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.

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?

Junk Fences update and a Junk Tower for Fallout

 

So, remember those Junk Fences I posted about previously (see here). I've added some extra little features such as some Army Painter Razor Wire and some fine size gardening mesh as well as those excellent cardboard coffee cup holders from my local bakery that I get each time I buy coffee (the one that looks like corrugated iron).

I used PVA glue for the mesh and corrugated iron. I hot glued the razor wire in place sandwiching it between some match sticks that I cut in half. All in all, it does the job nicely and wasn't too expensive. The Army Painter Razor Wire being the most expensive single item in the whole build. I spray painted it in a thin coat of brown which still lets the wood grain come through.

The gates are half sized bits of cut tongue depressor sticks with fine sized gardening mesh added. I thought about adding a few more items to the gate but haven't decided on anything as yet. I may add some tires or something else. But for now, this will do.

The Junk Towner is comprised of bits of balsawood from a craft pack I got from Bunnings. That pack came with a whole assortment of shapes, sizes and thickness of balsawood. It was what I used to make the main house of the Wasteland Farm you can see here.

The height is set so that it stands at roughly three stories for 28mm scale and is open on one side. Ladders can be placed within for movement and there is a mid-story where I can place miniatures traversing the tower. The top of the tower permits a 28mm miniature to stand half exposed looking over the top of the tower.

And that's another project done!

Making Junk Fences for Fallout

 This is the work in progress of my latest project, that of Junk Fences for Fallout.

This will become the Junk Fence gate.

Using tongue depressors (or stirrer sticks if you prefer), hot glue, PVA glue and sand (for the base), I set about making the fences as you see here in the pictures.

The corrugated iron is just cut up cardboard coffee cup holders from my local bakery take away that has been PVA glued to the fence.

A bit of brown spray paint gives the undercoating I'm after.

There is still more to add and paint. But you can see where this is going and how it came to be in the photos above. I thought I would share this to inspire others on how to make cheap and easy Junk Fences for their post-apocalyptic games.

The Ballad of Roger Bannister

 

Meet Roger Bannister, the former soldier, now trader NPC from our homegrown OSR Fallout d20 game. Roger is named after the famous British physician and athlete. Roger is a key NPC who often dolls out jobs and rumours for the players that sets them on adventures in the Commonwealth Wasteland.

A former soldier who was reassigned to the Logistics Corps after being injured in theatre, he survived the atomic Armageddon that befell the Fallout World, becoming a Ghoul. His journeys eventually settled on him picking up the life of a trader in the Commonwealth.

Roger was made using HeroForge 2.0. He's modelled on a Zombie template with added eyes and hair (a toupee for in-game purposes) thrown onto the model. This configuration works well if you are after either a Ghoul or specialised Ferral Ghoul miniature for player characters, key NPC's or a particularly nasty boss creature.

Roger may feature (i.e. his ballad!) in future posts where he appears in some skirmish games. So, keep your eyes open for that one.

Horse of the Apocalypse - War

This funny looking fellow is from an expansion to the Zombicide - Undead or Alive boardgame. Here I've painted it up to look like one of the four horses of The Apocalypse, albeit missing its rider. Sadly, these photos don't really show you the subtlety of the colour transitions from brown to orange. But it gives you an idea of how you can turn your Zombie Abomination Horse into something a little more than just your average Abomination (and there's nothing average about those blighters!).

The inspiration for this one came from be replaying the original Red Dead Redemption - Undead Nightmare again. In the game expansion, John Marston can tame the four Horses of The Apocalypse and I thought that for my games of Last Days - Timelines, this would be a cool miniature zombie to have on the table. It could set zombies alight, like in the video game, or rile them up for greater savagery like, in Zombicide - Undead or Alive.

The Horse of War in Red Dead Redemption is rather dark and muted in its colours and so I was going for that subtle glowing ember's theme with fire around its feet.

All I need now is a John Marston type miniature to be able to ride it :) That would be cool.