If you are a real stickler to build like the designer intended, take a look at the Goblin Assembly drawing. In the drawing the model is drawn on a horizontal.
Very few people notice the "3" decal is really laying on it's side!
The rounded "right" side of the 3 is turned 90 degrees clockwise so it lays parallel to the trailing edge of the fin. In the drawing it reads normally, but imagine the rocket standing upright, the "3" would be on it's side.
The decal sheet in the parts picture shows the "3" the way Wayne Kellner designed it to sit on the fin.
There is really no wrong way to place the decal. When the Goblin first appeared in the 1972 Estes catalog, the "3" decal read normally, not on it's side.
In every catalog after that, you can't see the "3" decal!
I know, it's a moot point and trivial. Still, interesting and a little bit of Estes history.
Kinda reminds me of the second Red Max skull. Most people I know used the optional "kills" decal on a fin instead of the big white skull, since there are already two skulls on the tube wrap and two other smaller skulls on the fins. Oh no, we might have inadvertently started a controversy!
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