Showing posts with label LBMS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LBMS. Show all posts
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Celtic Shields IV
Shields finished (bar the backs- but no more photos, I promise!). The final stage was to paint and ink around the bosses. I'm really pleased with them- LMBS designs are stunning and, mixed in with freehand shields for variety, should look rather splendid.
Putting my commercial hat on... I've imported a limited number of rivers and tracks from Deep-Cut. They are printed on mouse-mat material, 28mm scale and ideal for quickly rolling out on top of one of the cloths I sell. You can find them here.
Friday, 11 January 2019
Celtic Shields III
It may not look especially different to the last image, but I've painted in the edges on all the shields- it took me three paint sessions- well worthwhile I think. Lots of careful colour matching.
Next I need to paint some of the shield ribs (I'll leave most white) and after that the 130-odd shield bosses. Then there's inking, varnishing and the shield backs- perhaps another four sessions, in all. I suppose including cutting and preparation there will be around 15 evenings work to produce 150 shields - it'd take a lot longer if I was doing one pack at a time.
Monday, 7 January 2019
Celtic Shields II
Here are the shields from the last post with the LBMS transfers applied- I love LBMS transfers! I've found I can apply around 20 an hour, whilst watching TV.
A couple of learning points that people might find useful:
- All sculpted metal shields are asymmetrical, to some extent, so take plenty of time checking that the transfer is the right way round. There is always a right way and a wrong way!
- A clay-shaper is a really useful tool for gently pushing the transfer into contact with the shield around the boss.
Next I need to paint the edges and backs of the shields, the ribs and the bosses- perhaps a week's work. These should be sufficient for the expansion to my Celtic army for Salute, which will be a theme on this blog for the next three months.
Friday, 25 April 2014
Romans, Romans, Romans
Apologies for the recent lack of posts; I've been hard at the brush.
I estimate I'm at least half way through my big Roman project, and on target for Partizan. In the below camera phone photos, you can see that I've re-organised the part-painted minis into their respective legions. I am going to focus on finishing the yellow shields first.
I've been really enjoying this job, so much that I've ordered enough additional transfers from Steve at LBMS for a new legion, and for various extra units to increase the size of the other legions to 125 each.
A couple of Victrix Steve's plastic peltasts have infiltrated the metal figures. I'm painting them up as tests for a future project.
Monday, 3 March 2014
Celtic update
I've made up shields for all of last week's celts. I love the Little Big Man Studios transfers, in this case all applied on A&A shields which are delightfully thin. Plus Steve is such a nice chap... and, in any case, I could never paint anything half as well.
Hopefully I'll have time tonight to matt varnish, and also to do the metallic highlight on the celts.
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