Flag Thread III

[Krall]

Challenge: Flag of a Germany where Prussia is neither leader nor a member. This Germany dislikes both Prussia and Austria. I need this for my American King story.

Realistically it would probably be the same as (or very similar to) the modern German flag, depending on the exact PoD and history of Germany.

I'm sorry to ask this here but how do you even get started on making flags?

I'm really not sure what you mean - could you elaborate?

 

[Larus Marinus]

Wow, gone for a couple days and a couple dozen posts happen.

First off, I really like the Burgundy/Netherlands flag at the end of the last thread; simple, yet appealing.

Challenge: Flag of a Germany where Prussia is neither leader nor a member. This Germany dislikes both Prussia and Austria. I need this for my American King story.

Glad you liked it, though I can hardly take credit for the original design, since it's allegedly a historical flag and all.

Bavaria would probably be the most appropriate German entity in that case. I'll give it a try sometime.

 

[Ironstark]

Anyone know that website where you can change the number of stars and stripes on the american flag? I cant remember the address

 

[Marc Pasquin]

I'm sorry to ask this here but how do you even get started on making flags?

You mean designing, drawing or getting interested in ?

 

[Marc Pasquin]

Challenge: Flag of a Germany where Prussia is neither leader nor a member. This Germany dislikes both Prussia and Austria. I need this for my American King story.

Notwistanding the origin story you subscribe to in regard to its origin, prussia and austria out of the equation probably wouldn't change anything to it.

If you want something different, maybe use one of the historical flag but use a different COA on it.

 

[Sicarii]

Do a socialist union in the caribean led by Cuba

 

[Transparent Blue]

Another Challenge: WI Australia had a national flag that was a combination of all six state flags?

One of the first flags I made, in fact:

Polish Kongo

Taiwan

Ooh! I like these!

I'm sorry to ask this here but how do you even get started on making flags?

EDIT: As others have pointed out your question is vague but I answered it according to my interpretation.

1. Download Inkscape for free at www.inkscape.org
2. Learn how to use it, especially the basic drawing functions, colours, canvas size and "export to bitmap".
3. Choose a concept, take up a request, etc.
4. Do research on the symbols, colours, etc. you should use.
5. Make a flag.

 

[Napoleon53]

Realistically it would probably be the same as (or very similar to) the modern German flag, depending on the exact PoD and history of Germany.

Hmmm... Good point, but I want it to be different for the sake of fun.

Glad you liked it, though I can hardly take credit for the original design, since it's allegedly a historical flag and all.

Bavaria would probably be the most appropriate German entity in that case. I'll give it a try sometime.

Bavaria is exactly what I was thinking! Bavaria with medium influence from Wurttemburg and Saxony. Union starts about 1820 and includes everything but Austria's lands and Prussia; basically, Western, with Saxony slightly in the middle, Germany. Napoleon never happened in this TL, so all heraldry, symbols, etc, should be pre-Napoleonic.

Maybe something with Bavarian Blue, Saxon Green, and Wurttemburger Crimson? Might be clashy, I dunno... Please, do whatever you want with it; I'm open to all ideas.

 

[Thande]

I disagree with Krall actually, the background of the modern German flag is such that it is actually a very unlikely flag to emerge with any pre-Napoleonic Wars POD.

It might be based on whatever states are the dominant ones within this Germany, like for example in my LTTW the flag of Germany has green and white for Saxony, and blue because the flag was first used in a war where Saxony tried to take Bavaria from Austria.

 

[Napoleon53]

LTTW? Sorry, I'm terrible at acronyms.

I edited my last post to show the Big Three in this Germany.

 

[Klisz]

LTTW? Sorry, I'm terrible at acronyms.

I edited my last post to show the Big Three in this Germany.

Look to the West; Thande's TL.

 

[Thande]

LTTW? Sorry, I'm terrible at acronyms.

I edited my last post to show the Big Three in this Germany.

Look to the West, as DCliche says.

With what you describe, some combination of blue, white and green is likely, as was used both by me in LTTW and by the Confederation of the Rhine in OTL (whose dominant parts were also Bavaria and Saxony). You could incorporate Wuerttemberg red as you suggest, but you'd have to come up with some satisfactory way of getting all of those on the same flag--maybe if they had thinner white stripes in between them?

 

[Napoleon53]

Here's a coat-of-arms I came up with:

 

[Transparent Blue]

@Napoleon53

Since you liked Kuld von Reyn's Burgundy/Netherlands flag in the previous thread, I made your German request in the same style:

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[Napoleon53]

Awesomeness! Thank you! If no one else comes up with something better, I'll use it.

 

[viperhawkz]

@Napoleon53

Since you liked Kuld von Reyn's Burgundy/Netherlands flag in the previous thread, I made your German request in the same style:

I would have thought blue on top if Bavaria is the leader here.

 

[Napoleon53]

Here it is:

 

[Ilkhanate]

id go with the white one; you can hardly make out tge dragon on the black one

I prefer the first one. Idon't think black and blue go together well.

Thanks. I thought the white one was better, just needed to be sure I wasn't making a huge error

 

[Ironstark]

Anyone know that website where you can change the number of stars and stripes on the american flag? I cant remember the address

Bumpity bumpity boo!

 

[The Professor]

My entry to the latest Flag Challenge

The Great Union of Asian Socialist Republics

In 1943 the European Front of WW2 unexpectedly draws to an end when a coup removes Hitler and others from power in the German Reich.
With Soviet designs of glorious victory in Europe denied (though the Soviets eventually reach the boundaries of Germany) they head east.
By the end of 1946, amidst much devastation, they and their Communist Allies are established in Hokkaido and Northern China.
Expectations of a "Hot War" between the Soviets and the Western Allies are finished by the Allied demonstration of the "Atomic Bomb" but mark the start of the "Cold War".
By 1948 the Treaties of Shanghai [1] establish the division of China, Japan, and Korea, into Communist (Mongolian SSR, Qurighar SSR, PR China [2], Manchurian SSR, PR Japan, PR Korea) and Non-Communist states (RoChina, RoKorea, Japan, Tibet, Qinghai).
Post-Stalin the Communist Bloc is rife with dissent and the USSR is forced to relinquish its authority and allow greater confederation.
In early 1968 the Asian Communist States of Manchuria, Mongolia, PR Japan [3], PR China, Socialist Republic of Qinghai [4], PR Korea, and others organise themselves into an Asian Union - the Great Union of Asian Socialist Republics - run with a joint presidency much like the Balkan Socialist Federation.
The union flag shows 8 rays and 8 stars representing the peoples and states of the GUASR surrounding a white sun/moon with the hanzi characters Dàtóng ("Great Union").

[1] denounced as Truman's Catastrophe
[2] essentially the northern lands above the River Huai
[3] Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kurils
[4] 1965 coup