Of Oil and Iron – A Salute Discovery
Recommendations: 79
About the Project
Of Oil and Iron had a stand at Salute 53. It's a Dystopian Dieselpunk setting where a terrible smogfall environmental event causes a collapse of society. No nations remain, only a handful of corporations and rebels and mercenaries. Only areas with adequate filtration are safe to breath, like the company housing and in the factories of the corporations. A forever war situation ensues as corporations fight for the world's last resources. Of Oil and Iron feels like a fun game. And the minis are nice. It's a 3d print digital campaign in essence, but Lazerforge are a UK company that print them. I also reached out to the creator of the game and made a printed model purchase as a bit of a one off after Salute.
Related Game: Of Oil & Iron
Related Company: Scoutsifer Studio
Related Genre: Steampunk
This Project is Active
Terrain test
Just playing with my terrain made so far, and playmat, and a few minis to see if I have enough yet. Getting there. Just need to get the rules learned and a few gaming aids finished off.
Also finished up some of my terrain I see as potential variety in contrast to the industrial type terrain. Want to avoid it getting a bit boring or samey.
They smoke stacks bigger pieces are packaging from a laptop box. I think these pieces slide on either end of the laptop, the smaller pieces folded in to keep it all stable, but I snipped those off and made those modular smaller buildings.
These shorter pieces in a line were from different packaging. I couldn't find a use in 28mm as they were so low, but these suit the 15mm scale and the aesthetic I am looking for. My son said "Tatooine?" when I laid it out... and I'm happy about that. It's got a dessert look, but I was hoping more desolate and uninviting rather than dry and sandy.
Thanking my friend Andy for sharing his bits box 40k bits that have given interesting improvements and details to my terrain.
The blast doors look great. I don't know their original use in 40k, but after cutting down and gluing together they fitted just right.
The Pickelhaube MkII Aus B "Emu"
The Pickelhaube MkII Aus B "Emu". The Pickelhaube MkI was a failure... And the Emu was also a failure, but the miniguns were popular with pilots. The anchors for feet gave it stability that the Mk I had issues with... But the heat cost of moving around made for a nasty tradeoff. Being slow, juicy on fuel and low armour made it vulnerable, but if you wander into its front arch the improved firepower and improved optics could be the end of an opposing Light rig. 
I am looking at the scenarios and seeing whether these could be items to fight over as great scrap, or have them as an antagonist with a simple AI to upset both players that come close. To represent rogue locals trying to keep their own tiny corner of the world as Corp and Freegear free to be independent on the world's edges.
Lloyd shot.
The rules are finalised! Yay!!
Feels like a big step forward. The rules have had a polish. Need to dig deeper and learn enough to hold a demo game at the club.
First look at the Smoglands world map has been really cool.Defiance Freegear Heavy Rig
Got my rattle cans to do some heavy lifting on this one. A dark brown around the legs and torso, Leadbelcher from behind and Deathguard green from above.
The transfers from the Norse Blood Bowl team box are a nice touch.
The basing is fun. The main element relates to some of the terrain I have been building.Even More Terrain.
I am looking forward to putting a table of terrain together.
I see some of the official terrain and it's seems to have more verticality rather than larger footprints. I still like that these feel thematic in my head canon. 
The bits and bobs from 15mm tank sprues really helps tie the buildings to the scale and hide the humble packaging beginnings of the pieces.
I am kinda obsessed with these sensor applicator packaging pieces and just playing around with minor changes with the original theme.
And when in doubt add the lid to a dissolvable vitamin C pot.
Got access to a friend's 40k bits box to add a bit more interest to my latest batch of terrain features.
The Pizza box stand / tripod makes for an interesting departure from the other pieces but covers a similar footprint.
These turbines are a fun addition.
I have usually tried to hide the hole on the top of this packaging, but this time made a feature of it.Krim Stalker #2
I didn't expect to have 2, but a company sent me this instead of the Silo light Rig I requested.
I went for a fun loadout of rockets and a saw blade. It mirrors the HiJack frame of the Freegear faction and nice and different weapons choice compared to the other Stalker.Automaton fun
I loved the Automatons I saw on the Of Oil and Iron page. I hoped they were being sold at 15mm, but they were 32mm instead. There are no infantry in the game, but I enjoy the aesthetic of this universe so much I put in my order.
I love these and they'll make fun proxies for the British Automaton Infantry for Konflict 47.
I don't know what the loadouts are for Konflict 47, but I won't worry about WYSIWYG. 
The Russian Uniform Vallejo colour is great for British helmets. I used Steel Legion Drab for the equipment/ weapon colours.
Not sure a sniper suits these minis, but of the options I had I like it well enough.
The rust was fun, though I realised that like much of the equipment in wargames, it shouldn't be too rusty. The Automatons are a new invention in Konflict 47. Not sure they have time to get too rusty, but it's fun to make surfaces more interesting.
The tanks painted brightly is silly if they're going to be in Konflict 47, but just wanted to go a bit rogue on this one. The tanks as different colours nods to different liquids being mixed for a more volatile concoction. Can always paint them green later if it bugs me.More terrain.
Nasal cannula for the piping and infantry spare parts make for great fun.
The weird glass tube on top with sludge in is a fun touch.
At 32mm or 15mm these sci-fi odd looking bits seem to work.
I wanted some of these to look busier with pipes on top and this seemed to work nicely. Though this industrial stuff is cool I also have some packaging parts I had my eye on for Necromumda. But when I imagine the pieces at 15mm instead they make more sense.
Adobe style buildings made after the Smogfall are durable against acid rain and with some clever air filtration tech makes cheap easy to maintain workshop buildings or temporary shelters when crossing between the more heavily defended safe zones.
Rule plug filtration/ climate control tech and just some fun looking packaging pieces made for a great building. Painted on doors and 15mm track sections for armoured windows elevates it from just packaging. I like the infantry arm attached as an alarm system. I imagine in a dieselpunk WW1 kinda world, where trench rattles were used to signify gas attacks, I imagine a huge bell being rung by a mechanical arm would be a high tech solution in keeping with the world.
Huge smoke stacks and air filtration tubes for a mining and processing facility beneath.
Spray can plastic stoppers and caps from the pound shop spray cans I picked up look great on top of the packaging pieces to give it a touch more dieselpunk/ sci-fi vibes.
