The Peanut Little Joe II documentation by George Gassaway (?) shows the unwrapped pattern as applied to the LES motor casing on the LJII. It is identical to the pattern on the HJ. I'll see if I can find the pdf when I return home.

In the case of the A-001 launch the pattern matches closely the HJ pattern. The omission of the two short bars was required by the presence of the cable tunnel on the LES motor casing. Also the Little Joe II maintained a consisten thickness in the band and stripes, whereas the Honest John seems to have the bands being 1/2 the width of the bars

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Another thank-you.

When I was in Fifth Grade, maybe 1973, I bought a Centuri Honest John. I did a crap job on it. Never flew it, from what I remember. But the bulbous nose cone was one of the artifacts of my early rocketry years that survived the decades.

I recently bought parts to recreate the body and fins. Right now it's waiting for me to sand off the Fill n Finish, and maybe add the spin thrusters.

The red, white, and black bar paint job looks like just the thing to decorate it.

Well given the data presented here and from my Rockets of the World, I've created a body tube wrap for the BT-50 Mini Honest John. The wrap is pretty close but may have to be tweaked a bit to fit properly on the BT-50 without a gap or overlap.But it should also be the right length as well.

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Thanks Greg,
You've just saved me a lot of time!
In the next few days, I was going to draw up this White Sands paint pattern.
I appreciate the time you took to put it together.

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No problem, Chris - Time is something I definitely have a lot of right now (although I haven't really felt like building or designing up to now - the shoulder IS coming along nicely, so I will probably get back to building/designing in the next day or so). Th pattern was created in Illustrator 5 and ported out in PDF, so if you need to adjust it a bit for length or circumference, you should be able to open it in any graphics program that opens PDF files for edit.

Greg

The final version.

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When I designed this model I originally was going to do the test round version but felt the one piece decal would get damaged on the model too easily so I went with the standard Army Green color.

I posted this PDF version some time ago. Make sure to print it out to full size.
I have included a jpg of the image as well.


John Boren
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Hey John,
Would there be any chance of adding the bands and stripe segments as individual elements? It isn't a huge decals as they go, and the current crop of Estes decals paper seems pretty robust. Not sure how fast this kit sells but perhaps added to a subsequent run? For us I think cutting sections of decals stripe is working quite well.

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Most likely this isn't going to happen in a kit.

What you could do is use this image to cut out a piece of Frisket Film. Apply the film to the model, Paint the black parts, remove the film and then you don't have any decals to worry about.


John Boren

Since the first production run of the Mini Honest John included the 'nervous lawyer-inspired' "U.S. MILITARY" decals instead of the correct "U.S. ARMY" decals, why not introduce a customizable "U.S. ARMY" & "White Sands"-style roll pattern decal set (preferably water-transfer) into subsequent production runs of this kit? Not only would this make the Mini Honest John an even more interesting and popular scale kit, it would also make the first-run kits with the "U.S. MILITARY" decals very collectible classic kits (for the same reason that incorrectly-printed stamps and mis-struck coins are collectible).

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