Rooting Around - Turnip28 Spring Clean Challenge
Putting Together the Chaff
Before starting to put any models together, I had a quick skim of the Turnip28 rules to see the types and sizes of units. There are three different sorts of infantry – Fodder, Chaff and Brutes, being your general foot sloggers, skirmishers and heavy melee troops respectively.
I decided to start with a unit of Chaff, which are only four figures in size. Grabbing a pair of clippers, hobby knife and some superglue, I got going.
First step was snipping the legs from the torsos of the Bavarians. I made a quick check to see how the 3D printed torsos matched up, just in case they aligned in an unexpected way, but fortunately there were no surprises. Next it was a simple case of gluing the torso on, and picking some appropriate arms. As these were going to be Chaff, I picked out some of the arms for firing and loading figures. Backpacks were added, and I thought plumes would be a nice addition to mark them out as elites.
As far as kitbashing goes, this is pretty standard stuff. The 3D torsos were a bit more rotund than the Bavarians, so trying to get arms to match nicely around the body was difficult. Lots of gaps are present, which would normally be avoided by careful dry fitting and trimming of parts to get better joins. However, one of the joys of Turnip28 is the dirty, rooty grim dark theme – gaps in the joins are opportunities to work in roots and tufts and general grub. Basically, lazy kitbashing is absolutely fine, possibly a boon.
Although Chaff reckon themselves to be quite the dangerous marksmen, they are in fact terrible shots. I quite liked making one of them look pretty awkward in firing as a nod to this.
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