I've been meaning to get to Turnip for a few years now. As sometimes happens with hobby projects, I kept putting it off, and when it would come up in conversations I would start putting some ideas together, but the project would lose steam and I would spend too long in the thinking/planning phase.
Brad (@bitsbibsorks) brought up the idea of doing a one day Turnip28 game-day later on this year and it was all I needed to reignite to excitement again for the project, but this time I would do it differently.
The problem I fall into with Turnip is that everyone else seems to have sick ideas and I struggle to come up with a way to put my own spin on the world. So I plan, and I think, and I don't do any of the work because I get stuck in idea-ville.
This time I just started snippin' sprues and gluin' dudes. I think the themes will come together later. I can always expand the regiment or edit things. This is something I've done with Skaven and them Orks. I let the "build" lay out the flavor, rather than the other way round.
Anyway, I dug out some whelps that I had started a while ago, but glued them onto better bases:
The horses came from Warlord Games Black Powder line, the British Union Brigade Calvary. I picked this box up cheap a long time ago and the horses come in handy. Not sure where all the riders came from, but at least a couple are from the same set. I had some other heads on these riders, but I pulled them off and put some 3D printed beaky turnip heads on. After they were on the bases I gritted them up using a mix of baking soda, PVA, paint and some chunkier sand. I also created a movement tray by cutting some MDF for the bottom, which I made too small, and them sliced some balsa wood to fit. the border is real thin because of my mistake in measuring, but it'll do!
Last thing I did was make some ragged caparisons to go over the horse faces, my first little touch of weird for the regiment, then I was onto the Fodder:
The Fodder is made up of Warlord's Napoleonic British Line Infantry, which I also got cheap because it didn't come with bases. I had JUST thrown out some 20mm bases, and only had 25mm leftover from skaven, so I had to dig through some dirty kitty litter in the trashcan for 'em, but found them and based this guys really quick with the same gritty mix I used for the movement tray and threw some turnip heads on 'em, making sure I crammed some baking soda in the wet glue for extra texture.
Added some more grit to the duders, and made them a movement tray (this one better measured) and these guys are done for the time being.
Today I learned what a caparison is. Thank you Terry for the new word.
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