Show us your work bench

[Ber60]

EDIT!! I looked at the box on the chair for an agonizing 36 seconds and yes it does appear to be the remenants of a belt cp frame and purple head......

Do tell the story.

Simply the wind took it up to 3 meter and I took it down 3.1 meter.
Gravity 1 - Ber60 0
Feathering schaft, flybar, cf tail boom, tail boom strut, the whole frame , tail servo rod , 3 servo's all broke in the last -10 centimeter but hey the landing skids are still intact :oops:

[ChasHeliCop]

Here's mine, getting bigger every month



http://www.helifreak.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=26588&d=1190168459

[DierWolf]

Ber60, i hereby award you the new ReadyHeli.com Trophy.

http://i30.tinypic.com/30w5gnc.jpg

[DierWolf]

Here's mine, getting bigger every month



http://www.helifreak.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=26588&d=1190168459

Now there's a bench :)

I gotta say quite impressive for someone from South Carolina :) Seen the back of some Pigly Wiglies before wasnt very pleasant LOL

[mnwizard]

Simply the wind took it up to 3 meter and I took it down 3.1 meter.
Gravity 1 - Ber60 0
Feathering schaft, flybar, cf tail boom, tail boom strut, the whole frame , tail servo rod , 3 servo's all broke in the last -10 centimeter but hey the landing skids are still intact :oops:


I'm sorry about the crash, but .... 3.1 meters ...... really funny! Brought tears to my eye with laughter! :YeaBaby::YeaBaby:

[Ian 777]

:)Heres my State of the art Facility:)

I feel that the quality of ones tools should reflect the emotional and psychological investment we have in our helicopters:YeaBaby:

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/2294/20080522helicopter0001zg8.jpg


Brilliant thread Wizz :thumbup:

This is what the great Esky Belt is all about, more a state of mind than a helicopter

(Dont think we showed Modelaholic enough appreciation though. Very impressive)

Cheers Ian:cheers

[mnwizard]

Here's mine, getting bigger every month



http://www.helifreak.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=26588&d=1190168459

Far too organized for me ... :)

[mnwizard]

:)Heres my State of the art Facility:)

I feel that the quality of ones tools should reflect the emotional and psychological investment we have in our helicopters:YeaBaby:

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/2294/20080522helicopter0001zg8.jpg


Brilliant thread Wizz :thumbup:

This is what the great Esky Belt is all about, more a state of mind than a helicopter

(Dont think we showed Modelaholic enough appreciation though. Very impressive)

Cheers Ian:cheers


ROFLMAO! I love the choice of tools for "fine adjustments"! The grinder is really a nice touch - great for balancing blades - just a touch to the heavy one :lol:

[Ian 777]

In addition to physical effect these tools can have on my heli, they also have a positive psychological benifit.....
Its too scared to crash.:banana:rolling:rolling

[helihathnofury]

.. and I guess the huge roll of kitchen roll is for the mop up when it has all gone wrong. How did you do the DTS with that bow saw?

[modelholic]

Thanks guys.
No I didn't write the article on lozenge camo mentioned but was the author of the Fokker DVII article shown in one of the pics. A couple of years back I was heavily into static scale models and wrote a number of articles for Scale Aviation Modeller International. I then managed to get bitten rather nastily on my first finger (this is going to sound like that other thread!!) by a dog at work. This penetrated the peri-osteum and I still feel it. For several months there was no way I had the fine control to use an airbrush and had to withdraw my commitments to the magazine. Being a model-holic I had to be doing something so I started getting back into RC (and principally helis as you don't need a large or dedicated flying site). And you all know where that obsession leads.......don't you.

[mnwizard]

Oh ya! We know how that works!

[mnwizard]

It doesn't fly, but I think it's still cool!

http://i33.tinypic.com/59wjr9.jpg

[another_finn]

One of my favorite Mustangs, and a nice job making the decals conform to contours :thumbup:

What scale is that - 1:72?

Here's what's been occupying my workbench lately... Just need to pick a color scheme and program the DX7. Not sure if it will ever fly either, but at least there's a theoretical chance ;)

[mnwizard]

Yep, it's 1/72, but I have confess, it's an Accurate Minature and it's pre-painted. :lol:

It looked so cool at the LHS that I couldn't resist. Still have to assemble it but the marking and paint are flawless. It would take me a month to do the paint and decals like that! I don't know how they can do it and still sell it for under 10 bucks.

I love the 262. :thumbup:

What fans are you using?

I've been seriously contemplating a "jet" but I crash so often I hate to do that much work and crash it every time I fly!

[another_finn]

Wow, those pre-painted kits have certainly come a long way from when I last saw one :shock:

I don't really have high hopes of making my first jet and first twin survive its maiden, so I took the cheap option and used the GWS EDF64 impellers that came with the kit. I just installed two KB20-40-14L brushless motors and 20A ESCs from Hobby City to give it some authority - at least the power system should be reusable in my next jet, as long as I can find the nacelles after touchdown ;)

[mnwizard]

I know, I couldn't believe the finish on it. I made the guy at the LHS open one up to prove that it was the same as the one on display!

They make a yellow-cowled ME-109 that I'm probably gonna have to build too.

:lol: I love an optimist! Are you gonna paint it before you crash it?

I've never done anything with a twin before. Do both motors run off the same speed control? If so, how do you match the motor rpms?

[another_finn]

:lol: I love an optimist! Are you gonna paint it before you crash it?

I've never done anything with a twin before. Do both motors run off the same speed control? If so, how do you match the motor rpms?
I have separate ESCs embedded in the nacelles, but they're connected to the throttle channel by a Y-lead... I'm thinking I should probably try to run the other one on a separate channel, slaved to throttle and possibly mixed with rudder so I could trim out the inevitable thrust imbalance.

I'm kinda torn about the paint issue... At least I could get some nice photos out of it, but it's a lot of work to waste if I come back from the maiden flight with a bag full of packing material ;)

The real problem is going to be finding about a mile of paved runway... The low thrustline from the underslung nacelles means it will have to be pretty nose heavy, so I'm guessing it's going to come in hot. I could always dump it in tall grass and hope for the best, but I had to build it with landing gear to make sure I can at least get airborne. EDFs don't really have the bite that big props do, so I didn't want to add the risk of a botched hand launch to the already considerable odds stacked against it.

[mnwizard]

Mika - It makes me grin just thinking about the 262 roaring down the runway! :lol:

I can't get the balancing of the motor thrust out of my head. What a fun challenge! To do it right ya'd have to run seperate throttles. A two throttle Tx, too cool! 'Course I'm not saying I'd be good enough to fly it. It'd be fun to put a second throttle on a Tx and don't connect it to anything, just to freak the guys at the field.

I'll be waiting anxiously for new developements! :banana

You could wait for winter and stuff it into the snow!

[DierWolf]

Well i'm on my 4th plank now they are getting faster and faster LOL.

Have the P51D from Artech
F4U from Artech
Alfa F-86
And got on monday my Sapac T-45 Composite with 70mm Fan running 4cells doing 100+mph

Ahh forgot how much fun planks were....

Need a bigger house now LOL.

[another_finn]

We seem to share a taste in jets - I've been on the lookout for a nice Hawk to turn into a Finnish Air Force bird. How do you like the Alfa so far? I think my next one is going to be either that or the MiG-15...

It does seem to be even easier to fill the house with planks than helicopters. The kits are so cheap (particularly as I'm doing my own paint jobs on GWS NPS kits) that it's almost necessary to get more than one at a time to bring shipping costs down :YeaBaby:

[mnwizard]

... it's almost necessary to get more than one at a time to bring shipping costs down :YeaBaby:

I have to remember that one! :thumbup:

[DierWolf]

The Alfa F-86 is awesome especially when you upgrade the ESC to handle 4 cell, i am running 2x 1450mah 25c 2s in series in it, and its clocking 112mph.

running the same but 2200mah in the Composit Sapac T-45, wow that thing flys like its on rails and knife edge is just rediculous!

if you want i would go straight to the Sapac T-45 Foam which has 64mm brushless Fan instead of 70mm and also can handle 4s..

goto www.readyplanes.com (http://www.readyplanes.com) and check out the Sapacs, my next one is the Griffen :) Its HUGE!

[Jonnyheli]

I really want a rc jet plane now... Your making me jelous. I know I said I would rather stunt planes but after editing the jets on AFPD and giving them 500 N of thrust I really want one.

I think I will treat myself to an rc jet plane for xmas. A learjet would look nice cming into landing.

What you guys think of this?

(http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/F-15-EAGLE-JET-PLANE-RADIO-CONTROL-RC-AIRPLANE-F-16-FZ5_W0QQitemZ180267817753QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item1 80267817753&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318)http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/F-15-EAGLE-JET-PLANE-RADIO-CONTROL-RC-AIRPLANE-F-16-FZ5_W0QQitemZ180267817753QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item1 80267817753&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318

You guys are the experts on rc planes... I don't have the first clue about them... I know thats it's 4 ch which is all you need for a plane... Unless I want retracts or other stuff...

-Jonny

[another_finn]

Of course it might be OK, but I haven't seen that plane anywhere outside that ebay shop... which is always a huge red flag. Also it's an RTF kit from an anonymous manufacturer, so you just know it has the cheapest, nastiest electronics that China can produce. If you're going to start with something as demanding as a jet, I would at least get something from a known brand with a lot of positive user comments on forums - RCGroups and Wattflyer are great places to separate the wheat from the chaff. You know what people end up with when they buy a helicopter off the bay without doing their homework first ;)

Why not look into ARFs or receiver ready kits instead? You already have a perfectly good DX6i, so you could just get an AR6100 for $52 delivered from lightflightrc... I bet you could get an Alfa in the air with quality components for not much more than that Chinese toy.