I got my Skywalker from FPV Hobby in Turkey, 5 days to my house not bad.
Anyway, this will be more of a pictures build than a full length write up, I always believe a picture is worth a thousand words.
In the bird will be a Wasp 3536 1100 motor with a 10 inch prop, not sure if this motor is up to the mark, picking motors has always been my downfall so I had this motor lying around so thought I would give it a fair go!!!
I'm gonna use 5000mah 3 cell turnigy lipos from our fav Chinese hobby retailer, not my favorite shop but hey ho.
Emax 8 gram Servo ES08A all round, heard some good things about these so thought would give them a try.
45 or 60 amp esc, and the trusty Corona with the 1/2 wave extension courtesy of his holiness, Shikra.
For the fpv gear, will be using the airwave TX connected to the Easyosd (might use the Blackstork off the Twinstar, dunno yet) which will be linked to a bev rc 480 osc cam,
Dont have a Gopro and dont think I will (£250 + strapped to a toy plane etc) but will be getting a Sony Webbie from argos £105 at the mo and more like it
Please note as well, this is gonna take some time, I do have a day job as well, also any help and constructive criticism welcomed
Anyway here are the obligatory out of the box snaps
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that's 2 builds!!! interesting to see what you do compared to me lol
Cool Simon looking forward to your progress.
Great looking plane Simon, im tempted to get one, its so much bigger than the EZ, takes much bigger lipos and weight.
The general oppinion on motor wise is 9*6 as best, with various kv between 1200 and 1500. From what i understand.
Looking forward to watching it manifest :)
Cool project Simon - after seeing a Skywalker up close i put it on my want list straight away.
With a p&t GoPro it would get some awsome footage.
A sony webbie can be got for around £40 on ebay - i just gutted mine to reduce the weight.
good luck with the build.
am getting a 9* largest i can get
Cool.
Interesting build.
Little more done
The hinges are not the best to be fair and defo need some tape on them to reinforce them, if you have an easystar or anything really from multiplex, the hinges are similar to them but worse, the rudder however was fine so left alone
I also added the blind nut mounts for the nose and tail and the carbon strip for the tail.
I have looked further into the motor and have seen a one at Giantcod which I think will be up for the job
I totally here you there, multiplex hinges are rubbish, same with the Axn,. Tape them up and they are miles better. They look well.
Whats your first overall impressions on the skywalker, its size build quality etc ?
Quote from: Coyote on December 29, 2010, 01:32:15 PM
I totally here you there, multiplex hinges are rubbish, same with the Axn,. Tape them up and they are miles better. They look well.
Whats your first overall impressions on the skywalker, its size build quality etc ?
1st impressions are good TBH with you mate, nice solid foam, a little different to the multiplex elapor but not as harsh as EPP,
The first thing to strike you though is the cavernous space in the thing, cant wait to put my sons pet tortoise in the thing (JOKE) but seriously it's huge, will carry my gear no probs
The transfers could have had a bit more attention when applying though, maybe there were done on a Friday afternoon, I did try to peel off the tail ones and redo but it started to rip so just left it, wont see them anyway when flying
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Im thinking of loosing the EZ for one, for a airframe that carries all the bells whistles and a huge lipo it looks like it ticks all the boxes.
Im going to wait and see how yours turns out then i think ill be buying myself after the stealth wing :)
Did a bit more today,
Hot glued the servos for the rudder and elevator,
Also, used the supplied glue for the carbon rod to stick on one side of the fuse, the glue is really good to be fair, just apply to both surfaces and allow to dry until just very slightly tacky and then join, et voila, really good bond, just sand the rod to take the shiny surface off first
I also run the supplied extensions through the rod
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Love the festive workbench covering LoL
Coming along very nicely - are all Skywalkers made equal? i mean ive seen some that are blank, just white foam but this one is coloured with stickers out of the box?
its the version 2
Looking good mate not long now..
Does the version 2 need any modifications or can you build it as per the instructions
instructions????
supposable not but i did,cant harm can it
I ran the gps cable through the fuse to the tail and taped down the cable in the tail section
Will have the gps on the rear tail, far enough away from everything
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Then I ran the cable for the TX through the fuse to the OSD
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I then velcroed the trusty Blackstork, (yes I said trusty, never let me down once and the gps always fires up withing a min)
to the fuse along with the current sensor and new Corona that Gary had done the antenna and RSSI mod to, I know the Blackstork doesn't have rssi but I was going to use the CEOSD in the plane but it was working well in my Easyglider so I decided to leave that the and have the osd from the Twinstar
A bit of a mess though
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I then velcroed the bec, I used an *amp bec for this operation, 6 servos in this bird, never be too careful
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A little tidier
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You can see how much room there is, this is a 5 amp battery and the fuse swallows it no probs
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This is the new pan and tilt from SPC Carbon, mutz nutz
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Cool, like the gps being well out the way, your lucky with the blackstork i hate mine lol. Ah i see now its not getting fitted :)
My god theres loads of room in there its huge !!!!
The P&T looks nice too :)
Hows he vtx going to sit ?
Ian
theres a place on the fuse boom which is level for it to sit on
Who can tell me whats wrong with the 2 pictures????????
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:wallbash:
The nuts are the wrong way round ?
Yep
And guess who's just glued the fuse together ????
Sometimes I just excel at being thick
Not sure what to do now, either glue the rear stab on or get some longish self tappers and screw down the stab
Ideas anyone!!!!!
Lol oh dear, we all have these moments :)
Ok, they are supposed to be in the other way round, but, the thread will still be the right way, The teeth would have dug in, so i`d put a dab of glue on the outer edge so the nut doesnt move then use screws as normal, even the foam being bridged over it "should" make it hold well
Hey simon dont worry i have lots of clever moments lol ..
Yea, don't worry, we all get our nuts in a twist occasionally.
After yesterday's disaster, I decided to have a go and see if I could cut the ply plate out
I put a new blade in the knife and went at the tail end
I managed to get the plate out after about ten mins, not too much damage and glad I did it
Tail is now on as it should be, woo hoo
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Here you can see where I cut the rear of the fuse
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Ply plate and blind nuts out
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And glued back in correctly, not too bad
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Tail bolted on properly
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I decided the rudder hinge was pants after all so I got some cyno hinges I had spare and used them up on the rudder, worked well and might do on the elevator
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I also cut out the hatch in the side of the fuse, use a new blade for this otherwise the foam will tear and look shite
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Thats not looking too bad at all, looks like you got lucky :)
Built the Pan and Tilt and used tower pro metal geared servos
This thing is a work of art, you need to see it to believe the quality
of the thing
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Added the motor and used a 3536 1200 kv from Giantcod
I used a 9x4.7 prop and getting 34 amps and a little under 400 watts of power at WOT, fine by me
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Fuselage completed ;D ;D
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The pan and tilt does look nice, with 400 watts you`ve got plenty of power, its looking the muts nuts now mate :)
hey simon throw your cases on board it ill be summer soon you could sit on that thing and fly abroad
Ive already got them packed mark ;D
Anyway back to the wing
Nothing to difficult here, just dab a bit of hot glue on the servos and tape in the extension leads
I used CA and kicker to glue in the carbon rods and covers and then CA the wings together, holds nice and strong
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Completed
Just need to balance and look at the rear stab, it's a little on the piss to the right, think it was something I did when I had to open the rear for the blind nuts, no biggie either trim the foam on the high edge or shim the low edge,
I did the headtracking and thats all sorted, the Blackstork works a treatand found sats before I could put the battery on the sharks and get them on my head, that thing really is good
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Jasmine our Shih tzu wanted to have a ride, :D
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hopefully maiden tomorrow with vid, watch this space
Simon
good luck simon hope it goes well..matey
Cheers Mark
Ah nice one, she is complete !!!
Stab shouldnt be too much bother to sort out, looking forward to maiden :)
Great build, wanna ! ;D Wondering whether you could keep the nose out of the cam picture by mounting it a bit more forward ? Assuming it does get in the picture, that is.... :+
Quote from: maddirk on January 25, 2011, 11:14:46 AM
Great build, wanna ! ;D Wondering whether you could keep the nose out of the cam picture by mounting it a bit more forward ? Assuming it does get in the picture, that is.... :+
I use headtracking so the nose would be in the pic if I look down
If you didnt want the nose in the pic it wouldnt be a prob to move the cam forward
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Nice video, sky walker looks like the way to go for nice relaxed flying,
Is there anything special about your kit, or what would you recommend to start with, as a basic get you in the air set up, and would you do anything different now you have yours flying? Apart from securing the tail with the nuts the right way round !
Cheers Naughty Dog
Quote from: Naughty dog on March 06, 2011, 09:18:19 AM
Nice video, sky walker looks like the way to go for nice relaxed flying,
Is there anything special about your kit, or what would you recommend to start with, as a basic get you in the air set up, and would you do anything different now you have yours flying? Apart from securing the tail with the nuts the right way round !
Cheers Naughty Dog
I would build the same way tbh,
The only think special about my kit is the Pan and Tilt mechanism, works very well but really expensive, but hey you pays yer money as they say
As a basic get you in the air kit, have a look on Best offer buy.com for some 2.4 tx and rx, quite cheap and then get a cheap cam from securith2000, the cam I have on the Skywalker cost something like £24, cant be bad and then your up and flying
Cheers