Another Terrain Project, this time it is a Quar thing

 

 

some of my Great War trenches

        My endless taskmaster, Zhodani Commando, has fallen under the spell of the latest release from Wargames Atlantic; The Quar. I was aware of this little niche in SciFi/Steampunk gaming from previous contact with Zombiesmith, and it has an amusing mythos and some interesting minis. Being a stone-cold historical gamer (wink) I resisted the urge. The release of inexpensive plastic models tempted but did not seduce; I cannot say the same for Zhodani.  The essential idea is that there is a race of anthropomorphic ant-eaters that are trapped in a perpetual war that blends Steampunk with Great War technology. To provide something for his armies of Quar to fight across Zhodani  need some entrenched terrain that has been blasted a bit by artillery. Having seen my Great War trench board Zhodani asked if I could build some geo-morphic boards for him. Having no big projects on the table at the moment I agreed (why does it always go like that?).

       Zhodani wanted a total of six boards, four with trenches and two "no man's land" sections that were gently shelled but left undisturbed by trenching.  As with the Afghanistan terrain he wanted these to be as fully geomorphic as possible. The new boards are going to two feet on a side so instead of two three-foot square panels there will be six panels, this will help with keeping the terrain fresh and ease storage.

 

first there was the design phase (where I scribble ideas on graph-paper)

 

then there is the refinement phase where things sorted out to the customer's preferences 

 

then there is the carpentry phase where I build the bases for the terrain 

       This promises to be a diverting little project, I will have to delve into some of the Quar lore to get an idea if there is some characteristic architectural styles that I need to apply or if standard Great War trench techniques will be satisfactory.