Once the paint is dry you can use the transfers immediately. The same method could be used if you only have access to a monochrome laser printer. This resulted in a reasonably neat and consistent pattern, but with a hand-painted look.
I drew up outlines of the patterns I wanted, printed them out and then hand painted the colour within the lines - much easier than trying to do it freehand. I used the laser printer paper, which accepted enough ink from the ribbon for my purposes, although although it was rather faint. For my first experiments with DIY, I only had a dot matrix printer with black ink (it was a few years ago). An instruction sheet comes with the paper. At time of writing, an A4 sheet costs £4 and is enough for three or four hundred 15 mm shields. You will need the latter if you have white in your design as most printers don’t print white ink. They supply two types of paper, optimised for inkjet and laser printers, both types available in transparent or white. They are listed as “Blank decal paper” under “Modelling Accessories” Accessories” (not under under any of the the “transfer” “transfer” headings) headings) on their their website (). Luckily these are a stock item from Veni Vidi Vici. The main thing you need, of course, is blank transfer sheets. In this article I discuss the materials you need and the methods that I have used, and pass on a few tips I picked up from discussions with Justin Tayor of 3V and Tim Porter (of fame). In that case DIY transfers offer a solution. If you want to do something a bit unusual, give every barbarian warrior a different pattern, use the correct heraldry for identified individuals in a particular medieval army, or just give your army a unique look, then it may not be possible using off-the-shelf products.
The ranges from Veni Vidi Vici (3V) and Little Big Men Studios cover many of the well-known armies. If the shield looks good, you can get away with a less than stellar paint job on the rest of the figure. By Lawrence Greaves For those of us who can’t paint freehand, shield transfers, also known as decals, are a godsend. They will truly make your models come alive.Do-It-Yourself transfers. 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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