There's been a lot of discussion recently on Huguenots flags and uniforms on the League of Augsburg Forum . Clarence is or has made a big selection of flags for the Battle of The Boyne, including Danish, Dutch, English, Irish and Huguenots.
In my first ever blog post I made some flags to represent the three Huguenots regiments that fought at the Boyne. I've now updated these flags, here, adding a Huguenot cross to all flags. Barry and Clarence have been searching the web for coats of arms and heraldry to make their Huguenots flags, what these regiments really carried has been lost to history.
So trying not to step on their toes (too much) I've gone with a more simplistic view. When searching the web for Huguenots flags from earlier periods they seems to be a lot of strips, so I've gone with that effect, trying to make them look both French and English.
I've just finished painting up the three regiments myself and put some of these flags on the figures, so look out for them in a future post.
The green flags belong to du Cambon, the black belong to de Meloniere and the blue are le Caillemotte
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| de Meloniere |
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Well, I must say I love them. Great job. Do you use photoshop?
ReplyDeleteJust MS paint.
ReplyDeleteThey look very nice Ray. Did you get the 15mm ones i sent you?
ReplyDeleteI did they're excellent!!! Thanks!!! Did you not get my email??
ReplyDeleteGetting the correct info on coats would be tricky. Do the people who are in possession of the real article even post that on the internet? If they exist, where would they be stored?
ReplyDeleteThe info just doesn't exist unfortunately, its all been lost or just never recorded. That's the problem for this period, it leaves a lot open to conjecture.
ReplyDeleteWow...I am impressed!
ReplyDeleteI must have missed the email mate. Glad you liked them though ;)
ReplyDeleteGo and do some work you lazy shite, I can see you're doing feck all from where I'm sitting....
ReplyDeleteYeh alright!! When you get your hands in your pocket and buy me a Maccy D, I will!! And that's never gonna happen is it??????
DeleteVery nice Ray like the Japanese in the previous post as well. Had to install Firefox as my IE is just not working with some peoples blogs
ReplyDeleteGlad you did, thanks Brum!!
DeleteIf you ever get the chance, a tutorial on how you're doing these would be very much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteI'll try and give it a go, it'll be a bit difficult to put into words....me thinks!!!
DeleteVery nicely done, Ray. And you even managed to stay in the lines. Well done, sir. Well done.
ReplyDeleteRay, thank you a lot for all this information. The flags are very nice.
ReplyDeleteNice work Ray
ReplyDeleteVery nice work Ray! Flags are not easy to do.
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Moving back from the Dark into the light I find your flags...
ReplyDeleteand I like them. Beautiful work.
Regards
Lonewolf
Nicely done Ray. Good use of a basic program, available to all. How do you scale it so they print the correct size? Also what sort of paper do you print onto?
ReplyDeleteScott - All you do is copy the image to your computer, then copy it over to a word document and you can then change the flag to whatever size you need. As for paper, I use whatever's in the printer, I should really empty my wallet and buy a good quality paper, but I'm a tight git, so Fran would say!!!!
DeleteThis I like.
ReplyDeleteLooks really splendid. Seems like everyone's using Paint these days.
ReplyDeleteVery nice Ray. Always been impressed with your flags.
ReplyDeletehehe great job ;D
ReplyDeleteRay, there's a glitch in Blogger, when I click on you post for today, The Angry Lurker is Great, I get Page Doesn't Exist. I wanted to let you know. I'll switch browsers later and see if it pulls up.
ReplyDeleteNo don't! I left the room for 2 minutes and didn't log my computer off, the git wrote that himself, so it was duly deleted, like he needs to be!! Grrrrr!
DeleteI don't mean what I say about him really, he's my rock!
DeleteThe git did it again!!!!!
Deletelol
DeleteThese are well done, Ray. Well painted troops should have good flags, and yours certainly fit the bill. I too, use normal paper when I print my flags and am happy with the results.
ReplyDeleteFran posting on your behalf is hilarious!
Good looking flags
ReplyDeleteI really like these flags when do you get time to make flags up, love your last entry into the comp
ReplyDeletecheers Kent
Cheers Kent! Sometimes I just can't be bothered to pick up a brush, so a flag or two are made instead!
DeleteI can see a lot of research has gone into these and they are truly amazing.
ReplyDeleteOh, all right then, that explains everything. I was on Firefox 9, and had the same thing happen repeatedly. I don't see why he would have deleted it, that would've been a good post. A bunch of people were trying to access it.
ReplyDeleteThere is a recent book out about the Huguenot contribution to several countries, not so much flags as the whole experience, but they wanted over eighty bucks for it, and as she knows, ain't nothing worth eighty bucks.
The short version is the French kicked them all out due to religious intolerance, so they took their skills to several other countries which thrived and then they married in and disappeared into the gene pool. The same thing has happened since then with other situations too, in other places.