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[Fallout] April Minis/Terrain Projects
May. 29th, 2025 04:03 pm
Lost Adventures Dire Crocodile
Dire Crocodile 3D-printed miniature from The Lost Adventures Co ( link to STL ), mounted on a repurposed 3"-diameter HeroClix base (textured with some epoxy putty), amidst some mutant jungle plants somewhere in the post-apocalyptic Neverglades. The figure itself measures about 5" across, though it would be longer if the tail weren't curved around. (I'm glad it's not, or this would be a royal pain to base properly for gameplay.)
The miscellaneous mutant jungle plants are from Fantastic Plants and Rocks. ( link to STL )
Beware the Neverglades
An assortment of 3D-printed plants from Fantastic Plants and Rocks ( main page link ), that I painted up for my post-apocalyptic Florida TTRPG campaign. These include:
- Toxic Swamp Plants (pitcher plants)
- Giant Tropical Plants (vines/ferns)
- Massive Carnivorous Plants (“Feed me, Seymore!”)
- Tropical Island Plants (leafy clusters)
- Green Monstera (painted up here with reddish "spines")
All these 3D-printed plants are designed by Emmanuel Lepas.
The pitcher plants ended up playing a major role in several encounters, as individually they provided an extremely weak threat to the PCs (it required them to more-or-less walk right up and stick their heads inside, and to be weak enough that they couldn't pass a Vigor test at +1 vs. the fumes, or a Strength test at +1 to fend off the creeping vine-tentacles). Alas, one of the PCs who had been extremely min-maxed to be an elderly brainiac had to investigate AND failed both those tests, but at least the others were there to rescue him. The goop from these pitcher plants proved useful in gambits to evade giant fire ants (covering their own scent and messing with fire ant scent markers), and also to defeat a mutant alligator (by stuffing one of these in its mouth).
Radpoles Attack!
Okay, honestly, I have no idea what STL these are from, or what they're called -- I tried searching online, but no luck so far. I'll update once I find out who sculpted them. I'm calling them "Radpoles" for now, since they look sort of like radioactive tadpoles crossed with squigs from Warhammer 40K, and I'm using them as yet more swamp monsters to cause trouble for my post-apocalyptic Floridian heroes in a TTRPG campaign.
Reaper 77505 Dragon Plant + 77504 Death Star Lily
Reaper "Bones" Miniatures of some nasty plant-monsters (plastic minis this time around, rather than 3D prints). The more ambulatory creatures are Reaper Miniatures 77505 "Dragon Plant," while the blossoming pinkish man-trap plants in the foreground are 77504 "Death Star Lily." Yet more swamp-borne hazards in my post-apocalyptic Florida-based TTRPG campaign.
77670 Dire Crocodile and Friends
Okay, so this crocodile isn't nearly as dire as the really big resin one I painted up earlier -- it's a Reaper Bones 77670 "Dire Crocodile" miniature that I picked up as part of a Kickstarter deal years ago (and I'm still a long way from painting up everything in the box), plus every croc or gator I could get my hands on around that general size. Two of them are from D&D miniatures. Two of them are random plastic toy crocs I found loose at a local thrift store (and the cashier was nice enough to let me just get them for free along with all the other junk I was buying) that I found looked much better once repainted. The ones with their snoots pointed up in the air are some 3D prints provided by a friend who was concerned that I didn't have enough gators and crocs for it to feel like post-apocalyptic Florida. Now I think I'm pretty well-set for Gator Kingdom, Gator World, and Gatorama. However, this is post-apocalyptic Florida, so I may still have some mutant gator/croc hybrids yet to come. (I'm mortified that I still haven't found my "dire crocolisk" I kitbashed for an old World of Warcraft campaign. It's around here SOMEWHERE.)
Frostbite Blossoms
An assortment of 3D-printed mutant growths from Emmanuel Lepas's "Fantastic Plants and Rocks" STLs, including:
(Yeah, a few of the items in this line have essentially the same name, only with the words swapped around, which gets me downright CONFUSED sometimes.)
I'm using a Secret Weapon Miniatures "Urban Streets - Damaged" foundation "Tablescapes" tile for the base. For my Fallout-inspired post-apocalyptic Savage Worlds TTRPG campaign, one of the substances I imagined having odd effects on the environment was "Cry-O-Flo," an advanced coolant that transforms heat into light ... or, in other words, I have an excuse for a liquid that's very cold and glows blue. (I won't claim it's scientifically sound. This is pulp sci-fi at best.)
Mix in the weird effects of pulp-sci-fi radiation and 200+ years of mutations, and some of the Floridian plant life has adapted in the vicinity of Cry-O-Flo coolant leakage sites, taking on a glowing bluish appearance and adapting its freezing properties to subduing and consuming prey that ventures too close. (I'd imagine it far more likely that lizards and bugs would be the common prey, but I see a bunch of skulls inside those clusters for some reason. Eh, artistic liberty.)
MURICA!
At Goodwill, I found a grab bag crammed full of Skylanders figurines. One of them I've found is called "Jet-Vac" (or "Turbo Jet-Vac"), but I figured he'd work wonderfully as some sort of hyperpatriotic mascot promoting World Peace Through Superior Firepower or something along those lines. I also had some leftover scraps of foam-core illustration board that I thought of trying to turn into "quasi-generic" light-up signage that might be plausible as background scatter either somewhere in Floridaland or elsewhere -- so I deliberately chose to leave off any "branding" or names/labels that would anchor them too strongly to a particular location.
So, each of my "light-up" signs are just pieces of foam board cut out to shape, with strips of cardstock glued along the edges to make a raised ridge, and then some loose white plastic beads glued down to hint at "lightbulbs." Later on I might try to represent neon signage -- I might try gluing down shapes in bent wire, or perhaps thread.
I imagine this character being "American Eagle Ace" or something like that, and in Floridaland I described the figure as emitting crackling/garbled recordings that sounded like they were probably patriotic sayings, while the "weapon firing" sound effects were accompanied by a weak stream of bubbles issuing forth from the gun barrel. The players were pretty certain the thing was going to animate and attack them, but they were soon too busy fighting off the *actual* threat from mutants and psycho "masbots" to deal with it -- and since it didn't animate after all during the entire firefight, they opted to save their bullets.
