Royal Croftyran Rhyflers

Attack! For King and Clan!

Yeah, I know.

I said I'd finish those Austrians first, but I didn't. I lied, ok?

Good intentions and all that. 

Instead, I finished my first 10-Quar section of Royalists. In the "official" fluff, the Royalists are blue. Their helmet reminds me of the French Adrian helmet as well. Add in reading about the battle of Verdun recently and we're attempting "horizon blue". Which fits in with my whole Weird War 1 aesthetic.

The section includes this automatic rifle to augment their firepower

After my runny brown undercoat, the uniforms got Americana French Grey Blue and then a dry brushed highlight of Americana Light French Blue. Bed rolls are grey. Webbing and equipment are Cashmere Tan with a thinned sepia ink wash to pick out creases and folds. Boots initially were cleaned up with cashmere tan while painting the equipment, then neat sepia ink. With the next (coming soon, hopefully later this week!) batch I used the thinned sepia instead.

There is no obvious Yawdryl (NCO) figure. But the plastic set has light submachine gun type weapons and pointing arms, so I'll make section leaders when I get the plastics.

Posed glory shot with their tractor

Piping around the collar, cuffs and plackets is Cermacoat Empire Gold. Buttons and belt buckles are Vallejo Bronze, because the Royal Croftyran Army is a traditional army full of square bashing and button polishing. I'm still thinking about making the collar piping and/or arm band colours branch specific. I'm repurposing some artillery, and I'm thinking the crews may have red piping. For an idea I have to reskin Brecourt Manor, but with Quar, I'd need a couple of artillery crews. The plastic set will help with that.

Perhaps the Royal Croftyran Army keeps the heavy shotguns in the artillery branch, instead of organic to rhyfler cawtrads (battalions)? Must ponder.

Fitting their war tractor in front of my backdrop was problematic

As another nod in this project to Canadian Army history and our senior Permanent Force infantry regiment, I'm calling them the R.C.R. Royal Croftyran Rhyflers.