Hobby projects for 2023

Like many other hobbyists, I have way too many projects going on inside my mind, and too little free time to actually complete them. With that in mind, these are my top projects, or at least the things I would like to make some progress in during 2023:

• Pulp Alley: this is a cool fast-play skirmish game with a default "pulp" setting. I own the core game and the Tomb of the Serpent campaign, which can be played solo. The biggest impediment in this project, besides building and painting minis and terrain, is printing and gluing the custom decks of cards. I like the idea of custom cards but I really abhor actually constructing them.

A deranged cultist in service of the Serpent God.

• Zona Alfa / Kontraband: I already own all the minis I need: stalkers, soldiers, zombies, and assorted Soviet vehicles. I really need to get on with the painting. No assembly needed, these are 1:72 pre-assembled minis.

Crew of stalkers for Zona Alfa / Kontraband.

• Exploit Zero: I want to play a game of this fun cyberpunk action game. I also have all the toys I need: various Necromunda for gangsters and Agents, 40K and Stargrave for H-SEC. I just need to build and paint them.

You don't want to live in the future.

• Five Leagues from the Borderlands: I want to finish my party for this fantasy solo/coop skirmish game. I sound like a broken record by now, but once again, I have all the minis I need. I just need to paint them and also build suitable terrain. I built a single house, which I've shown in this blog.

A line of candidates applying for the adventurer job.

• Space Station Zero: I want to play at least one scenario. This is a very low model count game, so it should be doable. And you guessed it: I just have to paint the minis!

A mysterious space station to explore.

• My own design: make progress with We Gotta Get Out of this Place, a squad of soldiers trying to survive their tour of duty. Initially I had 'Nam as the setting, now thinking of converting this to scifi (I really like the Ooh Rah near-future soldiers by Wargames Atlantic for this).

Yeah, you get the hell out of that country.

• My own design, part II: create a battalion level mech/scifi wargame. Each base a platoon of infantry, individually based big stompy mechs, potential for solo play. No title for this project yet.

I don't expect to accomplish all of this by the end of the year, but some progress would be nice. And at least one game of any of the above would be super nice!