What's a good way of painting shields separately?

[tim.w]

Got cocktail sticks. Will stick em in blue tac but securing the shields well enough to paint might be tricky? How do you pointy stick people do it?

[goat major]

Double sided sellotape on a piece of card. Or blobs of blue tac.

[Jeremy]

Little bit of wood glue works for when I want to do things like that

[Purple]

I don’t mind a glue gun splodge because it can peel off easily.

[Count Belisarius]

I just stick them to the figure and be done with it...

[Willz the Wargamer]

Why paint, do what I do, make your own shields on computer and print them off.
Attach to plastic, metal shields with wood / PVA glue.
All it takes is a bit of practice on the printing to get the correct sheild size.

It is best to undercoat / wood colour the shield before gluing, so you still have to do some painting.
Blue tack on a lollipop stick for holding them.

Willz.

[Zenbadger]

I can't take to paper or decals, a nicely painted shield is one of my favourite bits of painting. I blu-tack to an old pine doorknob, undercoat front and back, paint the back completely and then gloss varnish. Once this is completely dry I paint the front and gloss varnish again. Matt varnish the back and stick to the model, scraping the paint away for a metal to metal joint then matt varnish the front when it is on the figure.

[grizzlymc]

Jeez Zen! Do you have sex upside down on a rocking horse, just because you can?

[goat major]

I actually thought it made a lot of sense.

[levied troop]

It’s more or less what I do - Zen’s way that is, not inverted rocking horse sex (not since the caution).