Wasteland Style

[Ty Tanium]

Howdy Gamestars, 'sup?

Fashion parade for the wasteland...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1863728969

Bright brotherhood robe (additem 00081792)
Slave scarf (long) (additem 001370fd)

Body armour (from Camo bodysuit mod)
Back-pack (from Camo bodysuit mod)
( https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/59087 )


Breathing mask (additem 040076dd)

Webbing sets from High Desert Tactical store (https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/41410 )

Personally I think this is the best aesthetic for post apocalypse wasteland wanderers I have been able to come up with...

Cheers,
T

P.S. Had to let Betsy keep the First Recon beret...

[Ty Tanium]

Okay... a little more thinking along these lines...

"Fallout: New Vegas takes place in 2281, four years after the events of Fallout 3, forty years after Fallout 2, one-hundred and twenty years after Fallout" ~ Fallout Fandom Nukapedia

So, 120 years have gone by since the bombs fell... we've had 120 years to try and recover whatever we can from the ashes of the old world. To the East The Legion has scratched and clawed it's way back up to ancient Roman times, to the West the NCR has held enough of it together, or rebuilt enough of it, to maintain something like a 1940's - 1950's look.

Here in the NV Wastelands what have we managed? Base agriculture (scratching in the dirt) the only manufacturing plant still working is the Sunset Sarsparilla plant... (don't even know how, except for the robots) so a further thought on fashion - we use the Brahmin for everything pretty much...

So,

Wasteland settler look

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1864057693

The ubiquitous Brahmin skin Wasteland settler outfit (additem 0001cbdb) - that'd be the standard Brahmin Skin Outfit if you're a bloke I suppose...

Shemagh masks from Tredmeister's High Desert Tactical shop (Nexusmods)

Backpacks and blending bodyarmour courtesy of the Camo Bodysuits Mod
( https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/59087 )

Slave scarf (long) (additem 001370fd)

I mean, let's face it, who out there has a 120 year old pair of jeans or leather jacket hmmmm?

Cheers,
T

[Ty Tanium]

Annnnnnd just when when you thought he'd run out of steam... bwaaahahahahahaha... steam, get it?, get it?, steam, run out of steam on.... ummm...steam...

Let's move on,

The "Most Likely Look"

Atomic war - industry destroyed - survivors of the 'Resource wars/ Plague/ Great War' scrabbling in the desert just trying to exist. Man, being what they are will be paying more attention to making guns work again so they can take away what other people have and so on....

Who's going to give a hoot about clothes? (Seen the Mad Max/ Road Warrior movies?)

Which brings us to the most likely Wasteland Fashion look.

The “More than likely” look,

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1864058700

Whatever bits of cloth have survived, been begged, stolen or killed for, wrapped around us and tied together with a bit of old rope.

Can't see it being any better than that...!

Cheers,
T

P.S. Please forgive the array of weaponry in the screenshots, I'll be thinking on that next...

[Ty Tanium]

Now then,
Weapons... what about the weapons? How do you preserve weapons for 120 years? If you have been blown all-to-hell by resource wars/ plague and atomic mutually assured destruction where do you go from there?

Albert Einstein said -
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Bigga Badda Boom

Firebomb - It is a Molotov cocktail made out of a Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle, filled with a flammable substance and stuffed with a rag to ignite it.

Dynamite - Dynamite is a thrown explosive, consisting of an absorbent material soaked in nitro-glycerine.
The tin grenade is an improvised thrown explosive device; it is created at a workbench and assembled from scrap. A tin can is used for both the casing and for shrapnel, pistol powder for the explosive and duct tape to hold it all together.

Razors edge - Bladed weapons
Bowie knife, blood nap, bumper sword, blade of the East, Blade of the West, Cleaver, chopper, Chance’s knife, Fire axe, Knock-Knock, Hatchet, Katana, Knife Spear, Machete, Liberator, Straight razor, Figaro and Switchblade

Blunt (clubbing) weapons –
9 Iron, Dress cane, Lead pipe, the Humble Cudgel, Lead pipe, Nail board, Old Glory, Pool cue, Police baton, Rebar club, Nuka breaker, Rolling pin, Shovel, Sledgehammer, Tire iron, War club and X-2 antenna,

Thrown weapons
Hatchet, Thrown knife, Thrown knife-spear, thrown spear and thrown tomahawk.

Naturally the “Gun Runners manufacturing operation will, undoubtedly be producing custom weapons but with dwindling parts and materials how far could the really get? I would suggest that single shot percussion weapons might reappear fairly soon but given the rate of humankind’s development of early weapons I would suggest that simple, single action, revolver and repeating types might be the prevalent additions for the first 200 years or so. Naturally this all depends, again, on what can survive 120 years.

We may see Flare guns, Single shotguns, Caravan and Hunting Shotgun, Trail Carbines, Varmint rifles, Cowboy repeaters (if we’re lucky) Medicine stick and brush gun and possibly the NCR Battle Rifle.

Pistols, think old west,
Possibly Police pistol, Ranger Sequoia, .357 magnum, possibly 45 magnum, police pistol and “lucky.”


Let’s face it, unless the Brotherhood and Enclave suddenly pop up again energy weapons vanished with them. Bullets will be made the old fashioned way thus requiring old fashioned bullet manufacturer at the “Gun Runners” or local retailers/ merchants.


I'm going to be a little more generous. My list for available, realistically speaking, eguipment in the death dealing department would include;


Bigga Badda Boom

Firebomb - It is a Molotov cocktail made out of a Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle, filled with a flammable substance and stuffed with a rag to ignite it.

Dynamite - Dynamite is a thrown explosive, consisting of an absorbent material soaked in nitro-glycerine.
The tin grenade is an improvised thrown explosive device; it is created at a workbench and assembled from scrap. A tin can is used for both the casing and for shrapnel, pistol powder for the explosive and duct tape to hold it all together.

Razors edge - Bladed weapons
Bowie knife, blood nap, bumper sword, blade of the East, Blade of the West, Cleaver, chopper, Chance’s knife, Fire axe, Knock-Knock, Hatchet, Katana, Knife Spear, Machete, Liberator, Straight razor, Figaro and Switchblade
Blunt (clubbing) weapons –
9 Iron, Dress cane, Lead pipe, the Humble Cudgel, Lead pipe, Nail board, Old Glory, Pool cue, Police baton, Rebar club, Nuka breaker, Rolling pin, Shovel, Sledgehammer, Tire iron, War club and X-2 antenna,

Thrown weapons
Hatchet, Thrown knife, Thrown knife-spear, thrown spear and thrown tomahawk.

Naturally the “Gun Runners manufacturing operation will, undoubtedly be producing custom weapons but with dwindling parts and materials how far could the really get? I would suggest that single shot percussion weapons might reappear fairly soon but given the rate of humankind’s development of early weapons I would suggest that simple, single action, revolver and repeating types might be the prevalent additions for the first 200 years or so. Naturally this all depends, again, on what can survive 120 years.

We may see Flare guns, Single shotguns, Caravan and Hunting Shotgun, Trail Carbines, Varmint rifles, Cowboy repeaters (if we’re lucky) Medicine stick and brush gun and possibly the NCR Battle Rifle.

Pistols, think old west,
Possibly Police pistol, Ranger Sequoia, .357 magnum, possibly 45 magnum, police pistol and “lucky.”

Essentially,

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1864251603

Cheers,
T

P.S. Oh, yeah, about the vertibird.... LOL

[Ty Tanium]

On the other hand should we just roll with whatever we can scavenge?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1864582143

Cheers,
T

[Vex Hilarius]

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[Grendalcat]

Originally posted by neorayne62:

On the other hand should we just roll with whatever we can scavenge?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1864582143

Cheers,
T

I like this one the best. Scavenge for survival.

[Ty Tanium]

Howdy Gamestars, 'sup?

Yeah, I think so Grendal... I would imagine that the materials being used would be mostly capable of surviving the years intact and would be somewhat patch-worthy using scrap metal.

Cheers,
T

[wicked lester]

Originally posted by neorayne62:

Okay... a little more thinking along these lines...

"Fallout: New Vegas takes place in 2281, four years after the events of Fallout 3, forty years after Fallout 2, one-hundred and twenty years after Fallout" ~ Fallout Fandom Nukapedia

So, 120 years have gone by since the bombs fell...

That's a bit of a math/lore fail. Fallout 1 does not mark the bombs falling. The bombs fell in 2077, 80 years earlier. So it's 200 years since the bombs fell.

[Ty Tanium]

Howdy Gamestar Lester... DOH...!!! Ya got me, my bad
Thanks for the corectification...
Cheers,
T