Banners and flags are colorful assets to an army. Making banners is relatively easy if you know how.
I guess most of you know how, but here I show you how I make them.
First of all you need metal tubes like the once where they sell mayonnaise, ketchup or mustard in. Do not roll the tube
while emptying it, just keep it long and flat. When totally consumed, cut the end and one side of the tube open en cut
the top of the tube away. After washing the inside of the tube you lay it down on a flat surface and rub the metal with
a spoon so it becomes flat. You now have a nice rectangular piece of metal. Brass looking at the inside. You can make
banners for a whole army out of one tube so this will last for quite some time. A pair of scissors is all you need to cut
the metal in the desired form. Most of the time you cut a banner or flag with one or more flaps that you bend around a
banner pole or lance.
The freshly cut banner is getting a white acrylic base paint now. When dry you can sketch your design on the banner
using a fine liner. Now its just a matter of painting your design on the banner. Just go for basic colors first. You
can add lighter and darker colors later.
Beware! A flag will most likely cost you much more time to paint then a banner. Reason is simple, A banner has a front
and back as for a flag there is a left and a right side. In the photo’s you see that my banners have a single color at
the back while painting a flag will force you to do the design again on the other side and the other way around. When
this is the case, just copy the design on a transparent piece of paper and use this for the other side of the flag.
