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Post by sgtslag on Jan 15, 2024 19:21:23 GMT
Note that these flags/banners can be used for more than the battlefield. If you need a banner/flag for a building exterior, these will work for that purpose, as well. I've made my past banners, out of paper. Recently, I found this on YouTube. The video demonstrates how to cut an aluminum soda can, with scissors, to make wavy banners. He also discusses how to paint them. Me, I plan on printing my own designs on full sheet label paper, applying that to the aluminum can, prior to making the final cuts to shape it. I use the paper banners to help identify different units of figures which are otherwise the same figures! I use colored plastic tubules, glued to their bases, as well, using the same colors as the Unit Flags/Banners. It really helps differentiate the figures by Units. Note in this example, the figures on the right side, are all Hill Giants (blue and red tubules), but the colored tubules show they are different Units, standing next to one another. The paper banners/flags work well enough (not every Unit has a flag/banner, hence the tubules on the rear corner of the bases), but I think the aluminum can method will be even better. Note that water-slide transfers can be applied to these aluminum flag banners, as well as print, peel-n-stick labels, along with just painting your symbols onto them. It will certainly produce more durable, more animated, dynamic flags and banners, than just paper. Cheers!
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Post by sgtslag on Jan 16, 2024 18:00:31 GMT
I also found this video, on YouTube, which discusses using regular paper, and PVA Glue, to make curved, dynamic flags. Note that you will need to use laser/toner printed flags, as ink jet flags would run when PVA Glue is applied to them...
In my example of my colored flags photo, above, I used peel-n-stick label paper. Note that this method can yield some curvature, it is far more limited than what you can achieve as shown in the video. Note, also, that laser/toner may flak off when curving the paper flag around the flag pole, as shown in the video. Still, I need to try this technique, on my next flag. Cheers!
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Post by margaret on Feb 9, 2024 16:28:37 GMT
You can spray ink-jet prints with a sealer like a Krylon clear product to seal the ink. Done this for many years with watercolors when decoupaging with ModPodge. And did the same when making monster tokens for my grandson's first D&D game.
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Post by skunkape on Feb 10, 2024 22:45:47 GMT
They suggest using a sealer when printing out water slide decals on ink-jets (using decal paper). That way, you've sealed the ink so it won't run when you actually wet the decal paper. Something I've been meaning to try.
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