Tuesday, 21 February 2023

From Curt: Turnip28 'Welp' Light Cavalry - The Davekon Radish Light Dragoons (40 Points)

Hi All,

As Dave recently declared that Tuesday should be kept 'Turnip Free', I thought it best to send in a tuber torpedo with these 'Davekon Radish Light Dragoons'. ;P

These motley fellows represent the light cavalry, or 'the Welps' in Turnip parlance. The base models are from Knucklebones Miniatures, with a few modifications involving head-swaps, etc. I quite like these figures as they have sort of a Ralph Bakshi 'Wizards' vibe going on.

This one I did up with a bicorne as his pose reminds me of David's famous painting of Napoleon crossing the Alps.

For the standard bearer, I removed the musket and replaced it with a brass rod. I then made up a flag for the pole, freehanding a heraldic device.


I liked the morion helmet on this mook.


...and the bearskin on this fella.


As to scoring, these four cavalry figures should give me 40 points.

Thanks for dropping in! Have a great week!

- Curt



It's always good to have the Show Lord himself drop by. When I saw the title, I thought "Welp" might be a reference to the noise DaveD will make when he sees this post appear on a Tuesday, followed closely by "wibble, wibble".

These cavalry and their "mounts" look very, well, bizarre. Great painting and basing, Curt.

Tamsin

25 comments:

  1. Nice work Curt. It must be difficult trying to work out what's what on the figures?

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    1. Stick some glue on and hit it with static grass - job done 😂😂😂

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  2. Those are awesome,Curt! DOUBLE points for the RB "Wizards" refence. They do have that vibe and the blue skin of the mounts is very nice. I like the flag bearer and bearskin turnips the best, but now you ABSOLUTELY need a barefooted bearded wizard for a commander!

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  3. My usual comment in your submissions this year: WOW. I have no frecking idea of what they are but they look cool, magnetic, irresisitible attractive....

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  4. Simply magical Curt- and disturbing- and humorous- and fun- and inventive- where am I going with this? Well, its what this little hobby of ours is all about :)

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  5. Morion helmet FTW! Great brushwork as always man!

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  6. Oh my God, Museums all over the world are now revising their version of Napoleon Crossing the Alps -its so clever and well done we'll forgive you just this once for polluting Tuesdays 👌

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  7. Intersting figures and well painted

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  8. Damn yer eyes man. Some kind of weedkiller is needed to counter this invasion ! Nice painting mind

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    1. Turnipbegone? ;)
      (formula derived from the legendary Millsbegone)

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    2. Or industrial quantities of Agent Orange dropped by B52’s

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  9. More of the damn things! Abominations all, but very well painted.

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  10. Love the standard. Great work here.

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  11. I like the Napoleon, and the Bakshi reference!

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  12. Cracking paint job, the colours just leap out. Much like the weird mounts which fit the theme brilliantly.

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  13. Great looking weirdo cavalry here dude!!

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  14. Curt you continue to amaze with your quality paint even though on vegetable troops. Great work and photos.

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  15. Napoleon as David should have painted him! Finally something faintly recognisable among the groceries. Absolutely fabulous, Curt!

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  16. Splendid vegetable light cavalry, excellent painting as always!
    Best Iain

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  17. Thank you for all the comments and feedback! :)

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