Quar trench board (part 5) and trees

 Grahgl!

(that's the noise that I make when frustrated)

I've been frustrated a lot lately.  it's starting to hurt my throat.

And painting miniatures is so boring and dumb that I'd rather pull out my eye lashes.

So instead I'll make some terrain.  

Everybody loves terrain.  

and then everybody will love me.

In truth, I've painted enough Quar for a good 2vs2 or even 3vs2 games and it's a good time to switch over to terrain, to make the battlefield a little more This Quar's War instead of This Quar's American Civil War.  

F.O.U.C.s

Trees are an easy place to start.  Trees are definitely not frustrating.  Lots of the Quar artwork show special trees.  Not really alien trees, because they're obviously normal trees, but F.O.U.C.s.  That stands for Flora Of Unusual Colors.  So I Branched Out to create some trees of reds, purples, pinks. 

They came out Oak-kay.  Knot the best but Be-leaf-able.  

My wife thought they were pretty.  The idea is not to have whole forest of these, but to use them more like accent trees, spots of color.  Like hair highlights or frosted tips.

Clean

Building on my frustration is my hobby desk has gotten waaay to cluttered....

Embarrassing

I can never find anything.  Where did that glue go?  Where is that base?  Where is my sense of gratitude and contentment?!!!   Grahgl!

I'm especially mad at my paints.  I have this random collection of Vallejo paints that just grew haphazardly over the years.  The paints themselves are fine, but everything else about them has been annoying me lately.  It's hard to replace individual bottles as these are mostly sold in sets, unless you go out to a store thats tocks them but you necer know if they have the color you actually want but that means leaving the house and dealing with weather, people, and vicious animals.

I'm always trying to remember which color was used for that other's color highlight and why do I have 8 shades of brown with 2 that I never use.. and what's Iraqi Sand supposed to mean and what's this number system that doesn't make sense Grahgl

I feel like I need a new system of some sort.

But in the meantime I did the simple thing and cleaned / organized the desk. 

Better

Oh, that OTHER desk belongs to my wife for her hobbies.  It's also known as the Desk Where We Put Random Stuff.  

Trench Board

It's been a couple of weekends since I touched the This Quar's War Trench Terrain Boards (say that 5 times fast, don't bother, ya can't.)  I went to a con, I had a wedding anniversary (15 years), there was a child sleep over.  Anyway, I was able to dig them out fo the garage and complete the planking on the third board.

the last 2x4 board.
It goes well with the carpet.

The last stone staircase

The last bridge test fit.

The last trench redoubt

Well... Almost done

The arrow shows a place where I screwed up with the spackle and made a place where it was impossible to get little wooden sticks to... stick.  I'll have to think of something else to go there.  I'm open to ideas.  I also need to go back to school and learn more words.  

Here's all 3 of the boards together to make a 4x6 wargame table:

tah-dah

Which I admit is underwhelming.  Though I do take comfort in the Pink Panther giving me the thumbs up.  

The idea is that all the flat space will be used for scatter terrain and whatnot. These scatter pieces will  be from the existing collection or from items I've yet to make.  So far the best items I have are the ones in my imagination.  

Thanks for Reading.

Double Thanks for writing a comment.

Till Next Time.