Gremlin's A-10

[Gremlin77]

better video quality

[Gremlin77]

just screwed together the right front panel. Now fuel control panel for right front console will follow next. At altitude instrument, pointer and 7-segment still missing 'cause of wiring

[Gremlin77]

pre-state of altimeter

 

[Gremlin77]

finished Altimeter

 

[Gremlin77]

So, just tried out the fitting of the right panel.

Glad to see it fits......

 

began to remove all the cables of the right console. So happy, that all the panels I already made in the past fit on the 150mm panel mount of the tornado.

 

The pit is standing in our production facility until now. Hopefully next week I can move it to my home. On the pictures, nose, canopy and ejection seat are removed.

Edited February 18, 2013 by Gremlin77

[agrasyuk]

finished Altimeter

 

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ncie.

i was thinking to try and use this for my altimeter. or this to have Baro readout as well

 

 

oh oops... shhh... you didn't hear it. i'm not working or altimeter :P :music_whistling:

 

 

 

forgot to add, those pictures of actual aircraft part are absolutely sick... thats just... wow...

Edited February 18, 2013 by agrasyuk

[Gremlin77]

good idea. but beware of ordering from china. we here in europe have to pay lot of taxes on imports from asia and shipping takes weeeeeeeeeeeeks.

have an adafruit display connected via spi and works fine. Thought making the ADI of it, but it's quite too slow.

 

the digits I want to use for height, not for baro. baro I think, I'll build somewhere else on the left panel. There I have huge amount of space to fill.

[Gremlin77]

This is my fuel/hydraulic panel in pre-state:

 

The pointers are driven on this panel with servos and not with stepper motors.

 

And yes I know that there is two times EXT CTR and not EXT WING one time. But I can live with that, it's so much time and work to engrave the panels that I don't want to do it again......

Edited February 19, 2013 by Gremlin77

[agrasyuk]

Wrong label I could live with (and later put a sticker over it), shortcut with non coaxial pointers too. But come on. Why not use the right font for the lettering and numbers? It costs nothing. Time to engrave can be reduced . my engravings i do at 0.1mm step ,firing the laser both ways. That's about 20 faster then default setting and difference is only visible immediately up close, and even then the quality is better then acceptable.

 

Please consider redoing with the right font.

[Gremlin77]

What should I say. You're right. BUT: I started think one year ago making all the panels for A-10. Finished up all left and right console panels, never in mind what font to use. So, should I now make all the nice blinking and working panels new 'cause of having another font than the US Airforce?? I think: someday perhaps. It's a handicap I can easily live with.

I use the same configuration with the laser like you do. But my China-Laser-Driver has some difficulties in doing fonts out of dwg files. So, I have to do every panel two times. First, in Corel I laser the font, and then in CAD do the engravings. And have you ever imported a DWG in Corel and started to reposition every litte letter? Should be forbidden.. It nerves....

And have you seen how much works lies in front of me?....Want to reach a stadium with the cockpit with that I can fly again....These were lucky days....Flying an A-10...... :-o

When I reach this state, I have to do most of the panel covers new anyway cause of backlighting. Now I use LED stripes to light up the whole panel row. But using LED inside the fornt plate is a much better possibility.

 

The two coaxial pointers of the fuel instrument I will cover with a central round plate. So it should not point to your eye that it's not a perfect circle.

Edited February 19, 2013 by Gremlin77

[agrasyuk]

Oh, so these are premade. Was wondering how you churning them up so fast :) well as long as you like them I guess.

 

Yeah I hear you, flying was good. Sure miss it and it is at least month and a half till I will be able to.

 

. Perhaps you already tried , but working with AutoCAd you can Explode the text (in express tools) into poly- lines . otherwise as you mention the text objects are not visible in laser cad. Careful though , its one way operation. I keep pre explode files separately in case I need to rearrange the text.

Edited February 19, 2013 by agrasyuk

[Gremlin77]

no, you missunderstood me. the left and right console are already finished. The left and right front consoles I am making at the moment. Couldn't use my old ones cause the real cockpit has different dimensions compared to my "fantasy" cockpit.

And thanks for the Autocad-tip. will try it out for the next panel!

[Gremlin77]

Give away one of my front panels 'cause I need new dimensions. If anybody wants it for free (only shipping costs), please contact me. If not, I'll throw it away.

 

Edited February 20, 2013 by Gremlin77

[Gremlin77]

So, finished up the electric plate of the UFC and here are some pics of backlight in action. Decided to use one resistor for all LEDs together and I was lucky, all LED light at the same level.:pilotfly:

 

 

[Gremlin77]

All microbuttons soldered

 

[Gremlin77]

Who said jets with no wings can't fly????

 

 

 

 

Edited February 28, 2013 by Gremlin77

[linden]

I will not comment on this, not because I'm jealous just because I

do not have time to see this, i need to look at my wood-build ... bye bye :)

[71st_Mastiff]

Wow you had the dough for that?

[Panthro]

the lowest pic just screams "what will I tell her when she gets home"

 

 

very jealous.

 

oh and I would have the hump behind the canopy go.

[Gremlin77]

It's not that expensive Mastiff you might think. It's only the fuselage without instrumentation. Worst was shipping from England to Germany

[Hansolo]

Looks just amazing Gremlin :thumbup:

[Ninefingers]

Wow ! What a beauty !

 

Congrats Gremlin ! :thumbup:

[predator-nz]

What the fuk. Nice!!! Congrats

[Gremlin77]

Good god it's in...........

 

 

 

[Duckling]

Congratulations to the new inmate. Impressive effort.

Best use of a swimmingpool I've seen

 

A pool of action in the swim sim awaits :thumbup:

 

Cheers

Gus