More Quar Fun (and Trench Table part 5)

Major Life Development:

HUGE

EPIC

I haven't changed a diaper in over a month.  That's right.  Some said it was never gonna happen, I might of said it was never gonna happen, but after ruling my life for the majority of the last decade, the tyranny of diapers is over.  

Though I still occasionally have to wipe pee off the floor as Son #3 improves his aim, but one can't have everything.  It's a new chapter in life. 

Oh.....you're probably more interested in in wargaming stuff than my MONUMENTAL life changes.

Very well.

Herein; the continuing saga of anteaters and the terrain they live in.  A tale as old time.

More Quar

Hey lookit, I painted some qaur.  Everyone adores pics of painted miniatures.  

tadaa!
Adequately painted miniatures.

I'm creating nicknames for all the color schemes for Quar skin.
Today's schemes are:
ladybug (red and black)
Orchid (purple and off white)
Jersey Cow (light yellow and brown)

This guy in the knit cap is supposed to be the NCO (called a Yawdryl in the Quar-verse).  All my other NCOs of this faction are waving about swords (like any good leader does).  To give this guy a sword I raided my Gripping Beast Dark Ages plastic bits and got him a sword from the Viking sprue.  I'm sure the Vikings won't mind, they are a generous and forgiving people.

 

Trench Board Progress

Sing it! 

"And I would glue 500 planks,

and I would glue 500 more,

Just to be the man who glued a thousand

planks onto this Quar trench board.

Da-da da da da (Da-da da da)..."

(If you got the tune, you are getting old like me.  That song was popular in the 90s.)

Basic construction on all 3 of the 2x4 boards is complete.  I applied some spackle / filler to plug any big gaps in the foam.  Below is a picture of the boards pushed together with the (hopefully) exciting upcoming features pointed out... 

Exciting features!

With all that out of the way, it was time to BRANCH out and start the wooden planks.  I'm excited about this part because I think it'll really SPRUCE up these boards.  I could do more wood puns but I know they are ACORN-y, and honestly I'm STUMPED for more.

In preparation of this stage, I've taken the time to precut planks into the desired length. 

This is what being prepared looks like. 

I originally started out with craft sticks.  However, these were hard to cut with my weak girly hands, and knowing that I would need thousands of planks I downgraded to coffee stirrers, which were thinner, cheaper, and easier to cut with clippers.    

There's not much to say about any technique with this.  I put some PVA glue in a bowl and used a brush to paint glue on the foam and/or on the wood and then put the wood where I wanted.

I tried to keep the sticks super close together but gaps are inevitable.  I hoping that small gaps will make no nevermind (that's an expression where I come from that means 'no one will notice') and any large gaps can be filled with ground texture or flock or excuses.  

Stone walls mark where bridges will be.

Afterwards, I went back and cut down any sticks that were really out of place for being too long.

I'm unsure about the look of the uneven planks but it can't really be helped, so no nevermind (it also means 'don't think twice about,' it's a very versatile expression).  

Convention  

But anymore plank laying will have to wait, as this weekend I'm off to Pacificon.  

So next post will probably be the inevitable convention recap.  

Thanks for reading.

Double Thanks for writing comment.

Till the next time.