Five Leagues from the Barons War

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Decals update

March 23, 2026

Tutoring 2

Skill 4

Idea 4

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The decals arrived first thing on Monday, so I put the steampunk project on to one side again.

I separated out every mini with a shield.I was a little dismayed to see the decals are not pre cut, but given the amount of miniatures I have to do I see this as a good practice opportunity. I also have enough decals that if some go awry it’s not an issue.

Note how optimistic I sound before I actually start working with the decals…

Having selected the miniatures, next step was to paint all the shields with a white backing as per the instructions that came with the decals. Once this dries I will hit it with a gloss or satin varnish just to ease with sliding the decals, then I plan to hit it with some humbrol decal stay. If I can find it!

The instructions recommended leaving a border, I don’t know whether a decal softener helps, but I just have a decal fixer that doesn’t work to get to rid of the borders. I ended up trimming as close to the decal as possible and it wasn’t too tricky.

To finish I used some brush on AK matt varnish and I went around the edge of the shields with the chipping effect AK paint pen. It isn’t really an effect, it’s just brown.

This concludes the first portion of my building of medieval miniatures.

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