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New to Napoleonic

Post by Cookie68 » Mon Oct 27, 2014 3:03 pm

hi advice need sooty for such a daft question, but just started to paint my british centre company and was wondering if people would put the flags in the front rank or second rank and were other officers went in when basing the figures..

Thanks in advance shaun
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Re: New to Napoleonic

Post by Friedrich August I. » Mon Oct 27, 2014 3:58 pm

Cookie68 wrote:hi advice need sooty for such a daft question, but just started to paint my british centre company and was wondering if people would put the flags in the front rank or second rank and were other officers went in when basing the figures..

Thanks in advance shaun
Hi Shaun,

I am by far no expert on positioning flags but maybe you find an answer to your question here

http://www.leagueofaugsburg.com/gallery ... y-330.html

But as you can see not even the "Masters" are sure of were the best place for the colours is :twisted:

After all it should meet YOUR eye! :wink:

Hope that helps,
Günter
„Macht Euch Euren Dregg alleene“

"Sort your filth out by yourself!" The King of Saxony Friedrich August III., at his abdication 1918, referred to the quarrels in the parliament and the squabbling within the provisional government.
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Re: New to Napoleonic

Post by Cookie68 » Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:53 pm

Thanks for the tip will have a look. Not a great painter but want to give it a try.

Shaun
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