I’m kind of bombarded with things right now. Friends in from out of town, lurking at my friend Craig’s book signing this weekend (check out Suffer The Children—it’s amazing), trying to get caught up on my own book. Long and short of it is, I didn’t get as much
done this week as I wanted.
Well, I did get a lot done, but I didn’t get a lot
finished. So I could show you some
random, unconnected sections. Or I could
focus on one piece I scratch built that’s kind of important.
As I mentioned last time, some template issues ended
up giving me a slightly messy join on the Knight’s shoulder trim. I deliberately attached the shoulders so one
of the bad joins would end up on the front-right. I mentioned I had a plan—it’s a pretty simple
plan. The bad join will be hidden by the
Knight’s heraldry shield. The catch is
that this template doesn’t have that piece—it’s a new detail they’ve added on
the Games Workshop model.
I measured out two rectangles of card measuring 1” wide by 1
1/4” long. I’m doing two because I want
to have them overlap for a nice thickness.
If you don’t mind the shield being a little thin, you can just do one.
Helpful Hint—Make sure the measurements and
cuts for this are as exact as possible.
I want this to look clean when it overlaps.
Once I had both rectangles.
I marked the 1/2” point on the bottom (the center) and made two 45
degree cuts—again, being as exact as possible.
This gave me a basic shield shape.
If I just wanted to keep things simple, I could stop here and it would
still bring the model that much closer to the GW one. But if you’re up for a little more detail on
this...
If I’ve done everything right so far, the the top section
above the 45 degree angle should be 3/4” high.
I marked it off in 1/4” sections on both shields. Then I lined up my 1/4” hole punch to
give me a semicircle. This took a bit of
work to get it lined up just right.
Helpful Hint—If the semi-circles end up a
little off and don’t line up when the shields stack, nominate one as the bottom
and just trim that one to hide the overlaps.
I used a thin coat of glue and pressed them together. I clamped it with five clothespins to
make every edge as tight and clean as possible.
I let the whole thing sit for about ten minutes and then I used my hobby knife to just nip off the bottom tip of the shield--I wanted to look a little more rounded and not quite so pointy. And then I mounted it on the edge of the shoulder so it hid that bad piece of trim. It’ll probably get a few rivets, too, when I hit
that stage.
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