Ive actualy used a drop of food coloring in my epoxy so I can see it better.

I havent had any probs with it so far. Then again I only launch J motors and below.

John,

I have some black pigment you are welcome to have. I have other colors too.

Ed

TAP plastics has pigments for epoxy.

Tony

Use lampblack. I did that when fiberglassing a body tube. I made a batch of 100 grams of epoxy and a mere 1 gram of lampblack (probably 2 tablespoons worth) did the trick.

It is worse than graphite for the compressed filth factor.

Edward

Hey,

Black rocket with, red fillets? How cool would that be?

Yeah, if you can color the rocket like that, how durable would that be, wow

There are dyes specific to epoxy - see fiberglast.com for choices. Generally lampblack is the key black dye.

Warren

I used red iron oxide for red epoxy. The stuff works great and you have to use so little.

Edward

At the risk of having threads collide, I'm leaning toward doing an entirely black rocket for my next kit - new tubing material (dare I say REVLOLUTIONARY tubing material??), black G10 fins, black gelcoat cone. It would not need finishing, other than maybe clearcoat.

I hope to have the prototype flying at MHM - on a nice Pro54, black-smoke Smoky Sam reload. Black fillets seem to be in order given the rest of the rocket.

Now I need a "dark" themed name... Raven, Shadow, Dark Star, Nighthawk, etc. are taken.

Good names John. If it was me I would drop the name Raven so that there would be no confusion with Adrian's Raven altimeter.

Good names John. If it was me I would drop the name Raven so that there would be no confusion with Adrian's Raven altimeter.

Note that I said "Raven, Shadow, Dark Star, Nighthawk, etc. are taken" - meaning I won't use those names.

The Raven is not only Adrian's altimeter, but the name of a competitor's rocket as well 🙂

Bruce came up with "Darkhorse"... I like it!

I see that now...by fingers were working faster than the brain.

Good names John. If it was me I would drop the name Raven so that there would be no confusion with Adrian's Raven altimeter.

Note that I said "Raven, Shadow, Dark Star, Nighthawk, etc. are taken" - meaning I won't use those names.

The Raven is not only Adrian's altimeter, but the name of a competitor's rocket as well 🙂

Bruce came up with "Darkhorse"... I like it!

I got a really good name, a sky busting name.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................BLACKY !!! 😉 😀

Black rockets are pretty cool - but they get hot.

Remember to keep those baby's in the shade while out in the field. My all carbon 3" diameter rocket got almost too hot to handle while prepping it on a sunny July day on the grasslands. I was worried about the electronics inside so I made sure to give it a rest in the shade before flying.

Hey, how about that for a name; "Too hot to handle"

Shadowlands.

Edward