DGA-6 aka Mister Mulligan Group Build

[mayan]

Next step of the build here goes. First get these pieces.

Next prep them like this, clearing out cavities and pealing of the paper from side of the pieces that have a circular shape to them.

You’ll first want to address the thin piece gently curving it with your fingers or over the edge of the table. Once you have a general shape put a drop of glue on the edge, close up the edges and tape while letting it cool down.

Once cool, peal of the tape and line up the connection seam with the center bottom of the nose and prep for gluing as so.

Now apply glue around the inner circumference of the front of the nose and bring down the piece making sure to line it up all around, smear any access glue and tape while cooling.

Now you’ll want to take the rectangle looking piece and fold it up like we did before with the same looking piece that had the tabs on them. This is actually going to be the power pod, you’ll have two pieces like that; one short and one long fold up the long one even if you plan on using the c pack motor. Once you fold it over if you want that as a powerpod the glue the firewall on and then tape over like you would normally do on the ft models.

Now slide on to this piece two of the three formers and glue them together stay away from the power pod so it won’t glue to the formers. After waiting for a few seconds remove the powerpod to make sure it won’t glue to the formers.

Take this piece and roll it up against the table.

Then take the double former and slide back on and secure with tape to line up with the power pod.

Slide on the last former and take the thicker less curved cover in hand.

Take note that one side is larger than the other when rolled up the shorter end needs to line up with the double former we just built. Now line up the second former to the end of the cover and apply glue a 1/4 of the way starting from center bottom. Now line up once more and hold applying pressure on the 1/4 mark using the table and the bottom center using your hand be careful not to get burned. Hold for a good few moments before moving on.

Now apply glue on a another 1/2 of the two formers and continue rolling up using the table as your friend holding for a good while until completely dry.

Once dry roll up the rest first, trim if need, then apply glue the rest of the way and the side of the start and tape up to dry.

Now take this piece and roll it up against the table be gently because it doesn’t roll easily but you only really need to soften the foam board. Those piece wraps around the very front of the cowl. It’s longer then it should be so find where it lines up good and trim accordingly. Then glue close, tape up and let it dry.

Once dry slightly bevel cut the outside of the piece then glue on to the cowl on the side of the double former.

Now slide the whole thing on the front of the plane to check the fit then apply a few drops of glue about 1.5 inch apart from each other all the way around and push in place. Make sure to leave the power pod out a bit so you be able to pull it.

Next up is the tail section so get the horizontal and vertical stabilizers ready.

As for the wings as @kilroy07 and I discussed I will do them with the flaps.

 

[mayan]

Here is the next step. Get these pieces bevel as seen below and re-enforce as you would normally do.

Once dry fold back the bottom part of the vertical stabilizer as so and slide on to the horizontal stabilizer so that it looks like this.

Now just re-enforce with glue along the sides of the top and bottom where the connections are. Make sure the bottom part lines up with the bottom slot and secure with glue applying a bit of down force on it into the horizontal stabilizer.

While drying clear out all the slots from the tail section of the fuselage and widen the push rod slots using the end of the push rod.

Now place the fuselage on the cowl and gently slide in the horizontal and vertical stabilizer piece we just built into the tail section of the plane, be careful when sliding the bottom of the vertical stabilizer so it doesn’t break. Once happy secure with thin runs of glue.

Now cut a 3.5 inch piece of BBQ skewer and glue like this.

Ok so what do we have left?
We need to build the wings, we need to build the wheels and the wheel pants, we need add electronics to the the fuselage and finish off the look of the fuselage. More later today…

 

[mayan]

@kilroy07 are you all caught up?

 

[kilroy07]

@kilroy07 are you all caught up?

I had a "side project" yesterday (and saw the Rolling Stones with my Son and Dad Sunday.)
I will be by the end of tonight.

 

[mayan]

Alright then cause I am almost done with the wing part of the build.

 

[kilroy07]

Ran into a couple of snags with the belly panels last night... (And I screwed up one piece) but progress was made.

Did you want to take a look at redoing the belly panels? With my 162 project I learned how to draw cones in CAD then (and here's what I learned) unroll them to a flat shape to cut. You can see how well it has worked on the 162 for the fuselage.


Also the two pieces for the cowl are a little "wonky"

 

[mayan]

Ran into a couple of snags with the belly panels last night... (And I screwed up one piece) but progress was made.

Did you want to take a look at redoing the belly panels? With my 162 project I learned how to draw cones in CAD then (and here's what I learned) unroll them to a flat shape to cut. You can see how well it has worked on the 162 for the fuselage.
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Also the two pieces for the cowl are a little "wonky"

If you can help out I’d love it.

 

[The Hangar]

Yup, I see it on most if not all the tabs.
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No worries, I'll tweak them a bit over the next evening (or two) in the meantime, keep documenting your build, once I've got it cut out I'll try to get it put together right away (I still have a bit of tweaking on my He162 to finish up as well).

I hope to have 3 planes to maiden by this weekend (after a 2yr hiatus.)

I’d love to join in on the fun, it’s been too long since there’s been a good’ol group build in here! @kilroy07 is there any chance you could cut an extra one for me?

 

[kilroy07]

If you can help out I’d love it.

For the belly panels, I can just measure the arcs for the bulkheads. For the cowl, if you want to give me the radius (or diameter) of the top, the bottom and the height, I can model them in 3D then lay them flat and make the cut shapes.
If you check out the inlet on the He162 you can see how nice and precise it makes those hard to do cones that have a lot of change to them.
(as I'm doing these tonight, I should really get to work on the 162 as well... LOL)
https://forum.flitetest.com/index.php?threads/he-162-salamander-heinkel-plane-2021-challenge.68255/

 

[kilroy07]

I’d love to join in on the fun, it’s been too long since there’s been a good’ol group build in here! @kilroy07 is there any chance you could cut an extra one for me?

There's always a chance!
Send me a PM and we can discuss (all I ask is you cover shipping and material).

I have to make a FB run tonight anyway 'cause @PsyBorg is game to build one too, and my FB stock was far less than I remembered... (I did recently make an old fogey and an F-86, that is probably where it all went...)

 

[mayan]

For the belly panels, I can just measure the arcs for the bulkheads. For the cowl, if you want to give me the radius (or diameter) of the top, the bottom and the height, I can model them in 3D then lay them flat and make the cut shapes.
If you check out the inlet on the He162 you can see how nice and precise it makes those hard to do cones that have a lot of change to them.
(as I'm doing these tonight, I should really get to work on the 162 as well... LOL)
https://forum.flitetest.com/index.php?threads/he-162-salamander-heinkel-plane-2021-challenge.68255/

Will get those to you tomorrow not really in mood today for anything

 

[mayan]

Hell yea more people on the build. Now where are @BATTLEAXE, @Grifflyer, @FoamyDM at?

 

[kilroy07]

Will get those to you tomorrow not really in mood today for anything

No rush man, take a night (or two off... I do have the 162 to work on too!)

 

[mayan]

Ok well you said no rush but if I lay off for too long it’ll be bad, and I plan on flying it this weekend with some friends so after the kids go to bed I’ll sit and write up the next step, and keep on building.

 

[mayan]

Alright well let's put the fuselage a side for a bit and get to work on wing of the model.
For that you'll need these pieces. @kilroy07 I realised that you are missing these pieces attached.

You'll then want to prep each wing half as so.

And clear out the cavity on the wing spar piece.

Now tape the two wing halves together first using tape and then hot glue smearing any access glue off like you would do in many of the FT models.

Once dry re-enforce the aileron and flap hinges, smearing off almost all of the glue, exactly like seen done in many of the FT models. Do both ailerons first then the two flaps, so they wont glue to one another.

While drying lets go ahead to glue over our wing spar, you'll want to put a bit of glue in the cavity itself and on one side of the spar and do a C fold on it; set aside to dry.

In the mean time take back the wing and set the center double bevel line on the edge of the table. What we'll want to do is give the top part of the wing a shape like we did before on the belly covers. You'll have to be really gentle so not to rip off the ailerons or flaps and will want to do section by section moving from one side of the wing to the other. Basically put both hands one close to the other on one of the outer edges and run down on the table edge applying a bit of force from the top. Repeat a few times on the same section and then move to the next section until you get to the other end of the wing. It doesn't have to be prefect cause it will fold over the spar to get the final shape its really just to soften up the foam a bit.

Once done take back the wing spar that we folded over and glue it to the bottom section of the wing, on the marked area. Then take the two pieces of foam that I attached to this post and glue them on the trailing edge of the wing on the bottom section as seen bellow.

Now take the servos that will be used for the ailerons push the servo arms aside and glue in place in the marked area. I like to place my servo arm closer to the aileron itself thus using less push rod. Connect a Y connector or servo wire extensions and glue the joint to the spar to have less wire in the way. Cut a slot in the middle of the bottom plate of the wing or a grove at the end. Now tape the wires together and place in the slot or grove.

Put glue as marked in yellow and on the two servos (not marked), and fold over hold a good 2mins to dry, spread your pressure evenly.

As for the flap servos I didn't think it all the way through and realised that you have to glue a small spacer of foam to the servo before trying to put it in the slot, and that you also need to cut out a path for the push rod as so.

At this time you can just go ahead and install the control horns and make the connections.

For some extra strength add popsicles sticks at the trailing edge of the wing as so.

 

[FoamyDM]

Getting some work done I see. Awesome! I am making progress too, but hiding it.

 

[mayan]

Getting some work done I see. Awesome! I am making progress too, but hiding it.

👏👏👏👏👏

 

[mayan]

Later today I’ll touch how to setup the electronics so get those ready. Then we’ll finish up the design tweaks.

 

[kilroy07]

Getting some work done I see. Awesome! I am making progress too, but hiding it.

You show me yours, I'll show you mine...

 

[mayan]

You show me yours, I'll show you mine...