Sorry I am dropping in on this thread a little late. I'm pretty good with Illustrator and if you need some help I would be more than glad to lend you some. Check this site out for some great links on tutorials on Illustrator and Photoshop. They even have some links to tutorials on MS access, excel and well almost everything. The site is
www.pixel2life.com. If you need some specific help I'm here for you guys and gals.
Oh, and nice work on that patch. Any plans to get that down to a local printers to make some, multi colored or single, vinyl stickers? This would be great to add to ones armor and would look a lot cleaner than painting it on, but might be a little more expensive.