Making Flags for you figures

 

 

Wargaming flags for you armies are readily available, whether it is for you unit of Hebrews in the Army of Moses or your Angel Guardian Marines of the 50K millennium. You just need to search them out on the www. 

I do the same as most and have various websites saved for this purpose, but occasionally I make my own. Here's how.

I use tomato puree type tubes. making sure they are thoroughly clean and dry.  

I then cut to shape and try for size.

Any off cuts, like where the "tails" are cut out are saved to be used as lance/ spear fanions

   

The examples I will be showing are broken figures,where the weapons have broken off. I have used and off cut of steel from a lance that was much too long.

I then curl the flag so that it fits around the pole.   

I then put some super glue on the central area of where the flag will sit on the pole. Once you start the next phase the glue will spread up and down the pole.

wrap the flag around the pole, with the "join" on the inside (ie: nearest the figures head), and push the end into the pole with snips, back of a stanley, etc.

   

I also cut the tassels into the top of the flag at this point. You can feather the tassels now, if required. you could also campaign them up be running the stanley knife off the edges, which will cut the flag to leave a Dishevelled look.

 

Two coats of thinned primer, dependant  on your pallette. Any block painting you do, make sure you thin the paint other wise it will crack when you shape it. Paint on your design. Once dry shape it carefully into whatever shape you want, then two coats of varnish and you are done.

 

I use the three foot rule for flags, if you can see it and it looks OK on the table, then it's done. Some of the close up aren't the greatest, but they do for me!

15mm Napoleonic Guards

   

28mm Crusades

 

28mm French Agincourt

 

Lord of the Rings 

 

Ogre Battle Standard

 

Paper Standards: downloaded and glued with PVA glue diluted 50/50 with water and shaped whilst wet. once dried, paint the edge of the flag to match the edge colour and to hide any white paper.  

Paper ones in use :