MinimumRC Shrimp, tonight, I have been losing my eyesight building it...

[CarolineTyler]

MinimumRC Shrimp V2
Seriously, I have never felt so ham-fisted!!! My smallest jeweler's screwdriver was really a bit big!!!


I hope to maiden it this weekend coming at the indoor venue.

 

[mach1 rc]

Really cool plane once it's done.

 

[bracesport]

@CarolineTyler - your builds are about a varied as I can imagine - awesome stuff - will you put a strobe on it too!

 

[CarolineTyler]

@CarolineTyler - your builds are about a varied as I can imagine - awesome stuff - will you put a strobe on it too!

Lol!!! No strobe!!! This thing will weigh around 25gms ready to fly. Hoping it will as it will look cool flying around the gym.

 

[CarolineTyler]

All complete!!!
Oh boy! This was one of the hardest builds ever. I have never sworn so much building a model.
With a 250mAh 1S battery it's coming in at 27grams ready to fly!!!!

 

[CarolineTyler]

Hope it flies after all this irritation!!!

 

[Michael9865]

How difficult was it to attach the mylar/covering or whatever it is called?

 

[sprzout]

Does it come with a receiver built in, or do you have to supply your own? And if it does, what is it, DSMX, FlySky, Frsky?

I remember picking up a UMX Vapor from Horizon Hobbies, got it to fly twice for 30 seconds when the wing fell off. Not broke off, just FELL off, and no amount of CA glue would hold it together at the join again. I finally gave up and pulled the servo/controller board out and threw it into a Stevens Aeromodel kit...

 

[CarolineTyler]

Attaching the covering was just a matter of spraying contact adhesive on the wing frame then placing in on the film, press gently down and wait for the glue to set.
The receiver is a four channel flysky compatible one with a built in brushed esc. Cost just over £11

 

[LitterBug]

Eyesight... Where did mine go.... oh for young eyes that could focus and seen in the dark again. LOL

Bring on the Vids of this puppy flying!

Cheers!
LitterBug

EDIT: FYI, I have a Parkzone Night Vapor and Horizon UMX Vapor Light, which are BNF carbon/film planes.

 

[CarolineTyler]

Eyesight... Where did mine go.... oh for young eyes that could focus and seen in the dark again. LOL

Bring on the Vids of this puppy flying!

Cheers!
LitterBug

EDIT: FYI, I have a Parkzone Night Vapor and Horizon UMX Vapor Light, which are BNF carbon/film planes.

This was the PNP version...

🤣🤣🤣

 

[Ketchup]

Looks like minimum rc stays true to its name 😂

 

[IanSR]

Oh so tempted by this, I have an old helicopter control board that has two servos on and I'm seriously tempted to give one of these a go , they all have vapors at indoor flying and they look so much fun when there's five or six in the air.

Do they come with the motor and gearbox stuff in the pnp version or is that extra too? I don't wonna have to spend out for the umx one,

 

[CarolineTyler]

Oh so tempted by this, I have an old helicopter control board that has two servos on and I'm seriously tempted to give one of these a go , they all have vapors at indoor flying and they look so much fun when there's five or six in the air.

Do they come with the motor and gearbox stuff in the pnp version or is that extra too? I don't wonna have to spend out for the umx one,

The PNP comes with everything bar the batteries and the RC module - Includes the tiny servos

 

[CarolineTyler]

Oh so tempted by this, I have an old helicopter control board that has two servos on and I'm seriously tempted to give one of these a go , they all have vapors at indoor flying and they look so much fun when there's five or six in the air.

Do they come with the motor and gearbox stuff in the pnp version or is that extra too? I don't wonna have to spend out for the umx one,

But seriously....don't do it if you value your eyesight and sanity!!!!!

 

[Piotrsko]

I dunno, sounds great for my annual STUBBORN* project.....get a magnet stick, a tape stick, new white sheet for the build table and floor, teensie tools, big magnifier light, couple of sun lights,

force my son to build it.....

what COULD go wrong?

* I'm going to do this even if it kills me.

 

[Wildthing]

You have me tempted to get one now

 

[bracesport]

my son has that headset with the magnifying lenses and built-in light!

 

[CarolineTyler]

my son has that headset with the magnifying lenses and built-in light!

Yep, that's what I used.... really could not have made it without them !!

 

[IanSR]

But seriously....don't do it if you value your eyesight and sanity!!!!!

I fly a Tundra at a farm that has low level power lines running through the middle of the property, six foot high barbed wire fences surrounding the shortest runway you've ever seen (about 50 foot long) with a big brick wall at the one end and said barbed wire fence the other that requires pinhole precision to thread the needle to avoid being impaled on either.

Sanity you say? I lost that a long time ago lol.

One other question, these things look like a vtail mix is needed, is that right?