Some of you may have (or equally may not have) been wondering about the Flags that Felbahns use. Well, I can certainly say that I do have Flags here.
Here, I have the Felbahn State flag:
And here, the Felbahn Army Flag:
And the Naval flag (Rarely used, but still official for trading up the Rhine etc.)
So, now you can see the Flags I have been working on.
I have also decided on an enemy for our great nation, as well as our neighbor. This nation is a fully Swiss nation, called Schwyzen-Laufenburg.
Flag here:
They occupy the region of Laufenburg, Switzerland.
So, this has been an overview of the flags to be painted on my troops (and those of the enemy) once I have finished painting everything else.
More updates soon. Cheerio!
The random duke of Randomness!
Very nice designs: compliments!
ReplyDeleteThough to be nitpicking the rules of heraldry "no tincture on a tincture" (often ignored in 18th C. vexillology, it's true) would require at least a narrow pipping of white ('silver') or yellow ('gold') between black and red: specially for the military flag where the red is 'inlaid' in the black (see how in the British 'Union Jack' the red crosses are edged with white). The aim was to increase contrast and thus'readability' from a distance: indeed 'Hyborian' wargamers who painted Conan's Aquilonian banner -a red lion on a black field- discovered that once on the table-top the 'lion' became a shapeless red smudge unless outlined with gold.
Regarding Felbah and its 'hereditary enemy' Schwyzen-Laufenburg, with reference to the (largely ignored) 19th C. Swiss Civil War, one could be Calvinist and the other Roman Catholic, maybe?
Cheers.
Regarding the flag, thank you. I shall keep this in mind.
DeleteAs for the religion, yes, I was considering religious difference. Schwyzen-Laufenburg is the predominantly Catholic country, and Felbah, although having a large Catholic minority (possibly making for some instability later on) is predominantly Calvinist.
It may be well noted that Schwyzen-Laufenburg is actually located in the present-day canton of Aargau, but it is, in constitution, culture and religion, more like Schwyz and less like Aargau, hence the name. The longer name is "Die Liste der Erzbischöfe von Schwyz der Norden, oder Laufenburg" which translates to (if you are not already German) "The Archbishopric of Schwyz of the North, or Laufenburg" meaning that it can be called Northern Schwyz, Schwyz-Laufenburg or just Laufenburg.
Thank you once again for your support, and I shall try to keep on going (painting etc.)
The Duke.
[Pedantic mode on -again `-`!]: during the 18th C. 'Land' flags (contrary to Navy 'jacks') were practically square (infantry) or almost so (mounted arms).
ReplyDeleteHeavy cavalry / 'Horse' had # square standards, dragoons and hussars bilobed or 'swallowtail' guidons -to reflect they 'inferior' status. This came from the Middle-Ages, when a 'chevalier banneret' commanding a group of lesser knights ('bas-chevaliers' / bachelors) was entitled to display a rectangular or square bannière on his lance, while ordinary knights were allowed only a divided pennon
During the 18th C. the were no 'national flags 'in the modern sense -the concept, with that of 'nation', really emerged only during the French Revolution; only 'identification jacks' to identify predator from prey at sea.
Specially, infantry and cavalry flags had different patterns (even in the UK, showing that the 'Union Jack' was not yet 'national'): in France infantry flags bore the white cross, cavalry and dragoons ones Louis XIV's Sun on a solid field. Prussia was one country where the diverse flags were most similar, though not identical: on cavalry standards & guidons the central device was the same a son infantry flags, but proportionately larger and the same cross as for the infantry was omitted more often than not. In the case of Felbah this could suggest for the mounted troops the Felbah coat-of-arms on a field of a single color (probably that of the 'facings' of the coat).
[Pedantic mode/off]
A lot of information on SYW armies, flags and uniforms on Royalfig (Fr) and Kronoskaf; the 'NBA' blog, initially created for Lace Wars Imagi-Nations creators, has uniform templates you can download and 'color' to test and try, then display, your uniforms designs.
Cheers.
Right. Thanks! I'll do these things sometime.
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