I'm painting a Viking and would like to know if anyone knows howto paint the shield. I've gooled and most of what I've found looks pretty fanciful. Currently I am leaning towards black and yellow quartered. Anyone have any thoughts or a link or pic I could look up? Thanks in advance.
James

James

a quartered shield is, I think, always right. You can use blue/white, red/yellow and I think black and yellow. Or you use only one color

Ulrich

Or just plain leather.

Very little is known about pattern of viking shields. But I agree that many makes it more artistic than it should be.

Look at contemporary viking art, and rhunestones to get a feel for the style and symbols of the culture.

Some search for viking shields could perhaps give some inspiration. Like this one.
http://images.google.se/images?hl=sv&num=10&lr=&cr=&safe=images&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=viking%20sk%C3%B6ld&sa=N&tab=wi

Cheers
Janne Nilsson

Thanks. I found a lot of those images and they just seemed fanciful to me. I think I will go with the quartered shield of black and yellow.
James