Thanks Troy for your honest opinion about the plane and products you are using. I really appreciate the budget tips too. For many of us on a fixed income, it is much easier to use a larger motor and battery than to use the LW-PLA due to its cost. Even the tip on the superglue was appreciated. There’s tons of videos flying 3D printed planes, but very few that take the time to explain how to make them. Even your quick repair tips are really helpful. Your wife’s support is also encouraging and she does great on getting some awesome shots! Thanks again.
Thank you JL, I appreciate the feed back. This is a great hobby and making it easy and affordable for anyone to try out is definitely my goal with this build. LW-PLA is great stuff but definitely hard to justify spending that much for this small of plane it would use a very small about of material. Thank you for mentioning my Wife this channel would not be possible without her support. Cheers
So - during the middle of "I'm bored and can't fly" winter build season, I decided to build this. I had zero - ZERO expectations on this model. I made it with LW=PLA wings and PLA wingtips, fuse, and control surfaces. I even found and printed a folding prop. And it sat. And sat. And sat some more. Finally, the weather broke and I decided to git it a try. I even brought a bag for the parts. Everything barely fits in the fuse. Added some up reflex. Pointed into the non-existent wind. Added about 60% throttle and just tossed it like a paper airplane. And - DAMN! It flew perfectly! I'm standing there gobsmacked and realized I really should start flying the model and she behaved really smoothly. Not a click of trim. I did get a lot of flutter coming out of a loop so I throttled back (need to figure that out). Thanks for the build tips and showing off this model.
Great build video. Like all the tips you include. Also that you explain how to fix a mistake, instead of editing out of the video. This practical knowledge is appreciated and invaluable to someone doing their first printed planes.
Aerial Thank you for the comment. That was my intension with this build. That it is a great first cheap build to start with so I wanted to add any tips I could.
@@user-gr3zk3vw8e ru-vid.com/show-UCkk_OI7m2vnTBwSgrQfZ-HQ I am the owner of LhotakFpv and I haven't really posted anything over the winter...but stuff is comin´ :)
@@user-gr3zk3vw8e Trust me, flying fpv in thermals is hella dope... I just usually stick with larger battery, because I know people who used solars to charge their plane and then battery exploded
Hi Troy, this video landed at the right time, I wanted a model I could print as a test print after following your thin wall printing video to home in my printer and this is perfect due to the reduced volume of PLA and reduced print time. The cura tips are a nice touch and I am tempted to print the flying surfaces in four sections so to make them mixed. As always, keep up the great build guides and video production. You inspire us all to build and fly with style!
Thank you colsoyeti, Yes this is a great build for that. It prints fast and is very easy to put together. Thank you for the comment have fun with your build.
Nice and easy! Just bought the STLs 🙂 This looks like the right model to get a feeling for printing a complete plane, instead of just parts of it. I was always a little hesitant about starting one of the bigger prints. Still afraid, it may be a big waste of filament until I get the settings right. Just had problems with some cheaper PLA clogging both of my printers nozzles. Imagining running into problems like this after 18 hours of printing 🤪 I also can read their untranslated instructions and will have no problems getting metric parts 😁
Yes exactly this plane can be printed over a weekend and just use a very small amount of material. It is definitely a big process to start on a project with 100 hours of printing time. Lots of random parts until you start assembling. This build is about as simple as it can be. I love metric but hate that it is so hard to get in the US.
@@TroyMcMillan it so happens I have some very old planes that have survived years of flying and servos have failed in them. I guess if you consider cost and likelihood of a catastrophic crash you’re right.
Realizing you posted this 2 years ago, but I'm sure your still at it, printing this now in PLA+. (I'm pretty sure you used PLA? and not the lightweight?). Anyway, parts are coming out great, I'm printing it in "surface mode" I tried the standard like you did (because you have top and bottoms on the wings) but mine would have been way too heavy that way. Anyway, a new K1 Max here and it's screaming right along, an amazing printer. Have spent lots of time sorting the slicing settings out as none around it being too new.. Thanks so much for your video and build sharing it with us!!!! Looking forward to your next project as they are all top notch!!!! w
Creative work process, I think it became a small rc flying machine! Definitely worthy of praise! I wish you another nice day in strength, health to everyone! 🛩👍☀️👆🛩
@@TroyMcMillan Very welcome, as it is a really good little video and the rc flying was also very perfect! Have a nice successful day in strength, health to everyone! 👍🛩☀️📸👆
Just joined a flying club and this looks like it will be a great model for me when i finally get my certification to fly alone, i have downloaded and printed the models and i look forward to at some point being able to fly it (need some batteries first) i was just wondering how the receiver is set up? is it set up as if it were a flying wing with elevons?
Its nice to see we are all human and make mistakes. I have printed my first plane ( Eclipson Model T) and awaiting to fly. Would be great to have more information on your esc and motor choices if not as recommended by designers. Keep up the good work.
I used a 2212 1400kv motor, 20 amp ESC, 8x4.5 prop and 3S 450mah battery. I have links to all the parts I use in the description. Good luck with your Model T flight.
Bought this plane thinking it would be a quick build since I tend to crash a lot. One wing panel took 10 hours to print on my Ender 3 V2 using Super Slicer. There are 4 panels with similar print times. I am wondering how Troy can build this plane in 19 hours.
I'm betting that was an error. I'm on PrusaSlicer with 4 main wing parts (wing tips not on this run) - 29 hours! Am using the same settings as recent Epsilon build that seemed much faster so am assuming designers approach could print a little more slowly? Still, looks like a fun plane, just gotta order some more filament :)
Hey mate great video 😊 im making mine now just unsure what parts are ment to be 20% infill. I expect wings wont be but unsure about wing centre and 2 fuse sections. The wings alone are saying 1d 11h just for the 4 sections not sure why its so long as you said 19 hour for whole plane
Nice video... full of information, sources, tips and hints. Also, you showed the ‘woopsies’ and the ‘fails’...why they happened and how you fixed them. Thumbs up and a ‘subscribe’ !!
Hi Troy, now following your videos from Paris. Could you please tell me how you print the center part adn front fuselage ? Support or some infill ? I don't understand how I can get this right with no collapsing or 1 ton of ugly infill or support. To me it's just impossible to print this thing. There are horizontal parts appearing in the air, which is impossible to print on any printers, really wonder how you managed to print this thing. Keep up the good job mate :)
Like your builds and just about to start on this one , about carbon fibre rods , I always check markets , garage sales even dollar stores for kites , most have carbon fibre rods now all sizes all dia and there really cheap ..
Is the thin gauge JST wire able to handle the amps that this motor draws? From what I am reading those JST connectors can only handle 5amps max and that motor pulls 12amps. I'm very new to this, so I could be misreading something.
Yes it is possible I talk about how to do it in the video it has a nose piece to print out and glue on the front. There is a compartment to add wight to the nose for counter wight.
Hey Troy, thanks again for another great print, build and fly! I purchased the longboard and noticed there are revisions to some of the STL files. Does the base download incorporate those? , or should I replace files, in order, through revisions? Thanks again!
The revisions fix the control surface not being attached to the wing. I did not use them I just printed out the single wing sections and single control surface.
yes...maybe petg would be much stronger...a little harder to work with though...this is a nice plane...and if breaks you can always glue or reprint parts... one day when i get back into flying i am going to try to print a nice little plane like this one...
PETG is harder to print with and not as stiff. I tried printing out the canopy to the smaller version of this plane in PETG and it didn't work very well, about to reprint in PLA.
Ya that is a cool wing. No one has designed this for 3d printing yet so it will be a bit of work to get it prepared for 3d printing there are some nice wings that have been designed for 3d printing that you could build.
I was having major problems with the internal structure not adhering to the outer wall on the wings. It turns out that the only thing I was doing wrong was trying to print it in surface mode like I saw in another video about printing thin wall stuff like this.
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I love this channel. Many, MANY great tips on printing as well as the models. I would really appreciate a tutorial, like you did on stringing, on how you glue things up. Either you have alien DNA so that CA doesn't stick to you or you have a technique that I / we haven't picked up on.
They got a clone of that, it’s called the Lou-Lou, I’m not sure exactly which “plan website” I found it on earlier today, it may have been from the same company that made this model. Check it out, the website I mean.
@@BikingVikingHH Yeah, I saw the lou lou when checking. I might give it a try this summer, need to find some decent hangs around here though. I do wish their designs had been designed for printing without retraction like eclipson and the new 3dlabprint planes though. cleaner prints and better if you want to print in lw-pla
The 3D-prints website is down until October, but they don’t say what year. I guess they hate money, because I sure wanted to spend some and download some files from them, but, I guess they didn’t want me to.
@@jasonhurdlow6607 Thank you, but that was 5 months ago, and I am over it. I have bought and downloaded many other 3D printed RC airplanes since. Like I originally stated, they clearly hate money and didn’t want mine.
Why isn't someone who put a bunch of time into a design, testing, etc... not allowed to charge for their work? An STL file is the product of someone's effort, they don't magically appear. Are you saying their effort is worthless?
It would work ok for the way it was deigned to print. I just wanted a better quality then I was getting with my printers that is why I had to modify it slightly.
