Jun 092010
I’ve been tinkering with art again, trying to perfect the process of making a black and white diagram into a good cyanotype blueprint. This time, it’s the Douglas ICARUS troop transport. I’ve not only blued and noised it, I’ve also added some subtle shading that indicates that this particular blueprint has spent the last forty-some years folded up. So, whaddaya think? I think it’d look good around 36 inches long. If there’s interest, I’ll add it to the list of prints.
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Wasn’t that named “Ithacus”, not “Icarus”?
It’s Ithacus in 1969’s “Frontiers Of Space” by Bono and Gatland.
…or is this some kind of related design called Icarus?
They’re the same thing, different name. Rwead the article in the V2N6 issue of APR to get the details (such as what ICARUS stands for), but the basic story is that “Icarus” is a *stupid* name for a manned high altitude vehicle.
Yeah, I was thinking that myself; it doesn’t suggest a safe landing, does it? 😀
It needs very faint white lines, not perfect ones, intermittent on width and gaps to simulate the areas where the blue is rubbed off by the creasing. It’s got to be very subtle. you can see those lines in the Saturn V print.
> it doesn’t suggest a safe landing
Especially not when you consider that it’s wings would be the hottest structures during the re-entry procedure.
Well, clearly the print-buying public is clamoring for *this* one…
>If there’s interest, I’ll add it to the list of prints.
Where do I sign? How much (guesstimate)?
me checkbook is open . . . .