A New Coat of Arms Thread

[Pyeknu494]

And here are the environmental-specific versions of the above badge:

 

[DUWANG]

CoA for a 1848 German Empire ruled by the house of Hohenzollern.
(Sadly I had to compromise it)

 

[Saya Aensland]

Full size coat of arms from my Wikipedia box.

 

[Aron MacEanraig]

And here are the environmental-specific versions of the above badge:
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Is there a Space Force in the making or is it off the table? (Or proposals to rename the Air Force the Airspace Force?)

 

[Keperry]

Coat of arms of a larger Wales including the Cumbric kingdoms of the Old North:

Top row L-R: Gwynedd, Deheubarth, Strathclyde, Gododdin
Bottom row L-R: Rheged, Elmet, Powys, Morgannwg and Gwent quartered

 

[Paschalis]

CoA for a 1848 German Empire ruled by the house of Hohenzollern.

This looks extreamly cool and well made

 

[Pyeknu494]

Is there a Space Force in the making or is it off the table? (Or proposals to rename the Air Force the Airspace Force?)

Nah, this is a fictional thing, where all elements of the Canadian Forces (RCN, CA, RCAF, CANSOFCOM) contribute personnel to man starships.

 

[Zurirach Adankar]

Full size coat of arms from my Wikipedia box.

Is there a good program or tutorial to make such nice coat of arms?

 

[Saya Aensland]

Is there a good program or tutorial to make such nice coat of arms?

I just use Paint.NET. It's a pretty rudimentary image editing program. The rest is just copy-pasting from Wikipedia and lots and lots of elbow grease.

 

[Zurirach Adankar]

I just use Paint.NET. It's a pretty rudimentary image editing program. The rest is just copy-pasting from Wikipedia and lots and lots of elbow grease.

Thank you!

 

[FriendlyGhost]

Is there a good program or tutorial to make such nice coat of arms?

I just use Paint.NET. It's a pretty rudimentary image editing program. The rest is just copy-pasting from Wikipedia and lots and lots of elbow grease.

Paint.net is very good, particularly once you learn how to use layers effectively (I use it a lot). Its limitation is that it's a bitmap imaging program, so as you resize things, they can get a bit blocky or lose resolution. That's fine if you're combining images which are all about the same size, but a problem if the original images are very different sizes. The other problem is that parts of images which are behind other parts just won't be there, so you'll sometimes have to make/draw them yourself.
So it's also worth getting a vector imaging program, such as Inkscape. You can then resize without losing resolution and usually the different parts of an image are stored separately in the .svg file so you can often extract entire elements (for example, supporters) without any parts missing.
Many images on Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons are available both as vector (.svg) files and bitmap (.png / .jpg / .bmp) files.
If you do use parts of images from there, please do pay attention to the licence terms for each. Many are in the Public Domain, but others are licensed using various Creative Commons licences which require attribution.

 

[Kotka]

A proposal for a new coat of arms of Belarus, originally posted on Reddit:
https://www.red dit.com/r/heraldry/comments/e3yoyk/proposal_coat_of_arms_of_belarus/

 

[PolishMagnet]

Coat of arms of the Polish-Belarusian Commonwealth, made using SVGs from wikimedia commons

barred version - outlined and quartered

Non-barred, non-outlined version - the national symbols are grouped closer to the centre, not accurately quartered