January 3, 2013

Flying a Flag

Here is the banner I painted for my upcoming Jomsvikings yesterday. It is based on a design from littlebigmenstudios. They produce some great shield transfers and banners. However I really didn't like the colours they used for this one so I sketched out the design and painted it up to suit. It is much smaller than the original which is fine for a warband rather than an army. I want to make sure that each of my SAGA warbands has a distinctive colour so they can be easily identified. I used Dark Angels Green(GW) and Bleached Bone(VJ) for the basic colours and highlighted hem slightly. I have to say that at the scale I did this it was tedious and I will make sure that the next banner I do will be much larger. It would have been almost impossible to paint on something like a plastic GW banner. At least with my meagre talents. I just have to get more of the Jomsvikings together now so I can have a fieldable force.

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  1. Love it. I still need to do the standard for my Vikings. This may just motivate me to do something!

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    1. The banners have rules now. Only warriors and huscarls can take them. They allow units to rest more than once per turn however the model carrying it generates no attacks.

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  2. Yea I may regret using plastic banners and hand painting symbols on mine, but we will see.

    Are you going to put some foil inbetween the paper to hold the bends?

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    1. I might do but I haven't tried it before. I have a bigger standard for the Saxons that have jumped ahead of the Vikings in the queue. It might be better to attempt with that.

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    2. I have done this with some smaller banners for my Crusades stuff. I used just some regular aluminum foil, 2 layers.

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    3. Do you just glue them on/together with white glue?

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