November 2021 WIP

 A rare sighting in my hobby life this morning...the bottom of a pot of GW paint.  Probably only the second or third pot I've ever actually finished in almost thirty years of hobbying.  Only painted consistently the last ten months so the math probably checks out.  A good deal of paint dried in the lid and top of the pot but a majority of the Lead Belcher made it onto gun barrels, servo arms, etc.

Working on some conversions and porting over a D&D miniature as an underhive beast. Left to right:

• Trying to turn a Reaper ork into Rattus Tatterskin. Basic pose is there. Need to find a good heavy stubber and add lots of rats, candles, face mask, etc.

• Making a Reaper necromancer into a twin chain axe murderpriest for a Cawdor/Redemptionist gang. Darn Sump City Radio always given me ideas.

• D&D Brain Collector seems like a good Underhive or sump beast. More thought and paint needed as always.

• A mix of Reaper Bones and Hasslefree barbarians for use as a Ratskins gang. Can't decide if I should try using chaos helot gang rules or come up with something else to base the conversions on.

2021 Hobby Plans

The 2021 Necromunda roadmap guided my thinking about my hobby plans for the year.  2020 was the most productive hobby year for me so far in in 25 years of 40K and Necromunda buying and modeling.  Still not a lot compared to the properly productive hobbyists out there but much better than my earlier efforts.  Midwinter Minis and Sonic Sledgehammer Studios helped me overcome my aversion to painting while Eric's Hobby Workshop illustrated a practical approach to scratch terrain making that I hope to explore over the course of the coming year.  Hobby inspiration and advice will continue to come from the blogs and videos of many great hobbyists with regular visits to Matakishi's Tea House, Black Magic Craft, Miscast, Pulp Alley and Convert or Die among many others.

The plan is to draft off the roadmap and use it to guide for both Necromunda purchases and hobbying for the year.

• 2021 1st Quarter:  
• Hobby plans: 
• Write a Van Saar gang list for the start of a campaign, model and paint it.
• Use Mechanicus models to run a counts as Van Saar gang.
• Model and paint 2 underhive citizens a month.  Could be vendors, factorum workers, guilders, etc.
• Purchase models, if need be, from smaller manufacturers.
• Terrain:
• Assemble Promethium Forge terrain.
• Build and paint a gang territory terrain piece (Stinger Mold Sprawl, Refuse Drift, etc.) using scratch built techniques combined with mdf and plastic terrain if need be.
• Purchase plans: 
• Cawdor gang
• Cawdor and Escher gang champion FW weapon packs
• Escher Death Maidens and Wyld Runners
• Khainite Shadowstalkers
• 2021 2nd Quarter:
• Hobby plans:
• Write a Cawdor gang list for the start of a campaign, model and paint it.
• Model and paint 2 underhive citizens a month.  Could be vendors, factorum workers, guilders, etc.
• Assemble Promethium Forge terrain.
• Build and paint a gang territory terrain piece (Stinger Mold Sprawl, Refuse Drift, etc.) using scratch built techniques combined with mdf and plastic terrain if need be.
• Purchase plans:
• Book of Faith
• 2021 3rd Quarter:
• Hobby plans:
• Write a Delaque gang list for the start of a campaign, model and paint it.
• Model the gang as an Inquisitor and their retinue.
• Model and paint 2 underhive citizens a month.  Could be vendors, factorum workers, guilders, etc.
• Paint Promethium Forge terrain.
• Build and paint a gang territory terrain piece (Stinger Mold Sprawl, Refuse Drift, etc.) using scratch built techniques combined with mdf and plastic terrain if need be.
• Purchase plans:
• Book of Shadows
• 2021 4th Quarter:
• Hobby plans:
• Model and paint 2 underhive citizens a month.  Could be vendors, factorum workers, guilders, etc.
• Paint Promethium Forge terrain.
• Build and paint a gang territory terrain piece (Stinger Mold Sprawl, Refuse Drift, etc.) using scratch built techniques combined with mdf and plastic terrain if need be.
• Purchase plans:
• ???

Yaktribe's 2021 Finish Your Stuff Challenge will hopefully provide a mechanism to focus some hobby work on my many unfinished hobby projects over the course of the year.  Their quarterly contests will allow for some unplanned modeling opportunities if I get an idea.  Finally, I'll hopefully have a number of episodes of Sump City Radio and Dome Runners to help with my learning of the Necromunda game mechanics while enjoying their creative segments featuring inhabitants of the underhive and the misadventures.