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What's a good way of painting shields separately?
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 7:00 am
by 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?
Re: What's a good way of painting shields separately?
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 7:04 am
by goat major
Double sided sellotape on a piece of card. Or blobs of blue tac.
Re: What's a good way of painting shields separately?
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 7:21 am
by Jeremy
Little bit of wood glue works for when I want to do things like that
Re: What's a good way of painting shields separately?
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 7:31 am
by Purple
I don’t mind a glue gun splodge because it can peel off easily.
Re: What's a good way of painting shields separately?
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 7:43 am
by Count Belisarius
I just stick them to the figure and be done with it...
Re: What's a good way of painting shields separately?
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 8:04 am
by 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.
Re: What's a good way of painting shields separately?
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 8:24 am
by 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.
Re: What's a good way of painting shields separately?
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 8:27 am
by grizzlymc
Jeez Zen! Do you have sex upside down on a rocking horse, just because you can?
Re: What's a good way of painting shields separately?
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 8:33 am
by goat major
I actually thought it made a lot of sense.
Re: What's a good way of painting shields separately?
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 8:42 am
by levied troop
It’s more or less what I do - Zen’s way that is, not inverted rocking horse sex (not since the caution).