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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: rebelyell2006 on 22 March 2016, 03:45:49 PM

Title: Solutions for naked shields
Post by: rebelyell2006 on 22 March 2016, 03:45:49 PM
I've been working on some Marian Romans; specifically I have been planning on what to do with three boxes of Wargames Factory Romans, and I have been basing and painting them individually for Hail Caesar.  There are many possibilities: red plumes and black plumes; red, blue, and off-white tunics; red, blue, and black shields with iron or bronze bosses; and so on.  But the shields look wrong when painted one color.  Should I leave them alone for now, and buy transfers or decals after I pay off moving expenses?  Or are there simple but appropriate designs that I can free-hand paint onto them?
Title: Re: Solutions for naked shields
Post by: FierceKitty on 22 March 2016, 04:15:39 PM
A great deal depends on the scale. I glued on photocopied, reduced designs with my 10mm republican legionaries; tedious, but I couldn't face trying to paint boars and wolves in that scale (though I've not done too badly with some hoplites since then, so perhaps I struck my colours too soon).
If you're doing smaller figures, it's hardly worth bothering with shield designs; if larger, painting should be a piece of cake.
Title: Re: Solutions for naked shields
Post by: rebelyell2006 on 22 March 2016, 04:18:14 PM
In this case, they are 28mm plastics.
Title: Re: Solutions for naked shields
Post by: AdamPHayes on 22 March 2016, 07:04:21 PM
Blank shields are perfectly historical, so don't worry about leaving upgrading of the designs until later (or you might grow to like the stark simplicity of it!)