Patches

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silentfury214

Discussion Starter · Jan 4, 2011

Hello everybody!

Recently I have been thinking that it would be a good idea if I made some ASF patches. On a few of the other forums that I am on have started doing this and I think it is a good idea to kind of spread the word of ASF. Last night I did a quick sketch up of what I thought they might be able to look like. Before you respond saying that it looks bad, please take notice that this is my first time ever with photoshop. Now, I wasn't able to add this in the picture, but I was going to add the words Airsoft Sniper Forum around the outside of the crosshair equidistant apart. Also, the color to the left of the image is the color I was thinking about, but that could change at any moment. Pleas post your comments on what you think it should look like, if we should even have one, or any other changes that you would like to see made. Also, I would like to know the backing type you guys would prefer (velcro, sew-on, etc.)

Here is the pic:

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mosin

· #21 · Jan 5, 2011

Either way we go with this, there is a business side to this. I would be more than willing to take charge of making the phone calls and ordering the patches, however current job as is is what has my time. If any of the mods wanted to this task up. But let's go ahead and get basic design specs out of the way, narrow it down to two or three and then make another poll. Democracy prevails.

-Mosin

silentfury214

Discussion Starter · #22 · Jan 5, 2011

I agree with sounguru and think that we should all agree on a base before we actually design the patch, in turn making our lives one step easier.

sounguru

· #23 · Jan 5, 2011

Mosin said:
Either way we go with this, there is a business side to this. I would be more than willing to take charge of making the phone calls and ordering the patches, however current job as is is what has my time. If any of the mods wanted to this task up. But let's go ahead and get basic design specs out of the way, narrow it down to two or three and then make another poll. Democracy prevails.

-Mosin

Just stay away from Butler patches they have hammered the last 3 patches I have sent to them to stitch up...

silentfury214 said:
I agree with sounguru and think that we should all agree on a base before we actually design the patch, in turn making our lives one step easier.

What I would be willing to do is hammer out say 6 designs all based on a few simple elements and then poll the elements down from there. Might take me a day or so but if that works we can go from there.

woogie

· #24 · Jan 5, 2011

Keep it as basic as can be.

I mean take a look at real patches... The big red one, 2nd ID, 1st ID, 20th ENG, 101 airborne.

They all have very well known patches, but they are all very simple. Just need something like that, nothing to fancy, or it just looks like an ink blot.

And if it is just a symbol or something of the like, then you will have people ask you what it is, or what it means. Then you can tell them about the site and get them on.

sounguru

· #25 · Jan 5, 2011

Simple one based on the skull theory....

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silentfury214

Discussion Starter · #26 · Jan 5, 2011

I really like that design sounguru.

woogie

· #27 · Jan 5, 2011

Wouldn't even need the skull to be honest. Just keep the cross hairs, and the crossed rifles.

Just that. don't need any words on them. If you want words those should go on the name tape.

silentfury214

Discussion Starter · #28 · Jan 5, 2011

So woogie, basically my patch design with a different type of base patch?

But yes, the skull should probably go, but I think the words should stay IMHO.

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woogie

· #29 · Jan 5, 2011

Yeah something along those lines. But I still like just a symbol. Something that you can glance at and know what it is. You get to much stuff on a patch and it just becomes a mess.

Heck I love my 2nd ID patch that I wear.

Simple not much to it.... but you can just glance at it and know what it is.

mosin

· #30 · Jan 5, 2011

woogie said:
Simple not much to it.... but you can just glance at it and know what it is.

My thoughts exactly.

silentfury214

Discussion Starter · #31 · Jan 5, 2011

I like the idea, but we are now exactly ASR here, not tons of people know who we are.

woogie

· #32 · Jan 5, 2011

No problem.... that will get people to ask about it

thus bringing up a conversation.

sounguru

· #33 · Jan 5, 2011

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Okay after reading all of the input given so far I think we need to step back and look at this from another angle entirely.

First we need to make a site logo that gives us an identity and from there you make the patch. I will use my site a a reference because I have both a site/team logo and them a patch based on the logo that is our field patch.

Thank along the lines of brand recognition, but first we need that brand logo something that everyone will recognize no matter how it is used...

Team/Site Logo

The Field patch based on that logo..

As you can see the elements are all there and everyone in my area quickly ID's the two even though they are a different design.

Update... an example of what I'm talking about...
Site Logo

Patch derived from logo

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mosin

· #34 · Jan 6, 2011

Im not going to lie man, these things have happened in the past. I understand that you've almost been on the site for a year now. But this feels like its moving fast. Talking about making a banner and whatnot now, I've been a member of this website for nearly 4 years, not long after it was created and most certainly when it was just getting going. ASF is an international thing now, something like this is something I personally don't want to see rushed. You said you all wanted specific and not done elsewhere, so let's start from there.

-Mosin
Airsoft Sniper

EDIT: could someone do one of those red/blue backgrounds with the person being white silhouette? But have the guy obviously be crouched with a long rifle and ghillie suit. If you don't know what im talking about check out the nba logo thing.
soundguru: I like the 3rd one you made in that last post, could you change the text so it doesn't have the lines at the bottom? I've got a professional patch maker in canada (sue from COM patches who can help us out with this, just gotta settle on a final design).

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sounguru

· #35 · Jan 6, 2011

Mosin said:
Im not going to lie man, these things have happened in the past. I understand that you've almost been on the site for a year now. But this feels like its moving fast. Talking about making a banner and whatnot now, I've been a member of this website for nearly 4 years, not long after it was created and most certainly when it was just getting going. ASF is an international thing now, something like this is something I personally don't want to see rushed. You said you all wanted specific and not done elsewhere, so let's start from there.

-Mosin
Airsoft Sniper

EDIT: could someone do one of those red/blue backgrounds with the person being white silhouette? But have the guy obviously be crouched with a long rifle and ghillie suit. If you don't know what im talking about check out the nba logo thing.
soundguru: I like the 3rd one you made in that last post, could you change the text so it doesn't have the lines at the bottom? I've got a professional patch maker in canada (sue from COM patches who can help us out with this, just gotta settle on a final design).

By no means do we want to rush it I agree with ya completely on that everything I have put up is ideas only.

If we have a logo on the site that matches the patch it just ties it all together when someone sees one or the other.

Will work on both designs today for you....

mosin

· #36 · Jan 6, 2011

Thanks man, can't wait to see the results.

silentfury214

Discussion Starter · #37 · Jan 6, 2011

Man, those last two logos you posted up look really good. I would still be posting up ideas as well, but I can see that I am out-classed in design!

sounguru

· #38 · Jan 6, 2011

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And here ya go...

Logo...

Patch

On the patch I tried a ghille but it just ended up looking like a blob of nothing.

Also if you can get me the # reference for the site colors (the brown and the green) I can make those match perfectly.

Also I do have the High Res PSD files of all of these if you need them.

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woogie

· #39 · Jan 6, 2011

That bottom one is great! Plain, simple, and to the point.

That would look great as a subdued...... I am voting for that one

sounguru

· #40 · Jan 6, 2011

Here is the logo again better color matched...

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