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I thought I would take the time to take some photos of me building my Dragonus II SA Intruder. It is only the second proper heli I have built. The first one was a SJM400 V1.
I was not happy with the SJM it was a bit twitchy and to be honest I think it is better suited to slamming around in 3d than simple hovering and learning. I was all set to get a Trex but then i stumbled across a thread on RG groups about the Dragonus and it looked great! Everyone who bought one raved about it, and 99% of people that had both Dragonus and Trex seemed to prefer the Dragonus! High praise.
So I ordered from the USA and the kit came in 5 working days.
Started building it a few days ago and i have to say I am really enjoying the build! The SJM400 I had was semi built, but the Dragonus comes in complete kit form, every single nut bolt and braring is bagged waiting for you to carefully assemble!
The kit is mostly plastic - with alloy frames and the od alloy bit. Its the equivelent of the Cheaper Trex 450XL / 450S, except that price wise it undercuts the Trex by a large margin!
Here is a picture of the kit.
[IMG]http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/gallery/data/562/medium/11.jpg[/IMG]
As you can see - everything is neatly bagged up. A good feature that I really like is that each bag label pertains to a particular section in the manual. So when you go to to section A in the manual, it refers to the Bag A - and all of the bits and nuts and bolts pertaining to that build section are in the one bag. It makes it really easy to go methodically though the build - you don't have to rip apart 10 bags and sort out all of the contents. You know if you get a bit left over from bag A - there is something in section A that you have not done!
More to come!
Butuz
I was not happy with the SJM it was a bit twitchy and to be honest I think it is better suited to slamming around in 3d than simple hovering and learning. I was all set to get a Trex but then i stumbled across a thread on RG groups about the Dragonus and it looked great! Everyone who bought one raved about it, and 99% of people that had both Dragonus and Trex seemed to prefer the Dragonus! High praise.
So I ordered from the USA and the kit came in 5 working days.
Started building it a few days ago and i have to say I am really enjoying the build! The SJM400 I had was semi built, but the Dragonus comes in complete kit form, every single nut bolt and braring is bagged waiting for you to carefully assemble!
The kit is mostly plastic - with alloy frames and the od alloy bit. Its the equivelent of the Cheaper Trex 450XL / 450S, except that price wise it undercuts the Trex by a large margin!
Here is a picture of the kit.
[IMG]http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/gallery/data/562/medium/11.jpg[/IMG]
As you can see - everything is neatly bagged up. A good feature that I really like is that each bag label pertains to a particular section in the manual. So when you go to to section A in the manual, it refers to the Bag A - and all of the bits and nuts and bolts pertaining to that build section are in the one bag. It makes it really easy to go methodically though the build - you don't have to rip apart 10 bags and sort out all of the contents. You know if you get a bit left over from bag A - there is something in section A that you have not done!
More to come!
Butuz
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