Coftyran Chyweethl Tractor - base painted

 So the Chyweethl tractor has received its base colours.

It was given an base paint of Citadel Macragge Blue (no Chaos Black undercoat).

The treads (peds?) are Vallejo Black.

Joins between the tracks, gun barrel, bearing surfaces and the bolt heads on the individual 'feet' are Vallejo Black Grey, as was the base colour of the exhaust pipe.

The glass in the view ports is Citadel Warpstone Glow.

The underside, which will give an opportunity to test some pinwash techniques.

Though this will be an Out of the Box paintjob, there will be some weathering.

I have the second kit, which will be a more weathered and battle weary one.

Coftyran Chyweethl Tractor

 The Chyweethl light tractor is one of the first two injection moulded tractor kits (the other being the Crusader Ailthean light tractor).

The Chyweethl is a very old design, the first rolled out 140 years previously (though there has been a lot of internal changes over this period). It uses the Pedrail system for locomotion. Though it looks a bit like the caterpillar track used by our tanks, it is not. Each of the "feet" are mounted on a rail that runs round the vehicle. Great for cross-country movement, but not so much on paved roads.

A fixed mount gun reduces the weight and height of the vehicle, but requires coordination between the gunner and the driver. A large hatch on the roof is the main entry and exit point.

It is worth watching the video by Josh Qualteri here.

The kit comes in a standard  Wargames Atlantic box.

The instructions are printed on the rear of the box.

The kit is comprised of two sprues (one full size, one smaller one).

The first sprue contains the pedrail system and the main parts of the hull.

The second sprue has two half crew figures, stowag, the hatch, gun and drivers compartment.

Construction was simple, the only thing to bear in mind (as mentioned in the video, but I did not watch that until after I had built mine) the top hatch is intended to be left separate, so you can pop a crew figure into it. This may come back to bite me in the revised rules including tractors.

Side view with a plastic Quar from the command set.

Comparison with the Fidwog Fynrydhad Tractor.

Comparison with an Empress 1/50 scale BMD-1 AIFV

Quar Coftyran Specialists

The box has three identical sprues.

Trench Raider built from the box.

Quar Coftyran Command

 

There are two identical sprues.

More Quar

At Warfare I bought four new packs of Quar.

Coftyran Sharpshooters

 Three Quar sharpshooters. Though there are three heads on the sprue, the firing Quar has a fixed head.

Though this pack says Coftyran Command, it is actually one Standard Bearer and one PykPyk handler, and four PykPyks.

No spare head this time, but not sure if there is a spare pack (as the PykPyk handler has a cage of PykPyks on his back.

PykPyks are used to send messages (hence the message capsules on their backs). In the extended Rhyflers Handbook there are rules to use them.

Crusader Trench Raiders with Derringer Shotguns and melee weapons.

I also bought the Crusader Command set, again a Standard Bearer and a PykPyk handler.

This Quar's War - Coftyran WIP

 Work In Progress on my Coftyran Quar

Quar Blister Packs - Coftyran

In addition to the hard plastic multi-pose kits, there were also three blister packs of thermoplastic Coftyran figures.

Officers with sword and pistol

Trench Raiders with various weapons

RCO 100mm howitzer

They are the same difficult to work with thermoplastic.

This Quar's War revisited.

 Here are the first Quar assembled and undercoated.

Coftyran (Royalist) infantry

Rhyfler, Yawdryl with Doru SMG and Rhyfler.

Milwer, Rhyfler with Cryfen LMG, Rhyfler.

Full squad.

Crusader Infantry

Yawdryl with Bogen, three Rhyflers with Rishi heavy rifles.

Milwer with Bogen, three Rhyflers with Bogen.

Full squad

The Sprue

Now the question is, are they baguettes or chrysalis?

Coftyran Sprues

Crusader sprues