You get a "Bloblin"!
A 3D rendering of the concept
I ordered some rocket-building supplies from Amazon (actually some Micro-Sol) and in order to make shipping worth it, I needed to add something else, so I snagged a Big Daddy kit. The kit arrived and for some weird reason, It jumped straight to the top of my build pile and sat there. staring at me, daring me to build it. The Big Daddy is sassy like that.
The build was really straightforward and went quick, and I tried my hand at papering fins for the first time using Avery self-adhesive full-sheet labels. In the 30+ years I've been making rockets, I've never tried this method. I'm too old-school I guess, but I will say that I am very impressed with the ease and with the results. While papering won't work for every design, I think I'll be using it whenever it will. I stuck with the stock motor mount but next time I build one of these, I will modify it slightly and do proper internal fillets and use an 24mm retainer rather than the hook. I used 30-minute epoxy to build and install the motor mount though, so it's built like a tank. With fins.
Under contruction
Anyway, I wasn't a huge fan of the paint scheme on the Big Daddy as it came out of the bag, so I thought maybe I'd change it up a little. Initially, I was going to paint it up in the yellow and black V2 color scheme Estes uses in their current V2 kit offering, since I was planning on painting my copy in a camouflage pattern, but I did like the yellow/black...
Then I had a semi-serious moment of clarity and it hit me... Why not paint it to look like a Goblin? It could work! The "Bloblin" was born! I ended up re-drawing the original Goblin decal sheet in Adobe Illustrator as vectors so they could scale better, and debated doing vinyl decals or water-slide. In the end I decided on water-slide but the body stripe is a piece of vinyl. There's an extra tiny bat decal, but the 'Daddy has the girth to pull it off.
Here's a crappy, weird-perspective, low-light iPhone shot from last night after the decals have dried. I still need to shoot the clear topcoat, and was going to do it last night, but the weather was not cooperating. I still have time to get a topcoat on after work tonight and it should be dry enough to fly at tomorrow's club launch.
Almost ready to launch!
A 3D rendering of the concept
I ordered some rocket-building supplies from Amazon (actually some Micro-Sol) and in order to make shipping worth it, I needed to add something else, so I snagged a Big Daddy kit. The kit arrived and for some weird reason, It jumped straight to the top of my build pile and sat there. staring at me, daring me to build it. The Big Daddy is sassy like that.
The build was really straightforward and went quick, and I tried my hand at papering fins for the first time using Avery self-adhesive full-sheet labels. In the 30+ years I've been making rockets, I've never tried this method. I'm too old-school I guess, but I will say that I am very impressed with the ease and with the results. While papering won't work for every design, I think I'll be using it whenever it will. I stuck with the stock motor mount but next time I build one of these, I will modify it slightly and do proper internal fillets and use an 24mm retainer rather than the hook. I used 30-minute epoxy to build and install the motor mount though, so it's built like a tank. With fins.
Under contruction
Anyway, I wasn't a huge fan of the paint scheme on the Big Daddy as it came out of the bag, so I thought maybe I'd change it up a little. Initially, I was going to paint it up in the yellow and black V2 color scheme Estes uses in their current V2 kit offering, since I was planning on painting my copy in a camouflage pattern, but I did like the yellow/black...
Then I had a semi-serious moment of clarity and it hit me... Why not paint it to look like a Goblin? It could work! The "Bloblin" was born! I ended up re-drawing the original Goblin decal sheet in Adobe Illustrator as vectors so they could scale better, and debated doing vinyl decals or water-slide. In the end I decided on water-slide but the body stripe is a piece of vinyl. There's an extra tiny bat decal, but the 'Daddy has the girth to pull it off.
Here's a crappy, weird-perspective, low-light iPhone shot from last night after the decals have dried. I still need to shoot the clear topcoat, and was going to do it last night, but the weather was not cooperating. I still have time to get a topcoat on after work tonight and it should be dry enough to fly at tomorrow's club launch.
Almost ready to launch!
