I was fooling about with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, making some trial versions of national and regimental banners for the Syldavians. I worked up a basic flag modeI and then added 3-D texture following the very useful instructions that the resourceful MS Foy kindly posted on his blog ( Prometheus in Aspic ). Here is what I ended up with: The flag is intended to be a Baroque military version of the national flag that figures in Hergé's Ottokar's Sceptre. I'm not so terribly happy with it, but it is a start. Something weird happened to the pelican's beak. Perhaps he swallowed a big fish! ________________________ 1684 Mopping up after the Battle of the Zileherhoum Marshes The end of the Battle of the Zileherhoum Marshes was marked by the collapse and rout of the Bordurian infantry battleline. Two ortas of Bordurian provincial infantry and the Arnaut light infantry that had been repulsed by the Syldavian infantry broke and streamed away
News, plans and plots regarding my 18th century Imagi-Nations campaign set in the fictitious nations of Syldavia and Borduria, my variations on a theme of Hergé