Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Quick tip: Brilliant budget shields

I have been looking around at the selection of shields available on the net, and have not really been very excited by the options.  Its on my list of Bederken must-do products (its a big list), but for now I have a bunch of minis needing something to cover up their ugly bumps.  I mean the ones on their wrists.  You know.   Where the shields are supposed to go.

Got a great solution today.  Thumb tacks plus copper washers.  Allow me to illustrate.

Shields.  5 bucks for frikkin hundreds
A dab of superglue, a quick snip and I have a perfect greek style shield just begging to be painted with funky retro iconography.  The nice thing about these is they automatically come complete with a pin to firmly attach them onto the shield boss.  All I need to do is drill a small hole and I have the most firmly attached shield you could possibly wish for!

Oh, and of course I have the means to make hundreds for a few bucks.

This works really well for my Macdeath Skirmish project as these shields exactly match the artwork for the Knights of Harkness shields!  Bingo.

4 comments:

  1. Very Clever! Will you use transfers for the inconogrophy...or are you one of those people that can actually freehand that kind of detail dozens of times? (grumble...grumble...talented people...grumble)

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  2. I am category 3- people who refuse to use transfers but cannot freehand well!

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  3. Can you post a picture of one of these in action?

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  4. Sure can. Just painting one up for my next project... ashamedly...

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