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Nicest 15mm ACW flags?

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:11 am
by Norman D. Landings
Like it says in the title, gents.... whose 15mm “Bonny Blue Flags” etc are little masterpieces?

Re: Nicest 15mm ACW flags?

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:16 am
by Count Belisarius
Paint your own!!! :)

I've used GMB.. Nice but not cheap.

Re: Nicest 15mm ACW flags?

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:05 am
by Purple
Google/NHS printer and ink. (Best value for money :) )

Peter pig ones are nice but small.
The flag dude dude?
My favourite were I think sheets done by Essex on slightly glossy paper?

Isn’t there a manufacturer that comes with pole and finials attached, if they exist, they are excellent.*

I’d just trawl eBay . People sell sheets of flags they’ve just printed off for like £2 but some of them are as good as commercial and much cheaper.

This is a terrible answer really.

*I may have dreamt this.

Re: Nicest 15mm ACW flags?

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 11:09 am
by Essex Boy
Purple wrote: Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:05 am Google/NHS printer and ink. (Best value for money :) )

Peter pig ones are nice but small.
The flag dude dude?
My favourite were I think sheets done by Essex on slightly glossy paper?

Isn’t there a manufacturer that comes with pole and finials attached, if they exist, they are excellent.*

I’d just trawl eBay . People sell sheets of flags they’ve just printed off for like £2 but some of them are as good as commercial and much cheaper.

This is a terrible answer really.

*I may have dreamt this.
There is chap who does the flags ready mounted on poles (I wish he'd explain to his customers that you're supposed to cut the pole to the correct length). I believe he prints the outline of the flag on thin paper and then, so it appears, the colour is added in thin washes. That may not be the way he does it but the washed out end effect is really very nice. I think he's Canadian (don't know where I got that idea from) and does quite a few shows down south.

Maverick flags are pretty good and he'll do custom sizes.

Re: Nicest 15mm ACW flags?

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 11:12 am
by BaronVonWreckedoften
Purple wrote: Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:05 am Isn’t there a manufacturer that comes with pole and finials attached, if they exist, they are excellent.*

*I may have dreamt this.
Isn't that "The Flag Dude"?
http://flagdude.com/product.do?product_id=27

Re: Nicest 15mm ACW flags?

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 11:13 am
by BaronVonWreckedoften
Purple wrote: Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:05 am Isn’t there a manufacturer that comes with pole and finials attached, if they exist, they are excellent.*

*I may have dreamt this.
Isn't that "The Flag Dude"?
http://flagdude.com/product.do?product_id=27

Re: Nicest 15mm ACW flags?

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:01 pm
by Slugbalancer
I had good service from Maverick Models in the past when I needed some AWI flags. Can't comment on their ACW offering.

Re: Nicest 15mm ACW flags?

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:24 pm
by Essex Boy
BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: Thu Jan 18, 2018 11:12 am
Purple wrote: Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:05 am Isn’t there a manufacturer that comes with pole and finials attached, if they exist, they are excellent.*

*I may have dreamt this.
Isn't that "The Flag Dude"?
http://flagdude.com/product.do?product_id=27
That's the one I'm think of. Is he Canadian?

Re: Nicest 15mm ACW flags?

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:30 pm
by Subedai
I brought some ACW Union flags decades ago but can' remember who from, it may have been PP. Anyway, I did a little shading on them but apart from thoise I have always painted my own.

Re: Nicest 15mm ACW flags?

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:53 pm
by levied troop
GMB are excellent, if a little ‘clean’.