How to.... Signal Flag attachment

Adding detail to your ships can be fun, irritating, awesome, or frustrating. Depending on your skills and patience you can achieve a great deal for your ships details, that is if you are willing to look at many pictures of the unit that you are working on and trying to get as Real as you can get it!! Whether it is a paint job, adding decals, photo-etch, rigging or even lights…. all of these are fun, but also irritating as well, so today we’ll do something that is SURE to add color to your ships ( unless you unit is camouflaged ). Adding flags and pennants is pretty easy to do, in my opinion, and the steps that I’ll show you could make a ship REALLY Stand out…so lets start!! First, keep in mind that the pennants that you’ll be flying are pretty much the same in Many navies, there are some differences to be sure and many of them will have different meanings as well. I’ll stick with the US Navy codes for indicating what the intentions are for that ship, whether it is a pennant to fly helos, or doing an UNREP, you have to know your flags/pennants that you’ll be flying. Second, pictures will show a series of flags that represent the ship’s call sign, in which ALL US Navy ships have their own specific call sign { I’ll leave a link for the call signs for your ship in the ‘Description’ …….. but it could take awhile to find YOUR ship that you are building }. So you’ll need your decal sheet of flags/pennants, glue sticks, water (for the decals), and aluminum foil. Cut out your flag decal NEAR but NOT at the edge of the flag (we’ll do that later), and dip in water solution. Add some glue from your glue stick onto the aluminum foil a couple of swipes, then remove your wet decals and set it onto the sticky aluminum, dab Very lightly to remove excess water. After letting the glue dry, the little tricky part is to cut Along the Edge of the flag ( easier for 350 scale than my 700 scale ). Now here is the neat trick…..why mount the decal on a piece of Al-foil… so that way you can bend in half the flag and pose it ‘wavy’ as if the flag were to fly in the wind!! The way that is done is by ‘crinkling’ a bit ( again, easier on 350 than 700 scale ) Accessories: Five Star: WW2 IJN Flags (III) Letters ( these work for USN ships also) Mig Rigging line: 0.02mm line ( should already be attached BEFORE applying flags ) Five Star: Signal flag box #700130 ( is optional, but does add a nice touch ) Home items -- aluminum foil, glue stick (I used white), a small set of scissors.