes KS and the revolver toting girl is Lee Roland from the Blackwater Gulch range. The NCR Ranger is from Brother Vinni’s range and while I like most of the model, I utterly despise the head, it looks rather poorly done, especially the goggles seem strange. But that could just be me. Were I a better converter I’d probably remove the head and replace it with one from Victoria Lamb’s range of alternate heads.
Gameplay wise I’m thinking of running both girls as Angels of Justice and have Mikey as a Strongarm or Dependable Deputy, dunno yet. Or maybe have one of the girls around as a Hardened Investigator and in overall command of the group. Really tempted to either make the revolvers high calibre weapons, or plain old trademark weapons. Choices.. Must investigate!
Brotherhood of Steel
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Knight Paladin Damas, one of the few who is currently staffing Outpost Rombus. Other outpost members might be a future scribe and one or two bots. Or he might be the sole survivor / occupant, the rules I have in mind for him should make is possible for him to go toe to toe with a whole group of foes at a time, because power armour is supposed to be OP along with all that other pre-war stuff. biggrin
The mini is mostly straight out of the blister, only I left off the backpack and gave him a headswap, going for one of the classic T51b heads instead. While looking almost nothing like the original power armour design, I still like to think that this guy is an original BoS dude. I covered the hole on his back with a bit of plastic and put an atomic decal over it, to show off that his suit of armour might be powered by something that glows in the dark. Anyway, love this mini, my only real complaint is that the shoulders are a b***h to remove from their tabs, which resulted in one sadly breaking, hence why he’s only sporting one shoulder, a crime I know.
Gameplay wise.. Military Mind most likely, with a healthy boost to some of his stats thanks to the power armour, Wyrmalla has made some good suggestions on that one. The minigun will most likely be represented as a heavy machinegun, but maybe with the High Calibre rule to represent the shredding burst of fire it burps whenever you pull the trigger.
VAULT 7
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Three dwellers from Vault 7, of which the social experiment status is currently classified, though it might have something to do with the weird G.O.A.T. results the inhabitants keep getting! F.l.t.r.: Lyle Mann (Vault security, but would much rather be a barber), Nadine Cole (Official Vault masseuse who'd rather be a security guard) and Malik DeAngelo (Quite happy as a technician actually). These guys (and gal) left the vault for various reasons, the G.O.A.T. being one of these, the prospect of remaining inside the vault their entire lives another. So, after one argument with the overseer too many they hatched a plan to escape from the vault, using a secret passageway to “quietly” sneak out. You can imagine, things were quiet until they popped the vault door and had it screech open, awkwaaaaaard. They managed to get away though and now, adventure awaits!
Or a slow and painful death by exposure/gunfire/slavery/take your pick.
There may or may not also be a physician or doctor joining the team later onwards, I just need to find a proper mini that can go with the overall design of the other minis.
MISC.
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WIP bunker of sorts. Hell, I had this one lying around for who knows how long now. I originally bought it for 7TV purposes, but with a bit of weathering it might look great as an abandoned communications or weather satellite bunker somewhere in the wasteland, maybe even make for a fine Outpost Rombus. I mean, it has a big dish on top, looks pretty high tech, meaning the Brotherhood would in all likeliness want to possess it. The sandbags are 1:48 scale Tamiya bits and the solar panel bit is from Sarissa IIRC.
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The beginnings of a gas station. Originally bought it for a 7ombieTV scenario, but seeing as that’s never going to happen, might as well turn it into something else. Might still be a gas station, or one of those fusion cell stations that started to pop up after the energy crisis forced cars to run on something other than dead dinosaurs. However, I am tempted to maybe barricade it and turn it into part of Fort Dallas, add a makeshift tower with sniper nest to the roof or something like that, maybe an old fashioned radio tower.
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A repainted toy van. I removed the friction engine (Because there is always some a*****e who thinks it is fun to pull it back and have it crash into minis..) and plastic windows, instead cutting up fine mesh and installing that over the windows instead. Went with a more boring and mundane grey and patches of corrosion and rust (Which I’m still trying to get the hang of!), plus some crudely painted on 7’s to denote that the Vault Dwellers have claimed this vehicle as their own. As for it still being able to move about, maybe it was in storage somewhere, awaiting a new owner? Or maybe their tech managed to patch it up with a bit of McGuyvering? It has no real ingame purpose other than being a piece of terrain I suppose. I might add more bits and bobs to it later, maybe turn it into more of a mobile home for our wayward dwellers.
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These girls were originally meant to be a future Escher gang, but seeing as Necromunda isn’t as popular, nor are there enough girls for a whole gang, I’ve instead been using Ross as a stand-in for Marbo for a while, straight up murdering the ******** out of everything crossing her path, including a whole squad of Chaos Raptors and a bleeding Riptide, hur hur hur. For this setting though, at first I thought they’d make for excellent raiders or wasteland militia, though seeing as I’ve used a lot of olive drab and whatnot, maybe they could be a more unorthodox US Army remnant unit of some sort, still fighting the war, just like the Enclave! Only maybe slightly less genocidal. Then it hit me, they’re all sporting M16esque rifles, so with a bit of repainting they can look like NCR service rifles, not the marksman rifle or assault carbine, which are just a bit too high tech and modern looking for the setting IMHO. So, fluff is still in flux, but right now I’m leaning towards a unit of women who lost loved ones and family out in the wasteland, banding together as the Black Widows or something equally spiffy sounding. Gals with nothing to lose and all the more dangerous because of it.
Also, all of these girls are from MaxMini, one of those great Polish companies that some people just seem to hate. biggrin
As for their rules, one will obviously be a Military Mind and the others all minor co-stars most likely, to represent their status as badasses. So a helpful sprinkling of Angels of Justice and Strongarms it is!
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A kitbashed WMIK (Weapons Mounted Installation Kit) Land Rover for my Rangers or Widows, work in progress obviously. I not only hate this kit, it has also more than reaffirmed my sincere dislike for Airfix brand as a whole. When I was a lad I would buy their horrible, horrible ill-fitting and mismatching kits a lot, because they looked cool and well, were very cheap. Sadly, it looks like 20+ years later Airfix still ******** sucks in many a department, which is a shame, as their current 1:48 scale range of modern Afghanistan war vehicles does look amazing, but sadly suffers from the same old s**t all those years ago.
Uhm, yeah.. Hatred for the brand aside, I left a lot off with this kit, snipped away even more and ended up with a bare bones model that I decided to redress with the same wire mesh I’ve used on the VW van windows, to turn it into more of an ad-hoc patrol vehicle. In gaming terms this will be just like the van, a static piece of scenery that will be placed near the NCR deployment zone as filler and to show off how they got there in the first place.
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A HobbyBoss KV-2 hull, minus the monstrous turret and mud guards. At first I was inspired by Wyrmalla’s gauss turret conversion to try something weird war-ish myself, but the longer I looked at the hull as is, the more I want to convert it into some sort of construction vehicle, like a bulldozer or a demolition vehicle of some sort. Maybe a tractor unit? Suggestions welcome!
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A WIP tribal of sorts, don’t know yet. I wanted to use her as a sanctioned psyker at first, but she’d make a better tribal instead. Maybe a priestess or something equally pulpy and zany for a rescue scenario or the like.
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Two cheap 1:48 scale toy trucks from a Russian company I can’t remember. These are snap-together kits that I originally bought for 7TV, but with a bit of converting will make for excellent terrain pieces. The blue truck has received extra armoured plating over its windows while I’m thinking of giving the white one a nice mesh layer over the yellow roll bars.
So that's on my desk right now, thanks for reading.
"THANK YOU, OVERSEER!"
