Author Topic: Operation Husky patches (Read 8421 times)

Charge · « **Reply #45 on:** September 20, 2007, 05:03:27 AM »

What if you drop the planes and put RAF and LW roundel and cross there?

Because even in C option i doubt that the planes will be recognizable if they are sewn in the patch, if they are printed it could work.

Maybe they could be laid out something like this:

US ITA

RAF GER
Sicily

Aces High bla bla....

-C+

Brooke · « **Reply #46 on:** October 31, 2007, 01:04:45 AM »

OK, now that my CM duties for Der Grosse Schlag are over (or nearly over -- there is still scoring), I can get back on patches.

C is the winner. However, could I get one thing: have the plane outlines a bit larger and sharper? That will make it easier for the graphics folks to know what the outline is supposed to be, and bigger will show up better on the patch.

BlauK · « **Reply #47 on:** October 31, 2007, 04:10:42 AM »

Has anyone heard from Krusty lately?
Will he make the final, or should I

Brooke · « **Reply #48 on:** November 05, 2007, 12:35:36 AM »

All I need is for the airplanes to be a bit larger and with sharper outline (no bluriness to confuse the graphic artist at the patch company).

I'll PM Krusty to see if he can respond here. Either way, if one of you guys makes the final, I can get it into production, which I'd like to do asap now that DGS is done.

McDeath · « **Reply #49 on:** November 05, 2007, 06:05:53 AM »

Krusty posted in our squad forums he would be away for some time. We have not heard from him since.

Brooke · « **Reply #50 on:** November 05, 2007, 02:40:49 PM »

In that case, BlauK, could you do the mods?

BlauK · « **Reply #51 on:** November 05, 2007, 03:03:36 PM »

Krusty has all the original pics and sources. I have only edited his bitmaps to paly with the layouts, therefore I cannot just easily get better plane profiles. I would have to search for some pics to do that... or redraw/trace them.

I can do it, but if anyone can contact Krusty, it would be the easiest way.

If not, I'll redraw them. I would likely do that in CorelDraw. Could you ask if they can use some vector file directly (*.cdr *.ai *.eps *.wmf ...etc) or do they only take bitmaps?

Brooke · « **Reply #52 on:** November 05, 2007, 11:56:09 PM »

I sent Krusty a PM but haven't heard anything back.

Hmm. Let me try this. Let me send them the graphic as is and see how it looks after they render it.

Let's that that approach first. If it looks bad, we can go to plan B (which is do more work).

So, no work needed yet. I'll come back after I get the rendering.

BlauK · « **Reply #53 on:** November 06, 2007, 01:03:12 AM »

Krusty · « **Reply #54 on:** December 07, 2007, 01:39:11 PM »

Just curious if you've received word from the patch makers or not? It's been a month, but it's a holiday filled time of travel and paid time off, so who knows how that'll impact their process.

Brooke · « **Reply #55 on:** December 07, 2007, 04:54:43 PM »

We're past the graphical mockup stage, and I'm in the process of iterating sewouts. Everything looked good on the last one, but the plane outlines needed a little tweaking. Assuming the next round shows those as good, I'll give them the go ahead to do the run.

Krusty · « **Reply #56 on:** December 07, 2007, 05:19:49 PM »

Thanks for the heads-up!

Brooke · « **Reply #57 on:** January 20, 2008, 12:11:10 AM »

I'm still working on this.

The airplanes are looking crappy in the sewouts, and I'm trying to work with the patch company to figure out how to deal with that.

The problem is that the outlines are small enough that small irregularities in the stitching are causing the P-40 to look funny.

There will be a Husky patch. I am on it. But this one is taking longer than any other patch to do. I will keep after it.

Krusty · « **Reply #58 on:** February 14, 2008, 05:34:00 PM »

Brooke, let me know if the outlines are still crappy. I'll make 'em larger and crisper, hopefully they can get it to sew better

Brooke · « **Reply #59 on:** February 18, 2008, 09:34:46 PM »

Here is the leading candidate of the Operation Husky patch I'm trying to get produced. It's taken a very long time, as the patch company was having a lot of trouble with the plane outlines -- I had to go back and forth a lot on different versions.

Anyway, if they are able to make the following, this is the one I'll go with: