nerdsforprez Posted March 29, 2023 Posted March 29, 2023 Hello Everyone! Long-time EB member but admittedly I don’t make it over to the SW forum often. So I have had this project on my mind for quite a while. Bought a second-hand UCS Imperial Shuttle many years ago and it just sat in my closet. Parts were donated for this guy here: I just never got around to doing anything with the UCS model. Didn’t want to BL and build the original… too boring. However, with the remaining pieces I had a could easily do this: Mounted it so as to appear as if it were coming out of the wall. Details are explained in the video below, but briefly I added a PF BB with two M PF motors to drive each wing. This replaced the manual operations of the wings that came out the rear of the model in the original. Used a 16L Technic brick as the main mounting point on the back, but also used one screw in the dorsal fin for a mount location as well. Works very well. Very firm. I can have the display with the wings in any position. With the exception of taking out roughly the back quarter of the model, everything else remains the same. Hope you enjoy! Quote
nerdsforprez Posted March 29, 2023 Author Posted March 29, 2023 3 hours ago, McMurder_them_softly said: Impressive. Most impressive. It was a fun project, but honestly I am just happy to have it done. I really dislike it when I have incomplete projects just sitting around. I become "that guy" that starts things but doesn't finish them. With the completion of this I got that off my back Quote
Wonderpants Posted March 31, 2023 Posted March 31, 2023 How smoothly do the wings raise and lower with 2 motors to each? I remember someone here trying it with 1 or maybe 2 for both and it was pretty jerky when the wings were raising Quote
SpaceM Posted March 31, 2023 Posted March 31, 2023 Wonderful display! Imagine this being triggered by an event. Like a light switch, or opening/closing wings depending on time of the day. Quote
nerdsforprez Posted March 31, 2023 Author Posted March 31, 2023 12 hours ago, Wonderpants said: How smoothly do the wings raise and lower with 2 motors to each? I remember someone here trying it with 1 or maybe 2 for both and it was pretty jerky when the wings were raising This is just probably semantics, but to be clear, it is one motor per each wing. Not 2. Indeed, it is a little jerky. I could have geared it down a bit. I thought about it. Ultimately decided not to for 2 reasons: 1: the jerkiness comes from the wing construction itself, not really because of too much torque or speed from the motors. As can be seen at around the 20 sec. mark in the YT video, without the whole wing build, at the attachment point only, the movement is smooth and not jerky. The jerkiness comes because the wings are huge, only one stud thick, and all ABS. also, they are lift arms, not technic bricks, which with that much weight, have quite a bit of flimsy-ness to them. 2: I really won't be positioning them often. I like them much more in their "down" position, and really will be putting them up perhaps when others come to visit and I want to show it off. So, its not a big thing if I only change their position perhaps a few times a month. Probably even less than that. But I did want to keep the function. Thus the motors. I could also add an IR receiver and use remote, to control it more slowly, but again I did not think it demanded that much time. Lastly, recall that the original model, being manual, was also incredibly jerky to raise/lower the wings. 7 hours ago, SpaceM said: Wonderful display! Imagine this being triggered by an event. Like a light switch, or opening/closing wings depending on time of the day. Agree. That would be cool. Perhaps up for daytime and down for night (when it is dark and the shuttle would most likely be in operation) Quote
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