My Attempt At Painting: Fallout Wasteland Warfare - The Tabletop Hub

Hey everyone Sam here and I’m back painting some more Fallout Wasteland Warfare today. Now, this may be the last Starter Set miniature before we start diving into the add-ons and expansions so what I wanted to do was put together a paint scheme that was quick, simple and would look good on the tabletop. So let’s get stuck in.

First off I actually started with the base, I knew I wanted to do a bit of dry-brushing and didn’t want to get any of that on the body of the model, since this is the PVC starter set the base and model are already sealed together. So first off I took some Army Painters Dark Stone and quickly and messily covered the majority of the base. Once this was dried I then dry-brushed some Army Painters Dungeon Grey onto the stones before adding a final drybrush highlight layer with Army Painters Uniform Grey.

Then we were onto the main bulk of the model, so first off I took Army Painters Deep Blue and began painting the Vault-Tec overalls. Now in the interests of speed here you don’t need to be overly careful, so feel free to take a decent sized brush like you see me doing here and just making sure you get a nice even coating over the model.

Once this was dried I got some Army Painters Leather Brown and painted the kneepads and shoulder pads that Nora is wearing. I then took Army Painters Oak Brown and painted the wrist guards, the wood of the rifle on Nora’s back, the wooden planks on the base and also the belt and shoulder strap. The main reason I used a different colour here was simply so there’d be a bit of variety on the model itself.

Next I took Army Painters Army Green and painted the little pouches on Nora’s belt, I felt like these would likely be something that had been scavenged from a military checkpoint or something similar so I wanted to give it a kind of khaki/ camo look. I also used Army Green to paint the body of the Pip-Boy.

For the skin I used Citadel’s Kislev Flesh and this was really the main part of the miniature that I’m unhappy with. When the PVC starter set shipped there was what was known as ‘melting Nora face.’ Basically, for whatever reason, the details on Nora’s face weren’t really very well defined and as such it’s hard for the wash and for me even as the painter to decipher where everything is and highlight it accordingly but we shall trooper on regardless.

Speaking of washes, I used three of them on Nora, first of all I got some Drakenhoff Nightshade from Citadel and applied that to all of the blue areas of the Vault Tec overall. I then took Nuln Oil and added that to all of the knee-guard, shoulder guards, basically all of the armour. Finally I added Reikland Fleshshade to the skin, all of the washes are from Citadels range of washes and in fact you can get a great selection of them in a little boxset that they do, I’d highly recommend it.

Next it was on to the highlighting, now this is something I’m not great at but I’m trying to get better. Basically, every model I do now I force myself to do some form of highlighting or edge highlighting because if I don’t practice it I won’t get any better at it. One of the biggest things I’ve found with highlighting is that you’ve got to have conviction with it, after the first brushstroke when you highlight you can be left thinking ‘oh crap what have I done’ but if you persevere, I’ve found that it can be worth it. At the end of the day we’re here to learn so we need to take risks.

With that said I began highlighting the leather armour with Army Painters Monster Brown and just went around picking out edges and areas for highlighting there. For the areas of leather armour that I’d painted Oak Brown though, I highlighted those with Leather Brown. Then came a scary bit, for the Vault Tec overalls I highlighted using Army Painters Electric Blue, now the paint was pretty runny, could just be that I didn’t shake it enough but I applied this to the main parts of Nora’s legs at the front of the model, the tops of her arms, the tops of her shoulders and the top of her butt. Once it dries it really just raises those areas a little and I think acts as a nice subtle highlight that I was pretty happy with.

The final touch is to add the dash of yellow to the Vault 111 logo and to the trim on the front of Nora’s overalls and to do this I used Citadels Flash Gitz Yellow.

And folks there you have it, a relatively simple paint scheme for Nora from Fallout Wasteland Warfare. This is a finished product I’m relatively happy with, I just wish I could have perfected the face a little more. There are more painting guides on the way now that I’m back in a permanent workspace again so keep your eyes peeled for those but in the meantime thankyou so much for taking time out of your day to check out my project.

If you like the video tutorial, feel free to check out the rest of the videos on my YouTube channel, maybe you’ll like them! See you all next time!

S.