This Quar's War More

 

Welcome back!  hope we've all been crushin' it lately.

because I've been CRUSHING IT on the miniature painting.

--disclaimer--  

Crushing it when compared only to myself and my previous painting rate.

Not when compared to you; you Lords of the Hobby.  

Luckily, we can all laugh at the idea of being competitive in a silly hobby like this one.

But I laugh more.

Speaking of Lords of the hobby; Big thanks to those of you that pointed out other blogs that have some Quar content.  I appreciate it.  I reached out if they were still discussing Quar but left them alone if they had moved on to something less thrilling.  

Kinda cool that the blogger community can network like that.

Probably helps if the subject matter is somewhat unique, because even if done badly (as I do), is still memorable.   If it's something everyone does then it has to be done really well for it to be noteworthy, and I've never done anything really well except grow hair.  My hair grows really fast and thick.

Save your jokes of  'Enjoy it while it lasts,"  I ain't ever gonna lose this gorgeous mane.  

But if I had painted my first Napoleonic Old guard or late WW2 German infantry.....Snoresville, population - me.  

But enough intro, Time for pics.  I painted more of the adorable Quar.  Though I have the feeling that Quar are adorable in the same way that a tiger is a 'wittle puddie kat.' 

More Quars

First up we have some more Royalist / Coftyran quar.

Adorable!

2 of these guys are snipers.

Apparently, snipers don't wear helmets but have slouch hats.

No explanation needed.  

Next up; a Coftyran Is-Caerten:

An Is-Caerten is like a junior lieutenant or something similar.   

Don't worry, I won't bombard you with a bunch of made-up fluff words.  My eyes also start to glaze over when reading fluff that has a bunch of made-up words.. as this graph illustrates.

graph from Xkcd comic.

Those are all from the old metal range, and what about new stuff I hear you ask?

Next; here is one of the new resin blisters all painted up, the 'Coftyran Officers." 

Like any good leader they're waving their swords about.  

I tried to paint the little national emblem on the helmet and gorget thingy.  

I don't think I succeeded well.

metal sculp (left) next to new resin sculp (right)
just for comparisons

In any case; that's all the Coftyran Quar completed that i want for now.  enough for the upcoming scenario.  

That's a milestone, and an achievement unlocked. 

+10 hobby points for me. 

Crusaders

The faction facing off against the Royalists are the Crusaders.  These guys want to conquer the world in order to save it from the ruling classes.  And then rule it themselves, but better.  

10 Crusaders join the cause.

Some more close ups now;

Not because my painting is good, but so you can actually see the miniature. 

(in fact, I should stop inflicting people with close ups...)

I especially like this guy.
Kinda tubby, skinny arms, somewhat sad.
It's like gazing at my refection.

Quar are supposed to have color blotches on their skin.  When I do paint it right, it looks like cool giraffe spots, or tiger strips, or Rorschach blots.  When I mess it up, they look like polka dots.   

Crushing It?

Is painting 15 miniatures in 2 weeks really crushing it?  

What did we say about competition?  

But what if I told you that I also played my second game of Bolt Action? 

Impressive yes?  Even more so because I didn't do anything but show up at my buddy CG's house over the Memorial Day weekend.  

I played the Americans attacking a destroyed village of Germans.

My Sherman and his Stug would engage in an epic duel
of who could miss the most.
My Sherman won.  

I didn't take many pics.  I was playing and having fun.  I failed you. Lords of the Hobby would never fail to take at least 20 pictures.

I continue to like Bolt Action as a light, just complicated enough, 20th century wargame, which reinforces my notion that this Quar collection will expand to be used with these rules unless I find something better.  

So All in all: that's 15 adequately painted miniatures and 1 poorly documented game.

Maybe I'm not a Lord of the Hobby, but I think I hit the level of 'minor nobility.'

Perhaps Well Off Gentry?

Noble working class?

Peasant Farmer?

Peasant farmer's favorite horse?

never-mind.  

Thanks for reading.

Double thanks for writing a comment.

Till next time.