Again from the Triomphes of Louis XV, here is another of the flags of Charles VI as carried by the army of Maria Theresa. Like the others I have depicted it was captured by the French army and so we luckily have an illustration of it so we can recreate it.
I suspect from the heraldry that it may be of an Austrian Italian regiment but I would be happy to be corrected if someone knows better.
I am near the end of the Charles VI flags as depicted in the Triomphes, with only two more to recreate. Both are like this one, with complex heraldry, so as this one seems to have taken me forever to finish I have no idea when I shall be able to create them! As, however, I have seen very few of my previous Charles VI flags in action (a broad hint!) I see no urgency anyway... ;-)
Outstanding! I am so very tempted to reflag all of my Austrians...
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jon. :-) I would love to see these flags (and the other WAS ones I have done) in action with your troops although I would not wish to add to your already major workload with your many wargame armies... Even so,...;-)
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David.
Terrific David, one of the best yet!
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland.
Thank you, Alan. :-) Yes, I confess I am pleased with it after all the work it has involved...
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David.
P.S pardon my ignorance but how do I print these out?
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland
Right, Alan. If you have a printer attached to your computer I would recommend a vector drawing program like Draw that comes with the free and very capable Libre Office suite: https://www.libreoffice.org/ In it you can resize the flag(s) to the size you want on the A4 page (this is unlike resizing them in a bitmap style editor where resizing will lose detail and pixels) and then print away. That's it in a nutshell, anyway. If you need more detail or if that was not really the answer you wanted, do ask again.
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David.
I simply click on the flag image to enlarge it, then I click again to get a menu of selection and I choose Download. Then I use a Word document and upload the flag image into Word, There you can adjust the flag to whatever size you need by clicking the corner of the image.
DeleteWow, that is impressive and one hell of a lot of heraldry going on there! Well done for sticking with it David given the amount of detail you had to recreate.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Steve. :-) Yes, it was a lot of work and I did nearly give up on a few occasions! Things tended to go wrong, as they inevitably do on the odd flag, where the flag gremlins have it in for me. (Computers can be remarkably obtuse sometimes, too, of course...) ;-)
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David.
That's a very smart looking flag, I have an Italian regiment in mind that would fit it.
ReplyDeleteWillz.
Thank you, Willz. :-) Look forward to seeing it in action with your troops; I'm sure they'll both look very good!
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David.
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ReplyDeleteI have no hard proof to sopport my claim, but I think the colours belong to a regiment from the "Austrian Netherlands". Especially the Cross of Burgundy is a strong sign, as well as some of the smaller coat of arms.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Hogey. Sounds very reasonable. :-)
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David.
Ok, now I have to paint a new Austrian regiment so that I can use this flag.😃
ReplyDeleteGreat, Jim. Look forward to seeing the flag in action with your troops!
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David.
Do you have a speculative colonel's color that one could use with this flag?
DeleteI have nothing that really matches (the detail is quite distinctive) but I could rustle one up in the next few days bit fyou'd like one...
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David.