Quar stuff

 

Man is it cold around here.  Colder than a brass toilet seat on the shady side of the iceberg.  There was like one week of Fall, where the weather was nice.  Now wet and cold.  Cold like the heart of a tax collector.  

I was gonna work on some terrain in the garage, but I wimped out as it was too cold in there.  Instead, a little voice sounded in me head and said "You know, you only like need like 3 more miniatures painted up to complete that third squad."  Another voice chimed in "throw in a Sharpshooter and an itsy-bitsy AT gun?"

"Deal!" They both said at once.  And what I was doing was decided without me.  Just like most of my activities.

Quar Stuff

Of course it's Quar stuff.  Why would it not be Quar stuff?  It's all I do these days.  I CANNOT be distracted.

Coftyr Rhyflers

These 3 cuties complete another standard squad.  But what squad of humanoid Anteater-ish things would be complete without a specialist?  "It wouldn't be complete" is what you would say.  So we'll add a Sharpshooter.

Coftyr Sharpshooter

All of my Sharpshooters have a snazzy hat and gauze wrapped around the scope for some reason.  This gives me 3 Coftyr forces of around 300 pts all painted.  Which nicely matches the 3 Crusader squads of around 300 points that are also all painted.  Funny coincidence that.

Say Hello to My Little...

With the Playtest rules for Tractors (tanks) being released for This Quar's War: Clash of Rhyfles, it seemed time to upgrade.  The Coftyrans have the only Anti-tank / anti-infantry gun so far in the form of a small thing officially called "RCO m60" which is short for "Royal Coftyran Ordnance Field Howitzer Model 60."  

Basically, it's a mini howitzer, on some sort of track system, with a comically small shield.  

I played around with the basing, adding in a LOT of brush, like these guys had set up in a thicket and tried to do some camouflage.

"I am in a thicket,
Trying to trick it,
cus I'm gonna stick it,
right up his..."

Fence Fail

In Quar battlefields I have been using my ACW/AWI worm / split rail fences, because it's either those or some Dark Ages wattle type fences.  I wanna get away from those to dispel the "this Quar's American Civil War" appearance.  Who knew that yet another type of fence would be needed?  sheesh.  It's starting to seem like one NEVER has enough of the right terrain.  

I had all this balsa wood from a previous stupid purchase just lying around, so I thought I would give it try and construct my own.  I know what kind a fence I wanted.  I didn't want a typical fence that has vertical posts and horizontal beams which seem easy to make and that probably why everyone does that.  I wanted all the fence boards to all be vertical, so it matches the trench boards and that's how my fences look at home.   How hard can it be? 

I made these:

I also messed up the paint job some.

And I hate them.  I just couldn't get the amount of detail I wanted into the balsa wood, and it was becoming obvious that to get the look I wanted I would have to cut out all the individual planks and them glue them down.  Which seemed like a LOT of tedious work, which is probably why no one does it this way.   So I scrapped the idea.

Time to rely on the tried, tested, and true problem-solving technique for any problem.  Used by governments, husbands, dictators, and churches.  Throw money at it.

I bought these from the internet, and fit the bill nicely.

The right height

They're about 5" long and I bought 13 of them (5x13 = 65" or about 5 feet).  I'm happy with them.

Distraction

I hardly ever get distracted.  But there are two things that I can never resist: strawberries dipped in chocolate and new dark ages mass combat rules.  

I picked these up through a pre-order because they were all over the internet and looked really good.  Having a read through and trying to not think too hard about all those dark ages troops that I have, just waiting to be played with....

These aren't written for the dark ages specifically but one of these tool kit rules that let you re-create battles where units engaged in hand-to-hand lead by heroic leaders.  

Time to Eat

Here in America, it's the week of Thanksgiving.  When we all try to be appreciative.

I appreciate you reading.

I double appreciate you writing a comment.

And till Next time.