Can't Stop Playing With It

I can't stop playing with it.  My work bench that is. It's been a while since I have made any major modifications to the bench do I guess the time had arrived. Sorry if there is aquality issue with the post as I am still blogging from my phone.

I hhad run out of space again so I added some more shelf space and some plastic draws. I guess tidying might also have help a bit. K if you happen to read this think of kittens.  Maybe my other half was right.

Situational Normal - Embracing The Suck

I am using my other half's laptop. Pretty much identical to mine. Aside from the pink cover and the absence of a battery. Starngly it was right next to mine when we were burgled earlier in the week. But I'm not bitter. Much. I am now glad I have a Samsung phone with a big screenand not my iPhone which I lost at the end of last year.

 I have been trying to come up with some more ideas for the game I am running as the plot has gone along with most of the work I had done for it. The game is set to end on Monday so I am not feeling to great about the start of next week. I am guessing that all the work I have done in the last two weeks has now gone for good. Sniff.

Still on the plus side. I have finished some more bad guys. I now have some suoer mutants and some Mexicans. Mexicans? Well it seemed like a good idea at the time and I have had some 15mm Mexicans sat in a box for a while. It occured to me that Arizona (where the game is set) is on the Mexican border, so why not. I'll just have to resist the line "We don't need no stinking badges."

I have some more stuff on the workbench. Some more Vault types amd some scenary. I have been working through some more GZG vehicles I got with my Christmas freebie order. I am waiting for some stuff from Peter Pig and TheScene. I am kinda naffed off that I ordered it a few days ago and it hasn't arrived yet. I've paid for first class postage but seem to be getting second class service befoe it goes into the post. I was hoping that it would have arrived by now because I wanted if for the game. Still I maybe able to get to it before the final battle.

Enough bitching for one day.

Life Mocks Me

Much like it did Frankie Howard. I got burgled last night. My laptop has gone. Updates Might be a bit Of a problem. still maybe I'll get a new lap top Out Of it. Thea Chancesof me getting it back look smaller than a pixies right nut after a cold bath.

still, looking on the bright side. I just saw a trailer for unicorn city on youtube. It's worth a look.

Pound Shop Find #2

I found these last month and I've had a chance to play about with them. I think the pack cost about £4 in total and there were six vehicles in the pack. These have been distressed a little to give them a bit of texture. I could make them into something a bit a bit better but this would have required a lot more effort.  The truck is a little on the large side but looking at it, I can see it as a big industrial truck. This might be typical of the big earth moving equipment especially on colonies.

One of the vehicles that isn't all that great and has been broken up already and used for scenery. there is another that isn't scenery yet but will be soon. There is a steam roller on it's side in the background. I have seen vehicles this large but to be honest I have no use for it so it's going to be scrapped and turned bits for scenery.

The last pic is one that compares them to the other vehicles in the post from a few days ago.

Vault Characters

I will start out by saying that these were some figures I knocked up over the course of an afternoon as I needed the figures quite quickly. These were always going to be a bit rough and ready and are not my best work.

The Fallout game I am running needed some appropriate looking characters. As this is a game aimed at mass combat I thought I would start with some guards. The figures are some left over NAC troopers from GZG that I had lying around. The trooper are the core of the army so a nicely sized force seemed about right.

I wanted some civilian types for the players to use and as some NPCs. Medics, security scientists and the odd alcoholic. These are some GZG civilians and colonists. If you use 15mm sci figures, you can't beat GZG. I've recently had another big order from them and will post some more about that later.

Finally, these are another techie and some kids from GZG and the new leader of the vault from Peter Pig which was posted a few days ago.

Fallout (ish) Robots

Just another quick post. This is some more stuff from TheScene. I got these in the run up the game and actually painted them weeks ago. These are doubling for protectotrons. I wanted some more but they appear to be so popular that they are almost always out of stock. There is a bit of close up below.

I guess that these are meant to be robo brains. These are the robotic heavy artillery. These are also from TheScene. They have yet to have an appearance on the tabletop. I suspect that they might have a big impact on the players when they roll on the board. Will they be good guys or bad guys? I don't know yet but whatever, I am sure they are going to make someones day.

The last picture is of former Vault Overseer Johnson (aka Robo Johnson). He is an NPC from the Fallout game. I can see some other uses for him as time goes by. This is a minor conversion of a Black Cat Bases miniature. I normally like to say a little more but as I have said previously, time is tight at the moment.

Pound Shop Find #1

Well in this instance I guess it is not technically a pound shop as what is on display actually cost £4. They are cheap made in China mouldings. I have had better but then never mind the quality feel the width. Some of it is junk. There are a couple of jeeps that I can see no use for at the moment but I might be able to make something usable when I have had time to think. The traffic cones are massively over size. There is even a plastic wheel barrow. I can see this going into the junk box and staying there for a while.

 

The first thing that caught my eye were the lorries. There is very little out there that can be used for articulated lorries. Khurasan do one that is a little bit car wars but there is nothing really suitable for modern.variable but more or less.   

 This is a sporting looking car and I am not really sure what it is doing in a construction set but there you go. The pick up it's next to is from Peter Pig. It looks a little long but the height, which is normally the bigger problem is about okay.

I could see this in a car wars setting. Some of the classic counters don't look too different.  That said I think I am going to take the wheels off and turn it into a Traveller style grav-speeder. One of the 15mm figures have bases which give them a little of a height rise but it kind of works.

I was less sure about these. they are definately out of scale for what they are. The one on the right could be turned into some sort of G truck or maybe a transit style can. The one on the left kind of looks like a candidate for the bits box. Behind it is a skip that came with the set. I have skips from TheScene so suspect that is heading for the bits box too.

I got two mixer trucks for my money. I can see one being dismantled. Next to some older style WW2 vehicles they look a little taller but that is to be expected.

Another articulated lorry. The storage container on the rig is pretty good. It could be detached with a little effort. The set it came from cost a pound so it would still work out cheaper than buying something from a mini manufacturer.

The last of the articulated trucks. I'm not sure what they were thinking in the trailer design team but I guess there is plenty that can be made out of what's here. Compared to the other big trucks I have seen, I'd take these.

Last but not least a couple more trucks. The ecovery truck is an odd construction but I guess it will turn into something if you think about it long enough. For £4 I thought this was a pretty good deal.