Gaming Stranger Things

I'm finally getting around to watching Stranger Things and I've really enjoyed the first two seasons.  Nostalgia overload and the end of innocence all rolled up into one.

Besides the Stranger Things D&D Starter Set it appears no one has licensed official Stranger Things 25 or 28mm models for tabletop skirmish games so any gaming in Hawkins and the Upside Down would need to be done with proxy models for whomever is involved.  This kind of post about 15mm post apocalypse gaming does make me wonder if I should explore the smaller scale since it would mean a more affordable approach that would allow for doing a version of downtown Hawkins or the lab surrounded by woods and the edge of the subdivision on one tabletop.

Kids on Bikes seems to be the obvious rpg set of rules for gaming Stranger Things while I think Pulp Alley would be good if you wanted to play out scenes from the show in a tabletop skirmish approach.  I need to get their 2nd edition rules to see if I can create the main characters.

I've spent several hours Google searching vehicle models and images from the show and hobby company sites trying to find decent proxies.  Models and terrain appear to be the easiest to proxy while scale vehicles of the right make and model will probably prove impossible.  1/48 or 1/56 scale models likely don't exist and I'll have to see how motivated I am to try and track down even something that visually comes close.  I've started a list of links for modeling and I'll add to it as I get time to search and track down more models.

Models:

• Main characters
• Hopper
• Will
• Mike
• Lucas
• Dustin
• Eleven
• Joyce
• Jonathan
• Steve
• Max
• Billy
• Hawkins Police
• Powell
• Callahan
• Florence
• Foundry Street Cops
• Foundry Shotgun Cops
• Hawkins Lab
• Government Agents
• Foundry Lovemore Detective Agency
• Season 1 lab woman - Hasslefree Miniatures Winter Morgan
• Hazmat Suited Troops and staff - Hasslefree Hazmat Suit models
• Scientists
• Monsters
• Demidogs
• Demigorgon

Vehicles:

• 1980 Chevy K5 Blazer
• Hawkins Police car
• Dodge
• Hawkins Power and Light
• Box service vehicle proxy
• Transit van
• Joyce's Pinto
• Jonathan's car

Terrain:

• TTCombat's City Streets range has some buildings that would fit right into Hawkins with none too veiled naming for some of them.
• Sarissa Precision has 28mm Retail, Retro, End of the World and possibly even City Block models that would work well with models for Harper's trailer, the bus in the junk yard and others.
• Crooked Dice has a Secret Base set of terrain along with lots of mdf computer stations, cc tv cameras and other details that could make the lab based scenarios look really good.

There are lots of locales that could be built for scenarios in Hawkins and part of the modeling challenge would be coming up with enough to game in/on without needing a warehouse to store all of the specific tiles, buildings, etc.  It's part of the appeal of brainstorming a modeling project like this and also the main reason why I never get far with them since there is potentially so much to do.  Hobbying in Hawkins could be a good way of taking a break from Necromunda and other modeling projects so it's worth exploring.  Plus, it will support my goal of buying from smaller hobby companies since modern models are not a space dominated by Games Workshop and other larger companies.  I'll have to see where it takes me.