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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Sci-Fi Small Skirmish Games => Topic started by: nicknorthstar on July 03, 2021, 09:45:13 AM
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I've finished my first crew for Stargrave, and so I was thinking of what to do for pirates. The pirates feature heavily as random encounters, wandering monsters and baddies for scenarios.
Originally I was planning to build my pirates from standard Stargrave kits, but to give them a distinct paint job.
Unfortunately, the last two issues of Wargames Illustrated featured articles about Max FitzGerald's Turnip28 concept. The infernal idea lived 'rent free' in my head for a week or so, and so in the end I had to give it go. Here's the first of my Stargrave Pirates done Turnip-like.
The body and arms are Stargrave Mercenaries. The head is a Perry Miniatures medieval (as is the sword) and the backpack Napoleonic French from Warlord games (taken from the free frame included in Wargames Illustrated 403)
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Looking very interesting!!
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Love it when I seen the turnip 28 I thought they were very nurgle cultist like ?
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Love it when I seen the turnip 28 I thought they were very nurgle cultist like ?
Very much so. I don't do GW stuff anymore, but I recognise that this Turnip stuff is sub-Nurgle lol
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Very cool!
Who is to say what strangle alien sybiotic/parasitic lifeforms exist in the galaxy?
Some may even be root-vegtable related lol
Must resist the urge to convert???
Glen
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:D nice job!!!!!
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It is just wrong but I like it :-* :-* :-* lol lol lol
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I completely misread the title as 'Trump inspired' and have just spent 5 minutes wondering why he wasn't painted orange o_o ???
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Very much so. I don't do GW stuff anymore, but I recognise that this Turnip stuff is sub-Nurgle lol
I'm finding GW a handy source of armored trooper figs if nothing else. Mantic would be cheaper but the local store doesn't carry them at all, unlike the Empire of Grimdarkness.
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When we getting a proper modular boxed set of those, eh? Maybe a "small box" set like the Frostgrave wizards kits with two frames of 4-5 bodies (or better, leg & torso parts) and a slew of variant add-on bits for maximum variety? Nobody needs 20 of them, even the pirate shock troops don't show up in those kind of numbers.
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We're working on Shock Troopers now, we haven't got the design nailed down yet.
Here's a picture of the pirates V crew.
The crew are how I normally paint, I wanted the pirates to look different. The Turnip28 conversions, plus that Blanchitsu style, has achieved that.
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Good aesthetic contrast, for sure.
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Brilliant Nick 8)
The HYW bascinets work an absolute treat on the grungy space pirates. Love them.
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This is nice to see. I've been quite taken with that turnip stuff in WI. Makes me want to do some slightly daft conversions (though probably something different) just for the fun of it.
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This is nice to see. I've been quite taken with that turnip stuff in WI. Makes me want to do some slightly daft conversions (though probably something different) just for the fun of it.
Same. I've done 4 of them, that's what I'll need for encounters with Pirates, don't intend to do anymore just yet.
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Here's all four Stargrave Pirates. I've called them the Allium.
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Super cool! I got a little hooked on Sludge, which was in turn inspired by Turnip I gather. Been building an army for a bit now. Cool to see a sci-fi take on the idea.
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Not heard of Sludge till now. TBH, all this Grimdark stuff passed me by 'cus I don't pay any interest in anything to do with GW, not since I stopped working there in 1989. But Wargames Illustrated running the Turnip28 articles got me thinking about using their ideas for my Stargrave pirates.
I'm gonna read the Sludge stuff now though, cheers.
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And here's their drone.
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These look great - still waiting for my copy of WI to make it's way to what a former Prime Minister described as the 'arse end of the world' but very keen to have a look at this article.
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And here's their drone.
That's a great idea lol
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That's a great idea lol
Inspired, but I prefer my giant flies a bit more mechanical. :)
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https://brokenstarsburningships.blogspot.com/2017/10/full-thrust-xar-fleet-revisited.html
Warlord makes a fairly amazing variety of floating mechanical drone things in their Gates of Antares range.
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I wanted a Combat Armour Pirate as you can roll for that as an encounter. The 'official' version is still being designed, so I picked up a Copplestone Casting figure to turnipise.
Here it is with the gang
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More pics
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Very cool. I do like the aesthetics of Turnip28 and the creativity potential is great.
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did you just invent Turnip40k?
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Whoops... I thought it said "Trump inspired Space pirates"...
I admit, I am a little dissapointed. :(
lol
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Whoops... I thought it said "Trump inspired Space pirates"...
I admit, I am a little dissapointed. :(
lol
You have to admit, if the foliage on them was supposed to be hair it would be almost as unnatural looking as Donnie's toupee.
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brilliant
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Cheers.
They still haven't turned up in a game yet, I keep rolling the Bounty Hunter.
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Whoops... I thought it said "Trump inspired Space pirates"...
I admit, I am a little dissapointed. :(
lol
In space no can hear your toupee scream lol
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Hurray. The Turnip Pirates showed up for the first time in a game this evening. A high roll meant the Shocktrooper and two Pirates showed up to create mayhem.
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They look right at home in all that shot-up Deadzone terrain.
I swear the d20 knows what I have available for random pirates and persists in producing results I can't fill as rapidly as possible. I had one game that managed to call for 14 ruffians and nothing else. Just ridiculous. It's like teh game takes some kind of evel glee in forcing me to proxy stuff.
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So in the narrative I've made up for my games, the turnip Pirates, I've called them the Allium, are the power on the desert world of Sanquine.
The lowly Viridis, a criminal underclass who sell their services as hirelings and footpads, have to scrounge and steal their own kit. This figure, modelled to be a Sentry figure, has nicked his Heavy Amour off a dead Allium.
I've tried to create a bit of both the Viridis and the Allium in the figure.
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Very nice. Suitably ragged, irregular look to the lot. The blue/white checkerboard cloths are a nice unifying feature, I should really do something on my stuff for more obvious "gang wear" from one group to the next.
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I think I've found an opponent to my Turnip pirates.
These are the Gardners to pull up the Turnips
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After telling everyone at North Star 'no more Turnips', I went and painted 5 more last night.
I actually did them with an eye on Xeno Rampant. This extra 5 mean I could field a Turnip28-esque Stargrave Crew now, but these I've put on muddy bases as I'm going try and do up around 30 to use as a Xeno Rampant force, and set them on their muddy homeworld (I've set my Stargrave stuff up as being on a desert world.)
If I get another batch done, I might start a new Xeno Rampant thread for them.
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Those cultist heads fit here perfectly, great results!
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They do look good.
I am surprised no one has tried the Crooked Dice Corn Dolls (https://crooked-dice.co.uk/product/corn-dolls/ (https://crooked-dice.co.uk/product/corn-dolls/)) for this.
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I really like that subtle color shift on the lower edge of the mask. Very clever and appropriate :)
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I've got Artmaster Studios to paint up our 'Gardeners'.
Myself and Dean put together these models from the Oathmark plastic Dwarves (both the Heavy Infantry and the new Light Infantry) and Stargrave arms/ weapons.
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They look good :-* :-* :-*
I am going to use squats for a crew
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The vegetable related nonsense continues.
My three latest conversions, on the painting table soon.
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It's October, shouldn't you be on to pumpkins rather than turnips? :)
I notice I seem to be painting a lot of orange lately myself.
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Funny you should say that.
When I was a lad in the 70s, we'd only seen pumpkins in Charlie Brown cartoons. We actually carved turnips for halloween, though they strictly speaking were swedes, up north we called them turnips. The smell still reminds me of Halloween.
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Suitably creepy, which is pretty much the whole point of a jack o'lantern in the first place.
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First of the new Pirates painted.
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Great stuff :)
After telling everyone at North Star 'no more Turnips',
Well, you don't hear that everyday lol
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8) way cool...nice work!!!!
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Nice work on those dwarfs.
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Very nice 8)
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Amazed at how well the mediaeval helmets work on the Stargrave kits.
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They do. By co-incidence, I'd just undercoated that last batch of turnip guys today. I'd sort of embarrassed at myself for abandoning the project for 7 months. Our lives fly by.