Hollywood Heroes

As I'm sure you are aware, my recent glut of Fallout gaming and painting was triggered by the return of the Fallout TV series before Christmas.

It is therefore probably somewhat unsurprising that I have turn my attention to the main characters of the series: the Hollywood Heroes.

I received the boxed set of these miniatures for Christmas and they had been on my 'to buy' list pretty much as soon as they came out.

The characters are, from left to right: Lucy, the 'vaultie', Maximus of the Brotherhood of Steel, CX404 (aka 'Dogmeat') and the Ghoul, formerly Cooper Howard.

I tackled Maximus first because, quite frankly, he looked quite easy to paint, with most of the work being a coat of silver washed with Nuln Oil.

Assembling him was more awkward than expected. I slightly misplaced the hand, managed to snap the stock of his gun (the models are resin) trying to fix it, stuck my fingers together fiddling with glue and ultimately realised that it not attached one if the gun's handles.

However, all of these issues were minor and I'm quite pleased with the result. I'm still aware that I need to broaden the range of skin tones I'm able to do effectively, as this is a bit too dark for Aaron Moten, who plays Maximus.

Next up was the Ghoul, who presented an interesting problem of largely wearing a series of very similar shades of brown. I opted to use several contrast paints: Garaghak's Sewer, Wildwood, Snakebite Leather, Basilicanum Grey, and tie them together with Agrax Earth shade and a dry brush of Ushabti Bone.

One element I'm really pleased with is the skin as I realised that the zombie recipe I used on my proxy feral ghouls wasn't right for 'the Ghoul'.

My answer was simply Gulliman Fresh contrast paint, which I've stopped using fir skin as it's too pastey and pink for my tastes. However. It worked brilliantly on the Ghoul's ravaged features.

CX404 (who apparently gets called 'Dogmeat' at some point, but I don't remember when) is apparently a Belgian Malinois. This gives him a sandy coloured coat, except for around the face and ears.

I used Snakebite Leather for the fur and then darkened up the features using Basilicanum Grey.

I'm never delighted with how the dogs I paint turn out, but this is fine.

Finally there's the series' main protagonist, Lucy. She is the third vault dweller I've painted. So I'm getting more relaxed about the yellow piping.

I opted to give her a drybrush of Ushabti Bone to tie the contrasting colours together and also give her a dusty look.

Perhaps the trickiest part of the model was trying to dry brush the steps whilst working around her legs, as the sculpted base made things a bit tricky.

All in all, I'm really pleased with how these four turned out.

There is a second box of characters which is based on series one: Lucy in her wedding dress, Maximus without power armour, Hank in his overseer role, Lee Moldaver and Thaddeus with his massive bag.

I may get round to picking that up as I'm really enjoying the series. I've no doubt Modiphius are working on a set to tie in to series two.

Acquired: 11

Painted: 54

Lead Mountain: 719