Harbinger

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Suggestions - non-award related. 1.) Add some more Star Wars iconography to the forum skin, an easy replacement would be the read/unread icons: ...or FOTK inclusive version (design credit for split symbol goes to gmrhodes)?: 2.) Consider adding the logo/some color to the header?: (blurry logo because I can't find the new one)

I have never heard of anyone having issues with Anovos gear not meeting 501st standards when assembled correctly. Their track record problems are more on the fulfillment side of things - they make a good product for the price but you will be waiting for it, sometimes a year or more.

It's Full of Stars Going though some final polish/presentation of various scenarios, I thought I would break down the star system. Paul, myself and others talked about this briefly in the attache section, but here it is for all to see. The current system stops after thirteen years/stars/levels, but taking a page from real-life military service ribbons, I propose doing something akin to what is done in the military and adding additional rows. Quick example... First year, ribbon and no star: Years 2-5, bronze stars: Years 6-9, silver stars: Years 10-13, gold stars: All of the above already exists in the current art. For years 14-26, I propose adding a second row the same as above. Example, year 14 would look like this: (Top row 13, bottom row 1; 13+1=14) At year 27, you add a third row, etcetera. Although I doubt anyone would serve on staff beyond 26 years, we would have the capacity to do so. As mentioned earlier, EIB awards are a similar system with stars appearing above the logo... The first award has no stars, while #'s two through five have silver stars: EIB #'s 6-9 have gold stars: I propose that for EIB #10 it switches to a 5-star design (as seen on real-life five star generals), and for EIB #11 a sixth star is added (again, based on real military imagery): For EIB awards #12+, I propose that you do NOT add any additional stars (the image caps out at six stars) and just give them FISD kudos for being an insane person. Alternately, you could either make #11 five gold with a silver star in the middle, moving six gold stars to #12 and the cutoff up one, and/or design something if someone ever gets to EIB #12 (or #13).

I used the Rustoleum knock-off of FlexSeal, LeakSeal for mine, turned out nice: It's rubber and has a rougher texture than Plastidip.

Made some tweaks to the armorer awards to closer match the originals: Also made some tweaks to the Centurion type so it feels more like the old one: One last suggestion I would like to make, would be to change the ordering of awards in the sidebar so that EIB and Centurion awards go last, with all ribbon-style awards before. This basically amounts to making the Armorer awards appear before the EI awards; this way they are split up by art style/award type, with the EIB space where the stars reside acting as a break. Using Tony again to illustrate - compare to the previous post: ukswrath Deployment Officer Deployment Officer[Staff] X,XXX posts Location:CA I could even argue you don't need the text under the Attache Achievement Award, and use some mouseover text to do the same job. Everyone (staff included) please feel free to leave your feedback/constructive criticism. I don't foresee any more tweaks on my end, so it's up to you guys.

Yeah I was about to say the same thing... merch run.

May want to move first thread to where non-attachés/staff can see it? There is also the other CRL change thread I started that has some stuff as well: https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/43470-tk-crl-changes/

Okay, now that everything has had at least one pass, here's a quick mockup of how all the new stuff would look. I'll be using Ukswrath as a real-world example since he has most of these awards (hope you don't mind, Tony!): CURRENT: ukswrath Deployment Officer Deployment Officer[Staff] X,XXX posts Location:CA ------------------------------------------------------- New/Proposed: CURRENT: ukswrath Deployment Officer Deployment Officer[Staff] X,XXX posts Location:CA I hope this illustrates one of the goals of this refresh, consistency. Some additional notes: I decided to go with rounded corners for the the user ranks/titles, but am planning to keep everything else square... mostly so the EI/Centurion awards can stay square and it will all match - don't want to change these too much. Spacing between images has been tweaked, hopefully evident above. All art is vector-based, so in the future it can be scaled up/down to any resolution needed. Art is not designed/doesn't currently exist for EIB #10 or above. A solution will be needed when Glen gets there.

Centurion Award Proposed changes from existing: Font switch to match everything else Merged laurels and border into single shape/gradient to clean up design (and help with scaling) Slightly larger text, to help with smaller sizes Proposed NEW Centurion art:

Master Armorer Awards I didn't do a lot here as these are fairly new awards, mostly tweaks so they match the new art style: Font changed to match other awards Stars changed to match new ribbon stars Yellow/gold ribbon color tweaked slightly to match gold of new star I can't tell if the old awards were intended to have a white stroke around the laurel leaves, but I put them on because it helps the leaves stand out on the ribbon (especially the darker blue). Here's what it would look like without:

Attaché Achievement Award, Part III Changes from previous version: Swapped in higher-res handshake (thanks Glenn!) Text color/boldness changes to match EI badge Here is with the darker blue: ...or with FISD blue: Darker blue looks better with the olive green (unofficial, official Attache color) IMO.

Drop Shadows Here's a quick comparison of a toned-down stroke/drop shadow: vs. older version:

Expert Infantry Badge, Revisited Changes from previous version: Stars moved back to above award DLT-19 replaced with more accurate version from newest hi-res logo Imperial cogs re-added EXPERT INFANTRY text style adjusted (more bling) Gold border adjusted, no more rounded corners FWIW, I tried a version with split Imperial/FO symbols but the FO symbol looks terrible at lower resolutions... but here it is for reference: PS: Above-star spacing matches ribbon star spacing, a change from existing art. I think it'll look better:

Since Wyatt is apparently a silver baron now, maybe a FOTK bullion coin down the road?

Blame ROTJ.

Please use the correct thread:

Fits like a glove

Accuracy suggestion at the moment. Highly encouraged though! Congratulations on EIB!

I received my Echo bracket and fans from Tony earlier this week (thanks again!), so yesterday I cut out a decal for it so I could complete my helmet redo: The final product - lenses cut down and reinstalled along with padding, fan bracket and power supply:

Great work!

Hey Dan FWIW I was planning on dialing down the cartoonishness a bit anyway (less stroke), thanks for the feedback!

Doing a quick brush-on of acetone helps with the tiny air bubbles too in my experience. Also the paste seems to discolor with age. Use it or lose it!

New patch runs can always have both blues. I’m fine with either honestly.

I can change the blue, none of this is final.