'Toy Story' from MikeF - 10 x 28mm Brotherhood of Steel from Fallout

My entry to the Toy Story theme goes back to 1997-98. I was not technically a child, but I was a youth and the inspiration for my entry was much more formative than the Ninja Turtles of my childhood. In '97 the Fallout video game was released. A friend of mine had a fairly advanced computer for the time (which is strange considering he lived in a shack which was literally on the wrong side of the tracks). He had a copy of Fallout and the following year Fallout 2 and though he only let me play it occasionally (this was a real fulfilling friendship) I was captivated by the gameplay and the post-apocalyptic theme of the game. Most importantly I thought the power armour wearing faction, the Brother hood of Steel, were super cool and helped inspire my tabletop gaming for years to come.

  

The game coincided with my introduction to 40k and my first space marine chapter was actually based on the BoS. It was a pretty weak attempt and I repainted the army several years ago as the Minotaurs. I think this blog has a few entries of that effort.

In 2008, Fallout 3 was released and I purchased an Xbox 360 solely to play the game. Many hours were logged (wasted?) exploring the wasteland in my own T-51b power armour. Eventually time constraints would force me to choose miniature painting over video games. but I've always felt fallout would make the perfect setting for tabletop gaming. 

I was initially quite happy to see that Modiphius had acquired the licence and was making a tabletop fallout game. As I looked into it though, a few things turned me off. The size of the battles were fairly small, and the miniatures were expensive. IP's are pricey and the company needs to make a profit. The games low model count also reflects the high price, so I can't complain too much, but if I wanted to have a game involving several squads of miniatures, I would need to go another way.

Fortunately the tabletop miniature community came to the rescue. A seller on Etsy was selling heads that were exact matches for those used in Fallout (he most definitely did this under licence!). Another seller also had appropriate decals scaled for 28mm models. I wasn't sure what to use for the body, until Games Workshop released their MK II space marines for the new edition of Horus Heresy. These models looked like they would work perfectly, so I ordered a box. Mu goal was to turn the 10 man squad into something like this:

T-51b Power Armour from Fallout. Note the hand wheel on the back.

I decided against using the shoulder pads and backpacks of the space marines, as I felt they would look too much like 40k space marines. I had to source several bits from other sources to create the look I was going for. These included shoulder pads from Anvil Industry, special and heavy weapons for horus heresy and hand wheels from the new cadian artillery sprue. I also had to modify the backs of the models with greenstuff to make some oxygen or fuel tanks so they didn't look too plain. 

This is how they turned out:

Note the hand wheels and tanks on the back.

One of the weapons in the game is called a "shishkebab" which is a flaming sword made out of  scavenged parts including a lawn mower blade, motor cycle gas tank, MC hand brake and a pilot light. The leader on the far left has a kitbashed shishkebab.

I plan to use these guys in a game of Xenos Rampant.

For points - 10 x 28mm models for 50 points, plus 50 points for the theme. Total of 100 points.

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