Mongrel Dogs for Fallout Wasteland Warfare and Zona Alfa

The Wasteland and the Zone are both full of mongrel dogs that pose an ever-present threat to Wastelanders and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s alike. As such, I needed some feral dogs to go on the table. These are the Modiphius Fallout Wasteland Warfare Mongrel Dogs, a very nice set of miniatures.

So far, I have one box of these miniatures painted. I plan to do a second one to put a total of twelve miniatures onto the table.

Reaper Miniatures Terminators

 

I wanted some Fallout Institute Synth proxies to use in my roleplaying groups' home brewed Fallout d20 game. I'm not enamoured with the actual miniatures from Modiphius Games and so went looking for a more Terminator style of model. Reaper Miniatures make an excellent Terminator miniature and it's in metal, is cheaper and because its metal you can bend the arms to make slightly different poses to the standard four sculpts. I now have a bunch ready to threaten the player characters in an upcoming adventure.

I also wanted to surprise the players when they destroy the first few Synths. I will replace the complete model with one I have cut to make the crawling remains of the damaged Synth. So, this should cause a few shocks when they think they have defeated the first couple of Synths.

They're still coming! Eventually...

Nothing like having a grasping set of metal hands trying to crush your feet as your engaged in a shootout with a dangerous robot.

Zona Alfa table layout

 

The table set-up, looking northwards.

I've been reading my way through the excellent Zona Alfa ruleset. The game has been out for some years now, but as I am ever late to the tabletop party, better late than never, right. So, as I am with what spare time I can find right now, feverishly collecting and painting miniatures for the game I decided to show off the table setup for my first foray into the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe via the tabletop.

The south-western corner

The battle mat is from a gaming company in Armenia, if I remember correctly. Its 4x4ft and cost a small fortune to ship by UPS only to then get stung with an $80 GST fee to release it from customs. DAMN YOU online Goods & Services Tax!!!

The vehicles are all 1/43 scale diecast vehicles from ebay. The factory, industrial bins and power polls are from Dark Castle Terrain. The junk tower was my own creation. So too are the rock hole breach and the crater filled with toxic barrels that will be locations for Anomalies.

The south-eastern corner

The north-eastern corner

Eastern edge looking westwards

The two crystal rock formations are just $2 Store cheapo coloured rocks from a craft section formed into a ring. These will be additional anomaly locations.

It does need more trees I feel, so I am working on that now. The scenario isn't chosen yet. But I always find that setting up an interesting table and then choosing a scenario seems to add more flavour.

I also have a 28mm scale BTR-70 coming from Empress Miniatures that I intend to add to the table also. I need enough cover so that a STALKER team can attempt to move up on the factory with decent enough cover to hide them. What's in the factory? Don't know yet.

Hamlet gets upgraded

 

Hamlet (from Hasslefree Miniatures), just got some armour in preparation for venturing into the Zone.

Ready to rock in full camo body armour, along with the latest in NVG goggles, Hamlet is just itching to rip the throat out of those Snorks.

So whose still a good boy then?

Cylon Deceiver's for Void Admiral Battlestar Galactica

 

Time to take a short break from the Post Apocalyptic miniature world and drop in on the ongoing effort to grow my Battlestar Galactica forces for use in Void Admiral. These models belong to the Agents of Gaming line of With Hostile Intent ships. Specifically, the Hyperdyne Deceiver class of ships.

Here I've added missile pods, from Brigade Models, to the "wings" of the Deceiver turning them from an Electronic Warfare Destroyer into a Guided Missile Destroyer. I'll probably do some others along this line turning them into a modular class of destroyer class deployed by the Cylons.

I still feel that I need to add a little more colour to these models but can't decide yet what to add to them right now. But they are table ready for use in Void Admiral.

So, there will be more to come on these types of ships including my take on their ship profiles for Void Admiral.

"Little" Super Mutants for Fallout - Meet the Goblin Gang!

 

Meet the "Goblin Crew." These lads will be one of the gangs that my Fallout d20 roleplaying group will encounter in the future. In game, their background will be one where the FEV virus was modified to create a subservient worker class for the Enclave. A project the Enclave called the G.O.B.L.N. experiment.

The group's leader, 'Top Hat' orchestrated a daring mass escape of the G.O.B.L.N. experimental subjects. They took off through to old sewer network of pipes and escaped into the Commonwealth Wasteland, close to the Glowing Sea, and have been in hiding ever since.

Not necessarily as dangerous as their Super Mutant cousins, who would enslave them if they found them, they are naturally extremely cautious of anyone finding out that they exist and will shoot at anyone who approaches their hideout in order to scare them away.

Center in the photo above is Top Hat, their leader. To his right is Little John, the psychic and mystic of the group. What he lacks in stature, he more than makes up for with his mental abilities such as telepathy and telekinesis. To Top Hat's left is Red Eye, the groups ever vigilant scout and sniper.

Next we have on the left, Brambles with his pistol and whip made from mutated thorn vines. Uncle is in the middle. Finally, we have Droopy on the right.

Next, also from left to right, we have Wagstaff (Wagsy for short), Eeps in the middle, and Tripod whose right arm he uses more as a third leg given his malformed legs.

Finally, we have, again from left to right, Bo (and abbreviation of "Boom", a catchphrase he uses whenever he blows something to pieces), Cynders in the middle (who naturally likes to torch everything in sight), and Splats (short for Splatter) on the right. Splatter got his name from using his shotgun a little too well. He must have gained the "Bloody Mess" perk somehow during their escape from the secret Enclave lab.

And that's the team. So welcome to the Goblin Crew.

The Super Mutants arrive!

The first batch of my Super Mutants for Fallout Wasteland Warfare, Fallout Factions, my home grown d20 Fallout rpg game, This is Not a Test (TNT) etc, etc, are finally ready. I plan to use these lads to bother my roleplaying group in the near future. So should be fun.

Now to paint those Suicider Super Mutants. One or three of those will make life fun for the group.