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

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Hey everyone! To celebrate the launch of the Raider Faction for Fallout Wasteland Warfare I’m giving away a copy of the Raider Core Set to celebrate. Equally I just want to do this as a way of saying and thankyou for the support you all have given me on my Tabletop Hub YouTube channel as I’ve gone on this journey but equally the support you’ve all given this project blog, it’s been really something.

If you want to enter the competition here is the link to where you can find it, but in the meantime I’ve got to get back to my Vault to keep painting up more mini’s:http://bit.ly/2YiE6yY

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.

It feels like an age since I was last updating this project and I’ve finally had some time to paint up another miniature. This time I took another stab at Nora from the Starter Set and while the lack of detail on the face led to some issues I think I’m pretty happy with how she came out.

Full video coming soon!

Today I’m going to show you my attempt at painting the T-45 Power Armour from Fallout Wasteland Warfare.

So to start off with I primed the model in Army Painters Uniform Grey, I wanted to go for a brushed metal look for the power armour which you’ll see as we progress and I though just covering the model in a metallic colour at this point would be too much.

Next I began work on the Laser Rifle, so for this I used Army Painters Army Green for the main chamber of the rifle, Necrotic Flesh for the grip that you see on the underside of the barrel, at least I think it’s a grip, and then I used Army Painters Daemonic Yellow to paint the energy cell at the back of the rifle. For the cabling on the top of the rifle I used Army Painters Dragon Red. One thing I will say is that when you’re using the Daemonic Yellow, make sure and give it a good shake before you paint, you may find that you need to give it a couple of layers to get an even coat as mine was quite watery.

Next I took Army Painters Dry Rust effect paint and began picking out the occasional crack or pit in the armour, I’d recommend adding this sparingly as I almost added too much really. And you do only want to add this to those deep recesses in so that it gets covered well by the wash that we’ll add in a moment, so prioritise the knees, the underside of the ridges near the feet, areas that may almost be in shadow.

Next I took Citadels Nuln Oil and added two was layers to really darken the model down.

Once it had dried it looked like this, so already at this point its looking pretty cool and while you could probably finish off here I wanted to add that brushed metal look so I took some Army Painters Gun Metal and dry brushed the entire mini, the idea here is that this will pick out the highlights, give it a scratchy look and all in all just look pretty awesome.

After this was done I took some Army Painters Necromancers Cloak and painted the parts of the power armour that are the joins, I’m not sure how to describe this but they look slightly tubular as opposed to the metal sections, they’re kind of like the under-armour I guess.

Next I took Army Painters Oak Brown and painted the breathing tubes on the helmet and the tubes coming from the canisters on the Power Armours back and highlighted these tubes with Army Painters Leather Brown.

For the little light on the helmet I used Army Painters Crystal Blue and then it was onto the base.

If you’ve seen any of my other Wasteland Warfare videos or tutorials the process here is pretty much the same, give the slabs a coat of Necromancers Cloak, dry brush Dungeon Grey and paint any of the wood with Oak Brown before giving the entire base a was with Nuln Oil.

And folks that’s it, that is how I painted the Power Armour from Fallout Wasteland Warfare, we’re very nearly done with the Core Set then it’ll be on to the other bits and bobs from the game but hopefully you’ve found this helpful. Power Armour is one thing that you can exercise some creative freedom with as there are so many different styles out there, this is just one of them and I’d encourage you to experiment and have fun with it.

I should be starting work on Nora and the other survivors in the core set next but aside from that I hope you’re all having a great week and I’ll speak to you all soon!

Hey everyone Sam here from the Tabletop Hub, and today we’re back for another Fallout Wasteland Warfare painting guide.

Once again I’m trying to keep things simple with my paint scheme for Dogmeat, we’re only going to be using four paints and one wash. This model is pretty tricky to do though in my opinion, German Shepherds are lovely dogs and one of their distinctive attributes is how their fur has that natural fade of colours and Dogmeat is no exception, what makes this tricky to achieve on this miniature is that there isn’t a massive amount of fur definition on the model. The torso is quite smooth and as such you’re going to spend most of your time while painting this model doing a lot of feathering, and judging up where those fade lines should be.

Before we jump in, I would recommend tackling Dogmeat one side and one limb at a time, because of the amount of feathering we’ll be doing here it’s just easier to keep track and work with the model if you aren’t trying to do the whole thing at once.

So, first of all I took some of Army Painters Leather Brown and began painting the hind leg of Dogmeat, this is going to be our main or base fur colour for Dogmeat so you’re going to paint the bulk of the legs, the underside of the tail and Dogmeats midriff in this colour.

Next I took some Army Painters Skeleton Bone and painted Dogmeats belly, you may find this paint to be pretty watery so don’t be surprised if you have to give it a coat or two to get an even spread.

Next, while the Skeleton Bone was still slightly wet, I took my brush with Leather Brown on it and began painting Dogmeats midriff and tried to feather the two colours as I went, if you do this and find that there’s too much Skeleton Bone getting into the middle of the torso don’t be afraid to wait a little while and do another coat of Leather Brown to cover it up, take your time with this, it’s tricky, it’s annoying but in the end it’ll be worth it if you get a nice smooth fade.

Next I took some Army Painters Oak Brown and used the same process to apply the paint to the top of Dogmeats torso, again trying to feather as best as I could as I went.

As for the face, for Dogmeats nose I used Necromancers Cloak, and for the rest of the face apart from the eyes I used the Leather Brown. It really helps to have a reference photo or two of Dogmeats face up on a screen near you when doing this and that’ll really help you figure out what colour should go where when painting the face.

For the base I used Necromancers Cloak for all of road surfaces and mixed two parts Leather Brown with one part Necromancers Cloak for the dirt just to give it a bit of a darker look. For the plank and Nuka Cola bottle I painted those with Oak Brown.

While the base was drying I took some Army Painters Necromancers Cloak and gave the top of Dogmeat a dry brush in order to get the final fade. I didn’t use black for this as I felt it would be just too dark and we’ll be adding a wash to this in a moment to bring down the colour slightly anyways so don’t worry if it doesn’t look dark enough.

Once the entire model has dried, give it a wash with Citadels Nuln Oil to finish it off, this will really help bring out any definition that is in the fur, especially near the front of the model and really helps mask those fade lines a bit better if like me you’re not a pro at it.

And folks that is it, this was my attempt at painting Dogmeat from Fallout Wasteland Warfare, I hope you’ve found it helpful. If you’re learning to paint miniatures and want to showcase your work or get some tips feel free to join my Discord. There’s a number of us in there painting a whole range of miniatures with a whole range of skill levels too and I can’t tell you how helpful it can be to have someone to bounce ideas or get advice from when you’re learning how to paint.

If you enjoyed the video equally do feel free to subscribe to be kept up to date with when my other videos go live but until next time folks, have a great week and I’ll speak to you all soon.

S.

Hey everyone,

So 2019 is off to a good start and I just got Dogmeat finished up from the Fallout Wasteland Warfare Core Set. I was a little worried about painting this one as I’ve not done a lot of fur/ animals before but I think he turned out well.

Video guide coming soon!

S.

Hey everyone, as always here’s the image gallery for the latest painted addition to the collection, the Super Mutants.

Apologies for the lower quality of images, I haven’t got a proper photo setup prepped for these yet with a decent lighting setup.

Dogmeat is next!

S.

Today I’m going to go through my attempt at painting the Super Mutants from the Fallout Wasteland Warfare Core Set.

Now if you’re new to my projects the ‘My Attempt at Painting’ series is really for the amateur and beginner painter out there, I’m still learning how to paint miniatures well myself and my hope is that as you watch these videos and read through these guides it’ll inspire you to pick up a brush and get painting and hopefully we’ll both learn from each other along the way.

Today we’re painting the Super Mutants that you’ll find in the core set for Fallout Wasteland Warfare and while I’m not totally pleased with how the armour came out on these miniatures I am much happier with the skin tones as I feel they’re much closer to what we’d see in Fallout 4.

So first of all I took some Army Painters Ash Grey and painted some of the shoulder pieces of armour, I equally wanted to mix things up a little bit, the Super Mutants tend to scavenge their armour from whatever they can find and so there can be a bit of a mix and match look to it, so next I took some Army Painters Electric Blue and Army Green and applied that to some other random pieces of armour also.

Next I took some Army Painters Leather Brown and applied that to the wooden stock of the Super Mutants Pipe Rifle and then took some Army Painters Dry Rust Effect paint and gave the armour a dry brush, I feel I applied too much of the effect paint though because once we get to the finished look the different paints that were used on the armour are almost indistinguishable so if you’re doing this do consider applying sparsely.

Next I took Army Painters Army Green and began painting the skin of the Super Mutant.

I then took Army Painters Leather Brown and applied this to the clothing of the Super Mutants and applied some Army Painters Skeleton Bone to the skulls that you’ll see adorning some of the models.

Once this was all done I took Citadels Agrax Earthshade and gave the entire model a coating.

Once this was dried I took Army Painters Gunmetal and dry brushed the armour and the weapons to give them a brushed metal look.

As for the base it was very simple, I applied Necromancers Cloak from Army Painter to the road surfaces, Army Painters Monster Brown to the dirt, Army Painters Oak Brown to the wooden planks and finally Dungeon Grey from Army Painter to any bricks or kerbs that were on the bases.

I then applied Citadels Nuln Oil to the base to bring out some of the cracks and definition on the base itself.

And folks that was it, I think out of all three of the Mutants, the least armoured mutant is the one I’m most pleased with because we see more of his skin. I do feel the work I did on the armour of the other two really adds to much rust and brown to the mini and I think I’ll be less generous with this in the future.

If you enjoyed this tutorial or found it helpful do feel free to head over to my YouTube channel and subscribe to be kept up to date with when my next videos go live but until next time folks, have a great week and I’ll speak to you all soon.

So I thought I’d share an in-progress photo of my Super Mutants, I don’t usually do this but I’m happy with how they’re coming along.

Usually what I do when preparing my guides or the videos is that I’ll work on one or two of the mini’s in a specific warband and figure out my style and technique for painting them, then document and film that process on the final mini.

One thing that will definitely add pressure with the rest of the range is the hero characters as I’ll only get one shot at them…fingers crossed!

In the meantime if all goes well I may even get my updated Super Mutant guide ready for next week!

Here’s hoping!

S.

Hey everyone, Sam here, back for another painting guide! If you’re new to my projects, ‘My Attempt At Painting’ is a painting series for the amateur and beginner painter out there, I’m still a fledgling painter myself but hopefully by watching these videos and checking out these guides it’ll help you progress on your journey. If I can do it, so can you!

Today we’re making a start on the Fallout Wasteland Warfare two player starter set with the Super Mutant Hounds and I wanted to come up with a really simple, really easy to do, yet effective paint scheme. Today we’re only using about 5 paints and two washes and you should be able to achieve a look similar to mine in only a matter of hours. So lets get stuck in.

After priming my miniatures I used some Army Painters Army Green, added a little bit of water just to thin it down a little on my wet palette and painted the entire body of the hound. Now don’t worry if you need to give the miniature another coat or two of Army Green in order to cover it evenly, it’s always better to add a few even coats for a nice smooth finish than paint onto the miniature with paint straight out of the dropper as it can leave you’re miniature with a thick, gloopy looking finish.

Once this was done I got some Vallejo’s Bone White, but really any off-white paint here would work like Army Painter’s Skeleton Bone for example, and I painted the hounds teeth.

For the gums and the skin on the interior of the hounds mouth I mixed one drop of Army Painter’s Monster Brown with one drop of Crusted Sore which gave me the colour i was looking for, if you want to go one step further I’d recommend using this mixture to paint the veins or some deep recesses of the Hound. If you look at some imagery of the irradiated pups from the game you will notice so discolouration on the skin in the deep recesses and this colour works well for that.

Next I gave the hound a wash with Citadel’s Agrax Earthshade, this is where it really starts to come together. Now don’t worry if the skin doesn’t look dark or dirty enough after this first coating, we’ll come back to it in a second.

After the first wash layer had dried I took some Army Green, added some Matt White and added a few highlights to the hound especially around the face where I wanted the players eye to catch, I didn’t highlight extensively as honestly I didn’t think it needed much and I’m also not a massive highlighter kind of guy but some subtle highlights work well.

Next I went back and added another layer of Agrax Earthshade to the miniature and once that dried it was on to the base.

I couldn’t tell if the base was on roughed cement, gravel or dirt so I gave it a coating of Vallejo’s Stonewall Grey and accented this with Army Painters Dungeon Grey on the bit of the base that looked like broken slabs or pave stones.

I equally wanted to experiment a bit more with basing with these miniatures, I haven’t added much to the bases in any of my other painting guides aside from mud in a tub so this time around I added a little bit of Vallejo’s mud in a tub (or more accurately their Brown Earth Diorama Effect Texture Paint) and then took some Summer Undergrowth from Army Painter and tastefully added it to the mud with some superglue.

I gave the entire base a quick wash with Agrax Earthshade and finished off the miniatures with a layer of Anti-Shine from Army Painter just to seal it all in.

And folks that is it, that is how I painted the Super Mutant Hounds from Fallout Wasteland Warfare. This is a really simple way to paint your Super Mutant Hounds but hopefully you’ll agree that it looks pretty cool and pretty effectively captures the look of the characters.

I’m going to be bringing you an updated version of my Super Mutant painting guide next and I’ll be using very similar paint schemes for the flesh tones there but if you want to see more of this kind of content from me feel free to head over to my YouTube channel and subscribe there to be kept up to date!

Until next time, wanderers!

S.

Hey everyone! I’ve just wrapped up painting my Super Mutant Hounds from the two player starter set for Fallout Wasteland Warfare. I’ve got a full video guide on the way but basically I wanted to keep this paint scheme very very simple and easy.

In essence what you’re looking at is a total of about 5-6 paints, two different washes and some basing materials and could be done in a couple of hours.

If you’re looking for a quick and effective paint scheme keep an eye out on Monday for the video and full written guide!

Sam.

Hey everyone, Sam here, so as always now that the paintwork is done I thought I’d upload some images of the final product so you can see it in greater detail.

I’ll have a Brotherhood of Steel Scribe painting tutorial coming your way at some point soon but in the meantime enjoy!

Hey everyone Sam here from the Tabletop Hub and this is My Attempt At Painting a Super Mutant from Fallout Wasteland Warfare. This is our painting guide or painting tutorial series here at the Tabletop Hub but what makes it different from other painting guides is that I include my mistakes and tell you about them. I’m not a professional painter by any means so as I learn and progress as a painter the hope is, as you watch these videos, you begin to progress and improve too.

So, to begin I applied a undercoat of zenithal highlights to help me better pick out where the highlights and shadows are on the miniature. If you haven’t done this before it can be super helpful. Once this had dried I took some of Army Painters Goblin Green and applied this to all of the shadowed areas on the miniature, now this is the first time I’ve used a wet palette and I have to say I’m already seeing a massive difference when painting my miniatures, you may need to apply a couple of layers to get an even coating but the results really speak for themselves, your work is less chalky and preserves the detail on the miniature.

Once this was done I then took Army Painters Jungle Green and began painting the highlighted areas of the miniature, at the areas where I saw the highlight meeting the darker areas I tried to blend the two colours as best I could. Now Jungle Green may look a little too bright but remember we will be adding a dark wash to this at the end which will bring that down a little. Equally the skin colour of the Super Mutants in Fallout 4 is quite bright.

For the cloth and clothing that the Super Mutant wears I actually steered clear of using any browns, instead I used Army Painters Dark Stone. It gave the clothing a nice dark and discoloured look.

Next I moved on to the pieces of metal that the Super Mutant uses as protection, now recently for any metal I’ve been painting I’ve been tending to steer clear of using actual metallic paints, I just don’t feel like it gives me the look I’m trying to achieve so in this case I used Dungeon Grey from Army Painter.

Now if you look at any images of a Super Mutant you’ll notice that the armour they wear is all rusted and weathered so I wanted to achieve a very similar look here, so what I did was I took Army Painters Dry Rust effect paint and got my Stippling Brush and applied just a little amount to the brush itself and the just dabbed the effect paint onto the metal, once it was applied I would occasionally scratch it or dab it some more but it gave the armour a really nice look and I think the weathering effect really works well.

Once this was done it was really time to just apply some finishing touches to the miniature and get those final details completed so I applied some of Valejo’s Bonewhite to the skulls around it’s waste and the cloth coming out of the Molotov Cocktail, and I equally added some Army Painter Leather Brown to the ropes that the Super Mutant has tied around it and to the Molotov it’s holding.

Once this was completed it was time to add the wash, now usually I would use Army Painter’s Quickshade to my miniatures but this time I wanted to experiment with some Citadel Inks just to see what kind of finish they would produce, so I used some Agrax Earthshade from Citadel and applied this generously to the miniature and then removed any excess or unwanted pools of the ink before leaving it to dry. It gave a similar look to what you’d achieve from the Quickshade and I think on a miniature with such intricate details having a wash or ink with a thinner consistency perhaps works well…I still love the Quickshade though.

With the miniature more or less complete I wanted to finish off by completing the base so I got some Army Painter Leather Brown and gave a quick coating to the ground. For the barrel I used some Army Painter’s Desert Yellow and applied a couple of coats there before taking some Oak Brown from Army Painter and painting any wooden planks you can see sticking out of the ground.

One stage I don’t know if I’d repeat was once this was all done I took some Agrax Earthshade and covered the ground with it, I equally took some Green Ink and added this to the barrel and to the wood to make it look like they’d gotten moss or fungus growing on them, like I say I’m not sure if I’d do this for my other Super Mutants but it was interesting to experiment with.

With this complete I gave the miniature a quick coating of Anti-Shine and we were done. In all I think the paintwork was effective in replicating the look of the Super Mutants from the Fallout series, in future though what I’ll likely do is give the bases more of a gravelled look that a dirt one because I think that would look quite nice.

In the meantime though why not let me know what you think down in the comments below. But until next time have a great week folks, and I’ll speak to you all soon.

Hey everyone, Sam here, so with the paintwork finished I thought I’d upload a couple of images for you all to see the work that was done on Nora: Sole Survivor.

I’ll have a Super Mutant painting tutorial coming your way soon followed by some Brotherhood of Steel but in the meantime enjoy!

In our first installment in the ‘My Attempt At Painting’ Fallout Wasteland Warfare series the key lessons I’ve learned is take your time, plan ahead and know when to stop.

It can be so easy when you paint to just get frustrated and throw the brush down when you make a mistake or the project doesn’t go your way. In those moments it’s important to just remind yourself that you’re human, you’re going to make mistakes on this journey to improve your skills and you just have to take the knowledge of your mistakes into your next miniature.

Thats what I learned while painting Nora, it’s not my best work, but I definitely learned from it.

S.