My first customs

jwcbigdog · Post by **jwcbigdog** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:45 pm

In honor of my 100th post, I bring a gift.
After a little bit of borrowing and few pointers, I decided to try my hand at customizing. I used my avatar to create a barding and cloak. The cloak borrows a template from brickwars and the barding borrows TTK's chain mail. Let me know what you think!

Deeplinks:

Cloak
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jwcbi ... ackfal.jpg

Barding
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jwcbi ... albard.jpg

TheOrk · Post by **TheOrk** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:52 pm

The folder isn't public yet

jwcbigdog · Post by **jwcbigdog** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:42 pm

I just edited the links so they should be working now! Sorry Ork.

TwoTonic Knight · Post by **TwoTonic Knight** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:56 pm

Some suggestions:

Barding: Extend the trapper (cloth part) down lower to cover most of the mail. Leave the bottom border blue, but remove the blue border from the shield design and extend the black and white areas to the extremes of the design.

Cloak: Likewise, remove the blue border from the shield design, and place it either at the bottom of the cloak, or all around the entire perimeter of the cloak. Extend the black and white sections to the extremes of the cloak edge/new blue border edge.

Scaling up designs means you often need to clean up the edges again so that they don't look blurry.

There, my two ha'pennies worth.

Post by **Formendacil** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 6:20 pm

Pretty good-looking, but I ahve to agree with TTK that you need to clean up the resized images.

Also, neat coloration scheme. White goes really well with the Black Falcons.

jwcbigdog · Post by **jwcbigdog** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:06 pm

My folder still isn't public yet, but I added a revamped version of the barding, taking to heart some of TTK's suggestions.

Please keep the great comments coming!!!

New Barding:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jwcbi ... lbard2.jpg

TwoTonic Knight · Post by **TwoTonic Knight** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:42 pm

Since a picture is worth a thousand words (see Hoplite helmet "discussion" Red Bean and I had), here's an example, though I'm going to use an alternate eagle design (more like a phoenix, if you ask me) just so mine is different from yours (oooo, and it's the right size, too, so no clean up is required).

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/corsa ... injpeg.jpg

And the quickie thumb-nail version:

You can add the shield black/white reversal in, but I thought I'd do it without so you could see how that looks.

The Blue Knight · Post by **The Blue Knight** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:32 am

I like the versions from both of you. What about the top of the barding, I mean the part you'd see looking down from above, do you sticker that as well? I would think with a predominantly white sticker on a non white barding you would have to?

lil Jon · Post by **lil Jon** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:48 pm

Thats pretty neat. Finally some cool stuff for black falcons to wear!

In my opinion, i think it would look better without the oval shield shape. Just the triangular shape.