Moderator: Vincent
That'd make it look too Navy-like to me. And as a former Army Captain, I just can't have that!Hotdog wrote:That looks good. Any way you could gold-plate the wings so they match the pin?
The bottom set in this photo is what I got in September, still on my issued lanyard in the spot I put it on right after I got them:Hotdog wrote:What kind of wings does Space Camp give out these days? They used to give out gold wings with the logo in the middle. It would be nice to get another set!
Conan wrote:I did get a set of gold wings with the logo in the center many years ago. I posted a photo of them here earlier when I posted all of my pins and shirts.
I thought I read elsewhere here that they were counselor wings. I know for sure the counselors I met last September almost all had an embroidered version of that wing on their flight suit nameplates.Hotdog wrote:I've never seen the wings with the orbiter in the shield before. What year and program are those from?
Darn right, I agree with every word of this!Hotdog wrote:Those are awesome! That's how they all should be! I say give Campers the silver ones and Advanced graduates a gold version. Just don't put the aquanaut logo on there!
My grandmother received a pair of the gold wings when she attended one of the Educator programs back in the 80's.p51 wrote:That'd make it look too Navy-like to me. And as a former Army Captain, I just can't have that!Hotdog wrote:That looks good. Any way you could gold-plate the wings so they match the pin?The bottom set in this photo is what I got in September, still on my issued lanyard in the spot I put it on right after I got them:Hotdog wrote:What kind of wings does Space Camp give out these days? They used to give out gold wings with the logo in the middle. It would be nice to get another set!
They're made from really weak metal, you can bend them with one hand if you're not careful...
Frankly, the wings you get at SC are sort of a joke. They look like something you'd get from a vending machine. For what you pay for camp, they could afford to make better ones like this. I think the ones I made should be a model for what should be given to campers who complete the program. I saw a few similar to the one I made that were awarded to counselors. If memory serves, they did indeed have gold wings.
I mostly used the wings I did because of the design (it's a giant "O" with recessed set of molded horizontal lines, perfect for the JB weld to get a grip on them) and they fact that they're a WW2 type. I would have used Army wings had there been an Army design that had such an inviting flat space like these ones did in the center like that.
Hotdog wrote:At best we can now look forward to wings with the crappy new aquanaut logo.
Pathfinder wings! That's one of our short programs.p51 wrote:Just scored these off ePay, I bid on it when I was actually going through space camp.
Still hope to nab a pair of the counselor wings someday...
oh, so the camper wings haven't changed, huh? Darn.Vincent wrote:Here's a closeup of the new counselor wings and the new Robotics 'wings'.
The robotics program is so different from the other programs, and a radically different style of "wings" is fitting in that regard. Perhaps if we refer to it as a "badge" instead of wings, folks will be less likely to look at them as such?
