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Hi everyone well here my next build :P
its a unflow hirobo Lama the engine not even been ran !!. i swapped this for my 550 at end of day i couldn't bring myself to buying £100 plus charger and £100 battery for 5 mins extra flight. so i made my mind up i going from battery to nitro powered for me it makes more sense money wise.but anyways back to the swap,my LHS offered this for my v1 flybared 550 plus £50 i jumped on it....no not the helicopter.
the new model it self i personally would call semi scale. apart from very basic cockpit and rather bland fake engine there is no details. the body is all plastic injetion molded very rough, there is holes in body for switches optional fuel filter the cockpit it self was even warped very bad quarity but i saw protential in this and as im a massive fan of scale over pod and boom i had no problems swaping.
So there few shots of helicopter once i got home
As you can see on this picture all these extra non scale holes and fixings, the pipe with metal tube that there the optional fuel filter go.... yuk
An rather burly shot of the nasty red plastic very yuk
and a even worse photo on tail yeah not much can say with that picture.
so my plan new color ? yes, new blades ? yes, hell rather lot of new stuff.
first thing first i also do a total rebuild on second hand/used helicopters and boy this one was one to prove right not one single blot/screw was locktighted not even clutch system to engine nor engine to mount i and just list every metal to metal fitting but u get idea.so started my rebuild even know it not been ran or flew i replaced the fuel piping both on the tank and to engine just for my own peace of mind. and the lost of fag smell was a plus.
my next step was the swash now yuo may or may not know the hirobo lama is based on the s-30 mean swash is a 90 degree macanitial swash ,now not a problem if i was keeping standard rotor but i not
. my plan is to fit a sportsmoto 3 blade 600 size head to this helicopter. this lends me to a few problems one the 90 swash and not being ccpm ,luckly hirobo does a 120 ccpm conversion kit thats great apart from with this kit you are given a boom mounted rubber servo fitting. well the lama not got a boom lol. so my fix ? well was a very simple one in fact i moved rudder servo to place of where pitch servo was and used some of the now disused pitch links to make a rudder link set.
as you can see rudder now in place of old pitch location and the modifyed pitch arm
highlighted again diffent shot mods made with this setup i maintan full rubber movement without the need to modify the rudder push rod setup.
above is the nearly completed cockpit new paint and carpet the display panel will just be lite buy small leds nothing special i all so made some rudder pedels from pastic card to add to look. the lama did often be built with only one set of controls.
scale rivots and basecoat added to most parts of model now over top of white plastic primer sanded lightly with 1200 git . as u can see i desided to paint the full boom colored and not leave bare metal
this picture this same panel as one with switches etc but now all removed filled and rivoted also notice i added a panel fuel filler this panel is finished part from needing a clear coat that i get done the same place that paint my R22
final fitting and adjustments to make to this panel before rivots are added and base coat
not sure this picture shows the diffance much but the panel is ready for clear while i the tubes are "raw" plastic red inreal the tubes are much much more dull and plastic multi red
well thats it for now the cockpit is still in basic primer form i had to cut out some plastic and glue it back togeather to unwarp it it still need fillering sanded more cuz i not happen with it then i got add the nav light ports and a under belly ACL mount.
oh yeah almost forgot the tail is being replaced to with 3 blade quickuk optional extra i also be flying it with a beastx flybarless
well i update as i do more hope u all enjoyed read
its a unflow hirobo Lama the engine not even been ran !!. i swapped this for my 550 at end of day i couldn't bring myself to buying £100 plus charger and £100 battery for 5 mins extra flight. so i made my mind up i going from battery to nitro powered for me it makes more sense money wise.but anyways back to the swap,my LHS offered this for my v1 flybared 550 plus £50 i jumped on it....no not the helicopter.
the new model it self i personally would call semi scale. apart from very basic cockpit and rather bland fake engine there is no details. the body is all plastic injetion molded very rough, there is holes in body for switches optional fuel filter the cockpit it self was even warped very bad quarity but i saw protential in this and as im a massive fan of scale over pod and boom i had no problems swaping.
So there few shots of helicopter once i got home
As you can see on this picture all these extra non scale holes and fixings, the pipe with metal tube that there the optional fuel filter go.... yuk
An rather burly shot of the nasty red plastic very yuk
and a even worse photo on tail yeah not much can say with that picture.
so my plan new color ? yes, new blades ? yes, hell rather lot of new stuff.
first thing first i also do a total rebuild on second hand/used helicopters and boy this one was one to prove right not one single blot/screw was locktighted not even clutch system to engine nor engine to mount i and just list every metal to metal fitting but u get idea.so started my rebuild even know it not been ran or flew i replaced the fuel piping both on the tank and to engine just for my own peace of mind. and the lost of fag smell was a plus.
my next step was the swash now yuo may or may not know the hirobo lama is based on the s-30 mean swash is a 90 degree macanitial swash ,now not a problem if i was keeping standard rotor but i not
. my plan is to fit a sportsmoto 3 blade 600 size head to this helicopter. this lends me to a few problems one the 90 swash and not being ccpm ,luckly hirobo does a 120 ccpm conversion kit thats great apart from with this kit you are given a boom mounted rubber servo fitting. well the lama not got a boom lol. so my fix ? well was a very simple one in fact i moved rudder servo to place of where pitch servo was and used some of the now disused pitch links to make a rudder link set. as you can see rudder now in place of old pitch location and the modifyed pitch arm
highlighted again diffent shot mods made with this setup i maintan full rubber movement without the need to modify the rudder push rod setup.
above is the nearly completed cockpit new paint and carpet the display panel will just be lite buy small leds nothing special i all so made some rudder pedels from pastic card to add to look. the lama did often be built with only one set of controls.
scale rivots and basecoat added to most parts of model now over top of white plastic primer sanded lightly with 1200 git . as u can see i desided to paint the full boom colored and not leave bare metal
this picture this same panel as one with switches etc but now all removed filled and rivoted also notice i added a panel fuel filler this panel is finished part from needing a clear coat that i get done the same place that paint my R22
final fitting and adjustments to make to this panel before rivots are added and base coat
not sure this picture shows the diffance much but the panel is ready for clear while i the tubes are "raw" plastic red inreal the tubes are much much more dull and plastic multi red
well thats it for now the cockpit is still in basic primer form i had to cut out some plastic and glue it back togeather to unwarp it it still need fillering sanded more cuz i not happen with it then i got add the nav light ports and a under belly ACL mount.
oh yeah almost forgot the tail is being replaced to with 3 blade quickuk optional extra i also be flying it with a beastx flybarless
well i update as i do more hope u all enjoyed read
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