Author Topic: Quar on Venus: More airship pics added May 22: pg4. (Read 21254 times)

YPU · « **Reply #45 on:** April 21, 2011, 08:42:24 AM »

Lovely work on the bots, it reminds me to get working on my VSF bots again. I must say you had quite a bunch of them to start with tough, mass order trough internet shops?

Laughing Ferret · « **Reply #46 on:** April 21, 2011, 08:47:26 AM »

Thank you

got them by Ebay. about $1.10 or $1.20 each.. I figured I couldn't go wrong with less than $2.50 per finished robot, and then I would up with 8 little robots extra, bringing it back down to just over $1 each? Not bad at all.

former user · « **Reply #47 on:** April 21, 2011, 10:52:47 AM »

extremelx inventive robot chopping, thx for the inspration

also v appealing PJ

Laughing Ferret · « **Reply #48 on:** May 08, 2011, 08:09:09 PM »

Finished the first unit of Line Infantry, and a Quar character:

The character is an Explorer, which is a type of character that is attached to the banner in the campaign, but doesn't fight on the battlefield, but we also run skirmish games, so I thought this Royalist Trench Raider would make a nice explorer/aspiring Spark.
His background fluff is here:
http://laughingferret.blogspot.com/2011/05/supporting-characters-for-phobosian.html
I added goggles to his helmet. When in doubt: rivets for machines, goggles for the folks.

I needed an explorer mini (or spark if I got so lucky on a character roll) and as much as I like Ashlet Alten, I wanted to have a more flexible character type for the skirmish game we had on Friday- separate thread & blog post on that.

Now I just need to find time for the other 50 Quar, 12 Quar cav, more tanks, airship patrol boat...

Chairface · « **Reply #49 on:** May 08, 2011, 10:00:17 PM »

I quite like these. Well done!

Dr. The Viking · « **Reply #50 on:** May 09, 2011, 05:28:55 AM »

Brilliant stuff in this thread!

Gluteus Maximus · « **Reply #51 on:** May 09, 2011, 08:13:32 AM »

Those goggles are superb!

Laughing Ferret · « **Reply #52 on:** May 16, 2011, 08:03:57 PM »

Painted some vehicles recently, and they had a chance to hit the field...

The tank brigade didn't move much, they had a nice lake to sit behind and a clear range of fire, after they dealt with the American walkers across the field they'd move on to the left later to hunt down the remnants of the Disraelis.

In the foreground is the newest addition, a 'heavy walker' which is the equivalent of a Very Heavy Tank. In our campaign I have a reverse engineered alien weapon (giving +2 to the Fire factor) so I've converted it to have an Aether-Agitator-Projector.

-just noticed: that bugs me: the Quar tanker is sitting a bit skewed -he's magnetized so normally he's fine, just didn't notice the tilt when I put him in- but too lazy to take new pictures now.

But I still have a conventional cannon for it too, and the Quar in the turret is magnetized:

I also painted the flyers.. not a great shot, will get some 'glamour shots' later.

They performed great in the game. The attached character only flubbed his command roll once, leaving them stranded, but they survived fine.
They moved fast down one flank to get behind the American lines, shoot some troops who ran for the cover of the swampwoods, then they proceeded to take out some artillery.

The Scout Automaton followed them, attacking with sweeping arms, sending Texans crashing through the trees, then ran through to take out some gatling crews before the rest of the troops finally brought the mechanical beast down.

Barry S · « **Reply #53 on:** May 17, 2011, 04:07:47 AM »

Brilliant

I've always liked the idea of the Quar!

gamer Mac · « **Reply #54 on:** May 17, 2011, 12:04:47 PM »

That is a serious amount of fire power

Mr.J · « **Reply #55 on:** May 17, 2011, 08:46:03 PM »

Wow! I think that just about sums it up.

Laughing Ferret · « **Reply #56 on:** May 22, 2011, 11:52:57 PM »

A few more pictures of the airships, and some fluff for them on the blog here:
http://laughingferret.blogspot.com/2011/05/quar-airships-pt2.html

chantyam · « **Reply #57 on:** May 23, 2011, 12:30:48 PM »

I like them, really smart good use of colour as well, the pale cream is a good contrast to the gold and the crew brend in well the blue skin tone being very well suited.

The_Beast · « **Reply #58 on:** May 23, 2011, 06:42:19 PM »

Sorry, I missed the post on the 16th.

I would never had admitted one could put wings on the skiffs, but I think you've really nailed them. Truly awesome!

Doug

Grumpy Gnome · « **Reply #59 on:** June 18, 2023, 10:47:00 AM »

Quote from: Laughing Ferret on April 04, 2011, 11:17:08 PM

Thanks! I figured it would be a bit of an odd fit, but I'm liking it. The 'Planets in Peril' background fluff I started imagining a few years ago is a mix of VSF & Pulp, it kind of fits between the genres, so can function in either I think. And well, I love Quar, so had to make it work

I have recently withdrawn from a number of my tabletop wargaming online locations but I have continued to spend a good bit of time on LAF. That time is proven very well spent when I find great inspirational posts. Sometimes the inspiration is so impactive that it has a way of shaking up my entire gaming priority schedule as a figurative bolt of lightning sparks a new perspective for me.

Planets in Peril does that. I love the Quar the minute I saw them and had some ideas on how I might take them a slightly different direction than their original intended application but this VSF and Pulp concept really is fascinating. Perhaps throw in some Weird War 2 and I can tie a number of projects I have been contemplating into a single setting. Brilliant!

Thank you Laughing Ferret. I wish you were still active online here and on your blog but thank you for continuing your previous activity so it can continue to inspire.

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