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- Written by: Julius Perdana
- Category: RC Foam Project
This is the final episode of Douglas DC-3 or C-47 RC plane build. It's primary using 3mm and 5mm depron or polyfoam or XPS foam. This last video is covering about making the wing, wing fairing, install landing lights, and other accessories like detail of the engine cowl and battery hatch door. The CG of this model is 12 cm from the leading edge, by using 2X 3S Lipo battery it will ballanced perfectly. You can have 8 minutes of flight time using 2 lipo batteries. This plane is a good flyer, short take off, scale speed, and easy to control using combination of aileron and rudder. The landing is also smooth and slow, no flap needed. Unfortunately the retract landing gear was the only downside, one of the servo is failed.
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- Written by: Julius Perdana
- Category: RC Foam Project
Piper Seneca was once on my wishlist, finally I can get my hand on this type of aircraft. At first I already planned to make Piper Seminole but I thought its T-tail will bring a hard time to build. So to make simple but scale model I choose Seneca II and the end result is surprisingly easy to build. The wing is very similar than the Cherokee that I already built and flown. The performance also very similar to the Cherokee, but with more powerful thrust with twin motors. In this project also the first time I ever use motor for quad/ drone race.
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- Written by: Julius Perdana
- Category: RC Foam Project
In this episode once again I try new technique, which is applying paint on the inside side of the laminating film. It turned out very good, the film can be use as usual, by heating it with covering iron to activate the glue. Thank you Aero Ergo for the tips. Also in this episode I announce new feature from Youtube which is a membership. It's just a way for you to support me so I can make more model with EDF (which is expensive). A member can download additional decal files. Beside that, in this episode I show you how to mount the wing to fuselage, make the engine cowls, cover the plane and applying decal.
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- Written by: Julius Perdana
- Category: RC Foam Project
I think this step is the hardest part of the entire series of building this RC Douglas DC-3. It took 2 weeks to research and trial and error making a working retractable landing gear. I'm very satisfied with result and kind of relieved because the hardest challenge already successfully passed. The rest will be easy, installing motor, complete the wing, adding servos, covering and decal.
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- Written by: Julius Perdana
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After struggling for almost 2 weeks editing and rendering, this Piper Cub build video is finally released. The problem started when I tried new style of shooting on the build steps, but it ended up a disaster. The result was not watchable with 5X speed timelapse as usual and the lighting also terrible. I need to re-edit and failed render multiple times. This is the best that I can give to you, I think it's better than before (the first render) but still my worst production. Although I think you can still follow my build easily, just like my other videos, only the quality is not good. Beside that, the model itself the Piper Cub is awesome. It flies great, very slow. My last flight was on the last weekend it fly very slow with only 40% throttle but I didn't record it. The flying scene on this video was shoot 2 2 weeks ago. The design is very similar with Cessna 172 build style, but this Piper Cub has more details and longer build time. The CG is spot on, doesn't need any counter weight ballast on the nose.