Reader Richie has done something genius -- he is a big fan of
the Scarlet Crusade, having collected
all of their armor and
their tabard ingame. And when one of his guildies hit a birthday, he decided to take the design from the tabard, and
put it on a T-shirt. You can see how well it turned out above, and there are pictures of the box (probably my favorite part of the whole thing -- he actually printed the "tooltip" for the t-shirt on the front, in the official
WoW font, called
Friz Quadrata)
over on his site. The whole thing looks terrific.
More pics of the shirt, including the front of the box and a pic of the shirt in action, in the gallery below (hopefully we won't murder Richie's site, though it was loading slowly when I first pulled it up). This is a brilliant idea --
what other Tabards should be t-shirts? Forget
Figureprints, Blizzard should let you print your own guild's tabard out as a T-shirt for sale on their site.
Tags: crafts, fanmade, friz-quadrata, guildie, printed, real-life, scarlet-crusade, t-shirt, tabard
Filed under: Items, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Lore, Factions, Fan art
Jun 30th 2008 at 2:30PM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
WTafe Jun 30th 2008 2:38PM
you can see the ladies bra through her shirt...
nice nice
scarlet tabard shirt ... meh
Alchemistmerlin Jun 30th 2008 2:50PM
Mmm reinforcing stereotypes.
Anyway, very nice T-Shirt. I would have, personally, put the bands on the sides and around the collar rather than just having it be a plain white T with a symbol on it.
blackwolf675 Jun 30th 2008 3:42PM
If you use a printing website instead of making the shirt by hand, it's tough to get the tabard borders to come out right.
I made something similar for our guild by printing our emblem on black shirts.
Hubby and I have a matched set and were walking around town one evening and were stopped by people who recognized our paw-print, =P
I've gone on to make custom guild designs on mugs/mousepads/etc. to help offset our Vent costs.
Badger Jun 30th 2008 4:01PM
Does your parole officer know you're on the computer again, WTafe?
Mysticcal Jun 30th 2008 5:18PM
no he does not.
Juneau Jul 9th 2008 1:26PM
I'll be honest, I thought the exact same thing.
mizatt Jun 30th 2008 3:01PM
That's a dude?
Phi Jun 30th 2008 3:01PM
I love this sort of creativity. Good job!
Hesed Jun 30th 2008 3:28PM
I have always thought that tabards would make Cool T-shirts.
Plug Jun 30th 2008 3:33PM
Hey look, it's a canadian t-shirt.
tkc Jun 30th 2008 4:34PM
The SSO tabard is the best. Put that one on a t-shirt.
Tenchan Jun 30th 2008 4:51PM
Am I the only one who'd actually love a -tabard-?
Gimmlette Jun 30th 2008 4:58PM
I'd love my guild's tabard as a tee. I don't know how many others in the guild would like it but I would. I think I could make an argument for mugs or key chains or mousepads or magnets with our emblem on them. This is a great idea.
I'd like to have the tabard as a magnet of every faction with whom I'm exalted. Nothing would make my daughter's eyes roll more than to walk into the kitchen and see a row of tabards stuck to the fridge. "Embarrassing my child. Just one more service I offer."
cyb Jun 30th 2008 6:31PM
id kill for a defilers tabard t-shirt.
Richie Jul 1st 2008 3:18AM
Nice!
Though, um a link would have been nice :/
www.thatguys.co.uk
Mike Schramm Jul 1st 2008 1:25PM
D'oh! I put you in the Source link, but I'll add it to the post. Sorry about that, my mistake completely, thought I'd added it in.
Richie Jul 2nd 2008 10:58AM
Yay!
You are a star :D
Billytalent Jul 1st 2008 6:25AM
Awesome shirt, I'm still trying to get that tabard on my 70 tankadin.
Also, for anyone that cares, Friz Quadrata is the same font that's been used by punk rock legends Bad Religion on their albums and logo for almost 30 years now.
Richie Jul 1st 2008 8:09AM
It's dead easy to get, SM armory, run and kill Herod, all of the nooblet low HP scarlets will run in Kill them and boom It'll drop from them. Drop rate is not fantastic, usually get it after a few runs.