Post Apocalyptic Nomad Warriors

 Hello and Welcome back, 

Typical, you hang around for ages waiting for a blog post and loads of them arrive at the same time. 

I am not getting many post apocalyptic figures painted lately. My focus seems to be on Science Fiction lately. But I did manage one that has sat in the to finish queue for some time. 

The post apocalyptic wastelands are filled with lone wanderers. Individuals who are often scarred and damaged in some way by the horrors of the apocalypse. They are unable to settle down or join settlements. 

Some blame themselves for the loss of loved ones or those they should have helped. They become bitter burnt out desolate shells. Out here in the wastelands, they learn to live again. 

Some of these wanderers believe that they have a personal mission to wander the wastelands, helping those in need. They believe they have a quest to help rebuild the world and call themselves "Post Apocalyptic Nomad Warriors". 

This figure is by Lead Adventure Miniature "the last heros" that I picked it up many years ago off Ebay, already prepped and primed. I suspect it is inspired by Eli, from the film about a bloke with a book wandering the wastelands. 

The Post Apocalyptic Nomad Warrior moniker was taken from a novel by Benjamin Wallace (part of his Duck and cover series) . Search them out, they are worth a read. 

Thanks for looking, take care out there. 

The crew of the Wasteland Star

Hello Wastelander, welcome back to my blog. Pull up a crate and let me introduce the crew of the Wasteland Star.

The Wasteland Star is a crawler pulling a land train from the highly contaminated ruins of the Red Star (Neo Sov) “state”. These ruins are situated thousands of miles East of Rubbleborg & Brittannia City. 

One day pair of stalkers searching for loot were driven into a “highly dangerous” (forbidden) zone in the ruins by packs of mutant beasts and discovered something strange. A heavily guarded huge vehicle was moving slowly through the ruins. By the looks of it the vehicle was from the old times. It could haul huge amounts of cargo or people totally protected from the contaminated world it was moving through. The Stalkers shadowed the crawler to its base guarded by Red Star super troopers, who are genetically modified soldiers used to keep a grip on the ruins. 

Returning to the metro network beneath the city the Stalkers gathered a band of brothers (and one sister) from various stations and moved to discover the truth about the crawler. As they were lead to believe that they where the last ones alive in the world many questions came to mind. Where did this machine come from? Was there an outside world beyond the contaminated ruins? Was there more people out there besides them?  The mission wouldn’t be easy as the super troopers where highly trained and stronger than normal people. 

The initial storming of the station went well but the Red Star threw every asset they had at the station. The Stalkers took heavy losses and decided that the crawler was their only escape. In the they crawler headed out into the ruins with the Super troopers in hot pursuit in various vehicles. The Stalkers fought hard to keep the crawler clear of boarders and eventually they broke free of the ruins. 

After 100 miles they where certain that the Neo Sov forces where no longer in pursuit. Stopping at the remains of a old factory they worked hard to patch the crawler up. There they named it “Wasteland Star”.  Now they cannot return home as the Red Star will have a prices on their heads. Now free from the grip of the Red Star state they wander the wastelands looking for a suitable place that they can call home. 

The crew of the Wasteland star are Lead Adventure figures - Ruin Raiders and Stalkers. With one exception...this lady from Bad Squiddo games

She acts as a scout in the crew. 

The LAM figures paint up quickly and they have a good level of detail without being a pain in the eyeballs to paint. 

The background was inspired by the background behind the Metro Exodus computer game with a Mattblackgod’s world twist. The whole idea seems a good way for a group to explore the world. Who knows where they will end up? I may add more figures to the faction as time goes on (I have some half converted 40K Valhalla troops someplace that will fit). I am leaving naming the characters for now. Meanwhile I need to find or make a suitable vehicle(s) to use as a crawler or land train.  

That’s it for now....thanks for looking and stay safe out there.