Fallout Wasteland Warfare : Vault Dweller

I hope everyone is having a good start to the new year. Mine could be better, truthfully. I got sick over Christmas for the second year in a row which means I’ve been sick for most of two straight Christmas breaks which is really disappointing. I think I got the flu and it has certainly not been a picnic. I’m just about over it finally, but there’s a lot I had intended to do (mostly chores) that haven’t gotten done and work is right around the corner. Such is life, I suppose.

Fortunately, there is lots of hobby stuff to discuss since its been a while since my last update. First up, I finished another Vault dweller right before Christmas. So here’s a look at him.

The Vault Dwellers are one of the easier and quicker Fallout minis to paint and this one was no exception. I did find his face a bit tricky and his hair wasn’t as crisp as I expected but I think it looks alright in the end. Here is a look at the two Vault Dwellers I own next to each other.

There’s just one more mini in the box to paint now so I’m getting close to getting another box of Fallout minis done. I have no idea when I’ll use these in a game and its a shame I don’t have any Vault terrain but I’ll get there one day hopefully.

Since coming back home after visiting family (and getting sick), I’ve been chipping away at something else for Fallout.

This is the final junk barricade of three and truthfully, it feels like its been sitting around for a while and I figured the Paint What You Got Challenge is the perfect time to finally get it done. There are some tricky things to paint on this one including the locker (which I couldn’t find any great visual references for online) and the refrigerator which took longer to paint than I expected (and I forgot to paint the fridge’s handle so it isn’t technically done yet). My completely arbitrary goal is to try and outdo the previous barricades I painted since I’ve learned some things over time but we’ll see what I can manage in the end.

One thing I can never complain about is my family’s generosity with Christmas gifts. I got three new boxes of Fallout minis, a couple of Nintendo Switch games, and Arkham Horror: Third Edition – Dead of Night expansion. Normally, I’d show you the new minis I got but since Anne is running a challenge to get your miniatures assembled, I went ahead and started working on building them and will show you them once they’re built.

You can’t tell but these two Super Mutants are really tall. Taller than the regular ones and so they should look very impressive on the battlefield once they’re painted up. They also both have pretty big guns so that won’t hurt their leadership skills either!

I mentioned Arkham Horror previously and I’m happy to say that I did get to play another game of Third Edition this past week and it was pretty fun. I got to play another new scenario, Veil of Twilight, which involves the Twilight Lodge. For those who don’t know, they’re basically the Freemasons, if they heavily dabbled in the occult. There’s certain Arkham Horror tropes that I think are really enjoyable. The mafia/gangsters (think Prohibition era), the Twilight Lodge, and the different flavors of Lovecraft that get explored, just to name a few. No game does these things better than Arkham Horror, in its various iterations. At this point, I’ve tried 3 of the 4 scenarios so I imagine that after a few more games, I can probably write up a proper review which I look forward to doing.

Finally, I did open up the box of Dune cards over Christmas break like I had previous mentioned and I definitely like the cards and will collect more of them. I was really lucky to get one of the better cards you can pull out of a box as well.

An Oscar Isaac or Christopher Walken autograph is worth more but I am thrilled to get Jason’s signature. I’ve bought a decent amount of cards in my life and I’ve never gotten a bigger name actor autograph card before so I’m thankful I got this one and buying the box of cards has more than paid off which is very lucky. I have also come up with some interesting plans that involve both collecting cards and reading comics but I’ll save those for a future update as this one is getting pretty long at this point.

Thank you for reading as always and I look forward to lots more hobby fun in 2026!