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Prussian Glory05 Nov 2009 7:28 p.m. PST

Like Prussian Reserve and L/W units, Spanish irregular units had a varity of unigue flags without many surviving examples. From my understanding mostly Roman Catholic themes. I am painting such units does any company sell such flags? I am a decent minatures painter put painting flags is way out of my league.

basileus6606 Nov 2009 8:50 a.m. PST

Perhaps Adolfo Ramos had some, though I can't recall if they are for the Carlist or Peninsular war.

Some units had very simple designs. Just plain white with some motto like "Viva Fernando VII" and the like.

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plutarch 6406 Nov 2009 4:24 p.m. PST

Since there do appear to be very few surviving examples, perhaps you can use a bit of licence and go with a few Rennaissance/Thirty Years War flags.

If you are looking at 15mm, perhaps something like:

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I started on some 15mm Spanish militia only the day before yesterday and was going to exclude the flag-bearer, but your post started me thinking.

I have used GMB for the line, but am now thinking this will provide a good opportunity for a bit of variety.

I will be interested to see what you finally decide upon.

andygamer06 Nov 2009 10:49 p.m. PST

There are some 15mm ones here (although I've never seen them to comment on quality):
adolforamos.com/napflag.html

And a thread discussing them (and others) here:
TMP link

andygamer06 Nov 2009 10:57 p.m. PST

And there's this other TMP thread where I describe some Volunteer flags and others comment on different aspects of them:
TMP link

plutarch 6406 Nov 2009 11:43 p.m. PST

Nice one Andy – very useful (on my part, at least).

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