Here's a shot of the Quest kit decals.
These were peel and stick.
The red and dark blue triangles had to be pieced together with American flags between them.
I didn't like the nozzle or canopy stickers. The canopy is black, looks like a flipped over "U".
The nozzle wrap is all the triangles side by side.
The round windows need some tweaking.
There are a LOT of them! I remember taking four hours to apply them all.
The decals I drew up would be a combination of the two. There will be fewer decals than the Interceptor has.
Here's what I drew up for home print water slides. I hate the looks of thick, shiny stickers.
I've always liked the bold wing decals from the Estes Interceptor.
The nozzle wrap has been redone.
The canopy windows take cues from the Orbital Transport.
The round passenger windows are now rounded rectangles.
I set two sizes of INTRUDER name decals. I may use them depending on the remaining space on the sides.
The stars in the blue blocks still need to be added.
Chris, you got it right on the Interceptor decals. I messed mine up trying to get them straight. The Intruder decal looks cleaner.
ReplyDeletePossible interpretation of the shape used for canopy sticker on the Intruder kit.
ReplyDeleteA. "semi-bubble" canopy -- basically like cockpit windows on many airliners and transport, but without the frames.
B. It's not the canopy itself, but the "anti-glare" panel ahead of the cockpit. The actual cockpit windows are revealed when a a "visor" in front of the cockpit retracts into nose (such as on the XB-70 Valkyrie bomber, or the Concorde airliner), or there's a "droop snoot" (Soviet Sukhoi T-4 bomber). On the Concorde, there's both a "visor" (which is raised so there's no "bump" from the cockpit in high speed, lowered so that pilots can see forward during takeoff and landing) and "droop snoot" (lowered to allow pilots forward view during landing and takeoff -- needed because at low speeds the aircraft flies in a "nose-high" attitude where nose would block view).
As for the exhaust markings on the Intruder -- I interpreted this as openings in an "ejector" type nozzle -- somewhat similar to what was depicted on the Orbital Transport.