Heraldry design help

[Timothy]

Hi Ed and Nate,

Thanks


So how cool is that blue crab!

Timothy

[Sir Nate]

Hi Ed and Nate,

Thanks


So how cool is that blue crab!

Timothy

The first thing that came to mind was "what does this guy live in Maryland or something?" Then I checked and you do.
Ugh the butter stains you'd get on a tunic Awful!

[Sir Douglas]

I like them, too. The one with the sable lion really pops. Very nice.

So how cool is that blue crab!

Hehe. I actually think that's a rather clever way to incorporate Maryland into the arms.

[Sir Edward]

Tim, if you're in MD, we should probably add you to the DC-Area Order board. Same for Doug. I'll go do that.

[Timothy]

Thanks,

BTW the have submitted another arms thinking if might be more recognizable as being Maryland related.

What do you all think?

Timothy

[Sir Edward]

I think it looks good, and you don't often see lozengy fields, which is cool. And yet, the earlier designs felt a little more clean to me. So, not bad

[Sir James A]

My eye is making that out to be less lozengy and more of a counterchanged bend... I see the "\" in there with the colors reversed inside the stripe.

Certainly a unique design. I can't imagine trying to paint that though; it'd be possible, but dizzying.

[Timothy]

Hi All,
So the final blazon would be

Paly of six Vert and Or a bend counterchanged, overall a lion rampant Sable armed and langued Gules within eight trefoils slipped in orle Sable.

Any suggestions on a full achievement ?

Motto

Animis opibusque parati" - "Prepared in minds and resources"

[Timothy]

Hi all,

by the time I posted here this was waiting for me on Facebook.

What do you think?

Timothy

[Sir Patrick]

I like it!

[Sir Wolf]

now paint it to a shield and post a picture.

or you get banned

[Sir Rodney]

The basic idea was to easily identify others on the field of combat.  I believe you’ve achieved that with bold colors, field, and the eight trefoils arranged nicely.

Does the number eight have any special significance for you?  Is there sly blazoning in there somewhere or canting of arms?

[Sir Nate]

now paint it to a shield and post a picture.

or you get banned

Remember sir clarkenson Timothy?

[Sir Douglas]

I rather like it. It's flashy, yet somehow it works. For me, anyway. I have this mental image of a tournament kit with those colors and a crab crest on a tilting helm with this majestic streaming mantle, as well as a horse decked out in matching caparison. It's quite a splendid sight.

[Sir Nate]

I wonder. In many pics I see people using gambesons as normal wear.  With the right other accessories, could a gambeson pass if it were used as part of a civilian kit?