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Fallout – Another Junk Collection

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As promised last week, I thought I’d get to work on some Fallout terrain because I’m trying to follow a self-imposed rule of getting some new terrain done between each game to keep me motivated while steadily building up my terrain collection. So I kind of cheated and picked out a piece of terrain that is fairly easy to work on because its basically like painting a large miniature. I didn’t make quite as much progress as I expected because I started preparing some other models during the week but still a solid start.

If there is one thing I’m most proud of on this barricade so far, it is the wood panels. The last time I tried to make the wood panel look weathered and moldy and it does, but I wasn’t entirely happy with parts of it. I think I’ve got an even more realistic look this time around but I’ll let you be the judge. Here’s the back of the other barricade I finished a while back as a point of comparison.

My plan is to take a break from the barricade this week and work on something that will likely be a big surprise to some of you. I will say that it is Warhammer Fantasy and it is a pretty old miniature to someone that is 38 years old anyway. Its not really a display miniature so I think there’s a pretty good chance I’ll get it done in a week’s time too so hopefully some of you will be looking forward to that.

Another thing I accomplished this week was digging through my collection and finding all my old Goblin Town terrain which is something I will be selling off sooner or later. It was certainly a trip down memory lane as I dug out some old miniatures and terrain for the first time in years. I worked on this terrain either just before I started this website or in the early days of it, if I remember correctly. I was also painting pretty much all LOTR and Hobbit minis all the time. Its amazing how much things change sometimes.

Getting back to the topic at hand, this terrain looks great and is fairly easy to paint up but it is pretty fragile and I learned a lot of things the hard way with it. Games Workshop encourages you to build the terrain differently for each scenario, which is a great idea in practice but it causes paint to chip off really quickly. Even storing these is a pain and I kept mine stacked on top of each other which caused the paint to chip off like on the pile of bones in the bottom right of the picture below. Its relatively small damage in the grand scheme of things but I can’t sell terrain with damaged paint jobs so it is something I’m going to have to fix in the coming weeks… It will certainly be a bit tedious but its a necessary task if I’m going to reduce my collection and make some storage room for future Fallout terrain projects.

If nothing else, I’m hoping having a lot to do will keep me motivated and productive for the near future. We’ll see if that proves to be the case or not.

37 thoughts on “Fallout – Another Junk Collection”

  3. The barricade is off to a great start, and the weathering on the wood is looking fantastic. On the ends where the rot has been sculpted in, you may want to add some green and black into it to show the rot, some bleached areas would look effective also from the radiated sun on the larger exposed areas.

    always annoying when the scenery chips, hopefully it wont take too long to repair.

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    1. I’m glad to hear you think so, Dave. Those are some good ideas to chew on. I’ll see if I can come up with something to add even more realism to the wood.

      One of the interesting things about Fallout’s aesthetics is that they never do a post apocalypse that isn’t a wasteland. I think there is some interest in them using a location like Miami that is more tropical and vibrant. We’ll see if that ever comes to pass but with the Last of Us doing that successfully with the West Coast, I’d be a little surprised if they ever try.

      I don’t think the terrain repairs will be too bad. Its mostly just boring/tedious to get through so I’ll try and chip away at it in the coming days.

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      1. 😅😅After the eye opps last year mine have have gone back to long sight but need glasses for close work. The let me down though as I didn’t see the retched fellow that had fallen over, it wasn’t until I was checking the photos that I saw that and only when I spotted the tiny shiny pin in his foot that I realised, bugger it I thought I’m not going to bother.😅😅👍🏻😎

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    1. You’re too kind, mate! 🙂 Sometimes I wish I didn’t have this desire but I really enjoy creating as immersive of a gaming world as I can so everything from the minis and terrain has to look as nice as I can. It leads to a lot more hobby work and a lot less gaming, in my case 🙂

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      1. From a visual perspective it’s clearly worth it! I do love to play on nicely painted terrain… I just don’t particularly like to paint that terrain myself 🙂 I’ve actually ‘paid’ a friend to paint the MCP terrain that I use at home by bribing her with delicious beer!

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      2. I agree that its worth the time and effort! And beer is all it took!? That seems like a pretty good deal for you, mate 🙂

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      3. Haha, we’re easily bribed with beer! It’s a win-win really. She likes to paint and is happy to get minis that neither cost nor require her storage space. And we both get to play on the terrain of course.

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    1. Thanks, Brian! I like how the tires turned out too. Making them a little more dirty seems to have improved their look compared to the ones on the first barricade. I think you’re right on adding a few chips on the stop sign. I’ll see if I can’t get something on there in the near future!

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  7. Love the barricade, wood panels look great!
    I have a couple of sets of that goblin town terrain I need to paint some day, just need the right project to motivate me. Yours look great, love the variation you have in the wood planks.

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    1. Thanks, Nic! The Goblin Town kits are pretty good and certainly versatile. They aren’t too difficult to paint up nicely either. If you’ve got lots of storage room, I’d glue some of the pieces together and try to keep things modular by combining those pieces in different ways. Pulling the posts off them each time you use them so they’re completely modular leads to a lot of paint repairs. Hopefully that is helpful to you and I look forward to seeing you paint them one day too. I’m sure you’ll do a great job on them!

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  8. goblin town terrain?!! That is from the back catalog. Your blog even had a different name. 😀

    the fallout barricade is looking great. I would thought it finished as is.

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    1. Thanks for the kind words and well, we might be getting older but your memory seems to be going strong! 🙂 BattlesinMiddleEarth was the old name and that was indeed the only thing discussed here back then haha. Its amazing how much has changed since then!

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  9. Nice work, Jeff! 🙂 These days my first thoughts are usually where am I going to store something if I buy it so that it doesn’t get damaged! The movement trays/unit bases I made for my 19th Century armies would have looked way better with a textured finish and grass tufts but they then wouldn’t stack together!

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    1. Thanks, John! I think you’re wise to think of that first. I actually have my ice age/prehistoric miniatures which are sitting around unpainted because I have no way of storing them safely currently. Thinking about smart ways to store things is something I’d like to get better at and I think it could be a good topic to discuss in the future, if I don’t forget! 🙂

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      1. It’s always worth asking people’s views on storage I think, as we all approach it differently. I store my scenery in cut-down A4 printer paper boxes (re-cycling them from work). My scenery is usually reasonably robust and not going to travel anywhere so this solution works quite well. The planning these days is more to do with having enough boxes for future scenery projects and having somewhere to store the boxes!

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      2. I grew up with those boxes repurposed for storage so I know exactly what you’re talking about! I’m generally the same way about my scenery but I’m thinking these smaller resin pieces could use something a little safer than being thrown in a bin to protect their paint job. Our friend Azazel is thinking along the same lines as me in this case but I think you’re right that people may give even more ideas so its certainly worth bringing up!

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      4. I think that is exactly what I need for the resin Fallout scenery. It might be good for the metal minis too but I’d need to make sure the base of the foam is pretty solid to support the weight of the metal Ice Age beasts. They’re fairly large minis and I’ve got 10+ of them if I’m not mistaken.

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  11. Looking good on both, mate – though I don’t see why you’d be selling the Goblin Town terrain. It looks perfect for Fallout, especially if you dropped some Super Mutant Deco on top…

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    1. Cheers, mate! I like the thinner walkways for Fallout and am likely to keep some but the bigger pieces don’t match Fallout 4 enough for me unfortunately. I need to clear some storage space so something’s got to give.

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