So I was in the "pound shop" killing some time and waiting for a bus. I often go in there as its great for buying bits and pieces for use in
wargaming. I had been thinking about cloth flags for my new
muslim crusades project and was keeping my eye out for the right cloth... A pack of three dish cloths caught my eye. I liked the
criss cross patters of the fabric so bought them and hoped to myself that they
wouldnt jam my printer.
Predictably it did and I spent some time fixing the jam. When I finally got it out (I had been quite rough) the thing made a dreadful screeching noise. I had broken it...
Luckily my flat m8 has a printer I could have a go at breaking so I borrowed his. This time I put a few dabs of glue on a
piece of A4 paper and placed some cloth of equal size on it. I fed it through and the print came out
surprisingly well. I then soaked it in some very diluted brown ink. This made the cloth look much more rugged but smudged the print
argh!!!
Attempt no 3. (successful)
1 I applied the brown wash to the cloth and cut to A4 size
2 dabbed a few patches of white glue to A4 paper and joined
3 Got a bunch of images from google
4 fed through the printer using basic "windows photo gallery" print function with the "contact sheet" setting. This made a perfect size for 28mm flags. VERY little messing about.
5 cut the flags to size and tore a few fibres off here and there to fray the edges.
6 Glued to flag pole, rolling it up with normal white glue.
7 folded and applied lots of
Matt varnish to stiffen.
And that was it. Easy and I think they look quite good. They
arnt that rigid though
Im not too bothered, They hold their shape well enough but ill keep my eye out for a way to make them more so..
PS 1 of the flags here (the purple on) was made from an actualy war flag image. This meant that it has two hlafs you fold together. I thought this would make it too thick but It was ok. In fact it was perhaps better becuase the glue I used made it more stiff and it is of course, double sided...
