Official Freewing F/A-18C Hornet 90mm EDF Thread

[EA-6B Geek]

The attached pictures of the above post disappeared somehow.:Confused:

Sign me up for a set of those! They look great

[RCjetdude]

+1 on the hubcaps! :Cool:

[Radar-Guy]

Ooops, what a major oversight! :Scared:
Here is the revised design. Btw, the rectangular plates between some of the outer bolts appear to be not standard. I've looked at some pics and there are none of these.
HUD parts are prepared as well.

@ Steve (RCjetdude): I assume you will be getting your hands on your F-18 sooner than me (ETA late June over here). Would you volunteer as tester for the hub caps?

[Elbee]

What do you guys think about hub caps for the main wheels? :Thinking:

RG, Will you posting your STL files or possibly selling those? I would be very interested in printing these either way. Bravo Zulu, Sir. Best, LB

[DCORSAIR]

The attached pictures of the above post disappeared somehow.:Confused:

Well shoot, after looking at the real wheels you posted, I drilled to many holes in mine, these are 90mm F-16 mains, I drilled 8 holes instead of 6. They will have to do for now. :Sweating::)

[Radar-Guy]

RG, Will you posting your STL files or possibly selling those? I would be very interested in printing these either way. Bravo Zulu, Sir. Best, LB

LB, I will post the files here on HS. But before, I want to make sure that the parts do really fit, since the cockpit parts (there is a panel as well, see post #67) were designed for the Starmax F-18 and I think that they need to be scaled up a bit.

Frank

[Radar-Guy]

Well shoot, after looking at the real wheels you posted, I drilled to many holes in mine, these are 90mm F-16 mains, I drilled 8 holes instead of 6.:P:)

Well, keep ‘em spinning and no one will notice;)

[DCORSAIR]

Well, keep ‘em spinning and no one will notice;)

Yeah your right, no one will notice as long as I keep it rolling.LOL

[Elbee]

LB, I will post the files here on HS. But before, I want to make sure that the parts do really fit, since the cockpit parts (there is a panel as well, see post #67) were designed for the Starmax F-18 and I think that they need to be scaled up a bit.Frank

FG, You've just made my day. :) I thank you, sir. Best, LB

[Elbee]

Will my front panel design fit? ;)

RG, Too Cool for School. I like it. Best, LB

[thisguy65]

Ooops, what a major oversight! :Scared:
Here is the revised design. Btw, the rectangular plates between some of the outer bolts appear to be not standard. I've looked at some pics and there are none of these.
HUD parts are prepared as well.

@ Steve (RCjetdude): I assume you will be getting your hands on your F-18 sooner than me (ETA late June over here). Would you volunteer as tester for the hub caps?

Hey Radar, I'm 3-4 hours from Steve. I'll be willing to test them out. If I can be of help please shoot me a pm.

[Radar-Guy]

OK guys, here is the file for the hub cap. I used 0,15mm layer height, 20% infill and supports. I assume, that the F-18 will come with the same wheels as the F-22 90mm. I think, those were originally designed as nose wheels for the A-10 80mm, 4mm axle. The wheel needs a bit of surgery. On one side you need to grind off some material from the center (see pic blw). As the wheel I used came without bushing I inserted some 5mm OD brass tubing.

[andrew_flyguy]

Very nice Aros...i love them but for my f14 i would like to convert to top gun scheme

Oh hey - that's MY Freewing F-14 :)

PS - *this* close to clicking that pre-order button!!

[Tanguy51]

Cqoo

cool andrew...do you have some photo ? Have you got the scheme on caliegraphics ?
thanks

[andrew_flyguy]

Cqoo

cool andrew...do you have some photo ? Have you got the scheme on caliegraphics ?
thanks

I've got all kinds of photos of it! And yup - got mine from Callie. 1/13 scale.

[Hardway]

Howdy Andrew!!! Have a great weekend Bro!!! :Cool:

[Tanguy51]

I've got all kinds of photos of it! And yup - got mine from Callie. 1/13 scale.

It isn't a 1/12 like in motion rc original scheme ?

[Aros]

We have this model listed as 1/11 scale...

And is it here yet? Is it here yet? Is it here yet??? :)

[T-CAT]

I found two pics that closely match the same stance the picture is taken at to help compare the full sized F-18 Blue Angels to this Freewing 1/11 scaled F-18C model. I put them as a collage for easy comparison. It's darn good:Cool:. Of course there are going to be some details likely for cost factors, etc. that were omitted, but that's expected. I think Freewing and Motion RC did a great job.

[Aros]

The gear is a dead giveaway otherwise at first glance I would struggle to know which is which! :Cool: