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.

Mechanicus Van Saar - Starting Gang Done

 

The starting gang for my Mechanicus counts as Van Saar gang is done.  One leader, two champions, three gangers and one neotek per my earlier post in January.  No real backstory or history written for them at this point.  Just a group of Mechanicus that I imagine are running a bit of a dual mission of searching for archeotech deep in the underhive while doing their bit to defend the interests of the magos masters.

Neoteks and gangers are stock skitarii models while the champions and leaders are Anvil Industries Burning Rose torsos on GW High Elf warrior legs.  The Skitarii arms fit pretty well onto the torsos with no conversion at all needed for the leader with the plasma gun.  An arc rifle was converted into the grav gun while a radium pistol was turned into a las pistol to pair with the other champions plasma pistol.  The Neotek does have one of the excellent Heresy Miniatures pistols that's starting gang life as a laspistol but is chunky enough that it could pass for other pistols types if an upgrade occurs.  All the models have void power plant backpacks from Anvil Industries.

Neotek on his grav cutter.

Gangers with las rifles.

Plasma gun leader, grav gun champion and dual pistol champion.

I even managed to finish a longer ago started ogryn conversion to serve as their first ogryn servitor and to convert a Reaper Bones spider into a cyber-arachnid for when a champion or the leader adds one to their profile.

All in all I'm really happy that I actually built and painted a starting gang in less than two months given my past track record of mostly buying with a fair bit of building and converting but not much else.  I need to work on the next gang and some terrain so I can then start playing some simple scenarios or even just rules testing.  I'd also like to try using the Pulp Alley rules for some games set in the underhive but I'll need to get their 2nd edition rule book to learn more about how that might work.