27/06/2007 12:10 pm
Huge improvement...understated and elegant...
27/06/2007 12:45 pm
Good job Nick. That looks much better.
27/06/2007 2:09 pm
Adding a gold eagle under the words would finish it off.
27/06/2007 2:39 pm
Make DQ name larger
I would make 'Delta Queen' larger, put it on top, and reduce the size of the MAL logo. With or without my changes, your idea is MUCH better than what is there now. If you look at my recent photos of the American Queen, you will see how they've incorporated the corporate logo into the existing boat, er, ship.
30/06/2007 2:22 am
These are great, but I think the DQ deserves a carved nameboard, like she had out here in California. They're just "Class"! And we know the DQ is one classy lady!
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David D.
Topic starter
30/06/2007 4:28 am
Do you mean like the words "Delta Queen" in an arc?
Do you have any pics of the DQ's nameboard from then? 🙂
-Nick
30/06/2007 5:37 am
Just a straight carved wooden sign, classical and fitting. Here's a pic from the 1930s taken on San Francisco Bay, and you can plainly see the signboard.
And I think a fitting addition would be an american eagle below it! There you can put the "Majestic lines."
But then that's just my opinion! 🙂
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David D.
30/06/2007 3:11 pm
The nameboard pix are posted already
Nick, look at the pictures I posted in the DQ Signage thread. There is the nameboard, and also the eagle, which she carried here on the Mississippi System in the 60s, 70s, 80s.
30/06/2007 3:14 pm
The nameboard pix are posted already
Nick, look at the pictures I posted in the DQ Signage thread. There is the nameboard, and also the eagle, which she carried here on the Mississippi System in the 60s, 70s, 80s. I tried to repost it here, but Picasa wouldn't let me. As I said in that posting, she carried 3 nameboards, one on the front and one on each side. The eagle was only on the front.
30/06/2007 3:16 pm
David, see the exact thing you are talking about in my DQ Signage thread. I posted a pix of her pilothouse signage the way it was back when I was riding, and it would fit your wishes exactly!
30/06/2007 5:09 pm
I saw that Judy, but needed something the system would allow to be posted here! Plus, I think the original might have been a bit larger than the later one?
Of course, the one thing missing in both is the antlers!!! We wuz robbed! 🙂
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David D.
03/07/2007 4:44 am
Great sign; now the smokestack
Numbers 2 and 3 would pass in my book. Because they are so good, MAL is probably not interested. Keep up the good work, though.
Now, what can you do to make the thin, "drinking straw" of a smokestack look a little more husky? I've always hated the new one and preferred the old one. I know that the original California-based DQ had a tall thin smokestack, but not as cheesy as the current one. Maybe your version could actually stand up straight. The current DQ one often can't do that.
Topic starter
03/07/2007 5:41 am
That is a little more complex. 🙂 I honestly don't have a problem with the current stack that retracts. The logo on the front of the Delta Queen doesn't bother me to much anymore either, I just liked editing in photoshop. 🙂
Why did they put the taller stack on the DQ though? I mean, did they ever have to retract the old one. Why put a taller stack so you have to retract it for a good deal of bridges? I do know that on the Illinois river the bridges are shorter, so maybe it was for that.
03/07/2007 2:55 pm
I know what you mean about getting used to something. I really don't know why they put the current stack on it. I do remember hearing something about the old one being difficult to retract, but it is a mystery on why they chose to go with the current one. It's so different from the old one, and not all that close to the original 1920s version either.