Greetings fellow Adventurers!
I know a few of you like a good Kit-Bash project! Here's one I'm currently working on and enjoying very much!!!
It's a project for a soon to be released Skirmish game by the name of Turnip28...... as the name suggests it's heavily influenced by Turnips and root veggies! What the F I hear you cry.....
Its background setting is also highly interesting, it's a Post Apocalyptic (no zombies or mutants) Napoleonic era with a Medieval twist and a touch of the 'Great War' - trenches, mud and desolation.
I am in no way endorsed by the creator, I am a member of the Patreon though so I have access to the games rules etc.
If you're unfamiliar with the game, here's an interview the games creator:
https://www.goonhammer.com/turnip28-interview-with-max-fitzgerald/Here's the front cover for the rule book, suitably grim:
As said before, the setting of Napoleonic/Medieval gives rise to tons of kit-bash opportunities, enter the stage Perry Miniatures
One additional twist to the creation of the models is to include roots/vegetation growths, primarily sprouting from the backs.....
To kick my project off, I was inspired by the artwork of a chap called Moritz, Blackcrabrt on Instgram, his drawing of a Cavalryman was the base for the build of my first model:
The base for the build was a Medieval Knight, the sword from a Nap. French Hussar and the rifle from a Nap. French Dragoon and a bit of Milliput and Greenstuff to make the clothes you see in the picture. Here's the post putty work (sorry for the glaring whiteness of the Milliput, the lamp was too high a setting, but a I couldn't be bothered to retake
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One particular aspect of the setting I enjoy is that of the 'Tech' it blends the two era's together, you can see in the picture I have attached the head of a Halberd to the underside of the rifle, using some sewing thread to act as the rope. In game there's a section of rules that relates to 'Time Honoured Weapons' allowing you to equip your troops with Bows, Crossbows, Halberds, Swords etc
Next up, you'll see that I added the roots growing from the riders back and spewing forth from the horses mouth, these are a product by Martin Welberg Scenic Studios, one of his dried weeds. I also based the model in vallejo's German Field Grey ahead of the Oil Painting:
OK, now onto the fun stuff, Oil Painting!!! On some projects, I really do enjoy using Oils, Turnip28 lends itself well to the medium as the troops are usually filthy and disjointed looking, so the blending and colour use offered by Oils is just great
The brand of Oils doesn't matter, I have a lot of Lukas as my local art store has 20% off that brand and then I fill in gaps with Windsor Newton. I use a mix of synthetic and cheaper sable brushes as the oils plus the cleaning will eventually ruin your good sable ones.
I first applied a wash of Paynes Grey over the entire model and then wiped away the surface colour, leaving it in the recesses and underside, this acted as shadows and the beauty with oils is the paint stays wet for a few days, so I could use the Paynes Grey and drag it down into other colours to darken them. In the pictures above you can see the first stages of the painting where I begun blocking in colours.
And here's how it turned out! In the artwork, the horse looked very malnourished and that was a look I couldn't achieve on an already sculpted plastic horse, so I opted to make the horse look sickly, I gradually blended in yellow, green and purple into the brown skin tone. The little stones I initially glued onto the front legs were to represent fungus growths you commonly see on tree bark, so I painted those to look like that and the rider was painted in various shades of khaki, green, purple, blue, magenta. all blended together in a non uniformed manner. The base was finished off by applying some shrubs from Martin Welberg and using Vallejo's Mud to represent, well, mud..... To kill off the satin from some of the oil colours, I gave the model two coats of Matt Varnish Galleria by Windsor and Newton.
Here's a look at how the colour palette developed (A highly sophisticated device, consisting of the front panel of a Frosty box, some paper glue and baking paper
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One down, many more to go
Onto the next part.... I wanted to work on a unit this time, so looking through the rules, I settled upon a unit of 'Chaff' these are Skirmishers, their main aim being to distract the enemy whilst attempting to take out their Heavy Infantry (Brutes). With this in mind, and under orders from my daughter, I begun to build four female's, I wanted them to have a somewhat veteran/elite look, so I added various weapons to them. They are a mix of European Mercenary bodies, some British light infantry back packs and rifles and Kingdom Death Monster female heads:
Next stage, you guessed it, Oil Paints
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the game if you're also building up a force of already gaming?
More to follow as the army grows!
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