Official Freewing 80mm MiG-21 Fishbed Thread

[Icarus the 2nd]

Found this pic of my MIG 21 just before her maiden. I painted her with Tamiya acrylic. It is Japanese Navy Green (XF-11). Used a Paasche VL airbrush. I am going to get her out of storage and ready for the show in Grapevine in October! :Cool: Love the way it flies!!!

incredible scheme you have there! wish I could airbrush like that!

[gooniac33]

Two questions: as you might have seen in my maiden vid I had some trouble rotating in time, barely got of the ground before I used up our 'runway'. Visibility was another issue lol.

Regarding the take-off:
- moved battery tray and velcro backwards already so I can move my lipos further to the back
- trimmed of the wheel doors some
- oiled the wheels
- might try to fly with the tanks next time as they shift the cg a little bit more backwards

If this won't help I can try to make the nosewheel strut 2-3mm longer.

Anything else I can do to make the take-off easier?

Regarding the visibility:
My plan is to add some brown camouflage Syrian scheme later during winter times. Meanwhile I think I'll just paint the tanks in a uniform color.

What color do you think is best to enhance the visibility?
- white?
- red?
- orange?
- ???

I shimmed my nose up about 5mm. It helped a ton with take off from a paved surface so I am sure it will help a lot with grass as well! Also the CG can go way back on this plane! You don't wanna go too far but its further than you would think...

[seaviper]

if you want more power for grass ops use the set up i have in this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsGEVEA5JXs

What ESC you using for that setup?

[Hardway]

:):Cool: Thank you!!!

[MANFRED]

Beautiful ship

[Hardway]

Found this pic of my MIG 21 just before her maiden. I painted her with Tamiya acrylic. It is Japanese Navy Green (XF-11). Used a Paasche VL airbrush. I am going to get her out of storage and ready for the show in Grapevine in October! :Cool: Love the way it flies!!!

[lmramos44]

I have the Mig-21 that im setting up. The weird thing is, the steering is OPPOSITE of the rudder input. I input right rudder, the nose wheel steers left! I tried swapping the input into the blue box, but no change. Any suggestions??

You could purchase a servo reverser module for a couple bucks......

[bill34207]

Sounds like you might have one of those rare models where a wrong servo got installed. You might want to contact Motion or if you have extra channels to use hook it up on one of them and create a mix from the rudder to it.

[Kevin R]

I have the Mig-21 that im setting up. The weird thing is, the steering is OPPOSITE of the rudder input. I input right rudder, the nose wheel steers left! I tried swapping the input into the blue box, but no change. Any suggestions??

[Icarus the 2nd]

if you want more power for grass ops use the set up i have in this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsGEVEA5JXs

holy **** what a speed demon! nice upgrade you did but maybe a bit too much overpowered for me :Scared:

[Icarus the 2nd]

international orange

ah thanks, lol I was thinking white/red but never thought of bright orange

had a spray can with white already so I decided on the white just 2 days ago, will keep the orange in my mind though if the white isn't a good enough result in our dark grey skies

[jay bennett]

if you want more power for grass ops use the set up i have in this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsGEVEA5JXs

[mongo]

international orange

[Icarus the 2nd]

Another short vid meanwhile

[Icarus the 2nd]

Two questions: as you might have seen in my maiden vid I had some trouble rotating in time, barely got of the ground before I used up our 'runway'. Visibility was another issue lol.

Regarding the take-off:
- moved battery tray and velcro backwards already so I can move my lipos further to the back
- trimmed of the wheel doors some
- oiled the wheels
- might try to fly with the tanks next time as they shift the cg a little bit more backwards

If this won't help I can try to make the nosewheel strut 2-3mm longer.

Anything else I can do to make the take-off easier?

Regarding the visibility:
My plan is to add some brown camouflage Syrian scheme later during winter times. Meanwhile I think I'll just paint the tanks in a uniform color.

What color do you think is best to enhance the visibility?
- white?
- red?
- orange?
- ???

[Icarus the 2nd]

Manfred; nice and very visible scheme you have there :-)

[MANFRED]

Thanks guys

[rifleman_btx]

Agreed! Very nice indeed!

[RCjetdude]

That turned out really good!

[MANFRED]