I'm back with one of the fan favorite forces from Fallout, the Brotherhood of Steel. As with most of my warbands for This Is Not A Test, these are 3D print proxies designed by Vermilion Miniatures. The knights follow the designs from the early games in the series, while the soldiers seem to be inspired by later games. This made planning a paint scheme a bit harder, as the armor colors and such changed over time. Since most people will know the later bare metal armor rather than the earlier olive green, I opted to go that route across the board. Not all the figures are appropriate for my Fallout New Vegas setting, but I'm not one to let universe canon get in the way of a good time.
The commander of the unit appears to be wearing underarmor from the Fallout 4 game with some added torso armor. The underarmor appears in a few color combinations, with officers usually in black, but I've gone with the grey/olive version. The armor on the soldiers most closely resembles that used by knights in Fallout 4. I wasn't 100% sure from the game screen captures if the brown coloring seen on the armor was intended to be worn paint or corrosion, but I chose the later to match the rest of the BoS force and help keep the color palate different from my NCR warband (It's also how Modiphius paints the offical figures). Weapons seem to be laser pistols and a laser rifle from Fallout 1 and 2.
The next two solders have armor that appears to be inspired by the Fallout 76 recon armor. The armor has a bluish tint in-game, so I mixed gunmetal and dark sea blue for the base and used bare steel for the worn areas. They also have the Fallout 1 and 2 laser rifles.
Three knights in power armor. While BoS knights are usually shown wearing T-60 armor in the later games and the TV series, These knights are depicted in the earlier armor that came to be known as T-51b armor. As mentioned above, these were painted olive green in Fallout 1, but I've gone with the more modern bare metal. Weapons are a minigun, plasma pistol and super sledge from Fallout 1.
The last knights are wearing Midwestern Advanced inspired power armor from the Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel game. This armor is no longer considered canon in Fallout, but was supposed to have been designed by BoS remnants who survived an airship crash in Chicago. It looks similar to Enclave X-01 power armor, and fans have debated on if and how they are related. I've again gone with bare metal over olive green for the paint scheme. The commander originally came with the minigun seen above, but I swapped it out with the more advanced plasma rifle.
The amount of heavy armor and weapons the Brotherhood of Steel has compared to my other warbands is on another level, so I am worried about game balance at this stage. I'll just have to see how it plays out in my first games.
