Glad to hear it's coming along nicely!
nnMIG 3 Swappable - design, build, and review log
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Glad to hear it's coming along nicely!
Heys guys i know it dosent belong on this thred but figured i give nic a good cheap plane storage idea. Using old warp foam boards glued two together and some skewers in the legs. Then make a box frame. I hung up 6 of my planes last night for less then 3$ and a hour and a half of my time. They hold up like champs View attachment 32335 had to come up with something i live in a apartment right now and got kicked out of the to be soon baby girl room
Well at least you get a sneak peek of my almost finished second mig3 lol
Oh nice, I like this. I wonder if my wife will go for this set up
jayz 84
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Thanks man. Ya shes lookin pretty good. I had a nice 2in spinner for it but desided to leave it out cause i allready have the power pod pushed back a half inch for looks and easy cg balance that ef-1 motor has a big enough spinner on it lol
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jayz 84
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Ya i had my setting pretty low on the last one. And ill keep them the same for the first few flights till im use to her thanks for reminding me tho. Did you find any bad tendencies during hard core flights
JohnRambozo
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I really need to build one of these. Let me hurry up and crash a plane to make room and free up some servos.
jayz 84
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Lmao to funny man. Ya its a awesome plane. You should build one. I finish the beta build for simple wing for the mig3 just waiting for nic to finish the fuse mod for it. But you have the choice of that wing to very soon..
Hell2Go
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Here is what I have so far. Found a motor on Banggood.com, a sunnysky 2216 1250kv thats rated @ 1520gr. of thrust. seen some pretty good reviews on them, can't wait to try them out. Also bought a DYS 2217 1500kv to compare to the same size Suppo I bought in the spring. Then I'll do reviews on them all.
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jayz 84
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Looking good so far man. What are you using for color. Tape?
SnowRocker88
Amateur pilot and builder
Was thinking this myself! Tape?
jayz 84
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Hell2Go
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I made one wing, red on the bottom and clrear on the top. I'm planning to make it look like yours on top with the red stars an arrow... looked cool...I like the solid red on bottom to tell which way is up.
I got colored wing tape from hobbyking ($1.79 a roll) and clear packing tape from biglots ($1.25 for scotch brand)
The tape really adds durability... I"ve tried light painting, and minwaxing, but prefer taping. Ed @ Experimental Airlines on Flitetest has some videos on taping the entire sheet, but I find it better to cut out my parts and crease the fold lines first then flatten it back out and tape the outside. I'm gonna start folding the tape around the edges too from now on so I don't have any exposed edges. the glue sticks incredibly well to the glossy tape surface.
Hell2Go
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If you look at my profile pic you'll see that I have a few plane builds under my belt, that is only some of my builds from the past 2 years... There are just as many built up balsa / nitro planes at the other end of the shop.
I've done durablility testing on the tape technique at Flitefest (by accident) with my FT Flyer. As I was running out of planes to fly do to mechanical failures, I had to put my turnigy 2826-2200kv speed plane motor on my beloved FT Flyer with a 4s and a 6x4 prop for something to fly. While doing rolls at a rate of 4-5 rolls per second, my wings (yes, front and rear wings bent slightly causing loss of control. Since I was in the middle of a high speed low (10 ft) pass while rolling, there was no time to recover... 65mph to zero in 1 second as it piled into the ground in pieces... upon further investgation I found that the glue joints all popped on impact releasing the energy of the crash. I used a monokote iron set to low to gently flatten out the bends then press a steel ruler on it to cool and flatten my parts. I glued it all back together and it is stronger than it was previously. It flies great again!
I've done durablility testing on the tape technique at Flitefest (by accident) with my FT Flyer. As I was running out of planes to fly do to mechanical failures, I had to put my turnigy 2826-2200kv speed plane motor on my beloved FT Flyer with a 4s and a 6x4 prop for something to fly. While doing rolls at a rate of 4-5 rolls per second, my wings (yes, front and rear wings bent slightly causing loss of control. Since I was in the middle of a high speed low (10 ft) pass while rolling, there was no time to recover... 65mph to zero in 1 second as it piled into the ground in pieces... upon further investgation I found that the glue joints all popped on impact releasing the energy of the crash. I used a monokote iron set to low to gently flatten out the bends then press a steel ruler on it to cool and flatten my parts. I glued it all back together and it is stronger than it was previously. It flies great again!
