28mm lance pennons

[scooter]

Is anyone familiar with any company that may produce 25-28mm metal lance pennons for colonial calvary? Ral Partha used to make them but appear no longer available.  looking to paint some rather than creating hundreds out of paper.

Thanks.

[Svennn]

Hundreds 

Do Essex have any? I remember some Alternative Armies ones from a painting commission years ago but havent a clue if you could get them seperately.

[Malamute]

Front Rank do them in their Napoleonic range. They come in packs of 4. They look very nice and I think they are suitable for the colonial period.

[rugaruga]

I think they're earsier to make than to cut out and afix purchaced ones.  I use little rectangles of tissue paper with one edge wetted with thin super glue.  I just touch the edge to a lance and capilary action afixes it to the lance.  Hit it w/ accelerator or simply wait a few seconds and the bond is perminate.  This done dip the glued flag in a standing drop of thin superglue and saturate the tissue.  This gives you a strong flag that can be then cut to final shape and  folded to make appear as waving.  I do this as the last prep before priming.  Painting pennons is very easy.  I find all of this far easier to do than cutting out photocopied or printed flags, folding them in two and gluing them together around a lance to form a 2 sided pennon.  Getting the folds to line up and not be covered in white glue is difficult.

If you are set on not painting your own, here are many web sites with pennons and flags that allow you to down load.  Edit copy a design to a wordprocessing file as a box graphic.  Most word processing software allows you to modify the size of graphic boxes to fit any scale.  Remember to print the flag design twice side by side leaving enough space between the two sides to wrap around the lance.  It might be necessary to reverse the image of one of the flag sides using editing software, but this is easily done with one mouse click.  (Letters will however be reversed)  Copy the edited design as many times as you need and print your flags on a good quality color ink jet printer using regular paper.  Finish the flags using the second method discribed above.  I use downloads/wordprocessing to make flags for my 1:1200 land ironclads.

[Captain Blood]

I make my own out of tomato puree tube foil 

Doesn't take more than a few minutes...

Think cast lead ones would look much too heavy? 

[argsilverson]

Maybe Helion might help you!

Nut I'll go for the self made ones!

[Mr.J]

Tomato puree tube foil is what I'd use, it's good for flags too!
Plus you're recycling! Gotta think green!

[Malamute]

Tomato puree tube foil is what I'd use, it's good for flags too!
Plus you're recycling! Gotta think green!

NO! Gordon Brown wants us to spend our way out of the recession, so he should but pre-made ones, especially as thats what he asked for