Official Freewing MiG-29 Fulcrum Twin 80mm Thread

[Rcfiddy1]

Anyone have a good ejection seat? Now that my bird is flying it’s time to do some upgrades to the mitten wearing munchkin pilot. I just finished resin printing a pilot and now need some seating.

[leithalweapon]

Successful maiden! Here is a video of flight #4: https://youtu.be/CqV0Z66s-5k

One observation - there is certainly a non-linear response to the elevator, it feels awkward. I have the upgraded servos from MRC. I think it is due to the flex on the control rods. Even with the carbon fiber tubes the rods flex. Funny enough MRC sells rods for the F-14 Wing sweep mechanism that are perfect length and are much thicker. I'll be installing these soon: https://www.motionrc.com/products/fr...ng-pushrod-set

Wow would have made things much easier if MRC had realized they had a simple solution on hand. Let us know how it works!

[Airguardian]

Anyone have a good ejection seat? Now that my bird is flying it’s time to do some upgrades to the mitten wearing munchkin pilot. I just finished resin printing a pilot and now need some seating.

Send pic of that pilot!

[Rcfiddy1]

[Rcfiddy1]

I used same pilot in f18 and it turned out pretty good. Just scaled it to sized.

[Scale Master]

Special thanks to Chris for hooking me up with a pair of Mig-29 Rocket pods! They look great and the design of them is spot on. I still need to ad the finishing weathering touches to them but they look good. See pics below. Chris I might order another pair from you....... I'm thinkin it looks better with two pods on each wing. I saw a few pics online with that config and the jet looks great.

[mshagg]

Nice! Just putting the finishing touches on my first pod and starting to print up a second. They're bigger than they look in the slicing software lol.

[mshagg]

Making progress on the air to ground loadout. These take a surprising amount of time to print and paint.

[janmb]

Stunning projects, those pods look badass.

Will definitely need to print some for myself i due time. Thanks to Chris G for the design.

Unfortunately, my MiG had a dead main retract out of the box, but motion showed impeccable customer service as usual, so a new was in the mail hours after the ticket was written. Sucks to wait another week, but gives more time to build well anyway.

[Evan D]

Did you check connection behind the wing interconnection board Jan? I had some connections that were loose to the point they could have easily come off.

[Jet jocky]

Does anyone know how to remove the small tiger head one the intakes without ruining the paint. Or do you have a perfect color match so I don't have to repaint the whole bottom. I want to put block numbers in that area.

[Evan D]

Good question as I'm intending to just paint over it at some point.

[Jet jocky]

Did a repaint wich was a pain had to be careful so it wouldn't pull the gray paint off.

[Gringotuerto]

Does anyone know how to remove the small tiger head one the intakes without ruining the paint. Or do you have a perfect color match so I don't have to repaint the whole bottom. I want to put block numbers in that area.

I did the same thing, painted over and put number decals on it. I used Model Masters Dark Ghost Grey acrylic. It seemed close enough match that I couldn't notice the difference.

Probably my wife would say it needs closer color matching, but on the other hand, I would say her knitting machine needs a turbine motor upgrade.

[GliderGuy]

Does anyone know how to remove the small tiger head one the intakes without ruining the paint. Or do you have a perfect color match so I don't have to repaint the whole bottom. I want to put block numbers in that area.

From a prior post..,..HD paint dept:

I still need to get a can.

-GG

[Radar-Guy]

Did you check connection behind the wing interconnection board Jan? I had some connections that were loose to the point they could have easily come off.

All retracts are fuselage mounted, leads go directly into the MCB (aka blue box).

[Evan D]

Oops, you are right. None the less there were loose servo connections behind one of the wing interconnection plates on mine. I assume he did check connections on the MCBe...

All retracts are fuselage mounted, leads go directly into the MCB (aka blue box).

[janmb]

Did you check connection behind the wing interconnection board Jan? I had some connections that were loose to the point they could have easily come off.

The retracts on the MiG are part of the body, and does not go through that board or ribbon at all.

I removed the entirely retract device and tested it completely isolated. So all other sources are ruled out.

[crxmanpat]

From a prior post..,..HD paint dept:

I still need to get a can.

-GG

I went and got a can of this several weeks ago. Perfect match!

[evensen007]

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