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Universal Head

(UniversalHead)

Australia
Sydney
NSW

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Please ... please don't tell me you painted those shields by hand!

So how'd you do it? Damn nice work by the way, just excellent.

Posted Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:09 am
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Matt Cobb

(cobbz20)

United States
Cortland
New York

Awesome! How did you get the 3D look on the blue shield?

Posted Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:11 am
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Dan Becker

(beckerdo)

United States
Austin
Texas

I give the secrets away on my site at http://www.io.com/~beckerdo/minis/miniother/BattleLorePainti...

Basically, I downloaded some heraldry, and printed it to decal paper. The file is available at my site above. Once printed, your simply cut out the shields, soak in water, and slide off onto the model. Then clear coat your models to fix the decals.

Posted Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:59 am
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Rolling bad dice in wargames since 1977

(BradyLS)

United States
Austin
Texas

Dan, you're going to have to come to Great Hall some Thursday to show us how it's done! These are magnificent!

Posted Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:54 am
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Scott Brooks

(SBrooks)

United States
Senoia
Georgia

Dan, these are very nice - thanks for the tip, I'm going to use this idea on some miniatures I'm painting up for C&C: Ancients.

Posted Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:12 pm
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Pietro Del Mar

(petegrey)

United States

Seriously good job painting these! Its what I aspire my pieces to be someday.

Sigh.....

Posted Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:51 pm
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Jim O'Neill (Established 1949)

(oneilljgf)

Scotland
Motherwell
I aten't dead yet...

Kudos - and I am a serious miniatures painter

Edited Sat Jul 5, 2008 5:45 pm
Posted Mon Dec 25, 2006 7:16 pm
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Dan Becker

(beckerdo)

United States
Austin
Texas

Thanks folks. Please, note the shortcuts and save yourself some time as well. 1) No special details on any of the units, 2) Simple drybrushing over black. No multiple layers or shades, 3) Decals on shields are simpler, most times faster than painting, 4) No special basing, just drybrushing the already textured bases. Finally, great visual effect can be acheived either by small numbers of extremely well painted minis or large numbers of serviceably painted minis. In the case of BattleLore, go for the later.

Posted Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:02 am
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The "BULLY BEAR"

(enon os eurt)

United States
Strongsville
Ohio

Now, I don't even want to play anymore, since I saw your beautiful work!
Great job!

Posted Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:50 pm
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Ben Meyaard

(bmeyaard)

United States
Brownsburg
Indiana

if so, i think that this is my new favoriite pic on the geek! arrrh

Posted Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:12 am
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Innovan .

(Innovan)

United States
San Francisco/East Bay
California

Actually, it's the Hill Giant promo figure.

Posted Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:43 am
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Joshua Thompson

(SabrStryk)

United States
Gastonia
North Carolina

It does resemble a Cygnar Charger though

Posted Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:03 am
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Dan Becker

(beckerdo)

United States
Austin
Texas

Yep. It's the Hill Giant. As of the time of the photo, I did not have him painted, so I put him close and severely out of focus to make him look mysterious and sinister.