Flags for Chinese Warlord/Back of Beyond Games

We're going to be expanding our early 20th Century gaming from Africa to Central/East Asia, and I am currently waiting on some Chinese Warlord figures from Copplestone.  During this wait I started looking online for appropriate flags, but wasn't excited with what I found. As such, I decided to break out Photoshop and see what I could create using online flags and some textured background.   Here are the results; you are welcome to to take whatever you find useful.  Flags are approximately 1 inch tall when printed and saved at 300dpi.

Beiyang Flag (Note: since I posted this, I've looked at other references, and it looks like the blue and yellow stripes may be reversed here.  The Hebei flag below has them in the other pattern.)

First East Turkestan Republic Flag 1933-1934

Fengtian Clique Flag

Kuomintang Flag 1

Kuomintang Flag 2

Kuomintang Flag 3

Ma Clique Flag

Manchukuo Flag

Khanate of Mongolia Flag 1911-1921 (White sections to be cut away)

People's Republic of Mongolia Flag 1921-1924

People's Republic of Mongolia Flag 1924-1940

Qing Empire Flag

Tibetan Flag

Wuhan Flag 1

Wuhan Flag 2 (Add your warlord's character to the white circle)

Yuan Flag

Communist Flag 1927-1949

EDIT:  I had some more time, so have decided to also include some additional flags from the Second Sino-Japanese War.

East Hebei Autonomous Government (Japanese Puppet) Flag 1935-1938

Mongol Military Government  (Japanese Puppet) Flag 1936-1937

Mongol Autonomous Government  (Japanese Puppet) Flag 1937-1939

North Shanxi Autonomous Government  (Japanese Puppet) Flag 1937-1939

South Chahar Autonomous Government  (Japanese Puppet) Flag 1937-1939

Mengjiang Flag 1939-1945

Reformed Government  (Japanese Puppet) Flag 1937-1940

Reorganized Government Nanjing  (Japanese Puppet) Flag 1940-1945

Reorganized Government Nanjing  (Japanese Puppet) War Ensign 1940-1945

EDIT 2: Some more flags for the Communists and some of the surrounding countries.

Afghanistan Flag 1901-1919

Afghanistan Flag 1919-1926

Afghanistan Flag 1926-1928

Afghanistan Flag 1929-1931

Afghanistan Flag starting 1931

Jiangxi-Fujian Soviet Flag

Chinese Soviet Republic Flag 1931-1937

Fujian People's Government Flag

Far Eastern (Chita) Republic Flag 1920-1922

Bukharan Soviet Flag 1920-1925

Turkestan ASSR Flag 1919-1921

 

Emirate of Bukhara Flag until 1920
(White sections to be cut away)

Khanate of Khiva Flag until 1920

Khorezm People's Soviet Republic Flag 1920-1925

Karakalpak ASSR Flag 1932

Uzbek SSR Flag 1924-1936

Basmachi Flag

Part 2 of the flags can be found here.

Neu-Moschi German Boma: Kitchen

The boma construction continues with another section of wall that houses the kitchen.

This build starts with a Gamecraft wall that has been doubled up and treated with stucco texture and sanded. To this, I've added a 4ground Lean To with an added metal roof. The building itself is too small to be a kitchen for a boma of this size, so I've opted to add additional outdoor cooking space.  For the oven, I've based mine on images of 19th Century German designs I found online. The initial shapes were carved out of pink foam and glued to art board.  At this stage, I had not glued them or the base to the wall.

The oven and cupboard were textured with Liquidtex stucco, sanded and painted.  The whole assembly was then glued together.  Two gunports were drilled into the wall and framed with basswood following the same procedure I discussed in the front gate post.

Detailing on the oven and cupboard was done with art card, basswood, and manila folder.  A pot hook was built from a paperclip and rivets added with wood glue. Everything was then painted, scorch marks/soot added, and firewood made from twigs was stacked against the wall.

The final addition was the roof.  Support columns were made from basswood coated in stucco texture and sanded.  Strips of plastic were glued across the posts, and then from the posts to the back wall (providing a small gap for the kitchen smoke to exit out). This was further strengthened using O-scale porch brackets from Grant Line. On top of this was glued art card covered with sheet metal textured plastic card.   Roof painting was done according to my regular method.

Size Comparisons for 28mm African Minitures

As promised in my last post, here are some size comparison photos to help you when purchasing figures.  Photos were shot against a 1 inch (25mm) grid.  Bases are 3mm thick.

Copplestone, Brigade Games, Copplestone, Brigade Games

For the German troops, the Copplestone and Brigade figures are a very close match in size and style, and can be mixed without issue.

Brigade Games, Copplestone, Brigade Games, Copplestone

However, the same cannot be said for their British figures.  The Brigade British are approximately the same size as their Germans (maybe just slightly smaller), but the Copplestone British have grown in size compared to their Germans.  The Indian trooper isn't too bad, but the British officer  is quite large, with a helmet that dwarfs the Brigade counterpart. 

Brigade Games, Copplestone, Brigade Games, Copplestone

This photo better illustrates the size creep between Copplestone's Africa and Back of Beyond Ranges.  It's a pity too, as the Copplestone figures are well sculpted.

Foundry, Warlord, Brigade Games, Copplestone, Copplestone, Old Glory

And here is a parting photo of all the manufactures currently in my collection.  The Foundry, Brigade Games, and Copplestone Darkest Africa lines are all mid sized and work together very well.  The Warlord figures run on the smaller size, while Copplestone Back of Beyond and Old Glory tend to be a bit larger. If you are going to be starting Africa gaming from scratch, I would suggest you focus on Brigade Games, Foundry, and select Copplestone African figures.