Necromunda buildings

Well,

Necromunda is one of my all time favorite games and we have been playing since the re release of it. I have the Death Ray Designs wall set for the tunnels, but I realized that I did not have any other terrain for more 3D games.

So one of my projects this year is to build up some terrain for the game, I still have my old cardboard terrain, but will be using those as templates for a few other structures and bring them up to today's standards. In the meantime I found two old projects that my buddy Robert and I worked on a few years ago. All that they needed was paint, well the green building needed a new base as the wood Masonite one got wet and busted. The green little building was made from old Cities of Death terrain from Games Workshop. The green building also has an engine from a Land Raider in it and looks perfect as some sort of generator. I remember these being a tad tall, but with today's figures, they work fine now.

Green building 

 As with all my weathering, Vallejo Environmental paints were used as well as a few Americana craft colors. The key with weathering is layers, I just paint/dab on colors in somewhat of a randon spots (areas I think would have filth or rust) and just go to town. Hardest part is to know when to call it done!

Big Door side

Where is the Adeptus Mechanicus now?

The second little building was basically just four old Necromunda bulk heads glued together, we wanted some smaller building to be used as scatter terrain, all I did was cut some PVC for the roof and glued on the light. I also added two old rhino doors to make the bulkhead  door look closed and just added a plastic base to it to match the other one. The nice thing is I could use these as LOS blockers in the tunnel version as well.

This one was painted yellow and my tried and true weathering was used on it like the green building. I wanted this one to feel very industrial by going with the yellow. I like it, my wife said its cute in a disgusting way, I will take that as a complimet!

Little Yellow building

Old Necromunda Bulkheads.

The other side

Here are the two side by side in all their weathered underhive glory, these will look nice on the table and as I said above, I could use these with my DRD walls.

Two dirty buildings!

The backside of the dirty buildings!

I am working on a complete scratch built building that I will post up once I get it finished, my goal is to have enough terrain for a 2'x3' table.

TK

Old Skool neco!

So,

I have had these three Hired hands from Old school Necromunda sitting on my desk for about a year now. To try to deal with my Covid-19 stay at home depression, I figured I would paint up these guys.

Old Skool Hired Hands

 Now, as most know, I can paint very fast, but these three models took me well over two days to paint. With everything going on in the world and having to work from home, I am feeling a bit depressed and have no motivation to paint. Our hobby is very much a social one, and the fact we have to stay away from folks is making me loose my drive for the hobby.

So in order to try to get back on the hobby horse I forced myself to paint up these three guys. I really do like the old figures, they have a lot of character. Not sure if I will ever use these guys, but it was nice to finally get them painted up.

Better picture of the dastardly three. 

Well, I had hoped that this stay at home stuff would cause me to get more done, but that doesn't seem to be the case, but I will try to get stuff done.

TK

Life in the Underhive is Harsh!

So,

I really have been enjoying going back to the Necromunda and playing the game again. For me Necromunda was one of the coolest settings in the 40K universe, and I thoroughly enjoyed the game back in the day. Now that it has been out, DrunkenSamurai and I have played through the basic scenarios, both of us enjoying the standard 2-D game.

Well this past weekend I brought out an old favorite, the Van Saars (with new Models) onto the table to show our buddy Tom how well the game works. I took a stock gang equipped just like the instructions for the new box came and headed into the Under Hive to face Drunken Goliath's in scenario one.

Now you may notice the walls, these are from Death Ray Designs that I picked up for Drunken while at Adepticon this year. By adding these walls, it really changes the game, you start to loose where your enemies are on the board and just bring a cool vibe to the game. Drunken is still painting them and they are paint heavy on details, so it will take him some time to get through them. I am looking forward to getting a set for myself in the very near future.

So below are a few shots from this weekends game, enjoy!

Champion and two Gangers

Leader, ganger and Champion.

Leader shoots at charging Ganger!

The Van Saar leader is Taken out of Action!

So there you go, a brief update as to what I have been playing recently and I am loving it! Now onto bigger things...

TK

Van Saars ready for action!

Well,

I spent this weekend getting paint on too my new Van Saar gang for Necromunda. This is my gang and I had said when they come back out, I was getting them. Well I did and spent about 12 hours building them. Now since I had the older metals fully painted, I decided to paint these new ones up very similar to those so I could use them to mix in if I needed more for the gang.

New vs old

Well seeing how I painted the older ones well over 15 years ago, I got pretty close to the original scheme. I may take my older models and change their bases to the newer style to get them to blend in better. I also may go back to the older ones and paint the faces like I did with the newer ones. After reading the new back story, the Van Saars suffer from radiation poisoning due to some of the machines that they covet. So I went with more of a paler skin tone as to make them look more sickly as if the radiation was effecting them. 

New Gang in the hood!

All in all I like the look of the new models, as I mentioned before, they have a very Infinity Nomad feel to them and still feel like the older models. Now I just need to get them on the table to see how well the perform.

TK

Van Saar on the Work Bench

So,

A quick update to the Necromunda, I ended up picking up a box of Van Saars on Saturday and started building. Now one thing I will say, these kits are awesome! They are also true model kits that do take some time to assemble. In fact, it took me about an hour for each model shown below, so about three hours of work. The figures are so complex that when I first saw them I almost pulled out my old metal Van Saars and said forget it, but I pushed on.

First New Van Sarrs

Now one thing I noticed while assembling these figures is that they looked very familiar to me. Now they did not have the same old school look, but something newer. Then it dawned on me, these figures look very similar to Infinity Nomad models! Take a look.

These look strangely familiar, hmmm??

Anyway, that gives me hope to possibly some of my larger Nomad suits for Van Saar Brutes, so we shall see.

TK

The More you try to get out, the more they pull you back in!

Well,

Games Workshop has done it to me again, either they are really good or I am really weak, but here is what I did yesterday!

New Box Set for and old favorite.

So ever since GW released Necromunda, I have been keeping it an arms length justifying to myself that I did not need it. GW already had me back with Bloodbowl and I thought I could stay away from this one. Drunkensamurai had picked up the game when it came out and was pulled back in and we played a few games and I loved it. But I rationalized to myself that I would allow Drunkensamurai to pick up the game and I would stay focused on Bloodbowl and keep up with their releases.

Well this week, the Van Saars came out for Necromunda and the models look amazing and it was my gang back in the day. I had mentally told myself that if the Van Saars came out and they looked good, I would pick up a box of figures and possibly start playing again. If they looked just okay, I would pass.

Well guess what, the figures are awesome and I succumbed to picking up the box game, tactic cards for the Van Saars and the Gang War booklet for the Van Saars, but as luck would have it, my local shop was out of the figures!!! Doh!

So, hopefully my local store will get a restock so I can pick up my gang, so I guess the saying about trying to leave is true, they keep pulling you back!

Man I am weak!

TK