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Made in us
Been Around the Block




Hello everyone! I want to take this opportunity to share with all of you a project I've been working on. Over the past year I've been working with friends, family, and other people with knowledge about image editing towards completing a project involving wargaming waterslide decals. I've put together a number of heraldic images on multiple decal sheets and have designed them to be used for 28mm miniature wargaming.

In regards to heraldry, there is a wonderful book that was written in the early part of the 20th century that covers a whole lot of what Heraldry is exactly, how it was used, and gives various examples of how heraldry was displayed. The book, A COMPLETE GUIDE TO HERALDRY by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (with illustrations by Graham Johnston) is where I draw the images for these decals from. The book and its work is currently available online for hardcopy purchase from various publishers and also in a few places for free. The book along with the artwork inside has been widespread distributed and is considered to be in the public domain. There are many amazing and wonderful examples of the various animals, creatures, and objects that Nobles, Lords, Knights, Heralds, Kings and various entities and establishments used throughout the eras since the origins of these images. I've often looked through the book and thought how cool it would be to include some of the artwork within this treasure trove of information somehow in my miniature collection.

After some years of running my own miniature wargaming terrain Kickstarters, building up my own miniature collection and painting skills, and working with various people involved in the industry, I decided it would be amazing to create a small series of traditional waterslide decal sheets that would honor and bring life to these old illustrations and descriptions found in the book. Initially I was thinking only to create my own personal print outs of these decals, however after some consideration I felt it would be even better if instead I made them available for every miniature wargaming fan out there to make use of.

Here's some Frostgrave Soldiers wandering some ruins and fighting some enemies with their Fire-Forge Foot Sergeant Shields emblazoned with just a few of the decals!















I built the decals to match fantasy style or large medieval shields (with Fire-Forge sergeants, Warhammer Bretonnians, and other miniature companies in mind). The decals will be printed in a multi-layered format which allows for heavy coverage over whatever paint you put it on, which means there's no paintjob showing through the decal details or color. You could put a white colored decal like one of the bears or a goat on a black shield and the decal will remain white without the black darkening the white coloring.

Each decal sheet will have 162 decals and there will be 4 variants of sheets. Each decal image contains 5 left facing images and 4 left facing images (for those that love to put decals on the horses!). The first two sheets are some real world animals and what I felt were best or common on heraldry. For these first two sheets I've put multiples of the same image but gave them alternative coloring. The third sheet is the first stretch goal, which contains some animals that I felt looked unique or special as heraldry. Finally the last sheet and last stretch goal contains mythical and mystical creatures and beasts like dragons or wyverns. The YouTube link below will show you a brief summary of the decal sheet prototypes.

Finally, I'm working with a proper printing shop to get these pumped out if the project is successful. This will ensure better quality and will speed up the printing process instead of me printing every single sheet out of my home.




You can also check out more on my YouTube Channel before the launch by clicking on the links below.


1) Kickstarter Info - A Brief Summary and show of Decal Sheet Prototypes.



2) Decal Application - Me applying a decal using the old Citadel 'ardcoat and Lahmia medium method to protect and seal the decal.



Thanks for checking this out! Project is now live!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/destroycarthago/heraldic-waterslide-decals-for-wargaming?ref=project_link

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2021/12/30 17:06:45


 
   
Made in us
Stoic Grail Knight





Central Cimmeria

This looks amazing! I'll be backing.
   
Made in us
Veteran Knight Baron in a Crusader




Oakland, CA

Those look very nice.

What printer are you using, if you don't mind me asking?
   
Made in us
Been Around the Block




What printer are you using, if you don't mind me asking?


I'm having these professionally printed out of a print shop, which means I am not using my own printer. This will allow for durability, faster print jobs and just overall better quality than I could do at home.

Thank you everyone for your interest! We've got over 150 followers now on the pre-launch page and that means a lot of folks will see the Kickstarter up and running right away once I hit the launch button.

The Kickstarter itself is almost complete. I am just putting on the final few touch ups and am planning to run fairly soon here. I'll modify the title here in the forum and post proper links and more info when it starts!

Again, thanks for the interest! Hope you all had an excellent holiday weekend!
   
Made in us
Legendary Master of the Chapter





SoCal

I’m interested.

Is there any way to see some still pics of the mock-up decal sheets?

   
Made in us
Been Around the Block




Hello everyone! This project is now live! You can check it out here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/destroycarthago/heraldic-waterslide-decals-for-wargaming?ref=project_link




Is there any way to see some still pics of the mock-up decal sheets?


I tried to take some pics of each sheet but at a distance with the size of sheet a lot of the decals lose their detail due to distance. I'll have project update where I show more decals up close at some point soon.
   
Made in us
Legendary Master of the Chapter





SoCal

I see them on the KS page.

   
Made in us
Been Around the Block




Thank you everyone who has showed interest, backed, and shared the project around! We've reached over $4500 Cad so that means all the sheets are unlocked for pledge reward choices! Hurrah!

I'll keep on sharing this project where I can and putting some more decal examples out there for people to observe. I've had a few questions about which miniature figure lines these decals work with so I'll try to take some photos and do up some models that will help answer these questions. Thank you!
   
Made in us
Been Around the Block




Just for those that were asking in private messages over various platforms: I made a short video about sizing with what I could. Hope that helps. Click here to see. https://youtu.be/IOghqqSz7VA




I tried to do a bit of a comparison and put together a historical reference as well with the Perry mini on the left there.

Also , here's some images of some decal size comparisons for those of you who want to compare with certain Fantasy Knights out there. I quickly cut them out and used my iPhone to take some quick shots.








   
Made in us
Been Around the Block




Here's another shot / example of the decals in use. This time I put one on a battle tank, specifically an Italian M13/40 from ww2.






The campaign has done extremely well. It's gone beyond expectations and we still have lots of time left. So if anyone's still interested in backing for some waterslide decals, you can still check them out here: http://kck.st/3eCk88b
   
Made in us
Been Around the Block




Hello again everyone. Thanks for checking out the project and the page.

There's only around 10 days left or so to back if you are interested in the campaign. As mentioned, its been fully funded and everything is unlocked - so all options are available for the reward surveys after the campaign ends!

Here's another mini project I incorporated this squirrel shield in with. Just some dungeon loot and treasure.



http://kck.st/3eCk88b <-- Check it out here! Thanks again to everyone who backed this project and shared it around!
   
Made in us
Been Around the Block




Hey everyone! Just wanna send out a reminder that the project ends in about 3 days! If you are interested in backing and haven't yet, now is the time to! Thanks again to everyone for backing, supporting, or spreading news about the project! And of course, for making it a success!

Check it out here: http://kck.st/3eCk88b
   
Made in gb
Stealthy Warhound Titan Princeps





Looks to be a success, congratulations!
   
Made in us
Been Around the Block




Congrats!

Anybody going in for a sheet C that doesn't want the fox decals? It's probably the decal I want most, but it's tucked away on the sheet I need least, so would be great if someone could get in touch about sending off that strip of decals if they don't have plans for them!
   
Made in us
Been Around the Block




Thank you everyone for making this project a success. It was fully funded and I've shipped out everyone's rewards. Now if you are interested they are available for purchase on my Etsy Webstore.

https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/DestroyCarthage

Thank you everyone for backing! Cheers and all the best!
   
 
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