CurryKitten's Mini Talon build

[CurryKitten]

This isn't a plane I'm rushing, and have quite a bit to buy to go inside yet... also I'm not sure what I'm putting in or colour schemes or any of that jazz.  Also, I'm a bit thick, so this may be full of questions... please answer these so I don't get stuck :)

It arrived yesterday, and I immediately dry fitted it together in an excited way

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I was just fitting the wooden bits together today to have a look.  Canopy wise, I might go with that, or I might print something slightly more bespoke... but that would entail know what I was going to put there !

The mid section is odd (and as Blueflyer mentioned to me yesterday) why doesn't it have a bottom part to act as a shelf ?  Weird.

The stuff I'm not clear on are the things I'm holding in my hand... can anyone tell me what these are for ?



So far, the stuff I have decided on are (I say decided, I'm easily swayed if anyone has a strong opinion) -

Lipo - 4s 5200 Multistar (as I already have some of these)
Motor - NTM Prop drive 28-36 1400kv
Prop - 8x6
RX - FrSky lr9
VTX - Immersion 5.8 600mw
Flight camera - pz0420m or a Runcam swift (as I have both on hand)
Recording camera Mobius
ESC - Plush 40A
BEC

Less decided - AP.  I quite wanted to try out an Vector, but they are pretty big money, whilst the Cyclops Tornado significantly cheaper and seems reasonably capable

Pan - to pan or not to pan.  Would quite like a view over the wings, but it would mean sticking the camera up more that could hurt the profile

Oh, another question to those that have already built these.  I notice the foam around the wing spar is securely glued in.  I was thinking this would be a place to run the servo cable down.  Did everyone just make a cut to run their cables along ?

More to follow once I order some bits for it and start building :)

[Coyote]

Here comes another one !

There is going to be a swarm of them soon :)

[FPVSteve]

Those round bits look like the wing spar goes through them? So maybe reinforcements for the wings?

[CurryKitten]

Those round bits look like the wing spar goes through them? So maybe reinforcements for the wings?

Yeah - they are definitely for the 2 spars, but quite what they should then fix into (via the slotted part)... well, I can't work that bit out

[FPVSteve]

I'm sat here trying to figure that out myself, lol

[FPVSteve]

Must be the back of the main plywood cage to match the holes on there.

[CurryKitten]

Must be the back of the main plywood cage to match the holes on there.

My first thoughts exactly. However, they don't line up - must go somewhere else

[jt]

You have the cross pieces upside down..... turn them around and they will fit......

[dp106]

Goes together like this

[Jake Bullit]

^^^^^ Wot they sed  :laugh:

[dp106]

I was looking for a place to glue them to the foam for quite a while before I worked it out!  :D

[BlueFlyer]

The servo wire channel is there mate, I just deepened it with a sharp blade and didn't go down too far.

[CurryKitten]

Thanks guys - I'd assumed that the weird offset cut in the cross beams was to line up against the interior of the fuse.  Didn't even think of the alternative :D

[CurryKitten]

Very small update - I made myself a base for the cage with a little 3d print.  I'd upload it to thingiverse, but I'm assuming most people can draw a rectangle.

[BlueFlyer]

if you like 3D printing... take a look at this guy's files list

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1646102/#files