Tough choice, both designs are great. My vote will go for @IllOO by a small margin, though, on the basis of purely a gut feeling.
Congratulations for both of you, though!
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It’s not a new feature but the cut off point is 6 months so maybe you haven’t edited anything older than that?
See PM for how to fix this 
Thanks for the tip on how to edit an old post past the 6 months limit @hrobertson. I am assuming your fix will only allow you to edit the thread once.
But the thing is I have to edit this post every time a new challenge is initiated. And I need to edit the OG thread every now and then for new members, new graphics or announcements etc. I suspect many more threads will suffer from this feature once they hit 6 months in age.
What is the reasoning behind this limit by the way?
For the art challenges I suggest you create new threads for each one. That allows discussion and comments relating to previous challenges to continue without having multiple conversations going on in one thread.
Keeping it as one thread enables using the first post as a summary, but I don’t know how useful that actually is?
I’ve had a search on meta.discourse.org and while it has been suggested several times, a longer edit window for TL3 doesn’t look likely.
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I kinda prefer it that way. Like it used to be in the old forums. 
So this is something common for all Discourse, meaning I-Novae can’t change it here?
@INovaeKeith can set the edit window from 6 months to whatever he wants, but it’s the same for all users.
I’ve bumped a request on meta for it to be customisable per trust level.
This way we could have limits like
Or whatever…
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Im protesting with a vote for this, screw all the rest of you lot, you can take your official competition and feed it to an anteater! damnit @BenThuro, why must you tease with such a great design.
ok ok, i will relent. Ill have to vote for @IIIOO for the simple elegance of it, lucas’ is certainly elegant but its also a lot more complex, especially with those those pillars
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I have to vote for @IllOO 's design, mainly because that shield is begging to be printed in metal, given a black painted patina finish and rub… and then fitted with a broach pin on the back. That’s my reasoning.
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Any 3D modeller who wants to see this, make me a model (.stl plz) and I’ll print it in copperfill. Broachpin and shipping not included, but I can send you a photo.
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Aye, that’s exactly what I was thinking of doing 
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I missed the deadline for the voting. Sorry about that… Voting has closed!
The clear winner of this challenge is:
@IllOO with this design
2nd place:
LucasFIN with this design
3rd place:
No third place in this challenge as only 2 designs were completed.
Congratulations to IllOO and all the contestants and thanks to all who voted!
I will add the graphics to the Old Guard thread as soon as I can edit them again.
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Now that the winner has been selected. I give you a WIP shot of the 3D Printable Pin.
When it’s ready I’ll post the STL here for everyone to download, or upload it to shapeways and make it available.
I may still give it a slight curve along the longest axis, and still need to put the pin anchors in place, but for the most part it’s ready to Print. (assuming it passes the 3D printer requirements, which it should)
Inexpensive latch pins for backside mount.
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Congrats on a wonderful design 
@Hutchings, yes please for the pin!
I want one 
July 18th. If you can have it ready (or not quite ready but still downloadable) by then I’ll not only have it printed at my local library, I’ll have it printed while helping them host a LAN party. The printers tend to draw an audience, let me know a few days in advance if you want me to put a particular link on a post-it note on the outside of it (you, too, @IllOO).
If you can’t have it ready by then (I know you guys prefer absolutely perfection and then some before releasing anything) that’s fine, I’ll just get it done next time I’m there.
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First of all, THANK YOU - and thank you for voting for me. You all rock!
This is what I love so much about this community, it’s one of the few civilized, constructive, respectful, serious, social, active and friendly communities on the web that I know of. Almost everybody is writing a wall of text just to explain in a very comprehensible way why they vote for whom. You even get feedback and criticism - the most valuable thing of all. I am not only refering to this thread. This forum and its users in general are awesome - and of course the Devs - especially @Hutchings 
Thanks for keeping us alive in a weekly rythm. I want to pin that shield-pin on my chest so hard right now Great job! (btw. how about making it a pledge bonus for kickstarter, I know we had that discussion about items already, but still…)
Ok, anyway. Thank you all once again. @LucasFin - tell me what you need to establish the Old Guard Thread and I will provide it asap. I am currently 150% busy with my final graduation project for university. Tomorrow is the presentation 
So it may be delayed a few days.
See you in space, cowboys!
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I downloaded that pack of yours before the voting started. So all I need right now is for that editing right for old posts in Discourse
If all else fails I will have to start a new thread for the group. Not to mention some other threads as well…
In a community that has always preferred one thread per subject and reminded new people to search for existing threads for a particular subject before starting a new thread, I find it funny that this stiff system in Discourse encourages us to do the exact opposite.
But the Old Guard is for pre-Kickstarter devotees.
To be honest, I’d be much more interested in cuff-links than a badge. Would a cuff-link size cast work?
I am sure that if enough people flag your post it will get hidden, and then 10 mins later it will be editable.
I thought 2 TL3 users flagging it would be sufficient but evidently not.
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But editable for how long? For another 6 months? Or just once? I might need to edit it every now and then.
A cast, absolutely. Just look at what can be done with much-smaller-than-cufflink Warhammer figurines. To 3D print it in cuff-link size, however, you’d need a… somewhat more advanced 3D printer than what I, at least, have access to.
Honestly not certain which option would be more expensive, but if you’re set on cuff links I can refer you to a sculptor I know with cast-making experience.
I was thinking the same, but… realistically, they’d either have to find a company specializing in (making a profit off of) printing things like this, or buy their own 3D printer (~$2499), a bunch of pins, and then spend an obscene amount of time printing, gluing, and shipping. Not to mention getting the legalities sorted with you, I mean I assume you wouldn’t mind them using it, could look good on a résumé, but there would still need to be papers signed and sent saying so, all of which takes time.
I mean, yes, most of that time would be waiting for the 3D printer to print the next batch (of badges), but trust me, if there’s a 3D printer running nearby you just wont be able to look away.
Far better for each of us to just print it for our personal use. No laws against that. Not where I live, at any rate.