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I added the filler cap and details to the area...more come before paint. I pinned everything up on the tail and
we are ready to install navigation light system.
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With the
cockpit installed I can now add the upper brace and complete the bolt up
of the mechs.
Here is a great little thing, the "Match Box"
, it allows up to four servos to be induvidually adjusted on the
same channel! Also , you can power the retracts
with a seperate battery to save the reciever pack.
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The radio
all tucked in and packed away, a piece of foam covers the gyro box. Here
is a trick for making those
neat little hoses... phone wire wrapped around
a piece of regular wire, then covered with shrink sleeve. Results
below...
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Here
the cockpit is taking shape, we get some needed nose weight with this,
so detail here is ok. The seats
were covered with matierial using Super 77 spray
adhesive by 3M. The back pad was made the same way
only on cardboard then pressed with eggcrate
to produce the quilted look.
I found a pic that was close
to the panellayouts on the fullsize and made transparancies out of them
at the
local copy shop. I spray glued some white card
stock paper and glued the transparancy to the paper.
Cut and trimmed, then spray glued so it can stick
to the dash panel. I used two patterns that matched to make
the whole piece. I then made clear lens for the
whole thing to give it glass cockpit look and you can see the
results below. The enitre process took about
and hour.
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Control sticks
and rudder pedals made out of alu-tube stock.Here I still need to
add center console cluster.
Glass cockpit look is evident here.
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Still needs some more detail but almost
there! Set-up and test flights coming soon
after we wrap up some final steps, tail skid
etc....
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