Whilst Modiphius do have a hazmat suit available in their Institute core set, having not played Fallout 4, I currently have no interest in that collecting that faction.
Fortunately, I did have an alternative solution available.
As I've mentioned previously, I've had a copy of Star Saga from Mantic Games kicking around that I'd picked up cheap a couple of years ago, and I've already painted up the terrain from to furnish my vault.
The models are a little bit chunkier than the Modiphius Fallout range, but not offensively so, and I have already stated my intention to use some of them to supplement my Fallout collection where appropriate.
I had already thought about using the lab technician models from the game as proxy Enclave Scientists, and when I picked up the damaged hazmat suit, the thought struck me that, with the right paint job, the female lab technician could also work as Elara in my campaign.
I gave the model a hand swap to give her a pistol and put a hammer head on the stick that the lab technician was holding to make it look like a recognisable weapon.
Although not massively similar to the radiation suit that turns up in Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, the lab technician is not a million miles away from the prototype hazmat suit in Fallout 4, just with the helmet down.
There are versions of this suit that are different colours, but I definitely wanted this one to be bright yellow to at least evoke the Fallout 3 suit.
Painting was fairly straightforward. I began with a Ghoul Grey (Colour Forge's Grey Seer equivalent) undercoat and then dry brushed the model white before hitting the suit with a wash of Cassandora Yellow, which works really well as a yellow speedpaint over white.
After tidying up where the bits I didn't want yellow, I gave them a coat of Basilicanum Grey contrast paint, which it turns out is a fantastic base for silver, which was learned when I picked out the metal bits of the suit.
A few colourful details on the belt, the weapons and the head were then finished off. I'm least happy with the face and hair, partly because Mantic models tend to have very shallow details in these areas, and so may revisit them.
Whilst I was painting her up, I added a small piece to my collection of post-apocalpyse scatter terrain, by cobbling together a few leftover bits from the Mars Attacks terrain I built for the same purpose years ago.
Here's where I need to be careful, because this is where my Lead Mountain accounting went wrong last year. The terrain pieces were not counted in my tally of unpainted miniatures, and so I need to make sure I only take one model off the Lead Mountain total, despite having painted two things.
It's exciting, isn't it?
Acquired: 6
Painted: 47
Lead Mountain: 721
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