So winter is knocking on the gate and on this occasion I decided to show you this article about model “Snowball”, a snowball, we call it - “Snowball”.
This unique aircraft model, it is all-weather and universal, can take off from any surface.
Since the drawings of this model appeared on the Internet, many have already managed to build such models for themselves and have received great pleasure from riding this model in the snow and from bewitching flights in the sky. The construction of such a model does not take much time, and very few materials are required.
I will begin my story about the construction, based on the author’s development of this model on the forum of modellers, by showing the dimensions of this model. The author presented his drawings in a very original and visual way, according to which, only a lazy person will not be able to build such a model.
To begin the manufacture of the model you need with the manufacture of all structural elements. There are very few of them.
The material for the manufacture can use any polystyrene cut to the desired thickness, ceiling tiles or a simple, sheet substrate for the laminate.
These are the structural elements you should get after cutting.
If you want a regular elevator, then the elevon blanks do not need to be cut.
When cutting elements, their shape can be different.
Like this electronics offers the author to use on this model.
To glue the model, you can use a heat gun or any universal, waterproof glue.
If parts are cut from polystyrene foam by cutting, then all surfaces must be leveled.
Recesses are cut out on the motor block for mounting the motor.
The places for installing the battery, regulator and receiver are also carefully cut out.
These elements should be inserted into their places with light friction and not slip out of the seats. They can be fixed with double-sided tape.
Do not forget to cut off the edges of the joined surfaces at an angle.
While the parts are glued together, you can fit them with colored tape or decorate the model in another way, it will be more convenient. You can decorate the model to your liking. The author used colored, plastic tapes and LEDs.
All parts of the wing are glued together. It is necessary to monitor the same angles between the ends of the wing.
For strength, carbon tubes are glued into the grooves.
After the assembly of the wing, the elevator or elevons are hung.
The author makes the elevator and glues two halves.
The elevator is hung by the author on a thin layer of hot glue from a heat gun, but any method of attaching a PB can be used. You can hang on tape, on double-sided tape, or you can use loops.
In exactly the same way, the rudder is hung.
The pH shape can be changed.
When gluing the engine compartment and keel, check the installation accuracy, at right angles and along the axis of the model.
On the bottom surface of the floats, glued strips cut from any plastic bottle.
Finished floats are glued into place. The trailing edge of the float should coincide with the CT model.
Racks are prepared and mounted.
Bends are made on the rods, which allow you to adjust their length.
Traction are connected.
Servos are inserted into one cutout.
The model is ready.
Further, the author shows several different options for cutting a wing.
There are also several options for installing the pH.
The author shows a method of bending a wing, without cutting it, using a ruler and wooden bars.
Preliminary, a groove is made with a soldering iron, in the line of which the wing bends and sticks together.
Also, the author shows various options for motoblock.
Shown are the design options for the shape of the floats.
In conclusion, the author shows several video stories.
That's all I could tell you about. I can only wish you success in creating the model and productive flyby of new models.
Goodbye, your Valerian.