Homespun flags for First Bull Run / Manassas

Started by Tobbe, 16 May 2013, 08:11:14 PM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages1
User actions

Tobbe

16 May 2013, 08:11:14 PM
I've not been able to find any flags that looked "right" to me, so I had a go at tweaking some of the flags floating around on the interwebs. More examples at http://www.forward-to-richmond.com/2013/05/16/first-batch-of-homespun-flags-for-bull-run/
I'm about to embark on the fool's mission of setting up Battle of the Auroch Hills with 10mm figures as well as building a scale model of the battleground. Maybe next year.

Leon

16 May 2013, 08:30:55 PM #1
They look very nice.

8)
www.pendraken.co.uk - Now home to over 10,000 products, including nearly 5000 items for 10mm wargaming, plus MDF bases, Battlescale buildings, I-94 decals, Litko Gaming Aids, Militia Miniatures, Raiden Miniatures 1/285th aircraft, Red Vectors MDF products, Vallejo paints, Tiny Tin Troops flags and much, much more!

Duke Speedy of Leighton

17 May 2013, 07:30:17 AM #2
Cool!  8)
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

Hertsblue

17 May 2013, 09:31:14 AM #3
They're excellent.  8)
When you realise we're all mad, life makes a lot more sense.

www.rulesdepot.net

holdfast

28 May 2013, 10:37:45 AM #4
We looked pretty hard for information on flags (standards) when we were researching and then staging the games for Wargaming In History Volume 6, The First Bull Run Campaign (though we must admit that we were in 15mm, mainly because we started to build the armies long before 10mm achieved their current level of detail). The uniforms were easier to easier to find detail on than the flags, but of course the flags are more visible in a wargame. The flags carried by Confederate units varied as the State flags were replaced by centrally issued Confederate pattern ones. We are now starting to research the 1862 Shenandoah Campaign and the flags carried vary in the theatre on a month by month basis, so multiple command stands will be needed.
If anyone is aware of the definitive guide to 'Confederate flags, month by month', it might acquire the best-selling status of the ever popular and unputdownable 'Regimental Strengths and Losses at Gettysburg'.
Holdfast
User actions
Print
Go Up Pages1