Alternative Shields for Figures

[Tomkat364]

I had purchased sprues of Advanced Heroquest Men at Arms and Skaven. The sprues have the shields for the Skaven, but not for the Men at Arms. Anyone know what can be used for suitable replacements. There's a ton of Bitz stores that have shield sprues, but I don't know if there are any similar sizes/styles from other games I should be looking for specifically. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[knightkrawler]

You should look for Warhammer Bretonnia and Empire shields.
There's tons of choices.
You could also drop me a PM and I'll try to find some fitting ones among mine.
I have literally hundreds of these and a small letter to the USA shouldn't be too expensive.

[Thantos]

I like some of the ones hasslefree have on offer
http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?category= ... sy-armoury

We have some round shields also which are similar in style to the men at arms.
http://zealotminiatures.com/zealot-shop ... ry=6272034

Or as KK says, the bretonia ones are pretty spot on too.

[Fallensaviour]

Make your own.
I just made 10 last week from casting off of the hq weapons rack.(5 lion and 5 fluer du le)
Super simple I used hot glue from a glue gun as the mold and then used green stuff for the casting.

[Big Bene]

Super simple I used hot glue from a glue gun as the mold and then used green stuff for the casting.

did this once to make a mould for HQ bases. Green stuff is much too expensive for this kind of project, in my humble opinion, Milliput works perfect.

[mitchiemasha]

Did some one say they had spare shields... My Advanced HeroQuest only came with a few... Knightcrawler do you still have any to spare? How much would postage be? I could really use some.

[Fallensaviour]

Super simple I used hot glue from a glue gun as the mold and then used green stuff for the casting.

did this once to make a mould for HQ bases. Green stuff is much too expensive for this kind of project, in my humble opinion, Milliput works perfect.

Good to know,I got 3 feet of green stuff from Australia for $10 online.
With the intended purpose of making bases and shields.

[Geofonos]

Super simple I used hot glue from a glue gun as the mold and then used green stuff for the casting.

did this once to make a mould for HQ bases. Green stuff is much too expensive for this kind of project, in my humble opinion, Milliput works perfect.

Good to know,I got 3 feet of green stuff from Australia for $10 online.
With the intended purpose of making bases and shields.

I'll have to agree with Big Bene. Green stuff is quite expensive and, to be honest, I don't like it much. It's way too sticky and it turns into hard rubber that you can't really file and mend properly. Milliput on the other hand is cheap, turns rock solid once cured and you can file it, trim it, do whatever you want with it.
Also, one piece of advice; since many people use dettol to remove paint from miniatures, I'd like to point out that dettol messes with Green Stuff and practically removes it from your miniature, which is quite helpful if you wanna tear a green-stuff-modded mini apart. That also doesn't happen with milliput.

[Big Bene]

Good to know,I got 3 feet of green stuff from Australia for $10 online.

Well, that's very cheap as compared to other sources. Can you name the link?

I'll have to agree with Big Bene. Green stuff is quite expensive and, to be honest, I don't like it much. It's way too sticky and it turns into hard rubber that you can't really file and mend properly. Milliput on the other hand is cheap, turns rock solid once cured and you can file it, trim it, do whatever you want with it.

I mostly use Millilput for money reasons, but also for it's modelling qualities. For some purposes, Green stuff works better for me (fur etc.). It all dedpends on circumstances, there's no "best" choice. For making objects from a mould, I'd always prefer milliput.

[Fallensaviour]

one piece of advice; since many people use dettol to remove paint from miniatures, I'd like to point out that dettol messes with Green Stuff and practically removes it from your miniature, which is quite helpful if you wanna tear a green-stuff-modded mini apart. That also doesn't happen with milliput.

This I didn't know.I use green works to strip paint from minis.
As for the link to company that supplied green stuff I'll try to find it.
I know I bought it off eBay quite awhile ago.