F-16 build from scratch

[delphian]

Hello all,

been a long time and I'm sure you are all well. I still haven't flown my Christen Eagle...

New job for the last 8 months and have been very tied up in heli's. Heli's are awesome, but planks are the answer!

About a year ago I started to draw up plans to scratch build an F3A. I did the plans but I already have 3 ( yikes) F3A planes, one pic is attached of my Krill Spark. Spark? It's all electric. I know many of you fly Krill models and they are excellent. 

I dare not think how long these plans took me to draw but they are accurate to the mm!

I'm going to build a smaller electric version for practice, but it won't be small, running a 12s 10,000mah lipo. All the detail in lights , the undercarraige system will be off to get Cnc'd!

Then, I will either draw an F-14 or the new Super Hornet & build it big with twin turbines. The kits for jets are sooo expensive. The jetcat tubines are 3 - 4k each!! So I can't get around that but the rest I can make. This is going to have every bit of detailfrom a million pics. Also, some of you may know David Law who came 7th at the scratch worlds a few years back. He will be my mentor!
Here are the plans, I hope you like them,

all the best 
James

Actually, posted lots of pics! There's me, my gut & Jason Schulman. He is awesome!! And I got a few coaching flights from him - F3A - but Chris B still beat Jim! That kid is off the show...

There's me and my 90 Heli & one of my beloved Rave 450 (actually, it's no. 3 but trying not to count).  The young me at 8 was at Sale. That's where I was born and stay in touch with Bob Bennets, who I'm sure you see each year and perhaps his son Steve? Pretty nice field. That plane had an OS 10 fsr, 20% castor oil, 80 methonal !!

Then there are the plans if the F-16. If you look closely you can see lights, actuators for the landing gear doors and shockers. Even a joystick in the cock pit!

Cheers
James








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[wickedweazel]

I knew you were still alive.

[delphian]

Hey Wicked !!

Yeah, the CY stuff is all set up and running sweeet now. You probably know Coffs was this weekend and he came out again with the 90 ENV and the Total-G - unbelievable....

3D Studio Max was sooooo hard to learn. a good 6 months but now you can tear through things. The Christen Eagle is going up in August as David Law "The Master" is going to help with set-up. Large scale Bi-planes fly like, well, they really don't fly that well at all !! It's more like take off do a circuit and a loop and then land if you can...

People don't realise this. If oyu want a Bipe to fly Imac, get anUltimate or something.

I'm finally... starting to fly heli's okay.The The Rave is pretty crazy. Ever seen one fly? This is No. 3 for me !! The first was pre-prod for testing, the 2nd was my best crash ever, total write off. And this one is sweet. Takes a long time to connect with every heli I think, a lot more than planes.

But the F-16 is going to be cool. here's the colour scheme, I like it !! Full retracts, lights, Canopy opening and shutting . And the thrust vectors will expand and contract. Possibly leading edge spoilers, not sure yet.

By law, we're not allowed to drop anything like explosives, but I was thinking of building like a mini UAV that someone else could fly once I let it go from gargo. That would be cool.

Cheers
James

[delphian]

Hello Bad people,

I'm getting the hang of 3DS, not....
It's f(*&^ING HARD, EVERY BIT!!!

hERE ARE SOME RENDERS AND LIGHTING. tHIS WAS NOT TOO HARD AS EACH ELEMENT IS JUST A SINGLE COLOUR AND THERE IS A HUGE LIGHTING LIBRARY THAT i WENT THROUGH AND PICKED ONE THAT WORKED - CHEAT. BUT DO NOT CARE. THE NEXT STEP IS ANIMATION........

Cashy!!! where are you?????? call me NOW on 0418 373 394 to collect your prize....

[pcbang]

WOW, so much thought has gone into this, Fantastic diagrams!!
good luck

[wickedweazel]

Guessing were not gunna see it flying any time soon!!! nice work on the drawings.