The decals arrived yesterday – only took about a week and a half to arrive to WA State (Westcoast USA) from the UK. As posted earlier, the figures themselves were already painted a few weeks ago.

I used about four or five left-over LBMS transfers, just for varieties-sake. The Battle Flag set comes with 50 decals of assorted designs; which is more than enough for the 48-figure Victrix boxes of Hoplites. Quite a good deal, and they are traditional water-slide decals, so very easy to apply. In fact, for round shields like these, I much prefer water-slide as you can move them around to center them. LBMS, nice as they are, can be a bit of a problem if they aren’t centered correctly when first applied as they have a sticker backing and can’t really be moved around once their on.

In fact, I was very pleased with these decals from Battle Flag. They are very durable and can be moved around a lot without breakage. I did use a deal softener to seat them better, but again, no issues as they are quite tough.  I was a bit worried as the Roman shield decals I used from them before were kind of brittle and harder to apply. They seemed thinner than these Greek Hoplite ones.

I used a small dab of acrylic caulking to „glue“ the shields onto the figures. This worked great, as they shields could be moved around a bit  before hardening. I then went over with some watered down brown to paint over any of the white caulking showing.

The one shield motif that I don’t really care for is the somewhat cartoonish Medusa head that both Battle Flag and LBMS make; I think I only used one of them.

Next in the pain queue is the Perry Russian high command set. After those, I might try my hand a scratch-building some gun emplacements for the Russian guns. As far as the Russians themselves, I think I’ll hold off on more foot figures and await the release of the Perrys‘ plastic Dragoon set. Well, so much for now. Hope you all had a good weekend and ready to take on the new week. Until next time, best wishes to you all!