Fallout Heavy Water Revival: Back in the Blog

Basically I haven't really had the cause and enthusiasm to post things to this blog for a really long time. However I thought I'd better get back to doing it, because apparently there are still more miniatures to paint, games to try and loose ends to be tied.

This is one of those loose ends

More than 12 months ago some people at the local club were getting into Fallout: Wasteland Warfare, painting up a lot of nice 28mm miniatures and some incredibly detailed terrain. I had a game and I think I posed something about it: it was a fun experience. Fallout I would describe as RPG-lite, with interesting and efficient combat rules and a humourous aspect.

So I figured that if my mates were enthusiastic about it, I should give it a go. Not having any suitable 28mm miniatures, I borrowed a mix of plastic parts from some other friends and put together a figure, promising these friends I would show them pictures of the miniature once it was done. A lot of stuff happened in the meantime, and I can't recall if I ever did show them the miniature.

Due to various scheduling conflicts, interstate travel etc. I never did get to use this character model, but maybe one day he will get on the table.

So anyway, here he is:

Waldemar "Darkness" Beauregard

Waldemar is a scout character with good night vision, which he keeps sharp with protective goggles. The basic model is a Warlord/Bolt Action US para with the head of a WH 40K Genestealer cultist. Someone said it might make people think he has slight radiation sickness.

He has a pipe rifle, which of course was a Sten gun (in the arms of a British para) with the magazine cut off (the Sten looks suitably low-tech and improvised).

I modelled on a Christmas scarf onto Waldemar from green stuff. Mainly this was to help join the head to the body, but I feel like it fits with the 'comfy 50s'/'post-apocalyptic zombie survival' aesthetic of Fallout (I really don't know much about Fallout, but this is the impression that I get). It's like a Coca-Cola advertisement painting of a family with an open fire, Christmas tree with presents, snow outside the window, father in the recliner smoking a pipe etc.

The camo pattern is just something made-up that looks cool and might have evolved from pea-dot or modern digi-cams or whatever they are called now. He starts as a deserter from The Brotherhood.

Waldemar is not a nice guy, but I gave him a base with some nice swampy grass clumps anyway, suitable to the table my friends made.