Call for ideas and tips - customizing BBI's Kiowa
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 1:52 pm
Have a Kiowa Warrior with some fuselage damages: I once tried to fix the inner counterbalance that wasn't well glued and moved backwards, but no glue could fix it. So I used steel wire through the fuselage, and now it holds.
I opened the fuselage with cutting one of the rear side panels, it is where I have these damages (damned Dremel!).
I found the way to insert small electro-motors to move the propellers. The opened panel could be used for a battery pack.
Now, I'd like to make this better, but also, as it is not anymore MIB, want to try some custom. Here are my thoughts:
Retrofitting the bird to a 1st, Vietnam version of the Kiowa seems to be a hard work, all the fuselage top and main prop have to be made new.
I saw that the Kiowa was fitted with Hellfire missiles, 1 on each side hanging point. Would be nice, but don't now how to make the glazed nose of the missile. If somebody has overstock from an Apache...
Other ideas?
I opened the fuselage with cutting one of the rear side panels, it is where I have these damages (damned Dremel!).
I found the way to insert small electro-motors to move the propellers. The opened panel could be used for a battery pack.
Now, I'd like to make this better, but also, as it is not anymore MIB, want to try some custom. Here are my thoughts:
Retrofitting the bird to a 1st, Vietnam version of the Kiowa seems to be a hard work, all the fuselage top and main prop have to be made new.
I saw that the Kiowa was fitted with Hellfire missiles, 1 on each side hanging point. Would be nice, but don't now how to make the glazed nose of the missile. If somebody has overstock from an Apache...
Other ideas?