Fallout New Vegas - yes, hobby machinist related

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I've been playing a video game that originally came out about 10 years ago called Fallout New Vegas, where the player wonders the wastelands after WWIII, 200 years in the future, finding various settlements and towns trying to rebuild society. In one area was this room, below, with what appears to be a generic-type South Bend lathe, and an even more generic vertical mill in the background. Who knew that they had such staying power!

Interestingly, there's a somewhat spooky character associated with this town, with the initials HH, and who comes across as a bit Howard Hughes like, which probably wasn't by accident.

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Since some of our members have lathes that are 100 years old, it's not too much of a stretch.
 
I've been playing Call of Duty Warzone with some friends through COVID as a way to stay in touch. Several of the locations throughout the game map (Russia) have large lathes. I wish my real lathe looked like this!

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That first post looks like an illustration, not real, while it shows some resemblance to a SB, clearly in the details, it is not.
 
Oh I'm fully aware of that! The entire game is that way, everything being created via CAD, so I'm sure the graphic artist saw a picture of a lathe somewhere and sketched something purposely generic. This game is from back when they were making the transition from "cartoonish" to more realistic graphics, and this was during the front end of that time.
 
benmychree said:
That first post looks like an illustration, not real, while it shows some resemblance to a SB, clearly in the details, it is not.
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Something is wrong about that lathe.
No gear box lever, what’s that thing on the drive motor door?
 
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