Tank for the 2016 badge

djensen

I need to start working on the new badges for 2016. Any thoughts? Keep in mind that I’ll need to find a silhouette for whatever we end up using. The rule books have some silhouettes but not all.

Past tanks:
2015: UK Matilda II
2014: WWI tank
2013: Italian M15/42
2012: US Sherman
2011: Soviet T-34
2010: German Panther

CWO Marc

I don’t have any particular preferences to recommend, but you might find useful my A&A Unit Identification Charts for tanks. They’re in this thread…

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=31982.0
Axis and Allies.org Boards > General > Axis & Allies Customizations > A&A Unit Identification Charts

…in this post:

Â« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2013, 11:52:09 am Â»

One chart is for the Allied tanks and one is for the Axis ones. The silhouettes are actual photographs of A&A sculpts, shot in high-contrast lighting and converted from colour to black and white. If you’d like to use any of those silhouettes for future badges, you’re welcome to do so. (You’ll need to edit out the grey backgrounds, but that shouldn’t be a problem).

CWO Marc

Also, note that the tanks in my photos point to the left, so the images will need to be flipped left-to-right to match the direction of the tanks in the previous badges (except for the WWI tank badge, whose tank points to the left).

aequitas-et-veritas

A Tiger I would be nice.
A T-34 comes in second to my mind.
Or a Jumbo Sherman as one of my last ideas.

djensen

We’ve done the T-34 and Sherman already. I added the list to the first post.

djensen

Tiger I sounds like a good idea. We haven’t done the Japanese tank yet but I think the Tiger would be more fun.

CWO Marc

@djensen:

Tiger I sounds like a good idea. We haven’t done the Japanese tank yet but I think the Tiger would be more fun.

I agree that the Tiger I would be a good choice. It’s one the two heavy tank designs provided in A&A 1941, so there’s a silhouette for it in my A&A Unit Identification Charts.

By the way, it’s safe to delete the question mark from the line in your post which says “2010: German Panther?”. Your post for the 2011 Support Drive retroactively identified the 2010 tank as the Panther: "In case you didn’t notice, last year the icon for the patron badges was the German Panther. This year, I’ve selected the Russian T-34. For 2012, it will be the US Sherman. "

djensen

Thanks for confirming that for me. :-)

Witt

I was going to suggest the Tiger, but was unaware that you had the silhouette.
Glad it can be my favourite tank.
Thanks again Djensen for your site. Love the people I have met here.

CWO Marc

I’ve gone to my original Tiger sculpt picture file (which is larger than the version in the identification charts, so it’s easier to edit) and I’ve deleted the grey background, which I then replaced with the three badge colours. I’ve posted the pictures below, in case djensen wants to use them, along with a blank-background version. They’ll need to be shrunk to badge size, but I’ll leave that part to djensen since I don’t know what method he normally uses. The files are in png format, so the backgrounds can be re-coloured as needed using (for example) Microsoft Paint’s fill-with-colour function. There are four files, so I’ll post them in two messages. Here are the first two:

Tiger I Gold.png_thumb
Tiger I Silver.png_thumb
Tiger I Gold.png_thumb
Tiger I Gold.png_thumb
Tiger I Gold.png_thumb
Tiger I Gold.png_thumb
Tiger I Gold.png_thumb
Tiger I Gold.png_thumb

CWO Marc

And here are the next two:

aequitas-et-veritas

@djensen:

I added the list to the first post.

Thank you for putting it up.

I hereby thank you as well for this site.

Gargantua

Could do a Stug in 2017?

djensen

CWO, do you have a version with a transparent background?

CWO Marc

@djensen:

CWO, do you have a version with a transparent background?

The blank version I posted has all of its background elements manually erased, and is saved in png format, so in principle the tank and the background should be separate and distinguishable. I’m not sure what you mean by a transparent background. In case it helps, I’ve just converted the blank picture to two bitmap images (one 256-colour and one 16-colour), which I’ll email to you in a few moments (because bmp attachments with aren’t a format which the forum allows to be posted).

I’m going to be away for most of the next two weeks, and my access to the forum will be very intermittent from now until January 4th, so I hope the two files I’ll email to you will work. If not, perhaps someone on the board who’s more familiar with image editing than I am (my knowledge is minimal) can convert the files to the format that you need.

Panther

@CWO:

… If not, perhaps someone on the board … can convert the files to the format that you need.

This is the image with a transparent background:

variance

I vote Konigstiger

CWO Marc

@P@nther:

This is the image with a transparent background:

Great, thanks! I was pretty sure that somebody on the board would have the required expertise. :-)

Gargantua

I suggest the use of SUBS 2020-2030

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