Dear friends.
I just finished my FT Seaduck and took so many helpful tips and ideas from this thread, so I registered here to share my project.
A couple of years ago I re-started my RC hoppy with racing quads so I wanted to have a waterplane with FPV to cruise around our vacation-lake.
The Seaduck came in perfect as I love the cartoon series a lot.
It comes with TBS crossfire, a GPS, a Caddx Turtle V2 and a Matek F405 wing flight controller running iNav.
I like the 3D printed cowlings a lot and also printed one in yellow PLA, but at the end it feeled too heavy to mount and fly.
Fiddling with the electronics, differential thrust etc, was kind of challenging although the betaflight background helped a lot.
But wiring and mounting everything gave me more than 1 headage. I ended up designing and printing what suited best, like the camera or the VTX antenna mount.
I tried different VTX in my "lab" and ended up with a whoop VTX from eachine as the Unify (HV/Nano) just became too hot and I wasnt able too mount + cool them properly.
The VTX is now mounted on a aluminium strip and comes with a headsink to operate internally. If that doesnt work on longterm I will cut the hatch and create a air duct.
Smartaudio is set up, as well as the caddx RX/TX so I can start/stop recording or change settings through my radio.
The fusselage bottom and side walls got some epoxy+GFK enforcements, similiar to what Titan176 did. It added ~30g to the fusselage weight.
The cardboard got a bit sanded and a acrylic matt paint in classic tailspin colors but I decided to paint the windows instead of using the stickers.
Due to the weather I did not maiden it yet and I still work on the iNav settings but I already fell in love with it
thanks to Josh and the FT crew to make this happen and everybody here on the board for the good inspiration and knowledge.
cheers