Quar Crusaders - Now In Colour

It would appear that I am making some progress. The three main uniform colours are now on and I have painted the weapons. I still need to paint the shirts and the collar studs and a few more bits and I want a very Soviet type green for the helmets. After that there are a few colours on a few models to do. To even out the colours I am planning a heavy wash at this stage, before I start doing the flesh.  Then there is the skin to do. This will be a mix of fairly vibrant colours for the skin tones. This will include. pink, bright blue, lime green, orange, yellow and purple. This will involve putting them into groups for batch painting. 

To get roughly equal forces for both sides the basic plan calls for another ten man rifle squad which I should probably have ordered already.  It makes sense to get a tank as well. I can see there is some cavalry on the way so I will probably end up buying the three together at some point.

More vehicles and some artillery crews are further down the pipe. There are some heavy machine guns in the game but I want something a little more traditionally, but chunky. I kind of like the idea of pushing the envelope a bit. So more vehicles seem like a must. This probably means some 3D files. 

There will be the need to add a bit more to The Coftyr army including the cavalry and another squad of infantry.

For both sides there are things like flame throwers. It crosses my mind to do some heroes/special characters, for both side. These are not a thing in the game. As a game it is far to genteel for such weapons.  I also have an urge for priests, medics political officers and the like. I am thinking these can mostly be kit bashed. Not to mention even more vehicles.

There is another box set due out this year with two new forces. I don't actually have a starter set or an actual copy of the rules. I also already have a few Fidwogs which are a bit quickly to paint (no obvious legs). This might be a bit too far.

The grand plan was to write this up for Savage Worlds Showdown. Whilst Savage Worlds is really an RPG, Showdown is about bigger battles which can be integrated with special characters. This is a project for another date.

Quar Crusaders: Lots And Lots

I can't help thinking I should have made this a Star Wars week.

This is mainly because I had forgotten how much fun it is to paint an army. That said I am getting there. Not to mention the fact that I am resisting the urge to play Star Wars Outlaws. If I can get the webbing done I might just give myself a break. It might also be down to the fact that I might have my mojo back and there is a lot of plastic to get through.

Start Of The Week - May The Fourth Be With You

The start of another week. Sat with my daughter as i who is playing horse riding games. Never thought I could be so content watching Barbie ride a horse.

Normally I would do something better than use last year's graphic. There is never enough time even if I don't have anything to do. My daughter got me a BB-8 companion in one of her games. I am supposed to use this one instead of R2D2. So I feel touched and appalled at the same time 😂

So here we are.

Back to the real world. I have pulled out the Quar Crusaders. Dirty Marxists. 😱 There are a few vehicles on the back side of this as well. All primed in a basecoat so only details to do really. With a few squirrels, or something like them. I'm going to call this a tots of 47 figures equivalents. If I find the time, there are three vehicles. These are also primed so should only really need details and a wash. Kind of saw these as working for Sludge too.

With their counterparts I did them a bit at a time.  This time it should be the whole army. Well the first bit of it. I can see me needing some more grunts for both sides. Then some specialists. A few vehicles. Then there is cavalry coming. This might be a big project.

This is looking like a busy week. My guess is that I can get all of these, the vehicles and finish some other stuff too. But if it takes two weeks I won't be too downhearted.

End Of A Bumper Week (79)

I'm terms of a total count, a depending on my self imposed and highly subjective rules, this is my best ever week. Highly detailed and larger minis count as double and I have finished a lot of stuff over the last seven days. So...Go Me.

It is of course on the back of months not really finishing anything off. Not great. I am not even sure if I have my mojo back yet either. But it doesn't feel bad at all.

If I think about it I have got a lot of stuff done over the last fortnight. At least for me. 

I've posted most of the stuff I have finished already. These are the Carnevale miniatures. I like them but would love them if I hadn't lost one of them and another one one hadn't broken off at the ankles when I picked it up by the head. 

Then there are my mystery men. These are minis from The Damned. Love them but don't have much use for them now. So they have become a team of baddies for sUnderDground, a background that can always use more chaos. There are a few conversions here to fit the background which is kind of a cobble together of anything WW2 to the 1980. It seems to work. I might need to find a few filters for some of the respirators.

Not sure what to do next. It was going to be some aTrench Crusade stuff but I appear to have missed the window for that. I have a big stash of WW2 Soviets to paint. Not really feeling that at the moment. There are peasants and such for Traitor's Toll which seems to be up there. I'd like to do some more sUnderDground stuff. Right now I can't imagine why anyone would want to nuke London but I might be in the minority.

That leaves me with a whole load of Quar Crusaders. The artwork gives them a very Vietnam War American vibe. The lore makes them sound more like communists. Given that I have Soviets to paint and the paint to do it..... Well you get the idea.

I have one more order in. No idea when that is due to arrive. My guess is that will be the last for a while. Partly this down 

Not A Good Week

Nothing much is going right this week. Car stuff mainly. Still that's good news for the painting queue. This is a good chunk of the Fallout Wasteland Warfare box set that I got for something less than half price.

Still got some more to do. Think there are four left but not sure I will ever need a Reticulun. The power armour and a couple of settlers should be good fun though.

In terms of numbers it is looking like a good week. There are a few more details to do on the Carnevale stuff but they should be finished later today.

I am getting an Atomfallish and sUnderDground urge. There are some of The Damned prepped and primed and ready to go. These should be a quick win.

Job Done

For a while there has been a lot of minis on the bench gathering dust. There has been at least three projects on the go and I guess there are five, ISH at the moment. So it feels good to finish one.

These are mostly Traitor's Toll Guards from Wargames Atlantic. My new favourite miniatures company. I appear to have lost a couple of them on the way and there are another four someway down the pipe.

On to finishing the next project.

Start Of The Week - Mixed Bag

It's looking like a busy week again. All good fun. There is plenty to do. Having cleaned the desk I have already crowded it out with three plus projects that three plus projects on the bench. That might actually be five. Plus some randoms. I get confused. 🤔 

The current front runner are the guards. I was thinking Traitor's Toll but I have after some for ages. They don't fit in with any of the RPG stuff I have planned but, you know, they are just so shiny. Hopefully they will be complete tomorrow.

I have some Fallout stuff and Carnevale minis that are all but done. Both of these projects have vexed me. The Carnevale stuff has been a pain. The Fallout minis are all from the box set and unlike everything else, they are soft plastic. With soft detail. Although they are shaping up all of my projects seem to have stayed in the blobby stage for far to long.

It's good to be posting again. It's even better to see some progress.