[Art/RFC] Rethinking older designs

[M Fnord]

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If you're just picking colors randomly out of a hat, that's something to avoid. If you're showing your own colors, that's something else entirely.

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Well, *technically* if I was aiming at using Ptichka's national colors, I'd either use the red/yellow combination from the USSR or the blue/yellow from Kazakhstan. Why Kazakhstan? Because as of right now OTL the Kazakh government are the ones who own Ptichka, as well as the remaining Energia hardware and everything else at Baikonur that Roskosmos isn't actively using (and probably a good chunk of that, too).
Speaking of, I'm starting to lean more towards using option 4 as the official flight crew patch, because the simplicity of the design and the heraldry aspect is starting to grow on me. Never fear, though! The other designs will eventually be used for other Soviet ships; I'm nothing if not recycle-friendly.

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Also, 3B may be easy from a design perspective, but the finicky bits with the globe would not necessarily be all that easy from an embroidery perspective (which was what I was going off of when I said that.) Also, if you're *going* to use a picture of the globe for a group that uses Ptichka as its flagship, it seems like it really ought to be the other hemisphere.

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Globes are actually pretty simple; everybody knows the rough shape, and that's all you need for a 5" patch. We're not talking Google Earth fidelity or anything here.
As for the location, a) that's what my best clipart globe looks like, and b) it *is* showing where Ptichka took off from; remember that the VVS crew is mostly American/Canadian, and they took off from the middle of Wisconsin. ---
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