Chad,

I think you and I built identical bashes of the Wildman Jr. I used a slimline tail cone and tweaked the ebay too. Although I did not change the nosecone.

I am NOT planning on calling it "Wildman Jr." and I don't think the rocket gods will be put out.

Please don't paint yours yellow and black or we might get them confused.

I knew a guy that renamed the same rocket every time he flew it! I'm not that imaginative. Lots of people name their kits based more on the paint design than the rocket kit. Go for it.

Doug

What is the consensus? I'm mortified of a rocket fopaux. ; )
Chad

FOPAUX !!!!

I had to look that word up. 😕

I think as long as you Don't name them after "Sushi" your OK!
I wont mention any names............like Greg or someone! 8)

Thanks for the comments. Anybody with a dissenting opinion?

Don't worry Ed, separate paint schemes... I'm thinking blue, black, and silver.

Chad
PS- posts are disappearing of the forums, what gives?!?

Boy I'd better figure out a paint scheme for my Wildman Jr. kit before all the good colors are taken.

As far as naming goes I figure if I change it a bunch I'll call it whatever I want. If it's just minor changes I'll keep the name. If I hate the name I'll change the the name. I really don't think it matters as long as if someone ask the name of the kit you tell them it started out as "blank."

Ron

I suppose it should have been faux pas. Fopaux is a slang spelling it seems.

There is a rocket name for your right there - "Faux Pas". That is one of those sayings that is ingrained into the lexicon of our society, yet unless you speak French, you probably don't know the literal meaning. I got curious and looked it up... it means "false step" in French. The shirtsleeve-English translation is "social blunder", which is probably another good rocket name 8)

For my part, I try and hang a name on a rocket that has an underlying connection to the project. I tend to spend a lot of time on the name. benchmarK was for a "K" boost that I hoped would, in fact, become a benchmark. beLLwether - same thing ("L" rocket). "Special K" was another rocket that I built especially for K's.

I think the best rocket name I ever heard was "Downright Ignorant". That was a monster that flew at BALLS about ten years ago.

Regarding changing the names on a kit? I don't think it would bug anyone outside of the designer of the kit...

I'll put Faux Pas at the top of my list, alongside Tychastics (the study of errors and accidents). Thanks

What is the consensus? I'm mortified of a rocket fopaux. ; )
Chad

FOPAUX !!!!

I had to look that word up. 😕

I think as long as you Don't name them after "Sushi" your OK!
I wont mention any names............like Greg or someone! 8)

HEY NOW - I didn't name it SUSHI, I named them Unagi and Yakatori Those were scratch build too..

Chad, your using too big of words for Scott, sorry for the confusion..

In my case, I have rockets that I changed a little bit more to my liking. I used their original names and added to them. My Vertical Assault from GLR is the V.A. Ci Bi. It is canary yellow and will some day have feathers airbrushed on the nose cone - Ci Bi is my wife's Canary's name - Latin for food. AND just so I don't confuse Scott - it's pronounced chee bee.
My PML Black Brant VB, is the Black and Blue Brant. Since it's painted metallic blue and I changed the fin shape.

Why not name the rocket Wildman Tychastics???? That would have Scott confused for days. 😛

AND just so I don't confuse Scott - it's pronounced chee bee.

Why not name the rocket Wildman Tychastics???? That would have Scott confused for days. 😛

Its not my fault them Latin People dont know how to spell!
Do they actually still teach that stuff in Collage??

And Nope.... only 37 seconds
Tychastics: the science of industrial accidents. 8)
Hmmmm.........They musta taught you that in Oil School. 😉
You had to have had a field trip that day, on the Exxon Valdez.

Did you know they changed the name of that Boat?
I wonder why? 😉

Looks like my response disappeared from this thread as well.

My reply was "You bought it, you name it!" That's been half the fun for some of mine.

If you've got a vintage Estes Saturn V that you call "Flaming Bucket of Pig Snot", more power to you. I'd certainly turn around and watch if that was announced!

Ken

(who flies "The Hot Pink Suppository of Discomfort" and "Excess in Moderation" and coming soon "Speed of Dark".) 😉

If you've got a vintage Estes Saturn V that you call "Flaming Bucket of Pig Snot", more power to you. I'd certainly turn around and watch if that was announced!

Heeeey.. I like that name!!

My old Boss use to say.... "If Dodge wants thier name on the Truck, let them buy it ! " " Now get that off there, and get our LOGO on !! "

I name 'em whatever I feel like... if it's close to the kit, then I seem to name 'em for the kit. If it is modified, I give 'em their own name....Tough titty to the name-purists amongst ya'.

Warren

if it's close to the kit, then I seem to name 'em for the kit.

So, if it's close to the kit are you supposed to name it similar? Does that mean my Wildman Jr. with a tail cone is supposed to be called "Junior Cone Butt" or "Cone assed son of a psychopath", or something similar?

I hear that "Faux pas" is taken, but scan we borrow "Flying bucket of pig snot for the Saturn? It has a nice ring to it.