first major steps with my 3d printer/update 04.01

again, my thanks. its the little details that always makes me come back to fallout and its world. its gritty, dark and lived in and one of its core strengths is its ability to tell storys solely with obejcts, corpes and clutter. two skeletons hugging each other, one poor fellow kicking the bucket while taking a dump or even jerking off next to a plastic manequin, i kid you not. its either saddening or hilarious but always gets your attention while exploring. i love it

Tjolnir wrote:again, my thanks. its the little details that always makes me come back to fallout and its world. its gritty, dark and lived in and one of its core strengths is its ability to tell storys solely with obejcts, corpes and clutter. two skeletons hugging each other, one poor fellow kicking the bucket while taking a dump or even jerking off next to a plastic manequin, i kid you not. its either saddening or hilarious but always gets your attention while exploring. i love it

Yeah, I totally agree that it's that level of detail that really builds the world. And I love those subtle stories those dead bodies tell. You being able to add them to your scenes, and create your own moments like that really captures the essence of Fallout. It's a lot of that clutter that I need to build into my own photos to really sell that post apocalyptic world.

hi folks, another little update on my ever growing fallout project.
this time i took a break from fallout 76 (damn addicting even with all its flaws)

couldnt resist the screaming viking head, makes a really fine raider in my opinion.
had a blast using the "handmade rifle" playing fallout 76, based on an actual ak and found a pretty good 3d model of an ak74u, hope i got the type right =)

found a few ammo belts from my ww2 stuff and salvaged the armor from the latest heavy raider i had around but wasnt happy with the looks.
though there´s no dual wielding ingame i took some artistic liberty




the latest pic is a little sneak peak, got some 3d printing time, albeit couldnt finish them with a paintjob.
from top to bottom its a riot shotgun from fallout new vegas, the only proper wattz laser rifle from fallout 1, the new look never appealed to me,my favorite gun of fallout 2 the m72 gauss and last but not least another, better version of the city killer auto shotgun from fallout 1-2

sadly i got to work on sunday, so it´ll be next week at the earliest to post them finished.
hope you like ´em so far
cheers

Looking good. Cool weapons and character. I've heard of the game, but haven't played video games in over a decade, so I have no clue what's happening in them now (when it got to the point where you had to give yourself carpal tunnel just to make a character throw a punch or walk across a room, I was out).

Nice new stuff and nice reuse of a Berserker.

Man, your Fallout world keeps getting cooler and cooler! That raider looks spot on, and it really is a perfect use for that head. The weapons are looking spot on, although I may be even more excited by all the clutter an knick-knacks you're doing. Those details add so much to a diorama. Always look forward to your updates!

Outstanding...  

3D printing is quickly becoming, isn’t it?  

While I’m not familiar with Fallout, these are excellent.  

Very well done, sir.

my thanks and apologies for the late reply.
today is basically my first day off in 2 weeks due to a crappy work schedule.
still if got some stuff painted which i'm posting soon, gave it a marathon and still got a sore right hand
glad you like it.
for now i stick to weapons, with the fallout 4 gauss rifle giving me the most headache thus far. lot of support material getting stuck to the thin beams and small parts, ending in breaking a lot of stuff.
some of which could be salvaged in minute and tedious fiddling.
my first vacation is end of january, gonna rearrange my whole diorama then. maybe adding more clutter. good thing about my damn work is a lot of foam packaging can be salvaged for background buildings. one of which might be big enough for a collapsed skyscraper. if i can get the misses to look the other way while i load up my house with even more "junk"
so far she's fine with it as long as its just the basement and the man cave.

as for 3d printing in general: absolutely. if you got any doubts i'd still say give it a shot. sure they aint cheap but they'll "give" you stuff that's unavailable, near impossible to get otherwise.
unless a company sees value in acquiring the license, which can take ages.
video games, if they aint mainstream (and to a degree even then) dont get much attention except for a single figure or two maybe. but a complete line with every major protagonists or items, no way.
odd stuff like the division might see the light of day for it's items are swappable due to their generic military look. but a doom guy without a legion of demons? why should i purchase a one hit wonder with no way of building a diorama recreating an iconic scene, which is my main incentive in the first place to collect that stuff after all.

boundaries so far are fine lined, free floating structures and complete, articulate figures . the later for the lack of 3d models. what i'd give for a proper fallout 1 super mutant that isn't a hulk mockup.
oh and time.... deathclaw took a LOT and if i recall correctly the protectron a little less than 120 hours.  so patience is a virtue

best regards

ps:

felt a little restless so here´s a headsup of my painted weapons so far. aint happy how the laser rifle turned out, gonna give it another try next time. seems like i cant draw straight lines with a brush for the life of me  

first is the biggest bugger so far, gave me a lot of cramps in my hand removing the support material.
fallout 4 gauss rifle. not a real beauty, still i need some bigger guns for the collection and they seem "canon" soooo....






next is a newer/different model of the city killer shotgun, again wasn´t happy with the first result.
as well as the "real" gauss rifle, m72 as its called in fallout 2




last but not least the laser rifle as seen in fallout 1-2 and the riot shotgun from fallout new vegas.
i aint a skilled painter for sure, still i´d like to think they look better "in person", should try a better camera next time  
keep spending my money on pc equipment and 1/6 stuff only to cheap out when it comes to smart phones/cameras






and a little group shot



much more still to come, found a good model of a m16 (service rifle in fallout terms, like it a lot ingame)

pps:
just read the part about the carpal tunnel.... well you´re spot on hurt some tendons in my right arm, just below the shoulder, bench pressing in the gym. no big deal one might think. but, for about half a year it´s stays the same sharp pain when lifting / shoulder pressing (which i refrained from for the time be) for one reason.
i game a lot. and 10-12 hours on a day off and 1-4 hours on any other given day possible, makes healing the arm neigh impossible.
still i enjoy the hobby as it really recharges my batteries when work tries to suck the life out of me, so i got to set my priorities.

and while i enjoy pumping iron i´ll never be a mass monster or even somewhat close, so gaming is my number 1 hobby. good incentive and inspirtation for 1/6 themes and scenes as well

aaaaand another addition to the ever growing arsenal. found a proper model of the popular "service rifle", well popular in fallout new vegas anyway

added a dragon 1/6 g3 rifle for comparison. regarding the fact the printed rifle costs less than 50 cents in material i think its holding up pretty well.

Try painting them in gun-metal grey rather than silver. The silver helps to emphasise all the flaws in the surface of the plastic.

Not bad. I agree, a gun metal grey would also make it look more accurate. I wonder if the ridges could be sanded down with tiny files, or if casting the printed objects would help smooth them out...

The most common way is to make the items from ABS plastic and then smooth them with acetone fumes.

Not the most healthy solution.

Nothing short of amazing and so much fun! It really looks like you're in the game

agreed, just went to the hardware store and bought the closest thing to "gunmetal" they had as spraypaint. give it a try this weekend and printed another batch of rifles.

as for the fuming trick, since my printer and stuff is in the lived in part of my house, its a nono besides, i'm a bit of a hypochondriac when it comes to stuff like that

Great Work at all the stuff ! The Fall Out Character and the Monsters are fantastic !

so here´s a first attempt to fix the painting, good thing i can churn out a lot more rifles until i run out of filament, for i´m not yet happy with the result.
still i think it looks better than the silver version.

oh and i broke a rule of mine, "don´t work on your stuff when you aint sober"
but i still got a week ahead of me full of boring stuff at work and only half a weekend so i figured why not spice up your fallout playthrough with a good whiskey

anyway, here´s the so-so result. guess i got a hunt for the "real" gun-metal RAL color ahead of me, for my local hardware stores sure don´t offer them.



well the result in hand sorta looks like maybe a bit on the bright side.

Nothing short of amazing and so much fun! It really looks like you're in the game

Great Work at all the stuff ! The Fall Out Character and the Monsters are fantastic !

thanks alot, all your comments are motivating me to improve myself.

cheers
tjolnir

hi folks, after a bigger break from 1/6 due to excessive gaming another little update to my ever growing arsenal.

first a closer look at the small stuff and gadgets, namely a toaster (wow ) makeshift battery, wonderglue, nuka cola(will print a proper nuka banderole in time) and a classic plasma grenade(fallout 1/2 look)

last there´s a "small" energy cell, for coming laser pistol and stuff.

when it comes to size there´s a bit of scaling magic ingame that makes a pistol still fit into the hands of a power armor, whereas if you stick to 1/6 scale, the "finger" would never fit onto the trigger, the whole pistol would disappear into its "palm".

vice versa, tiny stuff like said energy cell can´t be printed to scale without losing all of its trademark shape and details and thus becoming a blob of plastic.

oh and still unpainted, totally forgot about the thingy until packing my painting stuff away for the day



next is the bigger artillery starting with a lever action shotgun, a ranger sequoia and, again classic looking, bozar.
i think i get the hang on hitting the gunmetal color, still room for lots of improvement. tried a bit of black washing
the "wooden" parts as well though it doesnt show on my cell phone camera.




hope you like em.

best regards
tjolnir

Nice new additions. Things like that, properly deployed, can help bring so much more realism to a diorama.

Some really cool stuff. Really like the toaster.

Nice new additions. Things like that, properly deployed, can help bring so much more realism to a diorama.

Some really cool stuff.

thanks guys

still, putting enough effort into a proper backdrop is one of my biggest flaws.

strangely enough i love tinkering with my figures for hours on end, but building houses and larger stuff always felt like a chore

got new sidewalks for my dio sitting in the basement for weeks now, still haven´t gotten my lazy butt up to apply them.

then again i´m not in a hurry and playing the actual games and getting a hang of my 3d printer even further takes a lot of time itself, so....

still, ever since i started with the hobby, buildings and backdrops were something i just wanted to get done so i could start displaying my figures and concentrating on their details, if that makes any sense



kind regards

ps:

Really like the toaster

well i guess i that case you´ll love the dog bowl i got on hold just kidding, but yeah the small things add a lot of life to the whole project and luckily we´re in an age were we don´t need to wait for a license holder to publish small stuff (what propably wouldn´t happen due to lack of mass appeal anyway)

makes me wonder why there never have been some "quality of life" addon packs for various themed figures.....

Tjolnir wrote:hi folks, after a bigger break from 1/6 due to excessive gaming another little update to my ever growing arsenal.

Heh. All my spare time at the moment is being spent playing Spider-Man on the PS4. Having great fun.

first a closer look at the small stuff and gadgets, namely a toaster (wow ) makeshift battery, wonderglue, nuka cola(will print a proper nuka banderole in time) and a classic plasma grenade(fallout 1/2 look)

last there´s a "small" energy cell, for coming laser pistol and stuff. next is the bigger artillery starting with a lever action shotgun, a ranger sequoia and, again classic looking, bozar.

Looking good.

i think i get the hang on hitting the gunmetal color, still room for lots of improvement. tried a bit of black washing the "wooden" parts as well though it doesnt show on my cell phone camera.

Gunmetal grey is your friend. I use more of this than all other colours combined.

still, putting enough effort into a proper backdrop is one of my biggest flaws.

strangely enough i love tinkering with my figures for hours on end, but building houses and larger stuff always felt like a chore

I'm the same. I like making gadgets and accessories but have little interest in figures and costumes and none at all in backgrounds. It is causing problems with my attempts to finish off my blacksmiths workshop diorama.

thanks mate, glad you like 'em.

unfortunately i'll have to get gunmetal grey mixed (and they got a minimum required quantity)
for any hardware store around don't offer the correct ral color type. (might me an additional local thing though for its not the biggest city around)
figures a country like germany, constantly bitching about weapons laws, not being keen on displaying a color type based on em.
i guess there's the thing about having a lesser chance of getting shot, bummer though you'll get stabbed instead by the same goons fitting the cliche.
but hey, we got free healthcare o.O so you'll get stiched together free of charge in no time.

i'd gladly trade that in for an open carry license any day to keep the riffraff on the other side of the street instead.
but i digress
next on the to do list is three weeks off in rehabilitation, for my raging tinnitus is driving me nuts, after that i gonna check up the prizes for some cans.
cheers

hi guys and gals,

long time no see, though i finally did some additions to my fallout diorama.

last few weeks i was suffering from my raging tinnitus more than usual, to the point that i needed a rehab.

thing is that, while that damn noise is keeping me on edge, its pretty hard to relax doing the stuff i normaly use to recouperate and recharge my batteries.

but back to topic, i´m putting together the final(or near final) pieces before i add the figures (if they all fit that is)

not everything is painted as of now, especially the mr handy fuel drum but the rest is pretty much done.


as you can see i´m running out of space =)


found a nice model of a wall mounted terminal, fits the robco building perfectly



small achievement of mine, i think i finally got the colors right on at least one printed weapon

on top is the larger laser rifle with the pistol counterpart below(printed and painted)

except the small details and decals, maybe i get them printed as stickers somewhere

here´s the thing with 3d printing 1/6 stuff though, below a certain size the printhead cant "draw" any smaller,
so the "small" energy cell that should be put into the pistol had to be upsized



sometimes its the small things that bring life to a dio, got me a new wakemaster clock and a phone(not original fallout model)



true to fallout the bombs dont care in what situation or place they hit people, so someone had to take a dump
at that very moment i guess =)



will work on the alley a bit more in the future, in the meantime here´s a little sneak peak
oh and got a new molerat model.



hope you like ´em so far

cheers
tjolnir

Really excellent work. I’m not familiar with how the weapons are supposed to look, but what you have looks pretty cool. And the little details are coming along nicely. To die on the toilet... that would be my luck.

If it weren't so macabre (as it is supposed to be), I'd say gorgeous! You know what I mean. Thanks for sharing. It's a mighty fine project for sure.

Yay welcome back! I always loved the stories the environment (especially placement of skeletons) in Fallout told and you caught that perfectly.

(And.....sag mal ist das der Holzstuhl vom Tedi? )

Hey Tjolnir ! Great Work as ever. The Skeleton in front of that old PC is a Mastershot. You made excellent promo for 3D Printers Is it possible to enlarge / minimize the Originals of the Items You print ? In a special %

Very awesome, definitely conveys the atmosphere! great work!

Stryker2011 wrote:´I’m not familiar with how the weapons are supposed to look, but what you have looks pretty cool.

the laser rifle was an "original" from threezero included with the t-45 power armor figure, the laser pistol was the result of a 1:1 prop scaled down to size and spray painted.
all in all i´m quite happy with the limited stuff i got available, usually i´m awful when it comes to colors and mixing them.

GubernatorFan wrote:If it weren't so macabre (as it is supposed to be), I'd say gorgeous

i know what you mean, its what gives fallout that special something and makes the world after an atomic war much more immersive, still makes me play it every now and then.

Ovy wrote:sag mal ist das der Holzstuhl vom Tedi?

jawoll..... =) manchmal gibts da durchaus brauchbares zum basteln. der mülleimer ist übrigens auch n zweckendfremdeter aschenbecher.... was man so alles dort auftreibt.
vor ner weile hatten sie für 1,50€ glaub ich n netz mit halloween schaedeln, zwar etwas grösser als 1:6 aber für hintergründe ideal.

Ephiane wrote:The Skeleton in front of that old PC is a Mastershot

thank you and glad you like it, the skeleton itself though is a coo model. have it for a few years now, but recently the "mego melt" kicks in, especially in the joints. as i only use it for backdrops i don´t move the limbs that often, resulting in yet another leg breaking at the pelvis joint. luckily its a location you don´t see the details so i cut a spare peg from another figure down to size, gave it a hair dryer treatment and popped the leg back in. worked like a charm until the next joint turns stiff


as for the 3d printer, yeah its a fine toy, though it takes a lot of effort and time to get stuff running properly. the other day i had some severe issues with the "retraction" after having the printhead upgraded. the new thing didn´t keep the heat on the same level as the old one so the filament cooled down far to fast and resulted in a constant jam.
not a major thing, lowering the retraction settings worked like a charm. still, being the novice i am, i wouldn´t have thought of THAT as a fix myself, so i had to consult the company producing the printer.

luckily they´re almost a stones throw away and i keep it profitable for them by purchasing my filament and stuff solely from them, so they remain generous with the info.


the models i use are sometimes 1:1 scaled props which can be scaled down by using the 16,6% factor easily. but some thin layers, like scorpions mask right now, prove finicky sometimes. after scaling them down there appear some holes and gaps meaning the print would be flawed or even jam the printer.
its a hit or miss with constant monitoring of the printer being advised.
bummer when the print takes up to 30 hours for an item

skywalkersaga wrote:Very awesome, definitely conveys the atmosphere! great work!

again, glad you like it. given the theme and the open world it´s only a small fraction of what makes fallout stand out in terms of atmosphere and immersion. don´t have the space, funds or skill to build any bigger




so in the next few steps i´ll put some lose ends together, spread some debris and clutter and have a look at how many figures will fit the dio before they look "stuffed in" for the sake of it.

oh, before i forget, for everyone interested there´s a 3d model of a X01 power armor available on the net for purchase. haven´t made up my mind wether to spend 100$ on it or not, but the guy seems to put in a lot of effort to make it fit the threezero power armor frame, places for magnets included.

kind regards
tjolnir