I got my eye out for the iris... this could be mega.
+ reppage my good man.
I got my eye out for the iris... this could be mega.
+ reppage my good man.
I'm always worried about clear cases showing the dust and scratches of everyday use.
I hope this mod is half as good as the Turbine res.
Nice!
Ouch!
I just signed up to the forum because of this. First the turbine, now this...just wow.
welcome renegade, yep ole rendermandan is bring in a crowd from all corners of the globe with his turbine and now this beast.
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I didn't know you had started the case yet, I was waiting for you to post a link in the turbine log. Oh well, can't wait to see how this turns out.
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Minty, here's a link to the page for two of the most common makers of these plastics. I get them at a local store called Hobbytown USA, but I dont know what stores you might have locally.
Plastruct
Evergreen Scale Models
Sorry to keep you guys in suspense, I've been working on the Iris this weekend and have been getting frustrated. Its not turning out to work very well. I'll have some pictures and possible, If I can get it to work, some video of the Iris in action tomorrow. It takes too long to upload a 10mb file from my home computer, So I'll updated tomorrow from work.
Just so you don't get your hopes up, Its not finished yet, and It may never be, you'll see why tomorrow.
I may have to redesign it, or come up with a different window mod.
ok, here's whats been happening. This part is good!
I finished making the doors for the front intake fan.
Here they are opened.
and the back side to show the hinges:
Then I made the mechanism at the top to open them:
I'll have to hold here till my servos come in today.
NOW, here is the start of the IRIS.
(20) Identical vanes.
I laid them out on a patter to get the feel for things.
Then I cut out and made the mounting plate:
Here are the vanes on the mounting plate:
Then I made the movment ring:
Here you can see it all assembled:
here is a closeup of the pins
here it is opened:
Here it is closed: THIS IS WHAT I'M PISSED ABOUT!!!!
It doesn't close correctly. there are huge gaps! What I've found, even after about 3 hours of adjusting the hole locations, is that everything must be identical and perfectly aligned, with no slop or play whatsoever. everythign was hand cut to the best of my ability to get them exaclty the same, but even the slightest offset or hole drilled sligtly incorrectly, will cause this. Everything has to be too perfect to make this work.
here is a video so you guys can see it in action.
I'm not sure where to go on from this point on this part of the mod. I may have to redesign the whole thing from how many vanes to the actuall shape of the vanes and its size. Also, I may have to seriously look into having this laser cut out.
Today, I should get my servos and controller, so that will give me something to play around with for a few days. There is not point in building all this stuff if I can't get the servos to work, so I will concentrate on getting that setup for now.
Later, Dan
Mate this is some seriously good work. Keep it up. +rep
EDIT: need to spread some more rep
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