Fun-key .30 Airwolf fuse from LHC

[Disc]

Looking good

[3door4x4]

having a weekend away from "the Lady" to spend time with my other lady - my gorgeous girlfriend in Derbyshire. I guess that makes my heli "the Mistress" really? rofl.

[Steve]

my gorgeous red-head in Derbyshire

No hair, just a red head?

[electricsceadu]

having a weekend away from "the Lady" to spend time with my other lady - my gorgeous girlfriend in Derbyshire. I guess that makes my heli "the Mistress" really? rofl.

spoil sport for the edit

[3door4x4]

Worked last night on the navigation lights - installed port side (red) marker light (LED). Sorted the strobe frequency of the engine cover (red) LED and the tail boom (white) LED to a realistic flash rate (gives me an excuse to watch the Airwolf series 1 to 3 box set DVD's LOL) - will install the starboard side Friday night and see about taking a short video of them all working to upload....

[muscleflex]

heli is looking good. this aint the kit with the operational retracting gun pods, is it?

[3door4x4]

No I believe that kit is from a German supplier. Have considered how I could modify this one to have retractable gun pods and a deployable ADF pod - thinking how I could do this along with the retractable landing gear and the nav lights with channel 7 and 8 of my Tx.. at the moment I plan to use micro switches operated by the servo horn on a miniature servo for positions 0, 1 and 2 of the aux switches.

[3door4x4]

Click on the stills below for the videos - sorry for the quality and the state of my room!!! That's what happens when you divorce aged 36 and move the contents of your 4 bed house back to your teenage bedroom at your parents!!!



Nav Lights

Retracts

[Steve]

That's what happens when you divorce aged 36 and move the contents of your 4 bed house back to your teenage bedroom at your parents!!!

36 years old and playing with your chopper at your Mum and Dad's house with them sitting downstairs innocently watching Corrie!

Sorry, couldn't resist......

Looks like it's coming together nicely. When does the painting start? That's the bit I could never get my head around!

[3door4x4]

LMFAO

My cousin Brad is a dab hand with paint - he does RC car bodies all the time as he's into RC drifting etc. What he can't do with an airbrush is not worth knowing! He has offered to lay the paint on for me. Having problems locating the right shade of Dupont Phantom Grey effect paint though

[3door4x4]

Settled on Ford Graphite Grey for the upper section of the body - at least a base coat or two and then will see about having a custom paint tone mixed if it needs altering darker a shade. Spoke to DuPont and they say that they have no Phantom Grey paint shown listed any more other than aviation paint for Bell Helicopters but that's a special paint in huge quantities and they cannot rattle can it.

For the lower section which most people assume is white, I've settled for an off-white (think it was a VW or Vauxhall colour) as it is actually a grey-ish white with custom perl finish on the actual heli used for the TV show.

Funny how you just assume it's gloss black over gloss white until you open a huge can of worms and find out it's not!!

[3door4x4]

Been a while since I've had any time on my hands so tonight she's in white primer....



Few coats of Dulux and Robert will be your father's brother...

Simon.

[gazza131]

wow looking good, i want a air wolf 30 fuselage for my shuttle, and seeing how yours is going, i might add it to my xmas gift list to myself lol.

[electricsceadu]

wow looking good, i want a air wolf 30 fuselage for my shuttle, and seeing how yours is going, i might add it to my xmas gift list to myself lol.

the funky/century 30 size fits the shuttle
but please learn to fly the shuttle first
how's the shuttle going?

[Steve]

the funky/century 30 size fits the shuttle
but please learn to fly the shuttle first
how's the shuttle going?

Yes, I'll echo that sentiment.

If you're used to flying 50 size helis where power is available on tap, then you are in for a right surprise with the Shuttle. Learn to fly it without the body on first. Get to grips with just how little power it has and how the collective simply isn't available as and when you want it. You have to fly the aircraft and not just rely on shear engine power. Then, it's gonna get even worse when you wrap all that heavy and wind catching body around it.

There's not much wrong with the mechanics, it's just a very different thing to fly than 50s and above.