Uniform Insignia Forum

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Well, check out this guy https://twitter.com/SpaceCorpsUS Wow... someone not well informed could take that for real... Account no longer active. What was on it? Something almost like Ld Cybran's design. Thanks. The Space Corps discussed last year was contemplated to be spun off from the Air Force, ...

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Miklós Lovász wrote:Well, check out this guy

https://twitter.com/SpaceCorpsUS

Lord Cybran wrote:Wow... someone not well informed could take that for real...

Account no longer active. What was on it?

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Fun project, Marc. TBH I don't recall much about the armed forces in 1984 . However, I did see Oceania as a somewhat anglocentric state, even tho' it included what's now the United States. This comes both from its capital's (apparently) being London, from Orwell's natural focus on England, and that...

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Tho' what would the E-1 to E-4 (OR1-OR4) ranks be called? In the Air Force they're Airman Basic through Senior Airman. In the Space Corps would they be Spaceman? I don't think so. Astronier ? Corpsman ? My first thought was Space Corpsman, mainly to differentiate from the USN rating. I was also thi...

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I think you might need to decided whether you are basically doing an integral roman empire with modern guns or a roman empire that has evolved over the past 2 millenias. If the former, getting equivalency will be a bit hard. Centurions rose from the troops to have responsabilities and an autonomy o...

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I think the answer is both. You'd likely also have Greek and other influenes as well. Roman existed, in one form or another, for nearly a thousand years, IIRC. If it were to exist today, I believe that would add an additional thousand years to draw on. IIRC, in antiquity, Centurions were also direct...

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Two slight errors I found. Under the CSA covers, you've listed the artillery twice. The second time I think you meant cavalry. Second, you spelled fel D grau felgrau. thanks. good catch. You're welcome. Wish I could help more, but I've never read the books. And my list of books to read is long enou...

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while reading the books, I took some notes about any mention made about uniforms. Unfortunatly, I lost a few pages and only have what I had transcribed for a few of them. Based on what I have, I made the following page: http://insignias.wikia.com/wiki/Southern_Victory_(Book_Series) if anyone feels ...

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Erskine Calderon wrote:So, after all that sturm und drang you guys posted - a little feedback might be nice.

Those are very nice. Thanks for updating. When will the older ones be up?

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SteelAngel wrote:This is the longest (4 years!) "by the end of the week" ever! :)

You know, when I saw your post on the main page, I thought he had finally posted them.
You got my hopes up.

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Here is the collar insignia for Bower taken from a prop auction site (a great source of information for fictional uniform and insignias by the way) Very nice find. Is that from screenused.com? I know I found similar pictures, but the ranks weren't as visible. propstore: http://www.propstore.com/pro...

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marcpasquin wrote:Here is the collar insignia for Bower taken from a prop auction site (a great source of information for fictional uniform and insignias by the way)

Very nice find. Is that from screenused.com? I know I found similar pictures, but the ranks weren't as visible.

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It's been awhile since I've seen the movie, but I recall the stripes being slanted. Either way, nice addition to the site. the ones on the collar or arms ? Arms. I have the DVD, but my TV is blocked. The joys of rearranging one's bedroom, packing, and Spring Cleaning, all with a bad back, depressio...

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It's been awhile since I've seen the movie, but I recall the stripes being slanted. Either way, nice addition to the site.

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In honor of the new movie being released and my enjoyment of the Star Wars story I started thinking about the original trilogy uniforms. Medic is right that even though Lucas hired John Mollo to work on uniforms the art department just used whatever they though looked good for the scene. Hey, they ...

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Wings: https://nostromoinsignia.wordpress.com/category/wings/ Pins: https://nostromoinsignia.wordpress.com/category/pins/ I've known about the pins, but the wings are a fairly new thing. I don't know if the pin shapes mean anything (hexagon for non-pilots/officers and circles for pilots/officers or ...

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Not always. General Pershing wore four gold stars as a General of the Army, while other generals wore four stars. Command master chief petty officers have two silver stars above the arc and a silver star between the arc and the chevron, while the force master chief petty officers wear the same insi...

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Not sure what some of the comments mean. The real USAF insignia are only distinguished by progressive numbers of chevrons. Same with the Army and Marines (arcs, or rockers). And the various E-9 types are, in fact, noted only by the symbols in the void between the chevrons and rockers. So what is di...

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from the John Carpenter sci-fi/action/horror movie, the insignias can be seen here: [url]http://insignias.wikia.com/wiki/Ghosts_of_Mars_(film)[/url] One odd aspect is that that while the insignias are clearly US-type inspired, the "commander" wears a captain double bar. Are there a number...

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Good work, and good catch with the harvester insignia. I'm reminded of [url]http://dunese.blogspot.com/2012/08/atreides-soldiers.html[/url] and specifically [url]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K27KeOs77KM/UDrbbMsjcnI/AAAAAAAAA0w/9Kyg9DIvE8E/s1600/ATREIDES_RankInsignia.jpg[/url]. It's been a while since I...

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This is about 40-50% of what it would look like. I'm basically working with what I've got (most of my dalliances are with insignia I like, so I pick and choose over every countries' services) so bear with me. I don't know if the Parachute (also consists of the RAF Regiment) Corps should/would draw f...

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Might as well post this now so I remember, There is some precedent for a 'gendarme' force in the Commonwealth/Empire: the RCMP and its predecessor(s.) Also, for the RAF Para Corps, I'm thinking 'proper' (stars and crowns) in RAF colors. A blue star or crown on a black backing, perhaps with senior of...

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- amphibious: sea to land H. Majesty's (Royal) Colonial (Maritime) Forces/Service to the rescue! [Cockney] Proper British Gentlemen leading those funny foreigners in support of H. Majesty's Marine Forces! Give some pips and maybe a crown to some of the better foreign chaps! Make 'em feel useful. - a...

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I have a lot of background reading to do if I'm going to be able to contribute to this -- I don't know the source material at all! Do you have any quotes or references from the series? Well, you can download the books here, http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ It's the first one, 1635 and the Baltic...

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I would agree with chevrons ... how about the O ranks? The uptimers would go with the 5-pointed sters, eagle (as worn by COL Woods, USEAF) and bars ... but what about the downtimers? Especially the downtimers who accessed the encyclopedias with all the pics of German and Swedish insignia? Well, on ...

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There are some indications in the books, but nothing detailed. In the USE Navy, the first CNO (Admiral Simpson) made his own rank insignia (stars) and handed out bars to LT Canttrell. The first head of the USE Air Force (Col. Woods) wore eagles and his officers/NCS's wore US insigni (or so is hinte...

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[img]http://people.virginia.edu/~mgf2j/buckskin_hunting_shirt.jpg[/img] This would be the starting point. Make it a shade of green appropriate to the geography, with the ruffles being darker. It would have a functional folded down second collar for the cold (the ruffles by the collar would be the fo...

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In the long running and rather popular series, the time-traveling Grantville community start their own military force, which than combines with Gustavus Adolphus' mainly Swedish army and navy and, with the addition of newly raised units becomes the United States of Europe's Armed Services. There ar...

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Yet again, I got busy messing around with my ranks, so I would like your opinions. Say the image above this post is version one, and this is version 2: [img]http://i60.tinypic.com/15ocg9s.jpg[/img] Which one is better? I personally think this one, it flows better, and the laurel wreath symbolising ...

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Okay, so I improved the ranks and altered the titles: [img]http://i59.tinypic.com/2pu0ac7.jpg[/img] I decided to use a slightly altered version of the NATO star for COIR (Coalition of Organised International Response. When I made these originally I thought have the stars on the outside would look g...

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Thanks. Already read the wiki pages awhile ago. Just found the situation odd.

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Hi everybody, can anyone explain the significance of the American insignia on the left side of the sections? For example, a Colonel without embellishment, Colonel with green bar underneath, with red bar or a green dot. What does it mean? Cheers The only thing I'm familiar with is the 'combat' leade...

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That's probably a joke, but my question is serious. I've noticed that several countries have two grades of lieutenant and a grade of captain, or an ensign, a lieutenant, a captain grade. Others have three lieutenants and a captain, an ensign, two lieutenants, and a captain grade, or two lieutenant a...

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I caught the USCG inspiration, but missed the PO rank. I'd assumed that the blue/white/silver (depending on my TV screen, the colors change) was a medical/staff thing. Here is a link to some of the deleted scenes. 25 seconds in you'll see what I'm calling a rear admiral, based on his insignia, and a...

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Thanks. I found this larger picture http://i3.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article924934.ece/ALTERNATES/s2197/stephen-house-chief-constable-of-strathclyde-police-image-1-965443956-924934.jpg the other day and had originally thought they were oak leaf variants. Having just googled 'thistle leaf' I'm in...

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Thanks. I saw a pic of Chief Constable House, but never thought to check the fire department. I'll see if there's anything on (an alternative to) St. John Ambulance. Anyhow, CC House had what looked like oak leaves (as mentioned in my other post.) I'll have to look for gorget pics in my reference fi...

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Thanks. I found an old picture, but it appears to be be oak leaves. Don't know when it was taken, so if you can find anything recent, we may have an answer.

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Hmmm. Can't believe I never thought of the thistle being used for caps. Wonder if they use it on gorget patches?

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Marcpasquin's chart is about 90% of what I had in mind. I was wondering if they'd incorporate the original Claymore in lieu of the basket hilt one.

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The talk I've heard is that they will still maintain the British monarchy, so I doubt they'd change it too much. They'd probably adopt a different star than that of the Order of the Bath, probably the one used by the Scots Guard. The thistle would probably be incorporated as well. If they were going...

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If I had to guess, I'd say they'd copy Taiwan's applicable rank insignia for 'solidarity', or maybe revert to pre-PRC insignia.
Or a mishmash of pre-PRC and Taiwan insignias.

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A few things: 1. There were collar insignia in Luftwaffe that could be 'navalized' by adding the wavy lines, anchors, and/or device specific to the corps the officer belonged to. 2. There appears to be a way to 'navalize' the collar insignia for the Wehrmacht to form collar insignia for both the Nav...

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Now, I know I promised MSPaint, but I figure Inkscape is better. smilies-01 http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/715/unified.png A hypothetical partial rank scheme. The upwards pointed chevrons on the shoulder board is for an O-5, while the downwards pointing chevrons are for an E-5. The device is a p...

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The IJN did wear their insignias like that on their flight suits, whether they were enlisted, NCOs, or officers. I don't know whether IJA pilots did the same thing, but there's enough drawing to possibly create another page for the Japan section of the main site. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...

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Nice job...those could also be used as hypothetical flight suit ranks for Graf Zeppelin's airwing. Thanks. I recall seeing a Japanese Lt. wearing his cuff ranks on his left upper arm (not sure if it was from an Osprey book, Tora! Tora! Tora!, or both!) and wondered why that was never utilized in ot...

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Well, to toss my hat into this ring ... Assuming we start with a blank slate: I always thought a system based on, and modified from, the various navies (specifically the US)would be good. Assuming we follow the OR-1 to 9 / E-1 to E-9, we'd get: Rankless uniform for OR-1 1 quarter inch stripe worn on...

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http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/1958/kriegsmarine.png The smaller ones are scaled at 2 inch x 3(ish) inch for the officer and about 2 x 1.8inch for the hypothetical non-officer. The first column are suggestions for L z S and the second is for K z S. While the wavy lines currently look similar to ...

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Interesting designs. Looking at them I had a 'd'oh' moment. They could use a variation of the camouflage used by the other forces. They could substitute anchors or wavy lines for the oak leaves/wings or the stripes http://uniforminsignia.org/?option=com_insigniasearch&Itemid=53&result=581 ht...

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Not only are Land ranks taken for newer services, but they are often more senior, too. While it's geared towards the US System, that has some drawbacks. Most officer ranks seem to line up among countries, but the same is not true of sub-officer ones. Are a cabo, a capo, a UK corporal, US corporal, a...

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I think a combination of translation and NATO Rank Codes (if Warsaw has Rank Codes, include them as well.) Example: Sottotenete: Sub Lieutenant. OF1 Tenete: Lieutenant. OF1 Capitano: Captain. OF2 Capitano di Corvetto: Captain of (the) Corvette. OF3. Capitano di Fregata: Captain of (the)Frigate. OF4....

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