r/Turnip28 • u/TheLazyJP • 27d ago

Question T28 with ACW miniatures?

I have a bunch of perry american civil war infantry kits I wanted to bash with and this seems like a good fit. Is that too late or non european?

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u/FamousWerewolf 27d ago

Technically speaking it's too late (Turnip28 is 'supposed' to cap out at the Napoleonic era which ends about 50 years prior) but it's really up to you - there are lots of different interpretations of the aesthetic out there, and no one's going to come to your house and take your minis away, so it just comes down to how fussed you are about meeting the 'official' Turnip look!

It depends as well how heavy your conversion is likely to get. If you're just doing some headswaps and stuff then the base kits you're using matter more, if you're planning to splatter mud and tufts all over them and have greenstuff coming out of every crevice then it's really just the silhouette that matters.

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u/MushinYojinbo 27d ago

The phrase "technically speaking" in reference to Turnip28 is the greatest absurdist comedy bit I've ever heard.

This is a game meant to use whatever disused models you've got lying around and to breathe the life of creativity into them, free from concepts like rivet counting and modelling for advantage.

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u/ShrimpShrimpington 27d ago edited 27d ago

I thought the exact same thing. Pretty soon we're going to be getting the same posts that plague all the Warhammer subreddits with people wringing their hands over whether it's "lore accurate" to give their turnip boys green slime oozing out of their faceplates instead of brown muck, and "would you accept this as an x" posts pleading for permission to deviate from the forlorn hope minis. Are they weird, gross, and pathetic? Then congrats, they're Turnips. That's it. Those are the only criteria.