@V well technically old hahah! I went off to college and just couldn’t do it for a long time as I pretty much never stopped working. I was recently invited back and I’ve been back in the swing of curating all over again. :)
still a nasty workaholic but I’m doing what I can hahaha.
I’ll also add that mobile is shaded a bit differently. Be cautious of cockpits that are all black colors as testing with the mobile criteria can result in people not being able to see control's due to having zero contrast against their surroundings.
Things like flight sticks and buttons can become invisible against their backgrounds like that unfortunately.
Also please, I make other things and heavily lean into vr builds nowadays. If you want more serious creations, I try and do that here and there. Not everyone needs to fly a giant evil Chad from a game that isn’t even out yet hahahaha!
This is a great airplane! The F-5 is easily one of my faves. Unfortunately the cockpit is so dark that is it has too little contrast.
This makes it so you can’t see the controls.
If you clean this up and let me know, I’ll gladly re-evaluate it for curation.
It’s I’d bad that I take your missile system as a challenge (to probably end getting up blown up by lol)
Really great work though I’ve been highly excited and getting my hands back into building again since the announcement of SP2. I’m really excited to make some fun builds and fancy cockpits again.
@Graingy Pretty much. Heck there’s a dude named Peter sripol that makes a crazy build every year and has a YouTube channel. He made a build that’s like thirty six feet long one year. Looked like a train in the sky lmao!
@Graingy I’d think so, maybe I might make some plastic or carbon fiber strengtheners next time I build this airframe. The big thing was major hits had a strong chance of kicking the motor right off the fuselage.
@Graingy you could probably locate the antennas on the outside of the airframe and tape em down. Well. If they aren’t the new spectrum ones. The newer AR620s don’t have an external antenna. On those, it’s small and hidden inside the plastic case of the receiver itself. Antennas have gotten allot smaller nowadays.
@Graingy I think you can do that but it gets expensive fast. Receivers tend to be the most expensive part on a build. The can transmit and receive through foam, plastics and wood real easily though so they end up very ideal materials.
@Graingy personally I like radiomaster stuff better. Spectrums a more common manufacturer and once you have a bunch of airplanes up in the air. Their signals start stepping on each other and planes stop receiving input and drop out of the sky.
@Graingy maybe I could use it in the motor mount if it doesn’t mess with signal. I’ve had enough receiver signal losses in the last few years to be cautious of it lol!
@Graingy I’d say structural. If you can hit another build and keep flying, that’s another chance to survive longer. Well unless your build gets called out by the announcer. You get called and you’ll be swarmed till you go down. prizes are at stake now lol!
@Graingy nah I’m using them as parts in a foambard wing structure. This makes a foam airframe pretty strong for being mostly foam. Think wing spars-
Unless you’re referring to sticks. Sticks are rc planes that use arrow shafts or balsa sticks as fuselages. lol! (Funny enough, I designed one of em recently)
@Graingy yeah mostly crashing into each other. Hence why I went with paint stick leading edges this year. Some tow lines that’ll entangle props too. Can’t fly long if your motor can’t spin.
@Graingy it can be. This year I went with a build that could tank hits. It kinda came out of seven combats in a repairable state. Think I gotta fly harder lmaooo
@Graingy and creative too. They have everything ya need there to build new stuff. They have materials and an entire shop right on site and that’s on top of their two massive build tents.
@Graingy yeah lmao.
The event was great this year. Hard to go wrong flying and combating rc airplanes to the last person standing. especially if it’s three times a day for four days straight.
@Graingy yeah it’s screaming by. Gosh Flite fest was like two moths ago already. (Big remote control airplane event I look forward to every year that happens in June)
@Graingy also yeah it’s pretty much been a very hot minute. Think I kinda disappeared shortly after the SPVR drop. Think it’s been like a year or two now?
@SonsoftheMoth thanks allot!
@SuperSuperTheSylph yeah during the stream I loaded it in and also slipped it to Dorian.
+2@RSH10Thunderbeam I’ve been having too much fun with these.
@SuperSuperTheSylph hahah! And what’s funny is I was the culprit!
+1@TateNT34 let’s just say I had slipped Dorian it while no one was looking haha.
+2Never would have thought about shoving a cleaver into an airplane and using it like an engine hahaha
@crazyplaness for other new ones, I’m unsure unfortunately.
Though technically I’m not 100% new. I was part of the first group and got re-activated as one after being away for a few years.
I’ve been helping as much as I can.
@V well technically old hahah! I went off to college and just couldn’t do it for a long time as I pretty much never stopped working. I was recently invited back and I’ve been back in the swing of curating all over again. :)
still a nasty workaholic but I’m doing what I can hahaha.
If it isn’t too much trouble, may I make use of some of your displays on some future creations I have in the works?
What you have here is truly excellent! And it would really add some detail to a good cockpit.
I’ll also add that mobile is shaded a bit differently. Be cautious of cockpits that are all black colors as testing with the mobile criteria can result in people not being able to see control's due to having zero contrast against their surroundings.
Things like flight sticks and buttons can become invisible against their backgrounds like that unfortunately.
@xXLouisPlayzXx I curate vr creation's
+2Also please, I make other things and heavily lean into vr builds nowadays. If you want more serious creations, I try and do that here and there. Not everyone needs to fly a giant evil Chad from a game that isn’t even out yet hahahaha!
+1@WaterFlavouredSpitfires I curate creations built for VR.
@Zero0Two2 he’d be like a hundred feet tall hahahaha!
@Whaletail2012 I know! It’s so horrible lmao!
@Erc90F4RU hope it goes well for ya!
This is a great airplane! The F-5 is easily one of my faves. Unfortunately the cockpit is so dark that is it has too little contrast.
This makes it so you can’t see the controls.
If you clean this up and let me know, I’ll gladly re-evaluate it for curation.
@Unwanted it’s a curator thing.
+1@SCtheONE here’s the funny thing. It’s functionally only there for visuals. The fins don’t have flight physics.
+1It’s I’d bad that I take your missile system as a challenge (to probably end getting up blown up by lol)
+1Really great work though I’ve been highly excited and getting my hands back into building again since the announcement of SP2. I’m really excited to make some fun builds and fancy cockpits again.
@Graingy it can be a couple things. Sometimes props dig themselves into the large airframes
With the big CA.60 he flew. It had like nine wings. A flying wing got entrapped between two of them lol!
@Graingy yeah, he definitely flys longer. Sometimes the smaller foam planes get entangled in big builds like that and end up big drag generators.
@Graingy Pretty much. Heck there’s a dude named Peter sripol that makes a crazy build every year and has a YouTube channel. He made a build that’s like thirty six feet long one year. Looked like a train in the sky lmao!
+1@Graingy for Flite fest that all goes out the window lol.
@Graingy not really. I could probably double up the foam to give the hot glue more surface to connect to the fuselage though.
@Graingy more like it peels entire top end of the nose, Motor mount included, from the wing. Easy to fix cause of its square design though.
@Graingy it’s skewered down to the airframe. Common for a foam board build. It’s strong enough for flying but struggles when. Taking a massive hit.
@Graingy I’d think so, maybe I might make some plastic or carbon fiber strengtheners next time I build this airframe. The big thing was major hits had a strong chance of kicking the motor right off the fuselage.
@Graingy you could probably locate the antennas on the outside of the airframe and tape em down. Well. If they aren’t the new spectrum ones. The newer AR620s don’t have an external antenna. On those, it’s small and hidden inside the plastic case of the receiver itself. Antennas have gotten allot smaller nowadays.
@Graingy I think you can do that but it gets expensive fast. Receivers tend to be the most expensive part on a build. The can transmit and receive through foam, plastics and wood real easily though so they end up very ideal materials.
@Graingy it’s just called that. It’s pretty much a second receiver wired into the main via a cable you can plug in.
@Graingy personally I like radiomaster stuff better. Spectrums a more common manufacturer and once you have a bunch of airplanes up in the air. Their signals start stepping on each other and planes stop receiving input and drop out of the sky.
@Graingy yeah, you can get what’s called satellite recivers depending on what receiver you’re using.
I think spektrum and radiomaster make a few.
@Graingy maybe I could use it in the motor mount if it doesn’t mess with signal. I’ve had enough receiver signal losses in the last few years to be cautious of it lol!
The stepped airfoil on it is called a KF airfoil. it has an entire family of variants with different flying characteristics.
If you’re curious, this is the build. It’s much stronger than it looks.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jLmy8sidA7AgCucz5hQfFJ9R8vQ99pYC/view?usp=drivesdk
Not really it’s pretty much a free for all. I haven’t broken the paint stick spars but the foam and paper skin does get torn up after a good hit.
@Graingy I’d say structural. If you can hit another build and keep flying, that’s another chance to survive longer. Well unless your build gets called out by the announcer. You get called and you’ll be swarmed till you go down. prizes are at stake now lol!
@Graingy nah I’m using them as parts in a foambard wing structure. This makes a foam airframe pretty strong for being mostly foam. Think wing spars-
Unless you’re referring to sticks. Sticks are rc planes that use arrow shafts or balsa sticks as fuselages. lol! (Funny enough, I designed one of em recently)
@Graingy yeah mostly crashing into each other. Hence why I went with paint stick leading edges this year. Some tow lines that’ll entangle props too. Can’t fly long if your motor can’t spin.
@Graingy it can be. This year I went with a build that could tank hits. It kinda came out of seven combats in a repairable state. Think I gotta fly harder lmaooo
@Graingy and creative too. They have everything ya need there to build new stuff. They have materials and an entire shop right on site and that’s on top of their two massive build tents.
@Graingy yeah lmao.
The event was great this year. Hard to go wrong flying and combating rc airplanes to the last person standing. especially if it’s three times a day for four days straight.
@Graingy yeah it’s screaming by. Gosh Flite fest was like two moths ago already. (Big remote control airplane event I look forward to every year that happens in June)
@Graingy definitely does. I’m sure being the worst kinda workaholic definitely doesn’t help it either.
@Graingy gosh it’s been that long! Geez-
@Graingy also yeah it’s pretty much been a very hot minute. Think I kinda disappeared shortly after the SPVR drop. Think it’s been like a year or two now?
@Graingy hmm. That throws a wrench into things- I’d have to add them as a one-drive link or something if that’s the case.
Man this I was just something chaotic I built on a friends request. Even at 0.1 throttle it’s hardly even flyable lol
Pretty sweet!