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Author Topic: Sun heraldry for 28mm shields?  (Read 1977 times)

Offline Philhelm

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Sun heraldry for 28mm shields?
« on: November 24, 2015, 05:44:56 AM »
A sun!  A sun!  My miniatures for a sun!

I want a simple, "geometric" sun design to place on some shields for my Frostgrave soldiers.  I searched for decals/waterslide transfers, but didn't find anything appropriate and would prefer not to mess with that.  I was hoping to find metallic, sun shaped confetti (this would have been perfect), but have had no luck there either.  I've also searched for sun shaped craft/hole punches, but I'm not sure if anything is size appropriate.

It's inconceivable that I am the first person to want sun heraldry for a shield, so I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction.

Offline Poiter50

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Re: Sun heraldry for 28mm shields?
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2015, 06:10:45 AM »
WW2 Chinese Nationalist insignia? Company B sell a pack for Armour which might suit.
Cheers,
Poiter50

Offline Philhelm

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Re: Sun heraldry for 28mm shields?
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2015, 06:20:14 AM »
WW2 Chinese Nationalist insignia? Company B sell a pack for Armour which might suit.

The sun design itself is what I had in mind, but the color is off.

Offline Poiter50

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Re: Sun heraldry for 28mm shields?
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2015, 06:27:38 AM »
I think Company B are prepared to do variants or custom decals.

Offline tyrionhalfman

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Re: Sun heraldry for 28mm shields?
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2015, 11:33:19 AM »
Veni Vidi Vici do this set MM12 which includes some suns, not sure if you'd have a use for the others though

http://www.3vwargames.co.uk/upshop/shop/medieval25mm.html

Offline Major_Gilbear

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Re: Sun heraldry for 28mm shields?
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2015, 04:27:10 PM »
Somebody else asked for the same thing here a little while ago - some of the suggestions may help you too?

Offline has.been

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Re: Sun heraldry for 28mm shields?
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2015, 08:49:18 PM »
Try looking at buttons. I have seen some with suns embossed on, (i.e. one sun on each side of the button) they seemed to be plastic & looked as if they could could be sawn in half, with a craft saw, giving two shields per button. The ones I saw were at Craft World.

Offline dadlamassu

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Re: Sun heraldry for 28mm shields?
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2015, 12:26:02 PM »
I have some GW Brettonian sun decals if they are any use - red, white and yellow

'He could have lived a risk-free, moneyed life, but he preferred to whittle away his fortune on warfare.'
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Offline Philhelm

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Re: Sun heraldry for 28mm shields?
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2015, 09:41:07 PM »
Thank you for the suggestions.  I managed to find something that worked perfectly (after hours of searching).  I ordered a sun-shaped craft punch (hole puncher) with a sun image, that was small enough to fit on the shield (that was the hard part).  Fortunately, it can punch through thin styrene easily enough.

 

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