Image to 3D (STL perhaps) for relief carving.

Hi All,
I'm trying to get this image into a format I can carve on my CNC. Its not playing ball. I'd like the STL or other 3D format to look like this when carved.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Neal
P.S. No, I'm not a Villa fan, so please don't hold this post against me.

 

https://www.instructables.com/3D-CNC-Relief-Sculpture-Fusion-360/

 

The problem with Vipers' link is the shadows in that pic would be deep holes, etc. Sadly, that's the best we can do without a relief to scan, or a proper 3d model.

 

It's not a problem with the link. It's a problem with the source image - No program can do anything without cleaning it up. I thought that would be obvious.
The only alternative would be tracing it in sculpting software, and I'm no fan of football, but even I know that's too much effort for Villa.

 

Thanks guys. It's the cleaning up of the image I'm struggling with. I'm trying to lighten the dark areas so I don't get very low spots on the carving. Every relief creator I try gets the same result so it's definitely the source image as viper said.

 

Can you use an alternative picture, something like this:

 

Yeah that was actually my backup image just in case I couldn't get the other one right. This one cut beautifully!