Weekly Flag Challenge 121 - Voting thread

[Krall]

Weekly Flag Challenge 132 - Voting thread

FLAG CHALLENGE № 132: Convention Schmonvention

Your challenge is to make a flag that defies normal flag design conventions - specifically your flag must not be any of the following:

-A rectangle (non-rectangular quadrilaterals are permitted),
-A simple tricolour, vertical or horizontal,
-A simple cross flag,
-A flag incorporating a canton.

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#1: Kuld von Reyn - US flag done in the style of the Qing/Manchu Eight Banners

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#2: shiftygiant - Flag of an independent Scottish Kingdom as a square swollowtail thing

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#3: Lapsed Pacifist - United Kingdom of Sweden and Norway

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#4: ah-sue - NEW TEUTONIA

 

[Richard IV]

I know they're on another thread, but I would have liked to see the 'backstories' of the entries included in this thread.

 

[Krall]

I know they're on another thread, but I would have liked to see the 'backstories' of the entries included in this thread.

I would edit the OP to include them, but only ah-sue's entry had a description at all I'm afraid.

NEW TEUTONIA

With a second civil war raging in Russia (1939-43), the Tomanian dictator Adenoid Hynkel invaded the Baltic republics “to prevent the Russian civil war spilling over into areas of Tomanian vital interest”. The puppet state of New Teutonia was set up, harking back to the days of the Teutonic Knights. Comprising six provinces, each headed by a Ghouleiter, an unusual hexagonal flag was created of 3 white and 3 black triangles upon which was superimposed a red eagle. This design is said to have its roots in Hynkel’s obsession with King Arthur and the Round Table and indeed the quarterly gatherings of the 6 Ghouleiters were held around a hexagonal table.

(Rather liike the US flag on moon landings, this flag was kept in place by very narrow spring loaded metal pipes along each edge).

 

[Petike]

Krall, could you edit the title of the thread ? The secondary title ("132") is all right, but the main one ("121") isn't and could prove misleading.

 

[Krall]

Krall, could you edit the title of the thread ? The secondary title ("132") is all right, but the main one ("121") isn't and could prove misleading.

Oh, whoops! I think I got confused with the MotF.

Unfortunately it doesn't look like I can edit the title of the thread itself anymore.

 

[Larus Marinus]

My vote goes to Lapsed Pacifist's entry. It's nice to see a good take on a modern Swedish-Norwegian flag, though it looks more like a war flag than a national one.

It looks like we might end up with a three-way tie here at this rate.

 

[The Professor]

Somewhat close, #1 in the lead, with #3 and #4 tied on second.
Could go anywhere at the mo

 

[Larus Marinus]

Somewhat close, #1 in the lead, with #3 and #4 tied on second.
Could go anywhere at the mo

At the time I posted, #1 and #4 both had 10, and my vote pushed #3 to 9. Flag challenge polls often have a lot of ties for some reason, so I was expecting the same to happen here again.