Flitetest Arrow for my daughter

Dizzy · June 02, 2017, 11:55:55 PM

Quote from: krikey on June 01, 2017, 11:05:51 PM
The wings have been made and the fuselage has been printed and assembled. I've placed the CC3D on top of the fuse to show it's size. It's obviously not going to go inside the fuse so I think I'm going to mount it in the wing cavity as close to the centre line as possible.

The VTx and the Rx will also go in the wing cavities as the Arrow has two doors on the underside. I'll place the VTX on the opposite side to the CC3D board as its heavier than the Rx.

Brill I like your thoughts on this I don,t know if you gave it any thought but I,m sure the new US military mini drone for the marines is made the same way, printed in the theatre of the battle zone for simplicity.
I,m sure your right with maybe a few tears but i bet your little girl is going to love it :)
dizzy

krikey · June 03, 2017, 02:34:51 PM

Quote from: beesleyboy on June 02, 2017, 07:06:00 PM
looking like an interesting build, good luck with it bud.
:) G

Thanks Beesleyboy. Just waiting on some bright blue spray paint now.

krikey · June 03, 2017, 02:37:23 PM

Quote from: Dizzy on June 02, 2017, 11:55:55 PM
Brill I like your thoughts on this I don,t know if you gave it any thought but I,m sure the new US military mini drone for the marines is made the same way, printed in the theatre of the battle zone for simplicity.
I,m sure your right with maybe a few tears but i bet your little girl is going to love it :)
dizzy

I actually didn't know that! I'm now thinking how rugged those 3D printers need to be.

krikey · June 24, 2017, 10:05:57 PM

Bought the spray and have sprayed the top of the wing. I taped off the servos first.

krikey · June 25, 2017, 05:45:29 PM

Jess wanted her logo on her plane, so I started to think about how to do this. As its a blue wing, white seemed like the obvious choice. Perhaps I could get a log cut out of white vinyl and stick it on?

I could also create a stencil which can be reused, so I broke out my copy of sketchup and converted the PNG of her logo to a .stl file which can be used within Sketchup. 90 minutes later and I had a stencil I could reuse.

The idea is that there are bridges to hold the "floating" parts in place while I spray over the top. I created an extended mask using sheets of A4 paper taped together to stop overspray.

The first attempt works ok, but could have been better as I forgot to remove the support material from the 3D print and so it left a pattern between some of the floating parts.

If its not clear, the logo is a bunny :) I'll do better next time.

I then added some simple white tape to each wing. The tape is actually electrical tape from a local hardware store and you can get it in various colours. Its quite heavy tape compared to most covering tapes, but its also quite elastic and quite forgiving when laying it down, and I'm not using much.