I hope that someone can help me: I´m working on a diorama showing the battle at crecy. I´ve got the following picture in my head: While some french knights are attacking the english lines, other knights just arrive at the battlefield, waiting for the signal for them to join the fight. Over their heads are various colourful banners and flags floating in the wind. The problem is that there are not enough suitable flags on the market and I don´t want to buy a complete set of figures just to get one flag... Can anybody give some tips about modelling own flags and banners, please? (I don´t want paper-flags)

Thank you for your help... I´ll try everything.

Ok, my first try: I used cardboard and cutted it into small pieces. Then I`ve glued them by using paper on some Zvezda plastic lances. After drying I´ve dipped the flags into some very liquid glue that is originally used for glueing grass. When the cardboard soaked up some glue and became more formable I´ve bended it, so it looks like floating in the wind and dipped it again for some time into the glue. Now they are drying. Looks pretty good and I´ll post some pictures later...

Here it is. It´s not yet finished but already painted with the primer.

And here are my first two figures with self-made banners. They are Richard de Beaumont who carried the Black Prince´s banner and Erard II a luxemburgian knight. (Banners are waving in opposite directions because the characters are opponents and will look in different directions on the battlefield/diorama) Thank you for the tips!

They look really very good , your an excellent Heraldy Painter

great work!

alternative: Rofur-Flags from Rolf Fuhrmann

Yes, I know rofur-flags, but I don´t want paper-plags and I want to paint them on my own.