Jenkins Flags - Metal or Resin? (1 Viewer)

[theBaron]

they are thick and big too!

"That's what she said"--Michael Scott


Sorry, I couldn't resist!

 

[theBaron]

Personally, I prefer metal sheet or foil flags, painted.

Metal sheet or foil looks more in-scale than most cast metal flags (like the flag King-White used for its Napoleonic Prussian flagbearer). Though, I would not pass up a resin flag, in suitable scale thickness and properly draped.

Printed cloth or paper flags just never look right to me. They usually look out of place with the style in which the figure is painted.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Combat]

I got the QB-28 flagbearer today and it has some of the same issues as the earlier flags. The flag is so heavy it is unstable.

 

[marco55]

Like I said for certain things resin is better.I've had other metal flags and have had trouble with most of them.
Mark

 

[lancer]

I would think the stability factor alone would put the vote in favor of the resin flag. Who wants a $50 figure falling over and damaging itself or some other piece just because of a top heavy problem that needn't exsist? The two types sure look similar and equally good. -- Al

 

[RAMC]

Sorry I have not followed the whole thread so may be going over old ground. I don't rate one over the other. I have seen paper flags such as those that Mark and Dave at TM once sold that are made on a tissue paper like material. I would replace all my flags with them for display. They would be more to scale and have a translucent quality as silk has with the sun behind. A metal flag if enlarged to full size would be very thick material indeed.

But when all is said an done I still like Johns flags.