The Midland Air Museum Model Show 2014

Vault Dweller #2 / The Base /

Fallout 1 game screenshot

My first dioramas - Harriet's Triumph and la'Resistance - were planned from very beginning, according to main idea being improved in progress. In case of this build, I started with the figure first, without any clue about the base. The figure represents the first Vault Dweller(ette), emerging to the world after nuclear devastation form Vault 13. Adventure starts with search of other nuclear shelter, Vault 15. It quickly turns out, the quest for replacement of failing water chip for Vault 13 will not be so easy. When Vault Dweller arrives, finds Vault 15 deserted and inhabited by huge mutated rodents. Massive, sprocket like door of the shelter was blown off it's 'hinges' being only large piece of scrap metal resting on the ground. That was the concept I finally picked, following references taken from the game. With my mind settled, I could start on the base...

Vault Dweller #1 / The Figure /

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"War. War never changes. 

    The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower.

    But war never changes.

    In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: Petroleum and Uranium. For these resources, China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada, and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth.

    In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.

    A few were able to reach the relative safety of the large underground Vaults. Your family was part of that group that entered Vault 13.

    Imprisoned safely behind the large Vault door, under a mountain of stone, a generation has lived without knowledge of the outside world.

    Life in the Vault is about to change."

Fallout 1 intro, *** graphics from the game.