Aryana wrote:My wife looked through the thread and said the scale/size of the plane doesn't really come through in the pictures I post. She wanted to take a pic next to it and who am I to refuse?
I can think of so many nice things to say about the tail, and the legs, and empennage.... but I'd be afraid of being misunderstood...
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The question that was running around in your mind no doubt was this. Do I drive the controls with servos which in turn drive the little Arash pilot or do I build a little animatronics Arash pilot to drive the controls?
This quandary would have kept me up all night.
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A four banger? I think that's your biggest deviation from stock so far. Now you need to do the cowling with the lycoming blisters to make it right with that engine...
thats a cool looking motor. looks like a four stroke - what fuel,displacement, how fast do you run it? Is the propeller scale diameter? most important - will it sound cool?
Bruce Fenstermacher wrote:The question that was running around in your mind no doubt was this. Do I drive the controls with servos which in turn drive the little Arash pilot or do I build a little animatronics Arash pilot to drive the controls?
This quandary would have kept me up all night.
Aryana wrote:EXACTLY! I found it easier (and less creepy) to go the servo route
WHAT!!?? You are going to MISS OUT on having a "MINI-ME"...???
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention. An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
I think you should bring it to convention and see what it'll bring at AUCTION!
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention. An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
In the first picture it doesn't look like you need stand offs just thrust wedges under the motor mount. Unless of course you don't want the look of thrust wedges.
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Wow that is parallax in action. I wondered why you moved the engine for, and the point of the second photo.
Those horizon hobby stand offs are cute. I'd make my own on my lathe today. What did I ever do when I built models and didn't have a lathe. Oh thats right I'd have used standoffs made of tube. What ever scrap tube I had around. Steel from car brake line or maybe vacuum system, aluminum or brass from K&B, copper from the ACE plumbing section. I'd look at the stainless brake line assortment as well. With steel brass and copper you can easily solder a washer to the ends for a flange. And don't discount hollowing out a wood dowel.
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