Rebuilding The"XPLODER"

[ScottSpanker]

Really impressive skills/artistry with the paintwork, under the hood looks good too!

Well thank you. I appreciate it. Wait till u see it finished. I'm pretty proud of this one. Just need to keep posting pictures. I've got a lot of em.

[ScottSpanker]

Finished the orange stripe and blew some house of color show clear over her.

[ScottSpanker]

Did some pinstriping for the first time on the windshield and engine hatches. Florescent orange. Turned out ok.I like the contrast.

[Xrayted]

Looks amazing!

[ScottSpanker]

Looks amazing!

Thank you. It turned out pretty good.

[ScottSpanker]

Here i am machining the rudder standoff or clamshell. A lot of work here. Took me about a week, lot of metal removed.

[mmars89]

The rebuild is actually finished. I have a mountain of pictures to post. The pictures I posted are from the first build in 2017. It's a twin with a best of 96mph. Then I crashed it pretty good in 2019 and it tore it up. So I reinforced it more and did paint. Machined a bunch of new parts and had them powder coated.

Wow, quite the paint job! Impressive

[ScottSpanker]

Knurled thumb screws with little o ring pockets.

[ScottSpanker]

Wow, quite the paint job! Impressive

Thank you. I really gave it my best. I think it turned out pretty good too.

[ScottSpanker]

Stainless prop bullets with m3 .5 set screws. I turned these out of 5/16 socket head screws.

[ScottSpanker]

Machining the pocket in the servo mount. This way I can get the servo to fit nice and tight with no hardware.

[ScottSpanker]

The first picture is the new transom support tied in to the servo mounts with carbon sleeves over them. The other 2 pictures are mocking up and getting ready to paint all of the carbon mounts.

[ScottSpanker]

Paint in progress. Servo and main lower esc mount. The upper esc mount doesn't have any pink and purple in it.

[ScottSpanker]

Here all three mounts getting the candy caribe blue. Now, I wasn't going to say anything but I wasn't paying attention and dropped the shadows on the wrong side. It doesn't look horrible and if your not looking for it you can't really tell. I know it's there and was a little bummed out about it. My dad and I had a pretty good laugh over it. Oops.