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(Part one - in case you missed it is here)
Now for the tail Nav light. The problem here was that I wanted to be able to remove the tail section so I needed to put in a connection point for the light and also I didn't want to see the wires on the tail itself. So I thought about drilling a hole through the length of the tail but decided that it would be better to tape it using electrical tape which works - it's not great, but I couldn't find a drill small enough or long enough to do the job without destroying the tail fin!
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Coming together nicely now....
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I decided to add a bit of an extra to the kit. The intakes looked a bit bare, so I decided to get a couple of EDF fans (40mm) and see how they would look mounted in the intake areas. After a bit of messing about, they went in, I sprayed the blades silver and mounted them on spindles so that they are free to move with the airflow passing through the intakes - works well
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With a bit of silver paint - they look the part
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Now for some more internal work. This was the bit I'd been a bit worried about, the mounting of the base plate which would accept the 500 chassis. It needed to be lined up perfectly so I took some time doing this bit. In addition, I decided to use captive nuts so that the whole thing could be removed when necessary for maintenance etc. The chassis itself was secured to the base plate after it had been test fitted to the fuselage. I used the supplied ply parts and then secured these to the chassis and then it was assembled and the whole chassis was put into the airframe - by the way, the 500 esp had already been test flown several times before it was put into the Airwolf.
This picture shows the base plate installed with the captive nuts and the installed EDF unit.
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This one shows the underside - I used 6 bolts to secure the base plate and the other smaler bolts are securing the servo housing for the retracts
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The main chassis now fitted
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more to follow.... click here
Cheers,
(Part one - in case you missed it is here)
Now for the tail Nav light. The problem here was that I wanted to be able to remove the tail section so I needed to put in a connection point for the light and also I didn't want to see the wires on the tail itself. So I thought about drilling a hole through the length of the tail but decided that it would be better to tape it using electrical tape which works - it's not great, but I couldn't find a drill small enough or long enough to do the job without destroying the tail fin!
aw21.JPG
aw22.JPG
aw23.JPG
Coming together nicely now....
aw24.JPG
aw25.JPG
I decided to add a bit of an extra to the kit. The intakes looked a bit bare, so I decided to get a couple of EDF fans (40mm) and see how they would look mounted in the intake areas. After a bit of messing about, they went in, I sprayed the blades silver and mounted them on spindles so that they are free to move with the airflow passing through the intakes - works well
aw26.JPG
aw27.JPG
With a bit of silver paint - they look the part
aw28.JPG
Now for some more internal work. This was the bit I'd been a bit worried about, the mounting of the base plate which would accept the 500 chassis. It needed to be lined up perfectly so I took some time doing this bit. In addition, I decided to use captive nuts so that the whole thing could be removed when necessary for maintenance etc. The chassis itself was secured to the base plate after it had been test fitted to the fuselage. I used the supplied ply parts and then secured these to the chassis and then it was assembled and the whole chassis was put into the airframe - by the way, the 500 esp had already been test flown several times before it was put into the Airwolf.
This picture shows the base plate installed with the captive nuts and the installed EDF unit.
aw29.JPG
This one shows the underside - I used 6 bolts to secure the base plate and the other smaler bolts are securing the servo housing for the retracts
aw30.JPG
The main chassis now fitted
aw31.JPG
more to follow.... click here
Cheers,
