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Re: Painting Shields; a few suggestions

While there are some master painters out there who can paint a Madonna on a Pavise or paint the most intricate medieval Arab or Russian shield patterns, that's far from what I myself can achieve. So for me the most simple solution is, search shield decals on the web no matter the size (there are lots out there whithout watermarks), download the pictures, put them into any program where you can downscale them (Wordpad or something), print them. Try this until they fit your shields, cut them out and glue them to your shields. Simple but efficient. I'm doing this with flags all the time. Otherwise, stick with simple shield designs, like the Spartan Lambda :relaxed:

Re: Painting Shields; a few suggestions

Flambeau
While there are some master painters out there who can paint a Madonna on a Pavise or paint the most intricate medieval Arab or Russian shield patterns,



I'm going to have a go at painting Christ's/Saint's head on a couple of vexilla for my Late Romans.

I'm neither of the above but I think they'll be OK.

But thanks for the tip about using transfers.

*If* I ever start on medieval figures, I think that might be the only way to do complex heraldry.

donald