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Title: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 07, 2010, 04:34:09 am
Hey, fellow BP-fans. :)
I was bored, so i made an Indus Unit-Badge. Yeah, that's about it. ^^
Maybe i'll make badges for some other units too, when i find the time.

(http://dingofick.de/gen/indus-badge.png)
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Dilmah G on September 07, 2010, 04:45:30 am
Wow, I actually really like that.

In fact, I'd like it even more if it was sewed to the sleeve of my g-suit. ;)
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: The E on September 07, 2010, 05:18:02 am
Needs to have the Indus' registry number as well (FG 2101, in case you didn't know)

But yeah, this be awesome.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Admiral Nelson on September 07, 2010, 06:08:22 am
Nice badge, but your Hindi seems to be misspelled.  It says "Sanidhu" whilst Hindi for Indus is 'Sindhu": 
 सिंधु
 
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 07, 2010, 06:28:52 am
There, now with registry and (i hope) the right Hindi-Thingy.
[edit] No, wait. still wrong.

['nother edit]
Okay, i tried several hindi-fonts (the one in the picture is Arial Unicode for now..) and just copied the सिंधु - it doesn't look like here in the forum, but every font looks more or less like this. I don't know if that's correct or not.

[edit]
Ah, screw it. *draws shape in illustrator*
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: General Battuta on September 07, 2010, 08:02:43 am
You are awesome. Do moar!
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Shivan Hunter on September 07, 2010, 08:42:26 am
This is epic win.

2nd fleet FTW!
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Dilmah G on September 07, 2010, 08:50:48 am
Mate, you should do us up the whole Federation Aircrew Uniform. :D
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 07, 2010, 12:06:32 pm
Mate, you should do us up the whole Federation Aircrew Uniform. :D
That would be a bit beyond my abilities. :/

Anyway.. everybodys favorite Cruiserkillers:

(http://dingofick.de/gen/serkr-badge.png)

If anyone knows some more details about them (like a fleetname), i'll gladly add that to the picture. ^^
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: General Battuta on September 07, 2010, 12:08:47 pm
Badass. I believe they're part of the GTVA 15th Battlegroup.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Ramizini on September 07, 2010, 12:53:45 pm
Well i created an account only to say:

awsomeness²

Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Satellight on September 07, 2010, 02:14:12 pm
So good ! Very well done  :yes:
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Scriptura on September 07, 2010, 03:09:34 pm
I sense an incorporation into BP3... :yes:
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: duff on September 07, 2010, 03:34:32 pm
Would be great to see those badges (and hopefully more of them) in future BP releases!
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Satellight on September 07, 2010, 03:50:04 pm
Would be great to see those badges (and hopefully more of them) in future BP releases!

+1  :nod:
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Jellyfish on September 07, 2010, 03:59:53 pm
Really awesome. Perhaps we can have these badges next to the nameplate?
Also, I'd love to see the names of the ships that form Serkr Team in their badge.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: The E on September 07, 2010, 04:02:03 pm
These designs are a bit too elaborate for nameplate insignia. For those, I would like some cleaner designs, stuff that you can discern from a distance.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: -Norbert- on September 07, 2010, 04:14:15 pm
But they'd definately look gorgeous on command briefing "welcome to the unit" screens :)
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 07, 2010, 04:40:46 pm
These designs are a bit too elaborate for nameplate insignia. For those, I would like some cleaner designs, stuff that you can discern from a distance.
I think the nameplates as they are now are pretty much perfect. Ship-Symbol, Name and registry number - all the ship needs in the field.
That and maybe the GTVA-Swirly or the Federation-Eagle, but that wouldn't look good from a distance, i think.. i mean, you need to be pretty close to see the insignia as it is.


... now, if i only could figure out how to convert these damn pof-files...
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Klaustrophobia on September 07, 2010, 05:11:01 pm
[nitpick] something about "team serker" sounds kindof.... odd.  maybe it's just me, but something like "serker assault force" seems, stronger? [/nitpick]
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: The E on September 07, 2010, 05:14:08 pm
They are referred to as "Serkr Team" in the narrative. "Corvette Division 151, 15th Battle Group" would be their "official" designation.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Klaustrophobia on September 07, 2010, 05:18:30 pm
well alright then.  "team serker" just kindof makes me think of sarcastic names like "team awsome"  :P
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: SomeGuyWithAName on September 07, 2010, 07:03:28 pm
This is awesome!

If there's going to be a whole set, I'm very tempted to get myself some prints on cloth of those.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: -Sara- on September 07, 2010, 07:21:40 pm
Love the badges so far. Maybe you can find a latin phrase for "the best defense is a good offense". :) Might work even better!
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: The E on September 07, 2010, 07:24:02 pm
I always liked "Nemo me impune lacessit". It's as badass as a motto can get.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: -Sara- on September 07, 2010, 07:27:44 pm
Might work for a Jovian vessel or hunting group maybe.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: The E on September 07, 2010, 07:29:01 pm
Well, Serkr is basically Steele's personal sidearm.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: SomeGuyWithAName on September 07, 2010, 07:32:35 pm
I always liked "Nemo me impune lacessit". It's as badass as a motto can get.


...For some reason I couldn't help myself from imagining the 42nd bagpipes, a bomber squadron consisting completely of kilt-wearing, tree-tossing badass scotsmen... 

:nervous:
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Scriptura on September 07, 2010, 08:31:20 pm
I always liked "Nemo me impune lacessit". It's as badass as a motto can get.


...For some reason I couldn't help myself from imagining the 42nd bagpipes, a bomber squadron consisting completely of kilt-wearing, tree-tossing badass scotsmen... 

:nervous:

Caber-tossing bombs LOL
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Jellyfish on September 07, 2010, 09:02:18 pm
Serkr is a nord word meaning coat. If anything, Serkr Team's motto should also be in nord instead of latin.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 08, 2010, 04:08:21 am
Serkr is a nord word meaning coat. If anything, Serkr Team's motto should also be in nord instead of latin.
I only speak german and english, but if anyone has a nice nordic motto for them, just write it down here and i put it on the badge.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on September 08, 2010, 11:51:43 am
Serkr is a nord word meaning coat. If anything, Serkr Team's motto should also be in nord instead of latin.

"Coat"? Like, the thing you put on when you go outside? Wow, that's... disappointing...
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: General Battuta on September 08, 2010, 11:54:53 am
Serkr is a nord word meaning coat. If anything, Serkr Team's motto should also be in nord instead of latin.

"Coat"? Like, the thing you put on when you go outside? Wow, that's... disappointing...

It's part of the derivation of the compound 'ber''serkr', meaning (maybe) 'bear coat'.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Rodo on September 08, 2010, 11:56:22 am
ohh, nice badges.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Jellyfish on September 08, 2010, 12:24:40 pm
Serkr is a nord word meaning coat. If anything, Serkr Team's motto should also be in nord instead of latin.

"Coat"? Like, the thing you put on when you go outside? Wow, that's... disappointing...

It's part of the derivation of the compound 'ber''serkr', meaning (maybe) 'bear coat'.

True. To properly become one of them, though, you had to go out, kill and skin an adult bear by yourself. The coat you make with its skin became a sign of strenght and courage.
So, it doesn't sound that disappointing when seen in context. You can say the Serkr Team wears the 'serkr' of UEF frigates.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 08, 2010, 03:01:45 pm
Killing bears with beamweapons is a bit overkill, though.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: The E on September 08, 2010, 03:04:12 pm
Depends on the Bear.

Tell me, when was the last time you killed an Ursa without using several kilotons of explosive force?
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Jellyfish on September 09, 2010, 01:06:56 am
Killing bears with beamweapons is a bit overkill, though.
No such thing.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 09, 2010, 02:12:26 pm
Took a while (and a good chunk of my nerves..), but i got the fs2-models in Photoshop. Gonna make a couple of Squadron-Badges over the next days. ^^
In the meantime, have another Karuna:
(http://dingofick.de/gen/yangtze-badge.png)
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: General Battuta on September 09, 2010, 02:24:51 pm
Truly kickass. Fine work.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: -Norbert- on September 09, 2010, 03:49:53 pm
Killing bears with beamweapons is a bit overkill, though.
No such thing.
Considering there must be something left of the bear to make a coat, I think there is an overkill in this instance.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 10, 2010, 09:52:13 am
(http://dingofick.de/gen/bengals-badge.png)
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: General Battuta on September 10, 2010, 09:57:10 am
While it's artistically and technically well-done, for the first time I gotta say I'm not sure I'd wear that as a unit patch - it's so...cheerful!
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Dilmah G on September 10, 2010, 10:03:50 am
I'm going to agree with Battuta there. It's very well done artistically, but it doesn't strike me as menacing enough for a unit patch. It doesn't make me feel that "My squadron's a bunch of tough mother****ers who eat, sleep, and fight together to the bloody end. And when the Feds close in for bayonets and grenades, we'll **** them right up back to Earth."
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Jellyfish on September 10, 2010, 10:09:22 am
True. It looks good, but it really doesn't belong in War in Heaven
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on September 10, 2010, 10:28:25 am
Indeed, something like this would be more fitting for a fighter squadron (it actually is from the USAF, so yeah)

(http://www.kirtland.af.mil/shared/media/ggallery/hires/AFG-100730-003.jpg)
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: The E on September 10, 2010, 10:38:01 am
KITTY HUG!
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 10, 2010, 10:44:08 am
Indeed, something like this would be more fitting for a fighter squadron (it actually is from the USAF, so yeah)
Yeah, but every single Logo with a tiger on it looks like this.. i wanted something different. Besides, who said that Unit Badges can't be cheerful?
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Ravenholme on September 10, 2010, 12:47:06 pm
Indeed, something like this would be more fitting for a fighter squadron (it actually is from the USAF, so yeah)
Yeah, but every single Logo with a tiger on it looks like this.. i wanted something different. Besides, who said that Unit Badges can't be cheerful?

It doesn't fit the GTVA - the GTVA logo would be like those ones, fearsome and very much militaristic. That looks cheerful enough to be a fed logo
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 10, 2010, 01:02:10 pm
Indeed, something like this would be more fitting for a fighter squadron (it actually is from the USAF, so yeah)
Yeah, but every single Logo with a tiger on it looks like this.. i wanted something different. Besides, who said that Unit Badges can't be cheerful?

It doesn't fit the GTVA - the GTVA logo would be like those ones, fearsome and very much militaristic. That looks cheerful enough to be a fed logo
Ah, but maybe that's the tactic - lure the enemy in with your cuddly kittenlogo, then smash them when they're lulled in by the nice tiger. Psychological warfare at its best!
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Jellyfish on September 10, 2010, 01:40:04 pm
Yeah, I can see it working. Put a Fenris with the badge and when UEF frigates jump in, send in a couple destroyers.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 10, 2010, 02:35:12 pm
(http://dingofick.de/gen/bloodletters-badge.png)
It's a bit more bloodsucking than bloodletting and i couldn't come up with a good slogan.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: SpardaSon21 on September 10, 2010, 03:45:12 pm
Maybe a blood-dripping scalpel instead?
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: General Battuta on September 10, 2010, 03:54:00 pm
I think it's pretty cool. Scalpel works too.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 10, 2010, 04:03:53 pm
Maybe a blood-dripping scalpel instead?
I think, the teeth are more menacing. Besides, the Bloodletters don't really strike me as a surgical option or anything.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: SpardaSon21 on September 10, 2010, 04:13:29 pm
I didn't mean *some* blood on a scalpel.  I meant a scalpel covered in enough blood to make Quentin Tarantino jealous.  Perhaps "dripping" was the wrong word and I should have used "cascading blood like a waterfall".
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 10, 2010, 04:55:15 pm
I didn't mean *some* blood on a scalpel.  I meant a scalpel covered in enough blood to make Quentin Tarantino jealous.  Perhaps "dripping" was the wrong word and I should have used "cascading blood like a waterfall".
That wouldn't look good, trust me on this. Maybe on a knife... or a dagger. Actually, a dagger would work. Implies backstabbing and all that.
Still, i'll stay with the teeth for now.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Kolgena on September 10, 2010, 04:58:24 pm
I think chainsaws are effective at bloodletting. I can't remember what the bloodletters fly, so maybe that doesn't fit well. Leeches/lamprey maybe? Yeah. Lamprey with oversized chainsaw teeth.

Appreciate the 长江 :D
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Dragon on September 10, 2010, 05:00:36 pm
Maybe some 40K reference (maybe it's still on 200 years from now...).  :)
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Bloodletter
For example, head of this daemon with fangs dripping with blood.
Or a Hellblade.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Kolgena on September 10, 2010, 05:01:54 pm
We could also totally miss the point and have a letter written in dark red ink.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Jellyfish on September 10, 2010, 05:23:32 pm
Psychological warfare again? Make the UEF wonder what's going on and then BOOM!
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Pr011 on September 11, 2010, 04:20:43 pm
That air base tiger looks like it has a eye infection.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 14, 2010, 09:25:09 am
(http://dingofick.de/gen/navajas-badge.png)

The fleet's just a guess.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: The E on September 14, 2010, 09:31:45 am
The fleet is correct, but it's called "1st Fleet" or "Home Fleet", not "1st Fleet Sol".
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Dilmah G on September 14, 2010, 09:46:32 am
I like the badge, looks decently cool. :) However the font, while it suits the badge, doesn't hit the 'badass nerve' within me.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Qent on September 14, 2010, 09:52:30 am
I like the badge, looks decently cool. :) However the font, while it suits the badge, doesn't hit the 'badass nerve' within me.
Sounds like 1st Fleet to me. :P
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Dilmah G on September 14, 2010, 09:54:25 am
True. :D
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: SpardaSon21 on September 14, 2010, 12:20:46 pm
Nobody noticed he misspelled "squadron"?
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: General Battuta on September 14, 2010, 12:22:39 pm
Nobody noticed he misspelled "squadron"?

It's part of an Ubuntu initiative to help people identify with their squadmates. There is no 'u' in 'sqadron'!
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: newman on September 14, 2010, 01:25:16 pm
Besides, look at what the internet has done for general literacy in a really short amount of time; in this far out future it'll be a wonder if the human kind will still be able to write at all, let alone spell "squadron" correctly :P

Seriously though, good work. Personally, I'd have taken the ship pictures in the badges and traced them in illustrator as vector art, then discarded the original pics. Just to get more of an illustration feel to it - then possibly play around with it in Photoshop to get a fabric texture feel to it. Just a personal preference, though - badges are fine the way they are.
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Herra Tohtori on September 14, 2010, 03:23:19 pm
(http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/2876/whiteknightswip.png) (http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/2876/whiteknightswip.png)

You should be able to guess which unit this belongs to. ;7
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Snail on September 14, 2010, 03:53:13 pm
:lol:
Title: Re: Unit Badges
Post by: Gen on September 15, 2010, 06:25:28 am
The fleet is correct, but it's called "1st Fleet" or "Home Fleet", not "1st Fleet Sol".
Good to know. Corrected.

Nobody noticed he misspelled "squadron"?
Seems like you're the first. Corrected. ^^