Scale Heli

AAAAA HHAAAA HHAAAAAA HHHAAAAAAAAAAA!! My little web I've been spinning is working nicely.

Donnie D

Fatdaddy wrote:

I'm in!!!! I've been thinkin also....DD it is your fault!!!!!! Last night I went in my back issues of RCHeli and found a article on a twin rotor 450 scale
Called "Twinn Rexx" It is very cool but looks very complacated!!!! So its for me!!!! I'm lookin into it now!!!

FD, I'm so glad to hear that. As good as you are at building these things and as obsessed (meant as a compliment) as you are with perfection, the detail work required to be good at scale is right up your alley. You will probably be a master at it. Can't wait to see your first scale project. I'm gonna post one I saw for sale over on the freak in a few minutes. It is absolutely unbelievable in the detail in this thing.

Donnie D

Donnie D wrote:

Fatdaddy wrote:

I'm in!!!! I've been thinkin also....DD it is your fault!!!!!! Last night I went in my back issues of RCHeli and found a article on a twin rotor 450 scale
Called "Twinn Rexx" It is very cool but looks very complacated!!!! So its for me!!!! I'm lookin into it now!!!

FD, I'm so glad to hear that. As good as you are at building these things and as obsessed (meant as a compliment) as you are with perfection, the detail work required to be good at scale is right up your alley. You will probably be a master at it. Can't wait to see your first scale project. I'm gonna post one I saw for sale over on the freak in a few minutes. It is absolutely unbelievable in the detail in this thing.

Donnie D

Here it is, check this thing out, increadable detail:

http://helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=154915

Donnie D

Yea DD My wife now hates you!!!!!! LOL!! Just kiddin!! Look here http://www.tech-mp.com/ and you can see the one I'm talkin bout, or you could go to RCHeli.com and look in the Jan.09 issue for the one they build>>
I need to sell off something or two!!

OH MAN!! Is this thing actually available in a kit? Man if it is you just gotta build this thing. That would be the icing on the cake at the Funfly next year, even if it wasn't complete. I wonder how one of these twin rotor helis are to fly. I understand you don't have to worry about COG so you would be free to install electronics to whatever way was best. Unbelievable.

Donnie D

You see, this scale stuff is great and you haven't even spent any money.........yet.

Tell your wife I'll bring her something nice when I come to the Funfly.

This is without a dout the coolest scale rc plane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slK-1Xw6EgM&feature=related

sdjb

Check this:

http://runryder.com/rrpw.htm?d=/helicopter/gallery/20726/&i=80&a=0&s=0

Donnie D

what is that ?? electric motor?

Yes, it is a Hacker motor that is in a modified mount to convert the Lama in the other pictures to electric. Did you view all of the pictures? Both of those helis were converted to electric using that motor arrangement. Fatdaddy is trying to help me use a Scorpion motor in my Bell 47 and I'm gonna try to adapt it to the existing clutch assembly. The Hacker is an inrunner motor, so you can use a clamp type of motor mount with it.

Donnie D

Well well DD I see he has used the motor mount for the nitro!!! Very interesting/!!!!

Something like that, but the motor is actually clamped by the motor case with a piece of inner tube rubber wrapped around the motor housing to keep it from slipping. He can mount it this way because the Hacker is an inrunner motor. The motor housing doesent rotate like on an outrunner.

Take a look at the post.
http://runryder.com/helicopter/t136562p3/

Just scroll down all the way to the end of page 3.

Donnie D

I'm thinkin we are gonna have to make a mount, more fun!!

Yeah, I've been thinking about it all day. Got a couple of foggy ideas. The Scorpion is an inrunner, so it can't be clamped, and I think the mounting holes are on the shaft end. I'm thinking about a piece of aluminum plate about 3/16" thick by 59mm wide. That is the inside clearance of the frame. It would have to be about 140mm long to reach between upright frame members to bolt in, but it could be kept light by drilling out excess material.

Something like that. I'm still thinkin, it's givin me a headache, but I'll come up with something. I'll know more when the motor gets here and I can mock up the adaptor shaft to it with the clutch.

Donnie D

sdjb,

Great work I wished I had that much space in my house. Have to do my work in the living room. The old lady is giving me mean looks if I leave my stuff on the table overnight.

Yea mine just can't seem to understand why we do it. I'am going to start my shop in the back yard soon, So then I will be out of sight out of mine, just waiting on my buddy to get some time off work to help out on the slab pour 15X20 is the size iam going for. be glad when thats over with.

sdjb

The paint looks great What did you use and did you use primer before painting?
For me it is the first time painting a heli. I use to paint my cars but that was easy. Just spray it on the inside of the (clear) body and it was shiny on the outside. But on this heli it is not possible to paint the tail section on the inside.

Well pevr, it came prepainted from HeliArtist here is a good place to get them http://www.helidirect.com/fuselages-mini-heli-fuselages-c-1_59_508.hdx
They have them for 500 size helis and 600 size. Check'em out you can get them with
Navlights as well. There nice, light fiber glass construction prepainted.


sdjb

sdjb,

You're right, that fan tail assembly would be absolutely awsome on this heli.

Donnie D

sdjb wrote:

Okay I know this is a Heli thread I ask Nuttz if he could setup a areas for scale helis and scales planes as we all know the man is real busy. But here are some pics of my warbirds







Oh man Photobucket YIKES

sdjb

Hey Buddy,

Is that a ME262? The plane with the 2 duct fans.....I love that thing. Is it finished and fly'n?
Personally I would like to see more of that....Been wanting one for awhile.

Hey Donnie,

I found some lights that I can program. So the first step is made. Now I have to sandpaper the bode and put some primer on it. But before I do that I will make some pictures and show you how it looks like before painting. The only thing is that I have to take my heli apart. Stil wanted to practice some more.

Holland is realy shi... for flying with a heli. Always so much wind.

I'am looking for a location to fly indoors but they are hard to find. There are some clubs in Holland for indoor flying a heli but you need a license to fly or you have to fly with an instructor.

I don't need an instructor to crash my heli

If I where a few years younger I moved to the States.
More space and less rules

OK man, let's get them pictures up. Move it, move it, move it!!!

Donnie D

It is 02:00 in Holland right now so if I pick up the camera now the wife will think I want to do funny stuff

Never been to Norh Carolina but it must be great to live there. I have some friends living in Florida (crawfordville) so when I go over there I'll be sure to take the heli with me and go straight to Norh Carolina.

Yeah, and you'd have to email those pics directly to me.

Donnie D

Matthew 22 : 35-40

Have to close down now. The wife wants to go to bed and I have to go to because the dining table looks a mess with all the heli stuff on it. I don't want to make to much struggle or I have to put the heli stuff outside

So like a good husband I will follow

suriano, Yea it is ready, I am going to try and do the maiden in the morning if the freakin wind isnt blowing. I will try and get some pics of it and post them I still have not figured out how I am going to
paint it yet.


sdjb

I LOVE scale stuff too, and I also love military.

So I had enough spare parts to assemble a base 450 and I found a pretty reasonable deal on this Hughes fuselage from Align.

It is a DOG in the air. I am running some motor bought from Hobbycity that has just enough power to get this barely off the ground. I'll be getting a better motor soon.
Kent

It looks a LOT bigger than a 450.
Here's a picture of it next to my favorite 450.
Kent