With apologies to Paul Revere, of course! (these DO have red coats!)

But this post is not about one Quadling regiment – it is about 3 infantry regiments (63 figures), 2 artillery batteries (12 figures), 2 generic brigade commanders, a named brigade commander (Rolf von Guufling), a Quadling faction witch (Glenda the Sorceress), and 2 hero conversions (Zeb the Scribe of Ozz and Wood the Courier of Ozz). Yes, that’s 81 figures, AN ENTIRE QUADLING BRIGADE!

Quadlings are the “beefy farm boys” of the world of Ozz. They are the most human-like of the factions, and are great friends with the Munchkins. Their color fixation is red. Most of their army is made up of militia. I had not had any of my own Quadlings on the tabletop at previous conventions.

I was about to hit another two gaming conventions (HAVOC and MAYHEM) in April. I am also going to HUZZAH! in May. After 3 weeks of being away on vacation, I returned back from Florida on March 19th, hoping to make a dent in my mass of Quadlings. These I had previously gotten from Greg Priebe (80 figures) and Chris Palmer (1 figure). It would make up an entire Quadling brigade plus two heroes – but the HAVOC convention would start on April 5th – could I do it? In just 17 days? I decided to try to and plow on and get a whole brigade of figures done for my upcoming Wars of Ozz convention games. I finished on April 4th!

As I did not have enough time to do my usual type of post with WIP and all that – I focused on painting these – and getting them fully tabletop-ready. So this post will just be fully painted stuff. I’m not even going to add the paints this time! (ok I might edit and add them later next week).

So enjoy the photos – and if you are coming to an upcoming convention (add HUZZAH! to that list too), these will be in play – so join me!

Here we go – EYE CANDY!

Eye Candy

1st Quadling Infantry Regiment

This (and the other regiments I painted) are all Northern Quadling regiments – with a slighly better Melee value of 7/10 and a Marksmanship value of 6/10 than other Quadlings. Their Resolve and Elan are average at 5/10 and 6/10 respectively. As all of these regiments are the same sculpts, I painted each with slightly different colors to match the flags that Buck Surdu designed. On this regiment I used a blue facing theme of color over white pants. The plumes on the shakos are red. They are all armed with muskets.

2nd Quadling Infantry Regiment

I went with a sallow yellow-facing theme over light grey pants – and put white plumes on the shakos.

And a side view below:

Some close ups:

4th Quadling Infantry Regiment

For the 4th, I went with a bright green-facing theme over dark grey pants – and I put red plumes on the shakos. I skipped the 3rd because its flag is red, and I wanted a contrast with the red coats!

Marching in column:

Lastly, a gallery collection of views:

1st and 2nd Quadling Light Artillery Batteries

These I only varied in the plume colors (white and red). I also painted the guns slightly differently. They have Marksmanship and Melee values of 6/10 and 4/10 respectively. They do have good Resolve at 7/10 and the Elan of 6/10 is good for artillery.

2 Generic Brigade Commanders

Overall I had 7 mounted leader figures to deal with (each regiment had one, I had the leader pack with three from Greg Priebe, and Chris Palmer gave me one at Fall In 2023). This allowed me (if you had not previously noticed above) to vary each regimental commander’s pose for each infantry regiment. I decided to use two of the remaining ones as generic brigade commanders – and save two more as conversions for Ozz heroes for which there are no dedicated figures to buy. For these two, I painted them slightly differently as they were the same pose.

Rolf Von Guufling, named Brigade Commander

A named brigade commander has 2 additional abilities/skills versus generic ones that have only 1. Of course, the generic ones are free to each brigade, and a named one cost 2 points. Greg’s lot of Quadlings included named Rolf, with his plate of cookies (which as anyone who knows me that the cookies HAD to be chocolate chip). He has Magical Protection plus one additional randomly selected skill. I thought that his bringing chocolate chip cookies to the battlefield merited a burgundy/pink theme for his facings – or maybe his magical protection…

A view from the front:

Glenda the Sorceress

Of course each faction has a witch – and this one is Glenda. She has spells: Transport (can send any unit 10″ in any direction – even behind enemy lines), Fleet Feet (can increase a friendly unit’s Movement rate), Confusion (can rattle an enemy unit’s attacks), and Good Luck (can improve a frienly units. She also can act as a commander with the ability of Charismatic as an as overall leader which is very powerful.

And a view from the side:

Ain’t she pretty in pink?

Zeb the Scribe of Ozz

As I mentioned, I converted two of the mounted Quadling commanders (all are mounted on giant boars) to heroes. They could be part of any faction. The first was Zeb the Scribe, an homage to Zeb Cook, a legend of the early days of Dungeon & Dragons and other games. Zeb played in one of my games at TotalCon 38 in February. I found some small resin books and used green stuff to create a sort of book rack for the figure. When attached to a unit, Zeb can rearrange one attribute of that unit to the best value of the four.

Zeb’s theme was very purple and yellow:

From the other side:

Wood the Courier of Ozz

This one I really thought a lot about as well as it is an homage to Dave Wood, my West Point classmate/roommate and longtime buddy. Over the last months, Dave has helped transfer many figures for other GM’s for Ozz games and more support of conventions – hence the “Courier” appellation. Dave is also a ultra-distance runner who thinks marathons are short (seriously). I knew that Dave’s drink of choice is Diet Mountain Dew (caffeine-free if possible as well). But this is Ozz, so what about Munchkin Dew? So, I found some doll house/diorama Mountain Dew bottles, and designed and sculpted a couple of baskets to hold them, and voila! I think it will be fun on the tabletop.

The figure gives +2″ of movement to an attached unit.

Another view:

A nice side view:

Cheers Dave!!

Lastly, I put all of the Quadlings into their own box – with Zeb and Dave joining my box of heroes separately.

That concludes this post. On April 5th – they will be on the tabletop!

I’d love to hear your thoughts on these – any favorites or suggestions on my insanity are all welcome fodder.

Until next time – thanks for looking!

Miscellaneous details and references for those interested in that sort of thing:

For all of my previous posts on Wars of Ozz games, figures, units, and other related projects – please see this page.

As you may want to check out the Wars of Ozz figures’ range – there are two places to get them and the rules (and I make no money from this btw). The game rules and the figures are available from the following two places:

In the US Old Glory has a site – Wars of Ozz Miniatures.

In the UK go to Sally 4th.

And if I update the paints I used – it will be after this sentence!

UPDATED (and in no order of use – and I’ll never not use a list again!) :

PAINTS, INKS, GLAZES, SHADES, WASHES, PIGMENTS, FLOCKING, GLUES AND MORE THAT I USED ON THESE QUADLING TROOPS:

1. Vallejo Flow Improver
2. Vallejo Premium White Primer
3. Vallejo Model Air Surface Primer – German Dark Yellow
4. Vallejo Surface Primer – Gray
5. Vallejo Airbrush Thinner
6. Vallejo Mecha Varnish Gloss Varnish
7. Vallejo Mecha Varnish Matt Varnish
8. Wargames Accessories #16 (1/2″ Square steel base)
9. Wargames Accessories #21 (2″ Square steel base)
10. Wargames Accessories FOW #1 (1.25″ X 1″ steel base)
11. Wars of Ozz Miniatures Round MDF base
12. Wars of Ozz Miniatures Square MDF Sabot Base
13. Vallejo Black Citadel Contrast – Black Legion
14. Citadel Nuln Oil GLOSS Citadel Nuln Oil New Formulation
15. Citadel Contrast – Aethermatic Blue
16. P3 Cygnar Blue Highlight
17. Citadel Drakenhof Nightshade
18. Vallejo Mecha Color Sky Blue
19. Citadel Soulstone Blue
20. Army Painter Speed Paint – Caribbean Ocean
21. Army Painter Speed Paint – Royal Robes 2.0
22. Battlefront Colours of  War Battledress Brown
23. P3 Brown Ink
24. Citadel Contrast – Cygor Brown
25. Citadel Contrast – Gore-Grunta Fur
26. Citadel Contrast – Snakebite Leather
27. Citadel Cryptek Armourshade Gloss
28. Battlefront Colours of  War Dark Leather
29. Vallejo Model Air First Light
30. Citadel Seraphim Sepia
31. Army Painter Speed Paint – Dark Wood
32. Army Painter Speed Paint – Satchel Brown
33. Vallejo Model Air Wood
34. Vallejo Model Color Wood Grain
35. PSI Kneadatite (green stuff)
36. Wars of Ozz Miniatures Regimental and Faction Flags
37. Vallejo Brown Rose
38. P3 Midland Flesh
39. Army Painter Speed Paint – Peachy Flesh
40. Shadow’s Edge Miniatures  Lavender Flowers
41. Pendraken 12mm Dice Frames
42. Army Painter Battlefield Field Grass
43. Woodland Scenics Blended Turf
44. Shadow’s Edge Miniatures Blue Flowers
45. Army Painter Grass Green
46. Army Painter Green Meadow Tufts
47. Army Painter Lowland Shrubs
48. Army Painter Moss Green
49. Shadow’s Edge Miniatures Pink Flowers
50. Shadow’s Edge Miniatures Red Flowers  
51. Small Stones  
52. Twigs
53. Army Painter Yellow Flowers
54. Gamers Grass Yellow Flowers
55. Elmer’s PVA Glue
56. Card Stock
57. Gorilla Glue
58. Citadel Contrast – Basilicanum Grey
59. Citadel Contrast – Space Wolves Grey
60. Army Painter Speed Paint – Battleship Grey 2.0
61. Citadel Contrast – Striking Scorpion Green
62. Vallejo USA Olive Drab
63. Polly Scale WWII German Armor Dark Olive Green
64. Sharpie Black Sharpie
65. Craftsmart Amethyst
66. Vallejo Model Air Black (METALLIC)
67. Vallejo Model Air Bright Brass
68. Vallejo Model Air Gun Metal
69. Army Painter Speed Paint – Aztec Gold 2.0
70. Army Painter Speed Paint – Hoplite Gold 1.0
71. Vallejo Model Air Steel
72. Crooked Mile Cottage Doll House Mountain Dew Bottles
73. Sharpie Yellow Sharpie caps
74. Citadel Contrast Paint – Magmadroth Flame
75. Citadel Changeling Pink
76. Vallejo Mecha Color Magenta Fluorescent
77. Reaper MSP Core Colors Pink
78. Army Painter Speed Paint – Familiar Pink 2.0
79. Citadel Contrast Paint – Luxion Purple
80. Citadel Contrast Paint – Magos Purple
81. Citadel Contrast Paint – Sigvald Burgundy
82. Citadel Astorath Red
83. Citadel Blood for the Blood God
84. Citadel Contrast Paint – Baal Red
85. Citadel Spritstone Red
86. Citadel Contrast – Aggaros Dunes
87. Secret Weapon Washes Parchment
88. Citadel Ushabti Bone
89. Vallejo Thinner Medium
90. Vallejo Mecha Color Off White
91. Craftsmart White
92. Vallejo Model Color White
93. Citadel Contrast Paint – Ironjawz Yellow
94. Army Painter Speed Paint – Ancient Honey Reaper
95. MSP Core Colors Sun Yellow 

Until next time…