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Oh and if you were wondering why the Leib Regt has two 'company' colours - they only sent their 2nd and 3rd Battalions to war, so the Colonel's colour stayed at home with the 1st Battalion.

RMD wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 11:57 pm

valleyboy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 11:16 pm Those are really nice - I love the flags

They're by an outfit called Wargames Designs. I'll admit that they were bigger than I was expecting... But then I tend to replace the flagpoles with wire anyway. They're bubble-jet printed rather than laser though, so they need a coat of varnish to make the colours and definition pop. The darker Austrian cavalry flags didn't look as good.

I'm a fan of really big flags. These are lovely and perfectly compliment your painting.

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Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:07 am

RMD wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 11:57 pm

valleyboy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 11:16 pm Those are really nice - I love the flags

They're by an outfit called Wargames Designs. I'll admit that they were bigger than I was expecting... But then I tend to replace the flagpoles with wire anyway. They're bubble-jet printed rather than laser though, so they need a coat of varnish to make the colours and definition pop. The darker Austrian cavalry flags didn't look as good.

I'm a fan of really big flags. These are lovely and perfectly compliment your painting.

E

Cheers!

Yes, I like them a bit bigger, especially where the flags are historically very small, such as cavalry guidons and Napoleonic French and Polish flags. My Prussian flags are also about 50% bigger than they should be. Historically the Bavarian flags should be about 6 feet square, so they're a bit big, but look great. I've ordered some French flags from Maverick Models in roughly that size, as they could be up to 9 feet square!

I thinks that's about what I do as well, for the infantry at least.

I go completely nuts over cavalry flags. I usually do them the same size as infantry's. The poor sod would never stay on his horse with such a thing!

RMD wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 12:18 pm Historically the Bavarian flags should be about 6 feet square, so they're a bit big, but look great. I've ordered some French flags from Maverick Models in roughly that size, as they could be up to 9 feet square!

Yes, Bavarian flags were typically about the same size as British versions - and that was before "Make America Great Britain Again" Rumford became War Minister later on in the century. But when were French flags that big? I seem to recall that the FIW/SYW-era standards were only about 4-5 feet square.

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:25 pm

RMD wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 12:18 pm Historically the Bavarian flags should be about 6 feet square, so they're a bit big, but look great. I've ordered some French flags from Maverick Models in roughly that size, as they could be up to 9 feet square!

Yes, Bavarian flags were typically about the same size as British versions - and that was before "Make America Great Britain Again" Rumford became War Minister later on in the century. But when were French flags that big? I seem to recall that the FIW/SYW-era standards were only about 4-5 feet square.

They were officially 165cm (iirc) square, but there are a lot of examples of them being as much as 230cm square. Kronoskaf has quite a lot of info.

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:03 pm I thinks that's about what I do as well, for the infantry at least.

I go completely nuts over cavalry flags. I usually do them the same size as infantry's. The poor sod would never stay on his horse with such a thing!

Yes indeed, but a 50cm-square cavalry guidon would only be about 5mm in scale and that looks poo.

Oh and in case you're wondering why I gave two Ordinarfahnen to the 'Leib' Regt, instead of a Leibfahne and an Ordinarfahne, the 'Leib' Regt only took its 2nd and 3rd Battalions to war, while the 1st Battalion stayed at home with the Leibfahne.

No one wants a poo looking cavalry guidon.......well, some people do. Some folk are strange.

Which is better, good cavalry with poo flags, or poo cavalry with great flags EB?