Ok... Here's a kit that's been really taking a lot longer than it should have... One of two kits that share nearly everything except name, instructions, and decals... The Estes Sterling Silver (7275):
Introduced in 2018, this is the older of the two kits, the other being Hobby Lobby's exclusive, EPIC II (7286), which hit shelves late in 2019. Estes simply gave it a different paint scheme, and decals to become that kit. The current version of the EPIC II's instructions are in English only. Perhaps someday, a foreign language version will be done, or maybe not. These kits also use a nosecone that I've not seen before, PN 071031.
My frustration was caused by a unscheduled restart for an update that erased my work on doing the decals... The second time, I was saving the decals frequently, until the computer froze, and I needed to restart. The file comes up with a "File format not recognized" type error message. This is round 3.
There is no guide for painting in the instructions. I opted to go with making the red stripes (on the longest two body tubes) 1/3 the circumference of the rocket. The smallest body tube forms the fin can of the sustainer, and I opted to "paint" that red (instead of shifting the white portion forward or back of the joint with the forward body tube). The decal is "placed" 1/8" below the red stripe, and centered between the front and back of the body tube. The launch lug is located in a stock location based on the instruction's graphics. However, I'll place it "behind" the white fin in the "back" of the rocket when I build it. There's no red decals included in the kit to have to try to match. So, you could make the accent color anything you want.
I'm seriously unhappy with how short the "Yellow Tube Coupler" is. At 1 inch long, it extends 3/4" into the fin can's body tube, and only 1/4" inside the forward tube. My solution would be to glue in a standard 1/4" long centering ring to form the engine block, and then have the tube coupler extend 1/2" inside the fin can and 1/2" inside the forward body tube. This would be for either the Sterling Silver, or the EPIC II. It seams totally unnecessary to divide the sustainer into two body tube segments as combined, they're less than 18" long. It might be a good idea to simply cut another tube down to 14.75", then use that for the rocket (less filling needed), and simply toss the other tubes into the spares box for future scrap builds.
And now the EPIC II (7286) has joined the lineup:
Again, this is the same rocket as the Sterling Silver, just with different decals, paint scheme, and instructions (no languages used other than English).
Typically I try to reproduce the scheme seen on the facecard, or in the instructions (occasionally both), but in this case, the logos that I found in the scans are 1.44" long, too big to fit on the sustainer's fin as seen on the facecard. The facecard appears to have an actual photo of a built rocket. If you look down by the fins, there's something odd about it. It looks like a paint run right at the joint of the 2.75" and 12" long body tubes. The blue of the decals looks to my eye (based on the scans I received) to be a match for Testors Gloss Bright Blue (1210). However, the blue of the paint is much darker. The instructions simply call for "Gloss Blue". Try as I might, I couldn't find a Testors paint simply called "Gloss Blue". The instructions called for the booster to simply be painted black. The facecard looks to have a blue fading into black on the booster for the larger rocket seen on it, and the booster falling away from the other looks to simply be blue.
Follow the links for more info about these kits.
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/scans-of-the-estes-epic-ii-7286-sterling-silver-7275.155482/
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/estes-pro-series-impulse-2064-info-revisited.155851/
Remember it's seriously uncool to clone in production kits (it hurts our vendors). However, it is seriously cool to upscale and downscale them. My samples are awaiting shipment at eRockets.
Thanks to John Boren (JumpJet), Bernard Crawley (BEC), Robert Spillane and Phil (scadaman29325) for their help on these kits.