Super Mutant Suicider Fumbles the Ball

Well, really I fumbled the ball as this guy's painter. The base looks okay, but the mutant itself is rather undistinguished, messy, and too dark. 
 

Gold Plated Synth

 

The Institute in a Radiation Suit

I haven't painted very many Fallout: Wasteland Warfare miniatures lately, focusing instead on finishing my collection of Pulp Figures. This guy is . . . okay, I guess. I like the look of the suit, but the base is pretty lackluster. 
 

Super Mutant Suicider

Imagine you're exploring the wasteland when this guy comes running up to you carrying a mini-nuke on a countdown to detonation. Yikes! I run away from these guys whenever I hear them coming. 

Mister Handy

Here's a Mister Handy robot from Fallout: Wasteland Warfare. I used some rubble to hide the support pole that gives Mister Handy the illusion of hovering. 

A Survivor in Greene

Here's one of the earliest released miniatures for Fallout: Wasteland Warfare; he's an unnamed survivor from Fallout 4's early stages. As suggested by the box art, I painted him in green camo, with middling success. 

Grave Cacti

Here's most of the rest of the batch of objects Jeff 3D-printed for me - more scenery for the Nuka-World theme park. In addition to more cacti stands, we also have five dreary graves. 
 

Nuka-World Cacti

Here's a stand of fake cacti--fake not in the sense that they're miniatures made of plastic, but that in the world they inhabit, these cacti are made not of flesh and water, but plastic and metal. Jeff 3D-printed some Fallout: Wasteland Warfare STLs for me, and I've started painting the Nuka-World set. Nuka-World is a theme park set outside Boston in the Fallout 4 computer game; it has a bit of a Wild West feel in some places, hence the cacti. 

I painted these exclusively with Citadel contrast paints, just to see if they would do a serviceable job. I think they'll do; because these are fake sets in the world of the games, I don't mind them looking a little plastic-y or metallic, rather than natural. 
 

Painted a Mechanoid

Or "P.A.M." Not happy at all with this one. Looks muddy, washed out, lacks detail. 
 

Tinker Tom the Wasteland's Son

Here's Tinker Tom, a Railroader mechanic. I like his skin tones, and his clothing looks okay. I should have painted the base white, then dry-brushed the brick surfaces so that I would have had contrasting mortar lines. Live and learn. 
 

The Little Drummer Boy

Here's Drummer Boy, another Railroader from Fallout 4. Like several of my minis, this one looks better on the table than it does in a close-up photograph taken with mediocre-to-bad lighting conditions. 
 

They Call Him Mister Tims

Here's another member of Fallout 4's Railroad faction, Mr. Tims. I used contrast paints for his suit, then drybrushed on some highlights; the model looks better in real life than it does in this photo. 
 

Doctor Carrington

Here's Doctor Carrington, and only now so I see that I forgot to paint his tie. Unless he deliberately chose a white tie to go with his white shirt and white jacket. Well, he's a scientist, so who knows? 
 

Desdemona

Here's Desdemona, leader of the Railroad faction in Fallout 4. For a challenging figure, I think I did all right here. I like the base, her vest, her hair and features, and the weapon is...all right. It's playable, at least. 
 

Gunner Conscript

No wonder this guy is angry; he's been conscripted into the service of the violent and deadlyk Gunners mercenary faction. Face and hair are okay here; weapons passable, base not bad. 
 

Another Gunner Private

Here's another Gunner private. Face and hair are terrible here, weapon and outfit merely passable. Not one of my better efforts. 
 

Gunner Private

Here's a private from my small squad of Fallout: Wasteland Warfare Gunners. Face is okay, hair decent, and I like that the armor plating stands out from the rest of her outfit. The dried mud base is all right, too. But still - needs greater definition. 
 

Gunner Sergeant

Here's a Gunner Sergeant to help ensure that the Gunner Commander's orders are well-executed. I'm a bit happier with this model; I feel his various parts are better differentiated, and his face is actually reasonably human. 
 

Gunner Commander

Here's one of a handful of Gunners I painted over the weekend. This one's clad in a set of power armour, sans helmet. I regret the dark brown I chose for the base. The Gunner's face is okay, and the armor's not bad. And yet the model still lacks that sense of depth and realism I keep striving for, even after several retries on this figure. 
 

Chem Station

In Fallout 4, you use cobbled-together workstations like these to craft your own "chems," the catchall term for the various drugs in the game.