Old School Fan Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Just thought I'd start up a thread here to feature championship belt renders I've worked on in Photoshop. My first entry here is for a Belt I'm going to use in an upcoming entry in my Rise of a Star diary. Since my diary is taking place in the mid-1960s at this point, it only seems fitting to have a belt designed in a 1960s style. Maritimes Heavyweight Championship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted November 18, 2021 Author Share Posted November 18, 2021 1960s-style World Tag Team Championship (for use in Rise of a Star) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hulkamaniac85 Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Very cool! Great work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian_Shane Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 These are fantastic! Keep up the good work! Old school belts are the best. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted November 23, 2021 Author Share Posted November 23, 2021 Very cool! Great work. These are fantastic! Keep up the good work! Old school belts are the best. Thanks for the compliments, I've got more coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted November 23, 2021 Author Share Posted November 23, 2021 1960s-style generic European Women's Championship (for use in Rise of a Star) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted November 27, 2021 Author Share Posted November 27, 2021 1970s version of the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship This is an approximate recreation of the belt used from that time period given the source I had to work with, this YouTube clip of a Dutch Savage interview with the PNW belt as it looked in 1977: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted November 28, 2021 Author Share Posted November 28, 2021 For fans of Jerry Lawler's Memphis territory in the 1980s (AKA the Continental Wrestling Association), here's my newest belt render: 1980s NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian_Shane Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 I love this whole thread. Old school belts are my favorite and I have a big soft spot for trophy style belts so this is fantastic. Have you considered doing one like The Bruiser's old WWA belt? One big globe plate, painted black I think? That's one of my favorites, along with the old Southern Junior Heavyweight Championship from Memphis (it's my home territory so it's a given lol.) Anyway, keep up the good work! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted December 18, 2021 Author Share Posted December 18, 2021 I love this whole thread. Old school belts are my favorite and I have a big soft spot for trophy style belts so this is fantastic. Have you considered doing one like The Bruiser's old WWA belt? One big globe plate, painted black I think? That's one of my favorites, along with the old Southern Junior Heavyweight Championship from Memphis (it's my home territory so it's a given lol.) Anyway, keep up the good work! I did find some reference photos to use to recreate Dick the Bruiser's WWA World title belt. It's not 100% accurate (I left the name engravings off of the side plates and the center shield plate is not exactly as it appears in the ref photos), but it comes close. As for the AWA Southern Junior Heavyweight belt, I might need to see which version of that (the pre-1974 NWA one that became the Southern Heavyweight belt between 1974 and '77, or the Southern Heavyweight belt design of 1977-81 that was later used for the junior strap in '83) to use to make the design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted December 19, 2021 Author Share Posted December 19, 2021 Two new entries for generic old school championship belts here: Generic International Heavyweight Championship Generic International Tag Team Championship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted January 5, 2022 Author Share Posted January 5, 2022 1960s NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship (for use in Rise of a Star) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d12345 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Just amazing. Thanks for the Portland clip too. Love realistic promos/interviews like that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted January 8, 2022 Author Share Posted January 8, 2022 Just amazing. Thanks for the Portland clip too. Love realistic promos/interviews like that. Thanks, and you're welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted January 8, 2022 Author Share Posted January 8, 2022 1960s-style generic British Empire Heavyweight Championship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 Route 66 Heavyweight Championship (custom/novelty design) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 Route 66 Tag Team Championship (custom/novelty design) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theheel Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 These are really good Old School Fan, nice work. Thanks for the Dutch Savage clip too, that brings back memories 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blonde Bomber Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Awesome quality! I love old-school wrestling belts. Your renders will be a mainstay in my saves from now on. I can't hoot enough over how much I like these. Keep them coming, old-school is cool! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted January 28, 2022 Author Share Posted January 28, 2022 Awesome quality! I love old-school wrestling belts. Your renders will be a mainstay in my saves from now on. I can't hoot enough over how much I like these. Keep them coming, old-school is cool! Thanks, glad you like 'em and I have more coming up. These are really good Old School Fan, nice work. Thanks for the Dutch Savage clip too, that brings back memories Thanks, and you're welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted January 28, 2022 Author Share Posted January 28, 2022 My next entry moves into the 1980s with this belt design based on the 1985 WWF Intercontinental title belt: Intercontinental-style championship render PSD file (for others to use and modify to suit their ideas): https://mega.nz/file/kC5HkS6a#mheY5WDhb1sUF4xkZ7N_TgAYMAll9XACf_Ysor6e70Y And, some variations of the Intercontinental-style design: Custom AWA America's Heavyweight Championship Generic North American Heavyweight Championship Custom NWA North American Heavyweight Championship (the generic NA design above, but with the NWA logo added) Custom NWA United States Heavyweight Championship 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaysin Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 You know you can set it up so you can post pics on here without us having to click links right? It's fine for like one or two pics, but to check out a thread's worth of work it's a pain. User CP- top left of the forum, on the left is a link that says Edit Options. After that scroll down to Visible Post Elements and make sure Show Images is checked. Then on the forum you use the IMG tags, but the forum makes it simple. There's a button above the text box with a pic of a mountain with a yellow sky. Click it, and paste the direct image URL into it. It would make seeing your work much more accessible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted January 29, 2022 Author Share Posted January 29, 2022 You know you can set it up so you can post pics on here without us having to click links right? It's fine for like one or two pics, but to check out a thread's worth of work it's a pain. User CP- top left of the forum, on the left is a link that says Edit Options. After that scroll down to Visible Post Elements and make sure Show Images is checked. Then on the forum you use the IMG tags, but the forum makes it simple. There's a button above the text box with a pic of a mountain with a yellow sky. Click it, and paste the direct image URL into it. It would make seeing your work much more accessible. Well, what I've been doing with my Rise of a Star diary (and what I'm now seeing done with newer posts on the NJPW America diary thread) does set a precedent, so I'll give it a shot with future posts in this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted February 10, 2022 Author Share Posted February 10, 2022 NWA International Heavyweight Championship (Amarillo, used by Dory Funk Jr. in 1974-81) The photo reference for that title belt is here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old School Fan Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 AWA Midwest Tag Team Championship This is an approximate recreation of the very first championship belt ever made by wrestler-turned-beltmaker Reggie Parks. The photo reference for that title belt is here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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