It is halfway through the year and I haven’t played a single miniatures game. I had some Burrows and Badgers minis in the queue but then a second idea snuck up on me. Something easy to paint and fun to paint. Part way through the challenge I realised what I wanted to work on was painting minis. It is closely tied to my mental health and I learned a while ago to flow with what I feel and not beat myself up when that diverges from Plans. That’s not how hobby works though for me.
I was going to work hard on scratch building my table for Dead Man’s Hand, a project I thought I was passionate about.
This wasn’t the project I thought I was going to work on for the Spring Clean Challenge. Thankfully most of them are crooks of the elbow which will be covered by the shields. No tide marks but there are areas where I should have wicked extra wash away. I was a little too heavy handed with it here because they all got a wash late one night. It is a nice warm dark wash that behaves a little nicer thanks to the extra medium. I just bought one pot of each and have now have enough wash to last me several armies. Equal parts Nuln Oil, Reikland Fleshshade and Lahmian Medium. One wash for everything because that’s just how I paint Marine Juice. Again, lazy.įor the bronze I base coated in Balthasar Gold and then an all over layer of Sycorax Bronze ( a truly awful paint by itself but pretty nice over the gold).
#Little big man hoplite shield transfers skin#
I was going to vary skin tones but I’m lazy so grabbed my go to Kislev Flesh. Vallejo Model Color: Cavalry Brown, Prussian Blue and Pale SandĮveryone was primed white so that colours really pop. For some reason, and I can honestly say a couple of weeks on from the decision I still don’t know where it came from, I went with a batch of 34 for this box.Īfter looking at colour plates from a couple of Osprey books (Warrior 27: Greek Hoplite 480-323 BC and Elite 7: The Ancient Greeks) and knowing that the shield transfers are brightly coloured, I picked out five paints to do all the fabrics. They will truly make your models come alive.Normally I batch paint in groups of five to ten minis. It's a bit of work getting them on, but painting them to anywhere near such a standard would be a life's work, if possible at all! Also, like anything else in life, the truly worthwhile things take a little practice, so set aside some time to get used to working with them, don't try to apply them to a unit expecting to get it perfect on the first go. Images below are greatly reduced not just in size, but also in resolution. (An additional suggestion: I feel that the transfers find better purchase on the shields if I paint them white, let that dry, then gloss-coat the white shields, and let that dry too.) After a little practice (which is highly recommended), I had no problem applying them.įor instructions on applying and finishing these stunning little works of art, please see the LBMS website's instruction page. Better, unlike many of the decals that are available, they have a "painted" look so that they don't clash with your painted models. Little Big Men Studios creates gorgeous rub-on transfers to make your shields brilliant without the excruciating process of painting elaborate patterns and possibly having to do precisely the same thing again and again. Little Big Men Studios Shield Transfers for Khurasan Miniatures modelsĭetail of Little Big Men Transfers for Late Roman or Romano-British Infantry.
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