Rooting Around - Turnip28 Spring Clean Challenge
Putting Together the Fodder
In Turnip28, Fodder are the mass group of the lowest troops. They come in units of 12, and I wanted to have a lump of these in traditional Napoleonic marching poses as they trudge onwards.
The process was basically no different to the Chaff – slice legs from the torso, replace with a nice 3D torso, add arms and backpack. Two main differences were I sliced the legs at a bit of an angle to give the Fodder a more hunched and slumped over look. Secondly, I found carving a little concave nook into the back of the blanket/coat roll helped fit the backpack onto the more rounded shape of the torso.
The wise among you may have spotted a potential problem with some of the Bavarian bodies. Half the infantry on each sprue have their right arms already attached, with no additional straight arms present. This potentially meant having to carefully remove the arms before slicing off the legs, nothing too difficult, but a bit of a pain. Fortunately, I had some spare arms left from a Perry’s 1814 French Line Infantry kit, so I had options beyond removing all the arms from the bodies.
Here's all twelve Fodder. As with the Chaff, plenty of gaps to be sorted out with roots and dirt.
A couple of close ups of a few Fodder. I gave one a plume and a signalling hand, representing a NCO.
I quite liked the swagger I got on the chap with the larger gut.
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