Napoleonic flags

[powerfrog99]

Hi I'm just starting to built up a British 28mm Army mainly from the brilliant new plastics available .
I'm very pleased with my paintings, however the flags coming with the Victrix boxes look much too shiny I think .
So now I'm looking for a way to get more hanging down and cloth like looking flags.
Is there some other supplier or a special material / treatment when painting my owm flags?

Looking forward to helpful comments, cheers Thomas

[Hitman]

The Flag Dude. Not the cheapest, but probably the best in my humble opinion. Here is the site:

http://www.flagdude.com/

Merry Christmas
Hitman
 

[Krimson]

Flag Dude is good as are GMB flags,
16 Goodwin Road
Heeley
Sheffield  S8 9TJ  U.K.
Email  gmbdesigns@blueyonder.co.uk
Email Graeme for a list of his flags

[fastolfrus]

Have you tried "warflags" :

http://www.warflag.com/flags/select.shtml

[Gluteus Maximus]

It is possible to paint onto very fine linen, which can give superb results. Barry Hilton's "League Of Augsburg" site - http://www.leagueofaugsburg.com/index.php - has plenty of his flags in the gallery. For example:



Maybe this is what you are after?

[Gluteus Maximus]

And there is a PDF guide for flag making here:

http://www.leagueofaugsburg.com/warchest.php?req=listall&id=20

[Michi]

My way:

The mermaid should stand both for the name of the ship as for her female captain, so it is only logical to show her in the colour, I think.
I made it from usual writing paper which I soaked in water to get it soft. I laid it in folds and dried it thoroughly before painting.
The matt varnish makes it stiff enough to endure on the gaming table...
Front:


Back:

I also made one that´s "curved". It´s done in the same way like the colours above:

[Plynkes]

Yet another way -



Metal foil tomato purée tube: Easy to work into a rippling flag shape (or a crumpled flag hanging with no wind), and however you bend it it stays that way. Then hand-painted.

[Gluteus Maximus]

And a good excuse for another pic with that young lady in it  

[Plynkes]

That is the personification of Revolutionary France; and stands for Liberty, Democracy and the spirit of the Republic.

How dare you! Didn't your mummy ever teach you it's not polite to stare at another country's boobs?

[meninobesta]

My method is:
. Download the flag from warflag
. With mspaint remove all colour from the image
. print some flags in comon paper
. Hand paint the flag
. glue it with paper glue

the results:




hope it's usefull 

[Gluteus Maximus]

That is the personification of Revolutionary France; and stands for Liberty, Democracy and the spirit of the Republic.

How dare you! Didn't your mummy ever teach you it's not polite to stare at another country's boobs?

Sorry 

 

[powerfrog99]

Thanks a lot so far gentlemen

Looks like some reading and trying for the weeks.

cheers Thomas

[Brian Smaller]

http://flags.adolforamos.com/

This guy's flags are also very good.