Hello All,

I just came across several photographs of alternate paint schemes for the Estes Mini Honest John (see: www.postwarv2.com/honestJohn/photos/photos.html *and* the sample photographs attached below!). Also, the main web site (see: www.postwarv2.com/moreRockets.html ) has photographs and specifications for numerous missiles and sounding rockets.

I hope this material will be useful.

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Cool!....and they can be done without decals----just black adhesive film. Hmmmmmmmm.

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Thanks Jason for the info. The other schemes make a more colorful alternative to Olive Drab.

You're both most welcome! In the immortal words of Snoopy (after he dug up Linus' blanket after Lucy buried it to break Linus of his security blanket "crutch," after which Linus hugged Snoopy almost to the point of choking him, and thanked him profusely): "Every now and then I feel that my existence is justified." :-) Also:

The M31 Honest John (in the other photographs on that web page) also used the simple two-color (red-and-white) paint scheme that is shown on an M50 Honest John in the left-most attached photograph above. That basic but attractive paint job could be an "entry-level" masked paint scheme for beginning scale competitors.

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I think this is the first connection to be made between what I assumed was a olive and white launch to a red and white round. Although the links point to a pretty grand assortment of red/white, olive/white, olive/white/red schemes. The roll patterns seem to be similar to the LJII LES motor markings constituted of five differing stripe patterns.

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That roll pattern (white with black forward & rear circumferential bands, plus black longitudinal lines and "dashes" that vary on each quadrant) has been used on more missiles and sounding rockets (particularly ones that were/are flown at White Sands) than I can count. It was even used at the Cape on the early test versions of the Blue Scout, Minuteman, and Titan IIIC (on its twin Stage 0 solid motors) vehicles. At White Sands, the Athena (which was often launched from Green River, Utah to White Sands), Little John (both the delta-finned test version and the rectangular-finned operational version), Honest John, Sergeant, Lance, Patriot, and many, many others have used that roll pattern. Its varying quadrants make it much easier to determine which side of the vehicle was facing each tracking camera at a given instant, which facilitates post-flight analysis of the vehicle's roll behavior in flight.

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