Very, very nice work and original story. I love it.
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ThePhotogsBlog wrote:Very, very nice work and original story. I love it.
PureEnergy wrote:Megapost, indeed...
Spooks, I am in utter awe of your magnificent talents, sir - and can only gape at all this artistry with humble admiration. This is absolutely spectacular…
Brilliant, and ever so superlatively.
ThePhotogsBlog wrote:Very, very nice work and original story. I love it.
ThePhotogsBlog wrote:I really love the loft set you built for this. Saint Crow and his buddies clearly have one of the coolest pads in the wastelands.
ThePhotogsBlog wrote:The element that causes the most damage to un-maintained buildings is water, whether in liquid form or snow. If this building were in a very dry region....Arizona desert or something like that, it would have a pretty good chance of surviving.
I've gone into lots of poorly maintained old industrial buildings here in Montreal, and I can tell you that what give our first is the roof/ceiling. The wall, if they are thick enough, can last a long time. The building work in was built in 1908 and has very thick brick walls, both inside and out. The roof however was old and rotted and a couple of years ago, a sudden micro-burst in a freak storm tore about half the roof off.
My own post-apocalyptic collection will be set in the years immediately following the collapse and so decent housing will not be the problem so much as defending it from hungry, desperate survivors who'll do anything for a chocolate bar.
These things being said, it's the details, big and small that make your set come together. I love that spiral staircase? Where my I ask did you get that?
I plan to build a diorama-set for my figures also, but haven't decided if they've taken refuge in a hunting/fishing camp in the mountains, an abandoned motel, or have they gained access to some kind of underground bunker? I'm still think about this as I build my collection.
Stryker2011 wrote:That's amazing, Rev, that you made that staircase out of fans. Never would have thought of that. Brilliant.
And interesting discussion about the post-apocalypse. There's so many problematic areas if you want to be a true-survivalist -- which is why all these movies and TV shows about the end of the world are always a bit ridiculous. Urban environments would be the absolute worst place to go if you wanted to survive the end of the world. Without water, food, electricity and gasoline, food in grocery stores would quickly dry up -- disease and starvation would kill off most of the population in a matter of days -- not to mention murder and pillaging. A person alone won't last long at all. Sleep depravation would slow your response time, dull your senses and eventually kill you, or get you killed. But by the time most people figured out that the best course of action would be to get out of the city (and how would you do that without a working vehicle), 98% of the population would either already be dead or too weak to do anything about it -- imagine trying to walk your way out of a major metropolitan area with a backpack laden with necessities; or you have a small child; or an elderly or disable person -- all the while surrounding by other desperate folks wanting the same thing -- to survive. Tough choices would have to be made. Are you going to leave your kids behind? Put down your elderly parent who can't travel by foot?
Bunkers sounds like a good idea; if you were one of the folks smart enough to already have one. Those folks that do, have the money and resources to have stock-piled enough food and weapons to fend off all sorts of starving, weak-from-hunger invaders; so most likely you wouldn't be able to get close to any of those. And the majority of Survivalists that have Bunkers or are "Off-Grid" don't disclose those locations to anyone, and they are generally well-hidden. There are entire communities today of people preparing for the "end of the world", or at the very least the next Civil War, and they are a die-hard and committed group, many military or ex-military, who don't screw around, and wouldn't hesitate to blow someone's head off if it meant the survival of themselves and their family.
Rural areas would actually be your best bet for survival, but it doesn't make for interesting video games to watch a bunch of people living in camouflaged huts built from natural sources in the mountains of Montana or British Columbia, killing animals for food, and trying to grow crops with what little bit of grain they could carry with them on their way further out into the wilderness to get away from all the death and disease of the inner cities. Even then, you'd have to set up watches, not just for people, but for wild animals, and without a reasonable number of people in the community to spread out the day-to-day necessities for survival (shelter -- the most important; food -- and water) -- the chances of survival are still extremely slim. Humans can go without food for about 3 weeks; only 72 hours without water; but the number one killer of most people in a survival situation is exposure to the elements -- without some place to bunk down and either keep warm or cool -- you won't last long.
A community is the only way survival of any kind would work -- even if it's out in the sticks. You need people to keep watch, build shelters, hunt for food, plant crops, try to maintain some sort of sanitary conditions -- or disease and wildlife will kill you -- and most of that can't be done for long by a single person unless you're highly trained and skilled in woodcraft and survival techniques. The average Urban dweller is an idiot, and as I said before, they'd be mostly dead within a week's time (what few sickly stragglers were left could be easily wiped out after that).
Anyways... all of this is way too serious a subject for mere Action Figure dioramas of what's supposed to be fun "end of the world" dioramas with cool characters and cool sets.
skywalkersaga wrote:Ahhh wow, I am soooooooooooooooo incredibly in love with this!!! Not enough words to express!! This is the kind of content I am here for. The lifelong miniature enthusiast in me is thrilled by pretty much every single thing about this. ESPECIALLY those tiny LPs..... I NEED ME SOME OF THOSE OMG. :3
Stryker2011 wrote:Glad you found the conversation interesting, Rev. I was beginning to worry we may have been hijacking your thread, or putting too dark of a spin on your really cool world you’ve created.
skywalkersaga wrote:Interesting discussion.
I adore post-apocalyptic settings, whether realistic or fantasy versions. That said, as with all my fiction, my preference is for dark, but with a heavy dose of Romanticism. : ) Of course, I can appreciate the appeal of exploring things in a highly realistic manner that draws on actual survivalist knowledge and what we know of history and pre-history (and I have thoroughly enjoyed reading things like 'The World Without Us', which was a thought-experiment that sounds similar to the video that was recommended above; along with another post-apocalyptic story I encountered recently, entitled 'Station Eleven', which was absolutely haunting), and have spent a great deal of time thinking about how such a thing would pan out in 'real life'.
But at the same time, I also think that a post-apocalyptic world can be a wonderful fictional setting in which one can simply tell a good story, explore some fascinating themes (such as freedom, mortality, 'what is civilization', etc,), and even just as a way to provide a backdrop for some excellent character studies -- and for those purposes, hyper-realism isn't always a necessary, or even desirable, approach.
When it comes to realism vs. fantasy in this genre, what is rather more irksome to me is when a story *claims* to be a 'gritty' and 'realistic' take on such a scenario, but actually is anything but. I much prefer a fun and unapologetically fantastical post-apocalyptic story like Mad Max: Fury Road than, say, something that makes a false pretense at 'gritty realism'. :p
Stryker2011 wrote:You might want to check out Richard Matheson’s book “I Am Legend”. There have been 3 film interpretations, but none of them followed the book that well. That last one with Will Smith (despite a great performance by him), sucked horribly if you know the book. Stephen King cites it as the book that got him interested in writing Horror novels.
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