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How to paint The Shire
Every The Shire unit, and the colour schemes and paint lists other painters have published for them.
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The Shire colour palette
The paints a The Shire force is built from, by area and by role — base, shade, layer and highlight. A starting point for every unit below.
Every paint below links to its equivalents in other brands.
The Shire signature colours
Homespun brown waistcoats over garden-fence green, a militia armed with more pitchforks than swords.
Homespun waistcoat
- Mournfang Brown Citadel Base
- Agrax Earthshade Citadel Shade
- Baneblade Brown Citadel Highlight
Garden green
- Castellan Green Citadel Base
- Biel-Tan Green Citadel Shade
- Straken Green Citadel Highlight
Copper buttons and pipe
- Hashut Copper Citadel Base
- Seraphim Sepia Citadel Shade
- Sycorax Bronze Citadel Highlight
Units
Frodo of the Nine Fingers
Samwise the Brave
Paladin Took
Peregrin, Captain of the Shire
Meriadoc, Captain of the Shire
Bilbo Baggins
Farmer Maggot
Fredegar Bolger
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
Gandalf the Grey
Dúnedain
Bandobras Took
Farmer Tolman Cotton
Rosie Cotton
Will Whitfoot, Mayor of Hobbiton
Folco Boffin
Holfoot Bracegirdle, Shirriff-Leader
Robin Smallburrow, Hobbit Shirriff
Hamfast 'Gaffer' Gamgee
Baldo Tulpenny
Lotho Sackville-Baggins
Track this project from sprue to finished
Building a The Shire force is a lot of pots to keep straight. Track the army, the paints you own and what each unit still needs — free, and without an account to start.