Graphic language…

… is what I feel like using!

As you can’t get hold of the official AX3 pod transfer any more, I’ve been playing around with designs for a vinyl graphic to stick on each side of the pod. I’ve created (and rejected) dozens over the past few weeks and I’m now rapidly becoming paranoid because whenever I design one I like, when I next look at it, I don’t 😕

I asked the guys on the BMAA forum what they thought but haven’t had any useful pointers, really, so as of now I’m stuck with my ‘preferred’ choice. Before I go any further, I knocked out a couple of examples on my laser printer, cut them out and stuck them on one side. The smaller one looked silly and the one I’m currently running with is shown below.

Amazingly, the graphic shown is a metre long! I think that’s a little bit too big, but the general conclusion I’ve come to is that you won’t be able to really tell what it will look like until the engine and everything else is fitted and possibly even the wings too. By way of comparison, here’s how my original photo mock-up looked.

Not too different, is it? But the lettering needs to be smaller, I think, and the body of the background made ‘fatter’ vertically, to look more like the original.

The Vertex car charger arrived today so I’ll be able to start work on the radio/intercom system now. I also ordered the three lengths of thinner foam tubing. I couldn’t arrange to see them first because the supplier said that my order was below their minimum value anyway but they’d process it if I just put it through on the Internet. Alright for some eh? Minimum order values in these straitened times – what luxury 😀