Dr. Txec dal Nordselvă
Puisne (Associate) Justice of the Uppermost Court
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Post by Dr. Txec dal Nordselvă on Mar 7, 2014 22:12:33 GMT -6
Sorry, been incredibly busy. I will get with you tomorrow.
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Dr. Txec dal Nordselvă
Puisne (Associate) Justice of the Uppermost Court
Fraichetz dels punts, es non dels mürs
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Post by Dr. Txec dal Nordselvă on Mar 8, 2014 17:06:23 GMT -6
Well we will need to narrow down the ideas you have. It is worthy to note that any ideas I personally have are not really all that relevant as these will be YOUR arms. I'd like to recommend that you see this thread: talossa.proboards.com/thread/6063/designing-coa?page=1&scrollTo=62651 and deliberately visit the links. That will give you a lot of information, ideas, and perhaps some inspiration as you embark down this path.
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Post by Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù on Mar 9, 2014 3:58:00 GMT -6
right! 42 is the atomic number of Molybdenum, which is used by the radiographers using gamma ray techniques. its crystal is a black cube... Would that do? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molybdenum
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Post by Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù on Mar 9, 2014 4:20:34 GMT -6
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Post by Ián B. Anglatzarâ on Mar 9, 2014 5:42:12 GMT -6
I spent a month of the summer of 1975 in Stenungsund.
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Post by Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù on Mar 9, 2014 8:06:07 GMT -6
Seems a cool place
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Dr. Txec dal Nordselvă
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Post by Dr. Txec dal Nordselvă on Mar 9, 2014 11:10:34 GMT -6
I think we could indeed put a black cube on your arms. The trick is, according to the rules of the College, we can't use objects that have a depth of field or draw them in perspective unless that same image has been used in perspective in traditional armorials. We would need to consider background colors still. Since the black cube is considered a "color", the tincture of the background would by rule need to be a "metal" (gold, silver, or white).
Just some more things for us to think about :-)
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Post by Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù on Mar 9, 2014 20:45:04 GMT -6
Well... White or silver I think would bring a bit of brightness to it, contrasts the black. Also as molybdenum is a metal I think silver would look best
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Dr. Txec dal Nordselvă
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Post by Dr. Txec dal Nordselvă on Mar 9, 2014 21:40:09 GMT -6
While I don't think a 3D cube would be allowed (correct me if I'm wrong Capt. Preston), but I think a lozenge would work. Here is an idea as a starting point that I saw while looking for, well, ideas.
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Post by Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù on Mar 9, 2014 21:54:23 GMT -6
Ah looks good! Unicorn refuring to Scotland and the crown around it, sorta reffuring to the robertson emblem! Instead of dimonds are squares allowed? Also are letters aloud? If they are, could ths band go the other way and Mo at the top left and 42 bottom right?
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Capt. Sir Mick Preston
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Post by Capt. Sir Mick Preston on Mar 9, 2014 22:30:11 GMT -6
While I don't think a 3D cube would be allowed (correct me if I'm wrong Capt. Preston), but I think a lozenge would work. Here is an idea as a starting point that I saw while looking for, well, ideas. The lozenge will be fine. The Unicorn and the Crown ... not so much. We'll have to work on that.
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Dr. Txec dal Nordselvă
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Post by Dr. Txec dal Nordselvă on Mar 10, 2014 7:50:30 GMT -6
The unicorn and the crown are just part of the gif I copied over to show an example of the lozenge. Obviously I wasn't going to include those :-)
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Dr. Txec dal Nordselvă
Puisne (Associate) Justice of the Uppermost Court
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Post by Dr. Txec dal Nordselvă on Mar 10, 2014 7:52:39 GMT -6
Ah looks good! Unicorn refuring to Scotland and the crown around it, sorta reffuring to the robertson emblem! Instead of dimonds are squares allowed? Also are letters aloud? If they are, could ths band go the other way and Mo at the top left and 42 bottom right? Sorry, I should have explained that the unicorn and crown were simply part of the gif I copied and not something that will be in your arms. I can certainly include squares instead of lozenges. I'm not sure about the letters Mo and the number 42 - those aren't traditional charges. Hopefully someone else in the college can confirm or deny that for me.
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Post by Sir C. M. Siervicül on Mar 10, 2014 8:39:03 GMT -6
I can certainly include squares instead of lozenges. I'm not sure about the letters Mo and the number 42 - those aren't traditional charges. Hopefully someone else in the college can confirm or deny that for me. I would personally agree that letters and numerals are not traditional charges and should not normally be allowed. But then again, the College did approve the use of the Sanskrit syllable "om" in multiple designs, and it isn't clear why we would allow arms to feature writing in the Devanagari alphabet but not the Latin alphabet. There's no standard traditional charge for a square, either. The charge "delf" is often depicted as a square, but it technically represents a shovelful of earth, so some artists would depict it with tapered or curved sides. Another possibility is to use the field variation "chequy" (like a checkerboard). A field chequy is most commonly depicted with six columns and seven rows, and six times seven makes.... Of course, not all of the squares of the pattern are visible due to the curvature of the escutcheon. Yet another idea is to work the prime factorisation of 42 (7, 3, 2) into the design. I can think of a few ways that could be done.
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Post by Txosuè Éiric Rôibeardescù on Mar 11, 2014 2:47:26 GMT -6
But molybdenum comes from the earth, funnily enough it's the 42 most conmen element in the earths crust!
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