Valleyboy's ECW Project

[Greystreak]

Top work VB!

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Superb, VB, absolutely superb.

[Willz the Wargamer]

Fantastic painting, stop posting now as you know how weak wargamers are to buying more shiny things

Willz.

[Patrice]

Very impressive!

[valleyboy]

Thanks guys, its not all Ive been painting though - have made a start on a 100yw project

[Penda]

Those are top notch! I especially like the command stands.

[Spanner]

Excellent work, VB. Really impressive, mate.

[ochoin]

Not exactly about VB's excellent work but I have a question about ECW flags.

With regard to size, I'm guessing there wasn't some regulation laid down that gave exact dimensions, that was carefully followed?

I have only one unit still awaiting a flag (Covenanter dragoons), so even if I'm told something that blows my preconceptions out of the water, I'm not changing. I'm curious.

So infantry flags were pretty big, Horse flags were a bit "tinsy" & dragoon flags somewhere in the middle? And across the various armies their was no size consensus beyond this?

donald

[DavidNBA]

Hi Donald, I know of no regulation on size of ECW flags. The surviving infantry flags (a few have dates which are not certain) have the following dimensions; The Gell colour: 6 feet high and 6.5 wide; the 1641 colour: 6.5 feet high by 7 feet wide; the Royal colour 6 feet high by 7 feet 3 inches wide; the Anthony colour 5 feet 9 inches high by 6 feet 7 inches wide. One surviving cavalry standard in Worcestershire is 2 by 2 feet. No dragoon guidon survives, apparently.

I see you have had a reply on this topic on TMP now: http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=584931 which says much the same.

Cheers,

David.