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Hello all. This is a very interesting thread. I love all the optima series as my username can suggest ;D I don't have any printed parts on my Optimae but I guess this is a matter of time. iMaterialise is cheaper than SW for sure but there are plenty of providers even cheaper yet correct quality. It ...

I had some torsion on my Turbo Op rere chassis. I think the culprit was the rear gearbox. the parts were a little bit skewed and therefore the front and rear gearboxes weren't perfectly aligned. After I screwed the upper plate and the mid spacer it wasn't that obvious anymore but it's surprised me n...

Very cool model!

I got my artbooks from Blurb...

I use smartphone app (Photo Protractor) to measure angles; it uses the phone's camera and then you can draw on the picture and measure angles. It's very precise. Of course, as @silvertriple said, I always tend to find simple numbers.

Hello all, I'd like to present my new Spaceframe Chassis for the Hotshot series. It's a very old project, started in 2019, but actually I always had this in mind since the Hotshot was released in 1985... I love the Hotshot but its bathtub chassis was a bit dull compared to the futuristic and sexy Fr...

I could print a transparent chassis if I want.

This is the last version

Let's begin the building process...
I start by attaching the Steering servo on the Bottomplate

The tricky part: assembling the front gearbox. 1. insert the propeller shaft onto either side gearbox (front or rear) IMG_4739_resize.JPG 2. slide the shaft through the centerframe IMG_4740_resize.JPG 3. simply insert the front gearbox into the frame (R) Be careful not to crush the tip of the frame ...

I attach the other screws M3x10 should suffice.
Always pretap the threads before as it can be hard sometimes (use a big handle screwdriver helps)

voilà

The Hotshot and Supershot bodies don't fit on the chassis but the Hotshot 2 body does.

Pics from earlier protos