kitbashing for sci-fi

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  Elliot Vulkan

  8/21/25, 6:01 AM

  i was wondering, how kitbash worthy are the quar, i am asking because i think they could be a funny little extra in games of deathfields

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  Yronimos Whateley

  8/23/25, 11:45 PM

  I was wondering much the same thing.  I haven't seen one of the Quar kits in person so I don't know how well it would work, but I think the bodies are a bit shorter than typical 28mm figures, while the arms don't seem like they are likely to be far off from human-sized figures - I wonder how well they Quar bodies and heads play with, say, WGA's WWI arm bits, and things like the Death Fields Conversion sprue? 

  I kinda adore these little guys, in any case - I have been doing my best to resist picking up a box to mess around with for sci-fi and fantasy gaming, but suspect they'll get through my defenses eventually.

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  Drangir

  8/24/25, 10:26 AM

  Good way to incorporate weapons to minis is to keep handles as they are and carefully exchange the weapons - it works great for most of the WA minis and with quar you may be lenient with proportions a bit - they're leaning a bit into cartoon proportions. It worked well for most of my conversions but ones with historical WA pieces - GW scaled guns looks quite wonky on the more close to life proportions. 

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  Brian Van De Walker

  8/26/25, 7:01 PM

  @Elliot Vulkan I don't really think you need to kitbash or convert them persay, the crusaders for example are pretty dang SciFi looking already, in a Valliran comics sort of way even.

  Heck for Death Fields, given the Quar's factions and how deathfields works you could probably use the Quar as is for diffrent factions taken at diffrent times from the same planet totally ignoring the Quar's original lore. 

  Gun wise for the Quar in general,   I would say just pick the option that looks most Sci-Fi to you. Given this is what I am doing in the case of the crusaders I picked up awhile ago, for me the "SciFi gun" was the bayoneted assualt rifle like guns in the crusader box (the smaller ones ended up in the hands dwarf allinged Halfing miltia for pulp fantasy), and I got my Quar just  to use  as for genric xenos for skirmish games.

  The only thing I might swap out maybe is the backpacks, and I am looking some boltaction USA trooper packs for that though space marine ones might be good too.

   

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  Brian Van De Walker

  8/26/25, 7:06 PM

  @Drangir You can also just add magazines, scopes, wiring, etc. to the guns the mini has, though admittedly that depends on the look you want. 

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  timbus the thirteenth

  8/27/25, 4:12 PM

  Honestly I'd just go for it if you like the models, scale and setting be damned. You'd be suprised what a healthy dose of bits and wires can do to any kind of model to make it look sci-fi.

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