Decal placement is at the bottom of page 7.
The single, long kit body tube is 19.5" long.
The older Estes instructions say the two kit tubes were the same length.
The 1/4" wide black strip was placed over the body tube seams at the center. This would center the decal on the new kit at 9.75" from the top.
The older instructions say the vertical UNITED and STATES are set 3/16" above and below that line. After looking at many M.R. pictures, that spacing looks too tight against the wide black band.
I'm spacing mine at 9/32" away from the horizontal band.
The face card decal placement is incorrect. See View 2 in the above older instructions.
The UNITED STATES should be centered over the next fin or 90 degrees to the right of what is shown.
The area above the "half-half" black and white fin quadrant has no decal.
Am I nit-picking? Yes.
If the decals are positioned like the face card picture it is still a good representation of the Mercury Redstone. At a club launch nobody will know the difference.
Hi Chris, thanks for the help - I never start a rocket before checking here! :)
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"The single, long kit body tube is 19.5" long.
The older Estes instructions say the two kit tubes were the same length.
The 1/4" wide black strip was placed over the body tube seams at the center. This would center the decal on the new kit at 8.75" from the top."
How do you get 8.75" for the center black strip? 19.5 / 2 = 9.75" from the top of the tube - correct? The tube length seems right, so it must be 9.75 from top (or 10.3/8" from bottom of tube per instr - that's where I put mine.)
Thanks for all the tips!
Pat (Huxter on TRF)
Sorry, I meant 10 3/8" from bottom of FINS (not tube) as per instructions
DeleteThanks Pat!
DeleteMy mistake - correction made. I hit the 8 instead of the 9!