All Quiet on the Quar Front

 

"C'mon you geezers, break time's over!" Milwer (pointing) and a trio of casual rhyflers having a smoke and a brew.

Their pointy little helmets look like pickelhaubes to me, so these Quar just scream Great War Germans. Which will compliment my First World War French poilu inspired Coftyrans and British Tommy inspired Crusaders nicely.

"Shoot those buggers over there!" Yawdryl and two rhyflers. 

Officially, these are from the Tollyn-Maeryn, the army of Maer Braech, so lore wise, they can fight either Crusaders during the Crusader advance into Maer Braech, or Coftyr as Crusader auxiliaries after the Crusader liberation. Just change the colour of their tunics. But why do that? Use German feldgrau and they can fight both in my mind.

Packs

The Yawdryl has a cross strap that I felt needed something attached to it, so I've given them small haversacks. 

I did a Google Image search for First World War German uniforms and found mostly a mid grey. The Osprey's that I have give a pretty grey uniform for the German shutzen right through the war. But Alex Southern's painting 15mm WW1 Germans video, and Sonic Sledgehammer's How I paint WW1 German Infantry video both suggested German feldgrau. So that's what I went with. Perhaps the green dye hasn't held up and so re-enactors are working from greyed examples? Whatever, it looks good. 

There are also heads in this garrison or undress cap. The front has a brass badge on it. I also did their tunic and cuff buttons in brass. This army is old fashioned and puts a lot of stock in button polishing and square bashing.

Squirrel Handler. The pykpyk is holding on with his back feet and he likes the view from up there.

Uniforms are Vallejo 70830 German Fieldgrey WWII,  drybrushed with Vallejo 920 German Uniform. Helmets and bedrolls are Vallejo 70995 German Grey drybrushed with Americana Neutral Grey. Equipment is Craft Khaki Tan inked with Bombay Sepia, Boots are straight Rowney Burnt Umber ink over the base coat. Rhyfles are honey brown wood, black metal, drybrushed silver then thinned Rowney black ink. Wood get Rowney Burnt Umber ink. Hat plumes are TT Combat leather red, highlighted with primary red and then washed with Sepia ink.

I'm lacking in left arms to go with the shouldered rhyfle arm, thus the more casual attitude with mugs and cigarettes. 

It's taken a few figures and some liquid putty to figure out how to best get shooting poses, thus all the marching poses in this initial batch.

Finishing the bases was delayed a couple of days as I had to remove a lot of the railway ballast I had glued on, because it was too coarse. But I want more exposed dirt on the bases, since these guys will be in trenches a lot.