Spartan hoplite shield transfers6/17/2023 Designed to go withthe Victrix Hoplite Shield set or any of the Greek. The new transfer paper I am using means it is easier to make transfers for the more dfficult shaped shields such as Spanish and Celtic, so am really loking forwaed to starting these. 20 Greek Hoplite shield transfers to fit Victrix limited range of ancient Greeks. I hope to do Gallic, Spanish and Thracian designs as well. Some of their new figures look lovely! I shall do some for their Oscans, Roman and Carthaginians as well as rescaling some of my Greek and Macedonian transfers. I will put a news item up once they are done. Julian at Chiltern should have them early September. I hope to have a lot of transfers done to fit Xyston figures at the end of August early September. I forgot to add that I have done transfers for Meseena as well. I am in the process of laying out the above mentioned sheets for printing so they will be ready by the end of tonight. So not all of my products are visible on my site at present, if you go to Chiltern Miniatures website, they stock my transfers and have more up to date images than my own site at present! You can view a lot of the 15mm transfers I make there. A friend of mine was supposed to have been sortng my new website out about 3 months ago! I think I am going to be looking elsewhere for someone to sort a good website out for me. Copyright 2006.I have been holding off from putting new images on my website because it is so slow for people to view in its present form. Any trademark usage or proprietary images on this page are only for the purposes of review or such, and is considered fair dealing and permissible under the Copyright, Design and Patents Act, 1988 (UK). Normally you prime the shield white underneath. These designs work in a slightly different way to the normal LBMS transfers. Any unauthorized or commerical use of content or images are violations of applicable laws and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. 16 Greek Hoplite shield transfers to fit Victrix limited range of ancient Greeks. (Transfers for these will follow) Individual designs would have carried on in use until the end of the Hoplite period."Īll rights reserved. Shield Transfers Shield Transfers Gift Vouchers (5) War & Empire III The Dark Ages (246) War & Empire 15mm Ancients (374) W & E Buildings & Accessories (151) WWII 15mm (258) 13000th Ships (12) Shield Transfers Sort By: Show: WE-47A Roman Legionarties - Trajanic (type 2) 48 decals. Later Hoplites may have used symbols of their city state, such as Sparta used the Lambda and Thebes used the Club. Emblems such as Cups, Gorgons, bulls etc. The soldier on the end has the face of the Gorgon Medousa, which is evidently meant to strike fear into the enemy hoplites. One hoplite has the head of a bull on his. A couple hoplites have images of birds on their shields. They are specifically made for for the HaT figures so they are perfectly scaled to size.ĭesign notes: "Hoplites tended to paint their shields on a painted background or straight onto the polished bronze face of the shield. The shield designs of the army on the right are clearly visible. If we do not have the colour you have requested in stock when your order comes in, in certain circumstances we will substitute the nearest colour we have to complete your order. The shield is made of bent plywood, covered with canvas fabric and hand-painted. The Veni Vidi Vici shield transfer range is extensive covering 10mm, 15mm and 28mm water slide decals in various colour choices. These can be printed at home with my inkjet printer. I recently started experimenting with making my own water slide transfers. Make your own home-brewed hoplite transfers Often I paint my own shields, but it is a labor of love. The transfers are fully shaded to look like they have been hand painted. Reconstruction of a Greek hoplite shield from ancient Sparta. SPARTAN SHIELDS Test photo of decals/transfers in place. The transfers are on white backing paper so no priming is necessary. Peel off the protective top layer and the transfer is in place. Simply cut them out, peel off the backing, press into position and press down firmly. I used them a lot on some 1/72nd Macedonians several years ago very nice on painted 'bronze' shields. VVV are regular water-slide decals at least the last time I used them. These are rub off transfers that require no water. LBMS transfers need a white base coat on the shield. This is a series of 1/72 scale decals/shield transfers for #8045 Greek Hoplites made by Little Big Men Studios in the UK.
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