Quar Royalist Tractor WIP Thread

[ErikB]

Hi All,

Here's my first pass at a Crusader Tractor.  I have not done the treads yet and am seriously considering rewriting the text as it falls downhill.

Any ideas for further markings and/or weathering would be greatly appreciated!

There is still a lot to do with it.

Vielen Dank!

[Mancha]

Although I'm normally a fan of all things Quar, I can't decide if I like this Cheesewheel thingie.  All that open space around the sprockets looks kind of weird.

[ErikB]

It does look a little odd but I can get used to it.  It's meant to be a pedrail system, not treads.  Not sure how that's supposed to work so I'm not sure how it's supposed to look.

The design actually "feels" (in my hand) pretty good as a turretless tank or an assault gun.  The non-flat track base probably gets it over lots of different terrain types.

Besides, it's hard to design an original retro-sci-fi tank WITH CHARACTER.  I think Zombiesmith has done a great job with it.  Now if my painting could only do them justice....

[delta6ct]

I love the Quar and I think it looks cool. I think you painting is just fine too.

Mike

[headzombie]

While the openness may seem strange, I was inspired by this, which I fell in love with:

[ErikB]

Not sure about this...

[ErikB]

PS - Hi, Josh!

[leadfool]

I picked up one of these tanks at Kubla con.  I am not sure how to paint it either.  I was going to make the gun metallic, rather then painted. 
I like yours but while the camo pattern is well done, I am not sure where the terrain is tan and Blue.  Venus/dessert?

[Gluteus Maximus]

Try adding a couple more colours into the camo scheme. At the moment it's a bit too sparse - maybe adding a reddish-brown and a green might help, like on the Stormtrooper helmet camo. I love that angular "WW1" camo look though and I think it fits in perfectly with the tank and the whole Quar thing 

[zizi666]

I picked up one of these tanks at Kubla con.  I am not sure how to paint it either.  I was going to make the gun metallic, rather then painted. 
I like yours but while the camo pattern is well done, I am not sure where the terrain is tan and Blue.  Venus/dessert?

  Try a WW2 desert setting :



more pics : http://anzacsteel.hobbyvista.com/Armoured%20Vehicles/matildaattankfestph_1.htm

[Gluteus Maximus]

No wonder Rommel's chaps had such fun early on in the war 

That's a cool design though - very much like the naval "dazzle" schemes. Probably designed with the same theory behind it - break up the shape of the vehicle in a very flat featureless terrain.

[ErikB]

Zizi, that's kinda what I had in mind but I wanted to do it in an orginal way, Quarified, as I see it.

Maybe a darker blue might make sense.  Some more shapes, some of which overlap the tan.

I'm really frustrated - it just doesn't look right to me and I cannot imagine how to fix this.

[zizi666]

Zizi, that's kinda what I had in mind but I wanted to do it in an orginal way, Quarified, as I see it.

Maybe a darker blue might make sense.  Some more shapes, some of which overlap the tan.

I'm really frustrated - it just doesn't look right to me and I cannot imagine how to fix this.

I'd stick with the blue. Maybe you could try to loose the black lines (or make 'em finer) and extend the tan parts.
In your second pic everything comes out more natural because of the larger tan area, while on the other photo's they look like tan fields painted on top of the blue rather than being part of a camouflage pattern. 

my 2cts.

P.S. I wish ppl stopped posting Quar stuff . I've got too much other projects with the associated oversized heap of lead already and these Quars are beckoning me more and more (specialy since I found out they excist in 15mm too) 

[ErikB]

I was bitten by the Quar.  Now they're my favorite (and my wife's and my 3 year-old's who compares them to Dr. Suesse's Starbellied Sneeches).

They're a little tough to paint as the detail is not sculpted as deep and pronounced as, say, GW's, but they're full of character and charm.  And they're certainly well made.  Zombiesmith did an excellent job.

You'd do alright with a command squad and a regular squad for both Royalists and Crusaders.  That's 32 minis (plus the animals that come with).  )

[ErikB]

I added another blue and the first muddy wash.  I think the only thing that looks any better is the rubber treads, though....

Time for some highlighting.