Whats in a name?
Well, I needed to give the Army an identity. So, after brushing up on my Knights Templar history, checking out some existing Black Templar names etc I came up with “The Crusade of the 7th Flame”. So, with that decided I needed a banner. In comes Photoshop. I took some existing banners from the net (mostly from Dawn of War or such) and then looked for a nice flame effect. Setting the flame as the background, I then added some of the typical Templar icons. This was the end result:
Additionally, at the bottom is the phrase “peregrinus of septumdecim flamma” which is supposed to be latin for Cruasade of the 7th Flame. However, knowing how online translators work it probably says “Walk of the seven hotties”!
As for the application of the banner, sadly my painting skills are not really up to doing this from scratch so I was thinking of printing it out and gluing it with PVA onto a black banner. Id then painting the edges to that it blended in etc. I “might” try painting one from scratch if I have a spare to see how I do. We’ll see.
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