Fallout Wasteland Warfare Minis

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Fallout: Wasteland Warfare is a miniatures wargame where you utilize characters from the Fallout franchise in battles through the wasteland. The box set I built was the Mojave Companions box set which adds in three companion characters from Fallout: New Vegas: ED-E, the eyebot; Rex, the cyberdog and Veronica, the Brotherhood Scribe.

One important thing to note about the miniatures for Wasteland Warfare is that they are resin models. This means that plastic glue will not work, as, well, they’re not plastic that can be melted together by plastic glue. This also means you need to remove the mold release agent that is used to remove resin minis from their molds. To do so, you just have to scrub the parts in warm, slightly soapy water. It’s a bit annoying, but necessary for resin minis.

The minis themselves came as small, separate sprues that were fairly easy to assemble. They were made of 2, 3 and 4 separate pieces respectively. Rex was two halves split down the middle from front to back, Veronica was almost whole, but needed her arms attached and ED-E was the main body with one piece on top, one on bottom and a flying stand to connect him to the base. They had pegs to attach them to the bases, which made each base designed for a specific character as opposed to most minis I’ve assembled where any base can go to any mini as long as the size was right.

And speaking of the bases, the most annoying part of assembly was actually not the removal of the mold release agent, but removing the giant wedge attached to the base. For some reason, the bases had a giant wedge attached to them, making removing the wedge not something that clippers were capable of. I had to cut them off with a knife, which, as the bases are also resin, removed part of the base as well. It’s not super obvious, as the bases are decently thick anyway, but if you look closely at the bases, you can tell that instead of them being flared the same width all the way around, there are parts where it is less.

To prime these models, I decided to use the Monument Hobbies PRIME Dark Neutral Grey brushed onto the models. I took a larger base paint brush and tried to just quickly spread the paint over each model, making sure that each part was covered by paint. It took more time than using a spray primer, but I felt better with the result, as I am still not great at using a spray.

For the models, I tried to paint them as they appeared in Fallout: New Vegas. For ED-E, that meant a mostly metallic grey body, with a yellow front panel and the license plate embedded in him being red with white lettering. I mixed together the Monument Hobbies Pro Acryl Metallic Medium with the Pro Acryl Bright Neutral Grey to paint most of the body. For the license plate I started by painting the main part of it with Citadel Base Mephiston Red, then after the red was dry, lightly dabbing a small brush with Pro Acryl Bright Titanium White and very slowly moving it towards the lettering, stopping when the brush hit the model and then moving very slowly, trying not to move the brush closer to the model. As the numbering was raised, it made it easier to paint.

Veronica was very easy to paint, but required the most thought as to how I wanted to paint her. Veronica wears brown robes with a brown hood and while her model generally uses the same brown, I switched it up a bit by trying to paint some different browns between her hood, her robe and her boots. The power fist I just painted with the Pro Acryl Metallic Medium to make it shiny and then added a couple yellow highlights with Citadel’s Phalanx Yellow.

Rex I had a bit of trouble with. Rex is a brownish color, but darker near the top of his body and lighter towards the bottom. I used a black, dark brown and light brown to paint the different colors. The metal components I used the Pro Acryl Metallic Medium with a bright grey and just covered the components.

For both Rex and Veronica, I then used the Vallejo Black Wash to cover certain areas and give them a little more depth. I also used Vallejo’s Satin Varnish to make the metals on ED-E and Rex shine a bit more.

As these are models based off of New Vegas characters, there’s not a whole lot of depth as far as the intricacies of the characters. Veronica is the most obvious example, as she is almost entirely a robe and hood that are the same color. While there is some detail in the face and power fist, it’s mostly robe. Now, your experience will of course differ depending on which characters you want to assemble and paint and how you want to paint them, but I’d say Fallout characters mostly are aesthetically simple (as you have to be able to identify them easily during a firefight), allowing for an easy time painting.

If you're a fan of Fallout or just want to paint some figures from a retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic setting, Fallout: Wasteland Warfare's minis offer a wide array of different characters and creatures from the Fallout franchise that have a good amount of detail.

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