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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: le bon roi rene on March 22, 2015, 03:06:58 AM
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I love hand painting banners, but I must confess that it really slows down the process of completing armies because it takes me so long. The problem is I already have several dozen standards hand finished and most "pre-printed" types come up short both in quality and in the pantone of the finish. so they don't mix well already finished stuff. For a long time I just muddled along, but a couple of winters ago I started following Painterman's blog and noticed he had beautiful banners in a style I thought would work really well with what I was doing. So following along I got turned on to Pete's Flags. Pete really does beautiful work. So now I patiently follow his postings and wait for Pete to make a batch of banners I can use. (Kinda hoping he revisits Burgundians and expands his Yorkist offerings soon)
They're so good its difficult to tell hand painted from pre-printed. See for yourself. (the one on the left is "Pete's Flags". The one on the right I painted).
Cheers,
Fred
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both are amazing :-* do you have a link to his work? (tried a search with paintermans blog but waay to much crap came up)
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http://www.freewebstore.org/Petesflags
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They really are very good looking.
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very, very good flags. I like his Italian stuff
Carl
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Um, I see only one Wars of the Roses flag in his store... :?
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He tends to have a larger selection on E-bay. I found them by searching for "28mm cloth flags" I've got some of the French ordinance/early italian wars flags and they are really nice.
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Pete's Flags are really excellent and ) used them on my Gonzaga Crossing the River Taro vignette that you won't have seen Fred and I think you'll appreciate (apologies to everyone who has already seen it):
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Nice flags, but rubbish site, most of the entries are "not found".
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Nice flags, but rubbish site, most of the entries are "not found".
Try Evilbay,he's usually got a larger selection on there.
Darrell.
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Actually, Darrell.
I follow your blog too! (beautiful stuff!) :-*
about sourcing: Pete's Flags is pretty much only reliably available on Ebay. He doesn't seem to support his website store anymore. I should also caution that he seems to work in limited runs (he doesn't do large volume work so each purchase is a treat to get a hold of.)
I only hope I'm not shooting myself in the foot because I'll now have to vie with more folks for limited numbers of flag sheets!
;D
Cheers,
Fred
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I see.
So are the flags pictured above cloth or paper? (Paper, I'm guessing - unless the cloth is a very much finer weave than most of the cloth flags I've seen before... )
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The banner I painted on the right is simple printer paper. Pete's Flag's uses as high quality printer friendly cloth (the kind that takes well to cutting with an Xacto). I tried printing my own banners before but the printable cloth paper I was able to get my hands on was much inferior. When I cut it, the paper would start to unravel at the edges. So the quality of the materials he uses really enhances the overall product.
Cheers,
Fred
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Actually, Darrell.
I follow your blog too! (beautiful stuff!) :-*
i should have known their was a spy in the camp lol
about sourcing: Pete's Flags is pretty much only reliably available on Ebay. He doesn't seem to support his website store anymore. I should also caution that he seems to work in limited runs (he doesn't do large volume work so each purchase is a treat to get a hold of.)
Yeah, as well as a small business it is Pete's hobby.
I only hope I'm not shooting myself in the foot because I'll now have to vie with more folks for limited numbers of flag sheets!
I think you're on fairly safe ground mate :)
Darrell.
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Hi, thanks for the comments on my flags and I have gotta agree with Nord's comments on my store. As I'm not a big fan of pre printed flags my goal was to produce flags that looked hand painted and would match my figures so as you could imagine I'm especially pleased with Fred's comments.
I usually place completed flagsheets for sale on ebay however I keep promising that I'll sort out the webstore someday, unfortunately I keep getting distracted and have never got round to it; I can be contacted easily enough though via my blog or by email. I do paint the flags as a hobby and that is reflected in the several sets I have ongoing at the moment and these include more Tudor, early condottieri and French commanders for the Italian Wars, Yorksts, Burgundian, Valois Habsburg wars and flags for the early period of the French Wars of Religion.
Cheers Pete
http://thegreatitalianwars.blogspot.co.uk/
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Pete, thanks for coming onto the forum to explain.
Based on Fred's recommendation, I ordered a set of your fabric Yorkist banners last week (received within 2 days, excellent service, thank you) and can only agree they are really lovely. I'm looking forward to popping them all onto some additional standard bearers :)
I think you've achieved your aim - they really do look like hand painted flags. Lovely work.
How best to glue the two sides together and shape them? PVA?
Ta.
Richard
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Richard, at the Tactica I had a talk about the flags with the guys from Black Hussar miniatures. They uses glue only on one side and then put it together. After this he forms it. I think I didn't forget something.
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Hi Richard, thanks for buying them.
With regards to putting the cloth flags together I find Pritt stick or similar the best to use just cut the flag out with a sharp craft knife and straight edge (a blunt one will tear and stretch the sheet) then fold the flag in half.
Apply the glue to one side and leave for a couple of minutes to get tacky then stick together using a light source, usually the window, to line it up. Leave the flag to dry and once it has you can shape it; the cloth holds up well to some serious shaping once the glue has dried.
Cheers Pete
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Thank you :)
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Just a quick update on the eponymous Pete and his flags.....
Armed with cracking info from Stuart Mulligan, Pete is now making sets of flags for Henry VIII's army in France, 1513, for me and a couple of other masochistic Henricians (FoG:R in my case). First set - Lord Chamberlain, Sir Henry Willoughby, Sir Richard Wyngfeld, and Lord Home - can be seen on Pete's blog page:-
http://thegreatitalianwars.blogspot.co.uk/
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Just to add 'grist to Pete's mill' - he's also released a new Burgundian sheet too.
Great flags as usual - here's 3 of them used on my Burgundian unit.
(http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r146/chicks_photos/IMG_0252_zpsgmwd3vkl.jpg) (http://s143.photobucket.com/user/chicks_photos/media/IMG_0252_zpsgmwd3vkl.jpg.html)
Cheers, Simon.
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Beautiful work Simon!
I just ordered these Burgundian flags yesterday, thanks to this post!