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So my sister just bought me some Perry War of the Roses plastics for my birthday (one box of mounted man-at-arms and another of mercenaries) and even though I'm a history buff I don't want to use them for actual historicals since I don't like much of the battles that happened during the late medieval period. However, I thought about it and they will make perfect stand-ins for a fictional army, say HOUSE LANNISTER. I was thinking of making a Lannister army, and maybe a House Reyne in the future to depict the Reyne-Tarbeck rebellion (and give me a reason to sing Rains of Castamere while pushing plastic men).

My problem is with making banners and flags. I haven't seen any decent tutorials with my google-fu, and some of the flags I've seen look too stiff and unrealistic. So does anyone know a method or a link to a good tutorial on how to make flags and banners? Preferably ones that'll look like it's flowing in the wind and not just a piece of flat cardboard vaguely bent.

Also does anyone know what kind of bases do Perry plastics come with? I still haven't received the boxes yet so I haven't inspected the contents. Because if they don't come with individual 28mm square bases, I'll be very sad.

Sorry but i dont know any myself. But your Lannister style army sounds awesome Shame im a Stark through and through...
All the best with this.

Well fromthewarp has these tutorials for creating GS banners. There are a few flowing flags in there as well.
If you combine the flag technique with the GS banner maybe you can archive what you want.

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.de/search/label/greenbanner
http://fromthewarp.blogspot.de/search/label/doublebanner

Hope this helps

 btldoomhammer wrote:
Well fromthewarp has these tutorials for creating GS banners. There are a few flowing flags in there as well.
If you combine the flag technique with the GS banner maybe you can archive what you want.

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.de/search/label/greenbanner
http://fromthewarp.blogspot.de/search/label/doublebanner

Hope this helps

Yeah I've seen those! I was just wondering if they're gonna work on something much, much bigger. I'd be making banners waaaay bigger than those.

Sorry but i dont know any myself. But your Lannister style army sounds awesome Shame im a Stark through and through...

There are two reasons why I didn't do the Starks:

1) The colors are somber (grey on white). They won't be as visually eye-catching.

2) I picture the Northmen as a less fancy lot, and the Perry Miniatures are somewhat fancier, more Southern Westorosi than North. If there are good miniatures that could represent the North, I'd be glad to make a Northern army... maybe the Boltons or the Karstarks.