Using self-adhesive fingernail airbrushing templates for making custom

[Wardancer]

Hi everyone,

the CCC has one focus on making custom factions this year. This is a good idea, I think custom factions are a bit underepresented in the customizers world. One reason for this might be that painting small logos on shields, torsos, breastplates and banners in series is a very difficult and annoying thing.

Now I had an idea that I thought I might share here: Using self-adhesive fingernail airbrushing templates for making custom factions.

Think about it: A fingernail has roughly the size that you need to paint on when making custom shields, torsos etc. Fingernail airbrush artists - I thing I was not aware of until yesterday - use tiny templates to airbrush or paint. A quick search in the respective shops has shown that these templates can be very detailled and cost virtually nothing. For example, I ordered some deer templates with antlers which cost 3 Euro for 12 templates. They come in sizes of 5-7mm, which is very useful when applying the same sigil on different items. Stick them on, peint over it and you might have a very easy way to customize tiny sigils without the need to be an artist with the tiniest of brushes.

I have yet to try this out, but I thought maybe this might reflame someomes love for customizing.

Maybe this is already known, in which case I would like hear some experiences.

[raminator]

sounds interesting.

have you already tested it?

I tried some self-adhesing foil that is for "window-color". the results were not satisfying at all...

good luck.

[Wardancer]

I have just ordered a bunch of uruk-hai shields, on which I am going to try using the templates. If all works well, I will show it as a custom faction for CCC. It not, I'll show the fails here.

I have received the templates yesterday. They are very detailled, but also very small. A bit too small for regular big shields, but about the size of the hand on the uruk shields.

[raminator]

I hope for you that you post them on the CCC before you post them here. Would mean no fails =)

[Infernum]

Indeed, a great idea!

[Wardancer]

This worked perfectly: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=89977

I would never ever reach such a level of detail by painting.

I had very few mispaints and these were just because of my impatience.

It was even possible to use one template more than once.

Later, I shall post something like a tutorial here with more detailler pictures.

[Darkdragon]

An awesome idea and your results are stunning. Great work!

[Wardancer]

Thanks.

There are ideas galore: