"Flags for my Imagi-Nations" Topic

Once again, Stuart at Maverick Models has come up trumps, with another great set of flags to enable me to finish off my forces – this time, some final infantry flags and the cavalry at long last.

I like Stuart's service as not only are they cool looking flags (I go for the "effect" style he offers) but he re-sizes them to my specifications, meaning I get exactly the size flags I want (something that some other flag producers are not able to do unfortunately).

The other thing is that they are incredibly great value for money, for really excellent looking flags.

So "bravo" Maverick, thanks again.

Stuart is one of those Great litle companys, he will ask you what you want and make the flag you send him. you need a flag go ask Stuart.

A link please?

a picture might actually tell 1,000 stories.

maverick-models.com

Cardinal – agreed. And now my Imagis are finally finished I will try to work out how to get a picture up. But please be patient as I am a luddite – I do not have a mobile phone (so no easy camera access) nor a digital camera. So I shall have to sort out some pics with my sons.

But Stuart's website is very well illustrated if your need to look now :-)

Marc, get a proper camera and a free software package.Camera are crap.. I make a point of owning mobiles without a camera. I have many of Stewart's flags as well..but not imagination I deal with David of NBA for that ..a good free programme is
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Are your imagination displayed on his site?
If you have the time take a stroll through here
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Marc: the 'pseudo Swedes in white' and the 'pseudo Russians in red'? TMP link

The best support to post images is a blog; Photobucket and the like are very reader-unfriendly: images practically without captions and isolated from the text.
There are a few fora where you can post pics directly from your computer, without having to give them an url link

Yep, those are mine Abdul.

I cannot believe I will need to set a blog up just to get photos up here. Sheesh, I cannot even get photos yet – what hope of me doing a blog :-) :-) ;-)

I will see what I can do, but don't hold your breath.

@ Marc: strictly speaking you don't need a blog to post photos on TMP or on other fora (but 'he who can do more can do less' I believe the correct English expression is `if you can move mountains you can move molehills', but it's too… deterring ).
All that you need is to have digitized images (photos, 'scans' of paper documents…) on your computer. Then:
- on some 'sophisticated' fora such as 'The Odd Fellows Wargaming Lounge' link you can directly load images inserted in the text of your message (somehow you 'send' it to the forum like a document attached to an e-mail). Your 1st message created a thread where you can indefinitely post new messages as updates (some threads on the Lead Adventure Forum are years old with dozens of messages). The thread is the equivalent of a personal blog, but with less possibilities in the layout, and comments are intercalated between your own messages.

To post images on most fora including TMP you first have to post them on an 'album' (Photobucket, Picasa or the like) from your computer so that they receive an url. A special limitation of TMP is that you cannot post a link to an individual message within a thread.
But note that once you have posted an image on your own blog (or, I believe, on an 'advanced' forum such as The Odd Fellows Wargaming Lounge) it has its url and you can post it as a link everywhere.

PS: I really like the name sof your feuding Imagi-Nations "the Duchy of Auberge and the Pancreatic League"; specially the Pancreatic League
If with its French sounding name the Duchy of Auberge (Duché d'Auberge?) fields the white-coated troops, the Pancreatic League (Pankreatisch Liga?) has the red-clad ones?

yes Abdul – spot on (ish). The white coats are, following Messers Grants armies, very French in style, including a selection of French flags that take my fancy for colour (so the facing colours of my units will probably not be in accordance with the flags I have used – oh well, never mind.

The reds are "allies" – either part of the Pancreatic League (a southern version of the Hanseatic league of course), or if my brother's grey coats ever take teh field, then can join the Auberges.

I shall see what I can do about your advice re the links etc above. Thanks. But at the moment I am mid terrain building – just done 6 odd metres of road, have some rivers already, and am playing around with fields. Sadly however, these are destined for my ACW, as the fencing is "snake rail". But I like how these are turning out (my roads are cut from felt, which I have then painted) so will next make some twice as wide (these are 25mm wide for Fire and Fury) for my son's WW2 (1/72), my Bolt Action, and of course the Imagi's.

Following on from another guy's blog ideas, I am experimenting with green cloths over a layer of foam, and so my trees etc are in the process of having pins inserted into their bottoms (painfull) so that they can stick into the foam. First game of the revitalised ACW set-up is this coming Friday so if anyone brings a digital camera I will get some pics.

Well, I got some pics, and it revealed two things – first, the quality available of figures from my camera/photography is very poor, and second, I do not know how to link to Snapfish.

Getting there though. This year I think a decent camera is on the shopping list ;-)

I make my own flags from scratch using Corel-Draw. If you can get a good source of vector art of drawings etc., you can trash all the folderol of using a camera etc. I then use a piece of small brass-tubing as the stem for the flag and slide that over a mandrel of a piece of piano-wire soldered into the hand of the color bearer. This way I can switch flags around to move troops between armies if I wish. The advantage of Corel Draw is you can scale it to any size, and modern printers have amazing resolution.

Taking a picture is merely taking a picture of an artifact you can only change with great difficulty but using Vector Art you can manipulate each element on its own and get amazing results.

All the flags for my imagi-nations of Hannunter and Ober Nord Westfalen were compiled using various clip art sites and Paint and Open Office drawing. They may be seen at:

hannunter.blogspot.co.uk

While not decrying the work of the professionals, I get tremendous satisfaction from having my own creations, which when printed out onto photographic paper don't look too bad:

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Seems like the flags on Stuart's website are all items that have been found through research, is that correct?

Currently most interested in the 30 Years War flags.

Dear Bryhthelm

Nice job! I do mine under corel draw. I wish I could send you a picture of mine, unfortunately I can't get the hang of uploading picgtures to TMP. If you want to send me your snail-mail at sigurd@eclipsee.net, I'll send them to you privately.