Commemorative Emblem – Amara the immortal Carrier

Project of the original house set on hold till i figured out a nice emblem to put amara on your tanks and stuff

Have to butcher this project as the “add new project button” is bugged for me atm. Cant find the correct site under it when clicked

Here you can see the 3 different Versions of Amara the immortal carrier.

1. is the Orignl carrier that took part in the twitch battle on 29.09.2018. While its machine gun didnt exceed the expectations its survivability sure did. Over the game it took an estimated 4 pak40 shots, permanent MG42 fire and a full Opel Blitz of Mortar rounds. Are these numbers and encounters exagerated? How dare you question its holyness Amara! She got the holes to show and anybody claiming those might just be pak38 holes maybe put on latrine duty immideatly. Amara was the center piece of the defensive, constantly drawing fire and saving many sikh lives like this. When she prepared for a final charge the moral of the germans broke and they fled in terror. Amara, the slightly pierced, the crispy burned, the barely shoked shall be rembered forever and ever as Amara, the immortal god!
2. Thats the crude attempt of a mere mortal to capture its holyness as it rolled of the field. Obviously in an attempt to capture the inherent greatness of amara, wings and some bling was added
3. another curde rendering of Amara by a mortal. Aimed to simplify the emblem to be set up as paintable on tanks an vehicles.

1. finding a rough order of lines and reducing the simpel version further as much as needed due to scale. even with a stabilo its really hard to not mess up the line and get it done in as little strokes as possible
2. test piece for the colors and the underlieng blocks. i chose to pain the black lines over it and could there for afford the blocking. black lines used this way would however require more effort on an actual model because the outline would be in another color so maybe a black circle is advised
3. first test with actual paint on a 2cm diameter 2cent (€) space. i feel like its still vastly to big for 20mm for sure but for 28mm it might end up the size of the usual white big white star, that americans painted on m3/m5 carriers

the first 2cent piece from yesterday night next to the 1 cent piece with less sleepy eyes and a better idea on how to block it out.

Further simplyfications: removed the “bulk” in the front and settled for only one wheel in the back.

Further added details: Added punjabi Amara text. ਅਮਰ. first on the old test run piece. After that in a slow dipdipdipmovement on the new one. nerv wrecking but worth it

Size comparison of the 2cent, 1cent and on tank version. I sadly only had a sherman build up and no british equipment layng around to build up fast. Further more the sherman is 1:72 so you should have a lot more space to work with on a 28mm model.

What i learned from the tank application:

• Amara text needs to be simplfied further. I went with only the straight lines, the bulge at the end and a w-shape at the start. Overall you should grasp what i did comparing it to the crisp 1cent version
• The 1 cent version has the better feel to it with one less black line at the front.
• Don’t think of the passenger compartment as a box on top that 50% of size. It should be close to 75% size. with reducing overall size by blacklining you will size it down enough to be just right. check 1cent version
• Wings are a problem the smaller you get because of the colour and the layers of colour you might need >> so stick to a simpler geometry

Step 1: Grasp the basic geometry. for this emblem it would be a fitting shield form.

Step 2a red: Chassis the chassis should make up roughly 30-50% of the space you will occupy. the red lines indicate the first run you will take to block it out. The passengers compartment should be thought of as ~75% of size. I went with 50% for the tank and 75% for the 1cent and on the cent its much more pleasing and true to reality.

2b: vertical lines to get the edges crips. in the green area you may or may not have to extend your corrections a little. just keep in mind that the colour of the wings will be layerd over that area any how so correction might not be needed just yet

finish: black line the mode. i did it with a brush that was still to big and barely able to thin its peak down far enough. I have read good things about using aquarell pencils for blacklining so that might be worth a try.

the text is very simple version of the original punjabi becomes a tilted W going into an N into a “d” all connected via one straight line at the top. check the 1cent version for crisper lines

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