Quinn Baldacci Week 10: Kite

I decided to have fun with this project and make an Iron Man kite.  I found an stance I liked and placed it on a black background.  Then I simplified it to three colors and vector shapes.  To print on the plotter I brought it all the way down to line work but that was mostly to save ink and printing time.  I used red duct tape and black, red, yellow, and blue tablecloths.  It was a pain in the ass to glue together because of all the angles.  It never wanted to lay down smoothly.  When I got to the beach it really felt like it wanted to fly.  Unfortunately the 3/8ths dowels were too thin to support the pressure and my span beam snapped.  I tried duct taping it back together but then it snapped again with the grain.  Luckily for me but unluckily for Jace, his kite dove and ripped all the way up the side.  He let me have the thicker dowel he had used to try again.  It worked perfectly.  Almost too perfectly.  I had 250ft of string and it took almost all of it and would have taken more if I let it.  I don't have a picture of it on the ground but I have a video of it flying.  For reference my kite is almost 9 feet tall and is 8 feet wide.  Luckily I brought it back down to a point that when it dove it didn't hit hard enough to break anything.