Speedpaint Pens vs The Pile
Prepping the shields
There are lots of shields. I had three boxes of 48 so thats 144 miniatures and as many shields. They came with one of the first LBMS transfer sheets. Great artwork for sure but they are the original transfer type which have a dry “rub down” delivery system. This is like the old ‘make your own scene’ cards I used to get as a kid. Much to my surprise you can still get them:
One for the teenagersFirst though some painting. I cheated slightly as I happen to have a leather brown spraycan so did the undercoat on the back with that:
As you can see they went onto the spatulas first. This time with a blob of Blu Tack as I needed to turn them over for the white Halfords primer onto the front so the transfers have a nice bright base coat underneath them.
Then a few hours rubbing the transfers on. Nothing like as much fun as making my own Viking attack scene. The issue with these is they are difficult to get on straight and they can tear more easily than the modern ones. I’m an experienced modeller and I’ve used them before but I still struggled. I’ll have to tidy up some missed edges and covered central spines in painting. I’ll do that when they go onto the miniatures, I find too many batch processes a bit demotivating but I’ll want to do these as the minis will be finished once they are on.
