Here are a few I've been finishing up for clients. In case anyone missed this, I DO take commissions to paint and assemble your shield.
http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums...merica Shield/20140908_115858_zpsyntgpfur.jpg
http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums...merica Shield/20140908_144436_zpsrw4oyxjd.jpg
http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums...merica Shield/20140908_115653_zpsl3fdgtjz.jpg
http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums...merica Shield/20140908_144345_zpspw7jawqi.jpg
Here are a few I've been finishing up for clients. In case anyone missed this, I DO take commissions to paint and assemble your shield.
http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums...merica Shield/20140908_115858_zpsyntgpfur.jpg
http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums...merica Shield/20140908_144436_zpsrw4oyxjd.jpg
http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums...merica Shield/20140908_115653_zpsl3fdgtjz.jpg
http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums...merica Shield/20140908_144345_zpspw7jawqi.jpg
Oooooh…could one of those be mine? :thumbsup
Can't wait…they look great! :love
Thanks for the "behind the scenes" pics!
Again, can anyone give advice on forming the star?
Lay it on a bowling ball, and give it light taps with a rubber mallet to curve it. Then you can flip a large salad bowl or pot upside down to hold the points down on the shield when you epoch it in place. Worked well for mine.
Again, can anyone give advice on forming the star?
Sorry, I think this is kinda overkill. All you really need to do is gently (with your hands) bend and curve each of the 5 points down slightly until it's close to the curve of the shield. The glue dies the rest. It really doesn't take any pounding to do this. In all the shields I have made this is all that was necessary.
The fact that there's a 41 page thread on just painting should have been a good indication of just how hard this was going to be.
Read every post. Got all the necessary stuff and darn it if I'm not having the same troubles anyway.
got better at masking as i went along. by the end im confident im a shield masking expert.
Only a few bits gone wrong on the edges. i'll scrape any excess off with a toothpic and and missing bits of red im going to clear red acrylic it and it'll hopefull match.
there's one section i had to re-mask on the fly and i let the tape touch the 10 mins dry red and it took a little chunk off. so i sprayed that area a few times to cover it up now that whole area looks a lot darker and more glossy. ARGH!
not wanting to start again (yet) as i'll have to order more paint, but i can see why people start over 4 or 5 times.
Was wanting to have my 1st shield as a clean one but i think battle damage will hide some of the crimes.
Thiink i'll get another one to put my Valor star and brackets on, they deserve only the best and a 1st attempt shield is not good enough.
actual practice trumps reading 41 pages three times any day of the week.
For anyone else thinking about doing this but thinking it looks difficult, just do it. it is difficult, but the only way you'll get any good at doing a cap shield is by doing a cap shield.
Hey man, you should post some pictures of yours. Curious to see what it looks like. I guess you aren't getting the eFx one, huh.