Austrian flagpoles (not a euphemism)

[Essex Boy]

Donald - do you paint the flag before or after sticking it to the pole?

[ochoin]

Paint? Austrian flags?? I use paper ones like anyone suffering from Delirium Tremens would.

donald

[valleyboy]

When I painted some 15mm Napoleonics I did do some gaudy flagpoles but having found painting my SYW Austrians a real chore I thought buggrrit
Which I think is a reasonable approach when you think of how little of the flagpole is actually visible

[Etranger]

From Summerfield, Austrian Seven Years War Infantry and Engineers (2011), Chapter 9, Infantry Colours, Page 156: " The flagpoles had a golden finial and werre decorated with black and yellow spirals of cloth. The streamers were gold or silver depending upon the regimental button colour."

So, paint one colour, with a stripe in the other. A bit easier than 4 colours.

[RMD]

Painting Austrian flagpoles is clearly a job for real men...

[Essex Boy]

Paint? Austrian flags?? I use paper ones like anyone suffering from Delirium Tremens would.

donald

You could buy flags with the spiral thing is printed on? Or use the free Warflags flags?

Or, could you ask a small child to paint the stripes on for you?

Iain

[grizzlymc]

Is that what you told the judge?

[ochoin]

From Summerfield, Austrian Seven Years War Infantry and Engineers (2011), Chapter 9, Infantry Colours, Page 156: " The flagpoles had a golden finial and werre decorated with black and yellow spirals of cloth. The streamers were gold or silver depending upon the regimental button colour."

So, paint one colour, with a stripe in the other. A bit easier than 4 colours.

Thanks, ET. I remember Summerfield from the awful Napoleonic flame wars on TMP. He, unfortunately, participated in them but I think his scholarship is sound? I have his cossacks book which I think fairly exhaustive & reliable.

Two colours are possible on 20mm....even if I'm not a "Real" man but a poorly assembled facsimile from some factory in the Near East (actually from the 'Wild West" aka Glasgow).

donald

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Painting Austrian flagpoles is clearly a job for real men...

Whilst emphatically NOT eating quiche!!!