Very nice work on "Floyd" -- your thread is chock-full of great building tidbits !
Floyd is a very handsome fella, but does he need a Cricut 'name tag' sticker ?
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Maybe between the two white rings ?
Hmmm ... what color ? What font ? Vertical or horizontal ?
Sitckers are HARD !
Thanks, my friend!
Yeah, the artistic transformation of tubes and fins escapes me. I can manage a few stripes or other geometric patterns strategically placed. But creating personality is a gift I don't have access to.
If Floyd gets it's name emblazoned, it will with be either the true "Floyd" font:
Or something in hard-edged block/angular italics, including "II" and "54" or such, indicating the rebuild.
Placement would likely be on the booster:
As the original rocket was a spartan effort thrown together from scrap with most decisions made from the geometry of the material left on hand, the rocket's theme immediately became variation. It was flown once in the original short, white configuration. It was then extended with the Expediter's payload section, then repainted with it's own payload sections, which varied in a couple of different lengths. I soon realized that Floyd's evolution had led to a sort of modular format. It could be flown in different configurations. Remember electronics mounting systems being built into a payload section, rather than using a removeable/exchangeable altimeter bay?
True to its DNA, Floyd II has already had two different main compartments built, though it's only flown once. The first was the length of tube I had left, in correct Floyd Form. What's there now is already a longer compartment to accommodate a little more room for the recovery system. The original sits aside.
I've already decided a 38mm version with the slightly smaller plywood fins is needed to be complete. Rather than build the entire thing over, it will be the booster alone, with other parts to be exchanged to create the format to be flown on a given day.
So that one
should be the one to get the real Floyd-script font pictured, and would need to be on the booster in order for versions to be differentiated.
Unless "removable vinyl" is really removable...
Now that those memories are being revived, the original 2nd, 54 mm booster was branded Floyd54, and I
had a thought in mind for a logo that never made it on before the J800/AltAcc incident. So maybe that's what should be done. That 54 logo for this version.
While my fantastic propensity for indecision keeps such things up in the air, I have actually printed a couple of these on waterslide paper to vaguely illustrate the nomenclature's root to those who know:
Sized to quietly go between the fins.
(Clipped from this image for anyone who doesn't recognize the expression
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...now browsing fonts, of course...
Please post MORE pictures !
Of anything in particular?
Hmm... that could be a good sig line. Properly attributed, of course:
"Kardboard is Kool" -Konrad
