Rooting Around - Turnip28 Spring Clean Challenge
The Beetroot 17th Sallies Forth
And that’s my Spring Clean Challenge for 2023 done. A nice little project, only 31 models, but a full force for a standard game of Turnip28. It has been good opportunity to practice more hobby skills beyond just painting, with a little kitbashing, sculpting and experimenting with different materials. I changed up my painting style a bit too, being a little more looser and skipping over details, looking more at the overall effect.
A few lessons learned, probably the most important being to pay more attention to the sprues selected. For the Hussars and infantry, having an arm moulded to the body was potentially awkward. Easy to remove, but then requiring a replacement arm. Luckily, I had some suitable additional arms from other kits I could use, but I could have avoided it or at least plan ahead if I thought about what I was doing a bit more ahead of time.
Thanks to anyone who has followed along, and I hope you’ve found this project interesting.
Major-General Bolthardy is the glorious leader of the Beetroot 17th. He leads the solid infantry core of the Regiment, formed by a unit of Fodder with Chaff to screen and skirmish ahead of their advance.
The elite of the Regiment are the Brutes that follow the dashing Captain Rutherford. Too stupid not to charge anything in sight, his reckless bravery makes for a good story, often with a morale about comeuppance from overconfidence.
Captain Ignacy has a reputation of being an extremely effective scout, ranging ahead with his Whelps to locate enemy formations. His rapid retreat away from anything vaguely hostile is a good warning as to location of potential threats in the field. Where there is danger to be found, Ignacy will be absent, making him an excellent gauge of the ebb and flow of any given battlefield.
Glorious! ???
Cheers very much. This was a very rewarding little project, very happy with how it all turned out.