Carlson793 Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 I... might want the keep + another element not yet present for my Inheritors... One of the Rooks with something else added? Easy enough to accomplish, think. Well, I was thinking of a hybrid aquila inside the rook (the wings from one image and the central body+heads+talons from another). Which particular Aquilas you thinking of having combined? The 'Dead Chicken' from the current Imperial Knight sheet? (Hmm... need to revise my Aquila sheet with that one.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Hmm lemme see... These wings on a regular aquila? I think the keep would have to be white, though, as the shoulder pads would be black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlson793 Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 You want ragged wings (little notches here and there) or smooth? Kinda hard to tell at the resolution of the source image. And that'd be black Aquila on white rook on black shoulder pad, correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 You want ragged wings (little notches here and there) or smooth? Kinda hard to tell at the resolution of the source image. And that'd be black Aquila on white rook on black shoulder pad, correct? Smooth? Smooth. Yeah, smooth. I think. Yeah. Black bird, white castle, black pads. Thing is - I'm completely reinventing my oldest Chapter's heraldry on nothing more than whim. Shot in the dark, and all that. Beats repurposing the White Consuls symbol, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlson793 Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 Something along the lines of this (but remembering to change color mode to RGB so it doesn't look charcoal when it should be black): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Out of the four, the top right one is the best. So... yeah, something along those lines. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlson793 Posted April 2, 2016 Author Share Posted April 2, 2016 Sorry, Olis. Had a small family "emergency" that cost me a day (sitting at my folks house babysitting their dog that has separation issues while they did a rescue/transport on a couple fostered Great Pyrenees elsewhere in the state). Anyway, just had time to load the Inheritors sheet to my Google Drive. Lemme know how that works for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlson793 Posted April 2, 2016 Author Share Posted April 2, 2016 (edited) Ooohhh... I really like the keep no. 10. No idea what I'd use it for (Heresy Imperial Fists Company identifier, maybe?) but I like it. Maybe replace the Angels Revenant burning skull with the Imperial Fists...umm, fist. Treat it like a campaign badge, perhaps. Maybe swap the crossed gladius for a more IF iconographic weapon pair... Okay, The Psycho. Right now I'm listing this as an "Imperial Fist Campaign Badge". Except for #1, they all use IF iconography (the crossed gladius in #1 would be more Ultramarines, I think). Edited April 2, 2016 by Carlson793 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Anyway, just had time to load the Inheritors sheet to my Google Drive. Lemme know how that works for you. Works for me. :tu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soldier of Dorn Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Ooohhh... I really like the keep no. 10. No idea what I'd use it for (Heresy Imperial Fists Company identifier, maybe?) but I like it. Maybe replace the Angels Revenant burning skull with the Imperial Fists...umm, fist. Treat it like a campaign badge, perhaps. Maybe swap the crossed gladius for a more IF iconographic weapon pair... Okay, The Psycho. Right now I'm listing this as an "Imperial Fist Campaign Badge". Except for #1, they all use IF iconography (the crossed gladius in #1 would be more Ultramarines, I think). I'm personally a big fan of the first one. The simplicity of the gladii speaks to the ideal of the Imperial Fists in my mind, Astartes using simple, efficient, and effective weapons in the performance of their duty. The more ornate Templar swords are very nice, but they feel just a tad too fancy for my personal image of the VII, and the axes, while already an established part of Imperial Fist iconography, have a connotation of brutality due to Fafnir Rahn and the future Executioners chapter. So, yeah... sorry if this train of thought makes absolutely no sense. But no. 1's still my favorite. :) Also, if you make a sheet of these, would you mind doing two versions of this sheet? One with black icons and one yellow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlson793 Posted April 4, 2016 Author Share Posted April 4, 2016 Also, if you make a sheet of these, would you mind doing two versions of this sheet? One with black icons and one yellow? Yellow icons, huh?.. Might cause some problems visually (I wouldn't recommend yellow on white), but here are a few ways we could do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlson793 Posted April 5, 2016 Author Share Posted April 5, 2016 Project: Blades of Alaric Sponsor: Brother Arkley This one turned around fairly quickly, but with the back-and-forth on the design I thought I'd show how a decal sheet changes from concept to completion (battle plans never survive contact with the enemy; decal concepts never survive contact with your graphic designer). Brother Arkley started with this description: So I was thinking they are called the Blades of Alaric, so a Downward pointed DA style sword with 3 6 pointed stars in white. Not knowing at that point what kind of 6-pointed stars he wanted, I did a solid one for the concept, plus a second version with three different looks for those stars. Seeing his concept realized, Bro. Arkley came back with a few modifications he wanted: The hilt of the sword can its be thickened and like the pommel sorry to be a pain could you try with this picture for the star... Do you thikn 3 is too much? Would a 8 pointed star like the pic I link be better under the sword hilt? ...with a link to the specific star he wanted (from one of the Horus Heresy books based on the art style). Which looked a lot like the stars making up the Steel Brethren CSM chapter, which I'd created a sheet for long ago (Has it really only been a little over a year I've been doing these? Seems so much longer.).http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/3/39/Steel_Brethren_badge.png I prepped another sample but the three stars just hanging out around the sword just didn't feel right. So tried a couple rearrangements: one that added a star and spaced them closer to the sword, and another that kept just three stars, but overlapped the guard and pommel. Some more modifications from B.Arkley: Can you do one with the Star at the back and just one star? And make the cross guard like the pommel? And the sword over the star? Since I was thinking the star would be centered on the guard, I needed to lengthen the rays of the star to show up. One last suggestion: Any chance of the star points abut half their size? and half way down or would that look too odd? ...and we had this: First concept post: 5:50 pm Final design approval: 8:51 pm Sheet loaded and approved: 11:00 pm (Those times aren't typical. I'm usually spending days messaging back-and-forth with a 'client' in another part of the world; with this one, we just happened to be online at the same time. Also, the design complexity here didn't need much work - the DA sword is simple to duplicate; the hardest part of doing stars is telling Illustrator how deep to make the points; and the 'open star' I lifted straight from a previous sheet.) Olis, Commissar Molotov, Dosjetka and 1 other 4 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Captain Arkley Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 (edited) Awesome man I can't like more than once. Edited April 5, 2016 by Brother Arkley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlson793 Posted April 5, 2016 Author Share Posted April 5, 2016 Oh, and the images in that process piece? Yeah, that's how I end up with loads of source material for other logos. So many decals that never became their own thing, but some element of it ended up as the basis for a later decal. Brother Captain Arkley 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Captain Arkley Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 You are a great asset to the community Carlson. Your work is without a doubt awesome :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dosjetka Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 That shoulder pad picture is actually from the 4th Edition Chaos Space Marines Codex. Just FYI. :) Also, great work! I really like that symbol. And the eight-pointed star is very nice... hum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Captain Arkley Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 That shoulder pad picture is actually from the 4th Edition Chaos Space Marines Codex. Just FYI. Also, great work! I really like that symbol. And the eight-pointed star is very nice... hum... I Know... Cool and yup Hexagrammaton from DA Horus Hersey :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlson793 Posted April 10, 2016 Author Share Posted April 10, 2016 Okay, this one's been on the back burner for a long while. A request got me thinking about it again, and how to cover as many bases as I could with one sheet. Since I've started layered PDFs, the idea is a lot easier to implement. Basically: enough squad markings for a battle company, but accounting for the differing markings for each role. That way, folks who prefer the 'explosion' mark instead of the 'chevron' for their Devastator squads can toggle the appropriate layer to get what they want. Oh, and markings for Rhinos with the 'top hatch split'. Will also, of course, have sheets in different colors should you want red/blue/whatever color. Race Bannon and Olis 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlson793 Posted April 11, 2016 Author Share Posted April 11, 2016 Ya know, I have yet to figure out just what is wrong with me. I mean, I tell one sponsor that I'm gonna take a few days off to get caught up on life before getting to the couple sheets they requested, and within 24 hours I have the basis for both sheets in the 'scale and duplicate' stage. SHEESH!! This one started as a request by Brother Arkley*, and morphed into yet another "I've been meaning to do X sheet, so might as well do it now." In addition to all the chapter and squad symbols, Insignium Astartes has a page showing Army/Campaign Badges. Well, a slow day at work, and the base designs are done. Figure I'll skip the usual 8mm Shoulder Pad size and stick to 5mm (Knees) and a larger version for vehicles (12-16mm). Might have to go A4 instead of A5 so I can get enough vehicle sized ones for a decent army. (Brother Arkley: the ones you requested are sampled on the bottom row.) *Gimme a break, Arkley! Three requests in a week! I play Mechanicus - that doesn't make me a machine, ya know?! Olis, Brother Captain Arkley and Race Bannon 3 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macloren Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 (edited) I've just discovered this plog and... Wow! Carlson, you are a talented little monkey and no mistake! That sheet you did with the shaped decals for the different Knights is a wonder. The army bage sheet is a great idea too. Edited April 14, 2016 by Macloren Carlson793 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Captain Arkley Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Love the first one :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SickSix Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Some great work here. I haven't yet tried printing my own decals. Honestly I have a lot of trouble with them. But I can only free hand basic :cuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlson793 Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 Posted the Brother-Arkley-commissioned-but-kinda-exploded-in-scope Campaign Badges. Ended up breaking the badges into two sets to fit more badges on each sheet. Set A Set B Brother Captain Arkley, Olis and Macloren 3 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlson793 Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 A little preview of a commission by Saa. Very early days on it - lots of rust and corrosion to do. Two versions when it's final: one in all white, the other in red/black/white. Brother Captain Arkley and Olis 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlson793 Posted April 15, 2016 Author Share Posted April 15, 2016 Damn, but Saa's Dark Mechanicus sheet is proving to be a fun one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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