How to paint battle damage on shields (with pics again)

[Lt. Hazel]

Hi!

Nearly a year ago Aggro84 asked me to share my shield weathering recipe. I promised to do so and here it is. I is not "my" method of painting shields, Tom Weiss himself told me how to paint the scratches etc.

I took a Perry Miniatures Pavise and went with a rather simple geometric design.



The method works best with yellow or ocre, so I painted the pavise with Desert Yellow (Vallejo Modell Colour). I blended in some Ivory at the top and some light Brown at the bottom so simulate a zenital higlight. The pointed bar was outlined with black and filled with Hull red (VMC). Then I added more and more Flat Red (VMC) to the Hull Red and made a last highligth with pure, diluted Flat Red.



Now I mixed Burnt Umber with Black and painted some scratches caused by sword or axe strokes, which I placed mainly on the upper part of the pavise. I also painted dots to simulate spearthrusts and some irregular, larger Areas where paint chipped of.


With diluted Ivory I now painted Highlights just below the scratches and dots. I your shield is blue or green or any darker colour just mix some amount of the base colour to the Ivory.


My favourite step is to add "mud" to the shield, mostly at the bottom but I always make some mud spots here and there on the whole shield. I took an old brush and stippled dark Brown and Mid Brown on the pavise. Do not load your brush with too much paint please. Now that is all you Need to do.

I hope some of you find this tutorial helpful.

Cheers
Jan

[painterman]

Cracking tutorial - very effective technique on the shields and the steel.
Many thanks Lt Hazel.
Simon.

[gamer Mac]

lovely

[Vagabond]

Excellent tutorial, thanks for posting it.

I painted some Vikings this summer and was going to try this effect but bottled out in the end. They currently have clean and undamaged shields. Not fighting hard enough I guess. 

[OSHIROmodels]

Splendid little tutorial Jan 

cheers

James

[Dr DeAth]

Extremely useful, thanks.

[Lt. Hazel]

I am glad you like it fellas!

[pocoloco]

Amazing tut!  Many thanks, now all I need is to have a steady hand and great skill with the brush, then maybe I could have something like yours as the end result 

[dampfpanzerwagon]

Thanks for the tutorial. You have some very nice figures there.

Tony

[Hammers]

A how to in its pride. Thanks!

[verd]

Excellent ! Thanks for share it

[Driscoles]

Thank you, this is a very helpful tutorial.

[Remgain]

Thank you very much indeed!!

Grazie!
Marco

[Hu Rhu]

Oh yes.    A simple    tutorial that I hope to follow with some of my roman shields.  Thanks for posting.

[Jeff965]

It's posts like this that make this forum, great tutorial thanks.