Just to be clear -- don't want any hard feelings -- I asked Fencer about a patch design at the time I opened this topic and when there weren't yet any patch designs. I didn't wait until Krusty made his patch and then ask.
The two candidates look good -- I like them both.
A couple of suggestions for each, and then we should start voting on which to pick.
The final patch will be 3 inches from fathest point to farthest point (for non-round) and diameter (for round). If you adjust the size on your screen to match that, there might be some features you decide are too small and need to be increased or changed.
For Krusty's patch, I recommend making the main traingle reduced in height and making the secondary triangle and the tanks in it a bit bigger.
For Fencer's, some of the features will need to be bigger, or they won't come out well in thread. Can the palm tree and the iron cross be a lot bigger? And I'm not sure what kind of detail we'll get on the smaller unit patches unless they are a lot bigger.
Here are the patch designs and what they ended up looking like in thread so that folks can judge what level of detail is achievable.
http://www.electraforge.com/brooke/flightsims/patches/patchDesigns.htmlEspecially note Stalin's Fourth and Operation Husky. The small airplanes in Operation Husky were especially difficult to get done -- I had to go back and forth with the patch company many, many times over that, and it took over a month of back and forth to get it where it was. I don't think we should try to achieve details as small scale as that in the future patches -- it's sort of beyond what they can pull off well.
Many thanks, guys. I very much appreciate folks submitting patch designs. I can get them made, but I am not especially talented in designing them.
