Victormrey Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 One of the most popular concept threads on the boards are the "MLB Tweaks". Inspired by that kind of series, I decided to do the same with the LVBP (Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional / Venezuelan Professional Baseball League). The main current problem with the style of Venezuelan teams is that they have abandoned the classic White/Grey combination for the uniforms, thing which I don't like at all. Apart from that, in my opinion, some teams don't have the best look or uniforms. That's why I decided to tweak the league of the country where I was born. I'll be making changes to the 8 current teams and I'll add 4 brand new clubs. Given most of the people here may not know the teams from the LVBP, I'll write a bit about each club on the posts, and about the corresponding city/state for the expansion teams. This is the list of the teams (those underlined are the expansion ones) and the map of the league: División Central / Central Division: Leones del Caracas / Caracas Lions (Caracas, Capital District) Navegantes de Magallanes / Magallanes Navigators (Valencia, Carabobo) Tiburones de la Guaira / La Guaira Sharks (La Guaira, Vargas) Tigres de Aragua / Aragua Tigers (Maracay, Aragua) División Oriental / Eastern Division: Bravos de Margarita / Margarita Braves (Porlamar, Nueva Esparta) Caribes de Anzoátegui / Anzoátegui Caribbeans (Puerto La Cruz, Anzoátegui) Mineros de Guayana / Guayana Miners (Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar) Salineros de Sucre / Sucre Saltmen (Cumaná, Sucre) División Occidental / Western Division: Águilas del Zulia / Zulia Eagles (Maracaibo, Zulia) Cardenales de Lara / Lara Cardinals (Barquisimeto, Lara) Llaneros de Barinas / Barinas Plainsmen (Barinas, Barinas) Petroleros de Táchira / Táchira Oilers (San Cristóbal, Táchira) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victormrey Posted March 20, 2017 Author Share Posted March 20, 2017 Let's start the series with Leones del Caracas (Caracas Lions). Los Leones are the most successful team on the league, having won the national championship 20 times and the Caribbean Series twice. The team was founded in 1945 as "Cervecería Caracas" (Caracas Brewery), being one of the 4 founder teams of the league. The team's gold era were the 80's, when they won 5 national leagues and 1 Caribbean Series. I decided to change the cap and sleeve logos used by the team: the current caps use the "Leones" script, which I don't think looks good, so I decided to bring back the "C" used in the past. About the sleeve patch, I decided to keep an alt version of their secondary logo used in the 2015/16 season. The home uniform remains the same. For the road I decided to change the white for yellow, in order to make them look less like the Yankees. I completely changed the alts, the home is inspired by the uniform used during the late 70's and the road is inspired by the old Cervecería Caracas' style. Feedback appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujubeans Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Personally I'm more of a fan of this Caracas script than the one you used. Love the Cerveceria alternate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeG Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Already a great start. The Leones look like the love child of the Yankees and Dodgers. My only opinion is that of jujubeans ^^ that a more Pittsburgh Pirates font looks a lot better. I would also like to see a yellow alternate instead of the blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victormrey Posted March 21, 2017 Author Share Posted March 21, 2017 16 hours ago, jujubeans said: Personally I'm more of a fan of this Caracas script than the one you used. 16 hours ago, CodeG said: My only opinion is that of jujubeans ^^ that a more Pittsburgh Pirates font looks a lot better. Great idea! I didn't remember that script. Here is the road uniform Pirates-ish font: 16 hours ago, CodeG said: I would also like to see a yellow alternate instead of the blue I used navy because I think it matches better the grey pants, but this is the yellow version: What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coco1997 Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 I've been looking forward to this series! I agree that the Pirates-esque "Caracas" wordmark is the better of the two. For consistency, use it on the navy/yellow alt, whichever you end up going with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victormrey Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 17 hours ago, coco1997 said: I agree that the Pirates-esque "Caracas" wordmark is the better of the two. For consistency, use it on the navy/yellow alt, whichever you end up going with. I would like to keep the Cervecería Caracas-inspired style. That way both alts would be retro inspired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victormrey Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 Let's move on to an idyllic island in the Caribbean, time for Los Bravos de Margarita (Margarita Braves). Los Bravos is a team based on the island of Margarita, located in its biggest city, Porlamar. The team was founded in 2007, as a replacement of the Pastora de los Llanos' franchise, so they are the youngest team in the league. First of all, I decided to change the team's colour scheme, going for a more Caribbean-ish style. On the left you can see the old scheme and on the right the new one: I also changed the wordmarks, keeping the current script style. For the uniforms, I decided to use the style of the current alt to all the designs: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendocfc Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Nice designs! It's "idyllic" by the way,correct if you can give a toss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coco1997 Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Love that new color scheme for the Bravos! Just curious, you said you'd be adding four teams to the original eight, but the topic title says "2/14." So will there be 12 or 14 teams total? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victormrey Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 41 minutes ago, hendocfc said: Nice designs! It's "idyllic" by the way,correct if you can give a toss. Thanks, and yes, you're right. My English is far from perfect. 37 minutes ago, coco1997 said: Love that new color scheme for the Bravos! Just curious, you said you'd be adding four teams to the original eight, but the topic title says "2/14." So will there be 12 or 14 teams total? Thank you! Just a mistake, there'll be 12 teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImmortalChef Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Wow, these all look really great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victormrey Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 How about using sand instead of grey for Los Bravos? Inspired by the Caribbean Coast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeG Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Definitely not what I was expecting when I saw the name 'Braves'. But these are really good, the colors work well. 1 hour ago, Victormrey said: How about using sand instead of grey for Los Bravos? Inspired by the Caribbean Coast. If this is supposed to be the 'Caribbean' team, then yes sand would work a lot better than grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coco1997 Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 2 hours ago, Victormrey said: How about using sand instead of grey for Los Bravos? Inspired by the Caribbean Coast. Sure. Let's see how it would look! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victormrey Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 This how the road uniform would look with the sand colour: What do you think? I'm not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coco1997 Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 I dig it. I was thinking more of a golden tan color, but this version definitely works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victormrey Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 On 23/3/2017 at 10:19 PM, coco1997 said: I dig it. I was thinking more of a golden tan color, but this version definitely works. Thanks! This is the road alt with the new colour: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coco1997 Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Looks good! Let's see the next team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victormrey Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 1 hour ago, coco1997 said: Looks good! Let's see the next team! It's not finished yet I'm currently doing a set for Águilas del Zulia. I'll try to get it done for tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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