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BG141641544 23/12/2021
I've bought a few of these kits and this one was the most dificult to build and has some issues. The pictures are tiny and the instructions are vague. It's very easy to miss details that are consequential later on. The motor mounting plate holes are not aligned with the motor mount so you will need to re-drill them. I could not get the motor aligned corectly so I had to design and laser cut my own parts. There is no information on making the lead counterweight and how to mount the receiver and motor speed controller. Decals should be included. Even paper ones would be fine. I'll make my own. I find the O-ring wheels too hard and this makes breaking the undercarriage inevitable as I found with others so I use foam wheels instead. It is really hard to build this and get all parts aligned. No tips are given. Try to test fit everything, especially the motor mount parts. It's very eesy to lose the tiny screws and good luck finding replacements. There was one body frame ring that is cut so thin, the tenons snap the holes open when you try to assemble. There is no reason for some of the frontal parts to be cut so fragile since a led counterweight is needed. Beef up the parts and use less counterweight. With these kits, you have to glue parts and hold them with tape. then rteturn an hour later and so on. They typically take 3 days to build becuase of the waiting for glue to dry. I'm not complaining about that. I'm just pointing out that these take a lot of time and patience. Lastly, I always add a little triangular handle to the battery cover plate to more easily remove and replace it.
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BG141641544 29/08/2021
This kit is quite dificult to assemble and some elements are poorely designed. Mine came with lots of dents on varius pieces and the struts were really bent. I spent an hour steaming out most of the dents. The wing struts are far too weak and gluing them and trying to create the wing warp is very challenging. The instructions say "glue" and nothing else. I used string and foam to force the warp but it only turned out so so. I ended up laser cutting depron foam dublicate struts and gluing then to the inside of each strut to increase the strengle. I also found the midle fuselage piece to be waek so I again laser cut sone depron and laminated to eaxh side pf the fuselage. I replaced the terrible foam wheels with real ones. With all the changes, I added 2 grams of weight. I woukld reccomend a couple design tweeks that include making the fueslage tripple layered like the rest of the main body, Also, redesign the struts to be stronger and extend the tenons and add a hole so thet poke through the wings and a tooth pick could be used to secure each corner of the struts, forcing a perfect wing warp. After the glue has set, sinply clip off the tenons flush to the wing. I also added real hinges to the rear elevator. I'm making a round the pole flyer so I only installed the elevator servo. I'm waiting for the lipos and transmitter before I can test. I feel like buying another "plane only" kit just to start over with undamed material and do a better job. I'd make my own struts and do all the other things but much neater.
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