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| First batch of of fodder figures: Old Glory 1806 French advancing, with 3D printed heads and paper towel with brushed on PVA as scarves/rags to hide transitions between heads and bodies. |
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| 3 converted figures primed in gesso. |
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| Moving on to block painting. Jackets are a mix of browns, grays, and earthy greens and blue-grays. Same for scarves/rags. |
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| Some yellow ochre has joined the mix... you can also better see the bicornes atop a few of the helmets. |
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| Objective markers: three oversized turnips ready for digging out, and a roadside turnip shrine. |
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| Roadside shrine objective marker with a miraculous turnip-homunculus inside. Basswood and coffee stirrer off-cuts. |
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| Work bench state of affairs. |
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| Three completed figs, post black-wash. I ended up deciding that painting trousers in brighter colors and/or with organized patterns was sufficiently motley-looking as long as jackets did not match and retained earthy or muted color tones. |
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| Starting in on second round of fodder - these use Russian 1806 grenadiers for bodies and shakos. |
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| Making a backdrop for photos and/or games - Bruegel's Triumph of Death cropped and printed on two pieces of 11x17 paper. Then the two carefully pieced back together on a large piece of cardboard. Attach with a glue stick to avoid warping and wrinkling. |
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| First two units of fodder (12 figs each), which used 1806 French bodies by Old Glory. Heads from the #turnip28 patreon. Left-hand unit have yellow pants and right-hand have blue-stripped trousers. |
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| These bases need a little more work. These use kitty litter painted dark brown. |
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| I wish I had been more careful clipping off heads and saved more of the bicornes... alas many had partial clips into them... |
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| The blue-striped pajama bottoms Fodder unit. Quite pleased with this batch. |
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| Experimenting with fungal growths on figures using milliput. Shape into a small ball and press onto figure. Add creepy pores with a toothpick or other small object. |
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| I located my bag of roots I pulled up from a nearby sidewalk tree planting strip last summer! Here's some growing out of this person. |
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| Russian grenadier conversions to turnip fodder coming along. This fodder unit will all have the hats with big plumes. |
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| Fungal growth experiments. |
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| Fungal growth experiments. You can get so much from such a small amount of milliput material! |
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| A probable toady, with rooty growths. |
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| Rooty toady. Another angle. |
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| Rooty toady. Another angle. |
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| I don't like painting drummers, generally. But I used some excess milliput and sculpted this face over the exterior of the drum. The angle is such most people will probably not notice it... |
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| I like this pose. Disappointed the bag of 30 only included one. |
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| These big-plume fodders have been awarded green-and-white checkered trousers. |
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| And the other unit of fodder (sans big plumed-shakos) get pink pants with a curly-cue red stripe, inspired by the designs on zouave vests. |
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| Free-hand shields for my first designated unit of brutes. The Radish Eaters. |
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| A little more progress on the shrine objective marker. |
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| And I found better sprouts/leaves for the big turnips. |
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