ECW project - For King and Parliament

[pierre the shy]

A bit of thread necromancy......

Having a bit of time on my hands I played around in GIMP with the command stand flags that I origiinally did at the end of last year for this project and managed to get them looking much better (and they printed OK first time)

Faffing around with 3 or 4 pixel high writing ("Covenant for Religion King and Kingdom") is demanding on my older eyes, even at 400 or 800% zoom....still pleased with the results.

Yes Techno I will post some pics but have to go to work first....oh I'm already at the office   

 

[mmcv]

I'd missed those fantastic casualty markers first time round so thread necromancy much appreciated! 

Look forward to seeing the new flags. Does GIMP allow mm units? I've memories of using Scribus as a means of sizing such things to mm scales last year.

[pierre the shy]

Yes Gimp allows various measurements for fonts including mm... finding it to be very good graphics programme....and it's free!!

[mmcv]

Think I used Scribus (also free) as I'd to do pages of labels and counters which was faster than GIMP, though it's not as detailed for doing stuff like flags.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello

People looking at flags could look at a Java application called FlagMaker (funnily enough).

It's very versatile and can import images and symbols. There is a transparent texture overlay but you need to screen cap to capture this due to copyright restrictions.

Below is one I zipped up in a jiffy as a Keep Your Distance flag.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/4ha19q/flagmaker_20/

https://github.com/andrewsarnold/FlagMaker-2/releases/download/2.0/setup.exe

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[pierre the shy]

Thanks for the flagmaker links, have not seen that before, looks very useful for future projects  .

The command stands I am doing now are the last things I have for this ECW project, they will allow me to stage Kilsyth and Inverlochy with the correct units at some stage as well as Dunbar (which I am still hoping to refight once this lockdown is over).

Whats next for me? well since Paul is on a DBA theme currently thought, amongst other things, that I would see what DBA armies I could make up from a mishmash of 15mm DBM stuff that I got some years ago when my freind Rob passed on.....get in a bit of practice for when Paul's Punic War armies finally get into action 

I have stuff from Sassinid (a little), Selucid (a lot) and Fuedal English (lots) and Medieval Hungarian (lots) armies so I will see what I can come up with. None of them have been touched for years and a quick inspection reveals some serious TLC is required. This is strictly a use what I have exercise, will not be getting more 15mm.

Just got to edge the flags then I will put up some pics of them.
   







 

[pierre the shy]

The sun came out a bit this afternoon so took a few quick shots with my cellphone camera:

The 10 completed command stands:



Three command stands for Inverlochy - 2 for Argyll's regiments and one for Lt Col Roughe of the Erl of Tullibardine's regiment:



Four command stands for Kilsyth - 3 regiments of Fife Militia and one for the Earl of Crawford-Lindsay's regiment:



Three generic regiment command stands - I can convert 3 Irish regiments into extra Covenanter ones for games like the Dunbar refight:



Final three regiments of Covenanter infantry and a couple of commanders that I didn't show eariler:



couple of solo boardgames I picked up second hand (before the lockdown  ) to help pass the time now these guys are done:



So far they are proving very entertaining.....

[d_Guy]

Excellent, Pierre! Love the flags. Btw, I refer to the casualty stand you did recently as "Mollinary Structures" 

[paulr]

 

[Techno]

Thirded !! 

Cheers - Phil

[mmcv]

Looks great!

[O Dinas Powys]

If these really are the last stands, a fantastic finale to an amazing project 

Look forward to seeing them in action in the not too distant future 

[pierre the shy]

Paul should take most of the qudos for these as he very kindly painted all the figures for me, I just base them up and make them look spiffy with flags etc   

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very impressive there.

[pierre the shy]

And this project thread still lives on....

Finally found the markers I started basing up for DGuy's Celtic Fringe "extra" troop types - Attached Bows and Knife/Axe/Sword - while looking for something else (which I of course didn't find  )

So labelled and added flock to complete them. I used 40mm MDF hexagon bases that I had on hand and green coloured labels to indicate that they were markers and not separate units.

[paulr]

 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very cool

[mmcv]

They look well. I've actually some hexagonal bases ordered to see how they work out for attached generals so nice to see some properly done up.

[Techno]

Lovely work, Peter ! 

Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Those look very smart - I think its the hex base, the basing and the labelling all make a very smart looking marker.