2025 Hobby Goals

A return to trying to set some goals to guide my hobbying.

• Necromunda:

• Terrain for my Underhive Dome:

• Food Court

• Restaurant buildings

• Hive Guys

• Not Dog cart

• Others

• Tables, garbage barrels, other scatter

• Market stalls after food elements done 

• Neighborhood Thundercube venue

• Use Eric’s Hobby Workshop jousting stands to make the basic crowd stands.

• Make a Map of Dome:

• Food Court

• Livid Pool SBC

• Lower Sumpton

• Upper Sumpton

• Mouthsend

• Sewer treatment plant

• Multitudes of singular and collective unapproved outfalls

• Modeling:

• More Cadets, Clones and Trolls

• New Yaktribe member gang

• Other Underhivers and Uphivers

• Pulp Alley:

• Play solo games, including 2025 Scenarios of the Month.

• Settings include Underhive, Stroking Deeply, etc.

• Bolt Action:

• Make, model and paint up two 500 point lists (Royalist Italians and Home Guard)

• Play basic 2nd edition scenarios to learn game

• What a Tanker

• Model and paint core forces for Girls Und Panzer tv show.

• Play more “training” test games

• BFG

• Ad Mech fleet

• Random Ships:

• Rogue Trader
• Adeptus Arbites
• Sisters of Battle
• Inquisition

2022 Hobby Plans

No definite 2022 Necromunda roadmap that I can find to guide my hobbying for the year so I’m left to my own devices.  Traditionally this would mean loads of buying, some modeling, little painting, zero completed models and no games.  Building off a successful hobby 2021 (in which I finished 247 models, 2 vehicles and some terrain (mostly scatter)) I will hopefully be able to invert my traditional hobby output for a second year in a row.

• Necromunda

• Marketplace stalls, scatter, vendors, etc. including a Fude Court.

• Convert a citizen/hanger on model a month

• Cawdor gang = Cawdor

• Starting gang list

• Skittering

• Model and paint starting gang

• Rattus Tatterskin conversion

• Gang terrain

• 6 25mm bases for hidden traps

• Incendiary Trap

• Divine Brazier

• 32mm base

• Fire

• Hive Incense

• 32mm base

• Smoke - 3” -1 to hit roll

• Gas - all fighters except Cawdor activating within 3” of a marker must make a Toughness check

• Caged Heretic

• 32mm base

• Nerve test if movement ended within 6” of marker

• Caged heretic

• Holy Gang Relic

• 40mm base

• Only included if defender in scenario

• Pillar/Plinth with sacred object on it

• Delaque gang = Inquisitor cells

• Starting gang list

• Interrogator and operatives

• Black ship retrieval team

• Model and paint starting gang

• Anvil Industry models

• Nas Slorac Neighborhood Thundercube venue

• Use Eric’s Hobby Workshop jousting stands to make the basic crowd stands.

• Play through the basic scenarios in the rulebook:

• Sector Mechanicus

• Zone Mortalis

In progress Rattus on left...

• Pulp Alley

• Paint Pulp Alley Leagues from kickstarter

• Make Pulp Alley leagues from 40K and Necromunda minis

• Build up Pulp terrain collection

• Make downtown buildings from Matakishi plans

• Practice scenarios 

• Play games

• Pulp leagues

• 40K leagues

• One Page Rules

• Download Grimfight and Grimfight Skirmish rules

• Make some army lists

• Model forces from collection

• Play some small games using AI rules

August 2021 Modeling

 August Completed Model List:

I completed 20 models and 5 pieces of scatter terrain in August.

• 5 converted BFG ships for my Ad Mech fleet

• 5 bolter armed combat automata

• 6 arco flagellants converted from ghouls

• 3 hired scum

• 1 Reaper crocodile

• 5 pieces of scatter fencing/walls

  
  

  
  
  
  

July 2021 Modeling

 July 2021 Completed Model List:

I completed 32 models, 2 characters and two terrain pieces in July.

• 10 Pulp minis

• 4 Reaper Bones models - gorillas and wolves

• 6 of the Statuesque Miniatures Left At the Bottom of the Garden doll models

• 10 Mechanicus cultists

• 5 Ratlings

• 4 Slave Ogryns and a dome runner for my Van Saar gang

• 2 Mutants and a crate

I wrote up brief bios for a couple of the miniatures:

• Heronomous Waffler:

"It's 'Waffler...Heronomous Waffler.'"

The long time interrogator to Inquisitor Bluhaard, Heronomous has labored earnestly to protect the citizens of the Imperium from an ever growing list of threats both real and imagined. Attired still in the courtly style of his home world of Borndowne he diligently works to maintain his current anti-psyker weapons whilst eagerly seeking new equipment and tools to deal with any psychic threat his team of acolytes encounters.

• Nettie Potts:

Nettie works the fine line between fixer and breaker as a student of the conduit, the duct and the exhaust vent.  Her favorite moments are when she’s been hired to fix a situation of her creation.  The child of a maintenance worker and a left for dead, death cult assassin Nettie is most at home in the cramped confines of what passes for the nerves and arteries of the underhive.  The mirrors started out as a distraction from her real means of access for most of her jobs but have become a bit of a calling card.  More theater prop than marvel of technology or eldritch device, the mirrors have even begun to appear in local graffiti and the hand drawn comics that pass for local newspapers in the local domes.

April 2021 Modeling

 April was a solid month of finishing off models again despite a busier month of work and other activities. 26 models painted and based with most of them being partially painted when the month started.

I'm enjoying painting and the progression of the figures over the course of the month.  Clear basing the pulp figures is the most nerve wracking since they are all metal and require removal of their integrated base.

March 2021 Modeling

March was a productive month for completing the paint jobs on a number of models.  Almost all had some degree of paint on them at the beginning of the month but they're done now and based so that's something.  No terrain this month.

42 models for 40K, Necromunda and Pulp Alley. 

Xenos Inquisitor Barrica Bloadh. Name generated from Realm of Plastic Inquisitor Name Generator

Underhive fauna, three hive scum and void born pilot on the left for Necromunda.

Two kids for Pulp Alley games, six Ministorum priests, an Ad Mech Van Saar gang lookout and Barrica hiding in the back.

Gaming Stranger Things - Part 2

 

It looks like the models from Hasslefree and Crooked Dice should get along scale wise. Future purchases of Haz-mat suited models and some scientists from one or the other will help add to the lab team.

My FLGS is tracking down a copy of the Stranger Things D&D starter set to get the two Demigorgon miniatures.  There are 3D printing options but I haven't mustered the energy to find a place that will print any 3D desired minis and bits for me so I'll start with the only semi-official miniatures I'm aware of.

Finding models for the almost all of the main cast members from seasons 1 and 2 continues to look like it will be an exercise is counts as approximations.  Any suggestions or links to conversions by other hobbyists would be appreciated if known about.

Terrain should be pretty straight forward with the main obstacles being cost, storage and follow through on my part.  A terrain piece every few months is probably the right approach and it may be the place for me to finally try the buy and fully model including paint path before getting the next piece.  Downtown Hawkins buildings and businesses should be usable for urban pulp gaming as well if I keep signage and other details swappable.  

Finally, I have purchased the 2nd edition Pulp Alley rules and the Solo card deck.  I need to read through those and then try out a couple of the scenarios after drawing up leagues for some of the characters and people in the setting.

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.