RE: [HOE] favorite fiction & miniatures (Quite Long)

[Fletcher Stuart <Stuart.Fletcher@accantia.com>]

In the past I've used a smattering of the Warzone minitures (Sci-Fi squad
combat game) but the company which makes them croaked a little while back. A
small selection of the Games Workshop minis for their Warhammer 40K range
are useful, the gang member models from the Necromunda game make excellent
waster and their Titan models from the Epic scale range make excellent
Automatons (as does one of the Models from the Miniature Heroes range). Some
of the Vor range look useful but I haven't really studied them yet, I'm sure
there are still more out there but I've not the money or time to worry too
much about mini's.

With regards to films I really feel that Mad Max 1 & 2(or The Road Warrior
as it was known on your side of the pond) give a good feeling of what the
road gang side of things would be like and as someone said yesterday
Delicatessen and City of Lost Children have strong ideas to draw from.
Waterworld though far too long also has nice ideas and is actually quite
enjoyable. Like Dirk said Escape from New York is good (Though I've
personally always associated Denver and it's environs with the Flashforward
from Terminator where the resistance is fighting the robots, the Denver
sourcebook kind of deflated that concept but I like it and may make my
version of the place a bit more of a warzone). The book the Postman by David
Brin is enjoyable enough and I've always been surprised by how much mileage
I've gotten from the Riverworld series by Phillip Jose Farmer, the setting
isn't relevant, it's more to do with the sort of communities that spring up
throughout the story in the wake of very chaotic and troublesome times and
I've modelled more than one survivor settlement on groups and locations in
these books (I can't recommend the first three books in this series enough,
the fourth meanders a little and loses its momentum a little and the fifth
is almost sad and wasn't really necessary). That's all that springs to mind
right now but I'll post anything else that I come up with over the afternoon
(I know it's morning over there just humour me).

Stubby Stu
Marshall of the Wasted West Midlands

"A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone."