Easystar Moving Cartman Cockpit

After learning the basics of RC-flying with my easystar, I wanted to pimp my flight. One of the first things to do was to pimp the cockpit.

I decided to take a little idea from Wuerger's Hauben Mod (http://www.mpx-easystar.de/index.php?id=96&L=1), but make it a bit more interesting.

Sometimes people ask me why I build this. Because it's completely useless while flying. I always answer them this: "because I can" (or in Dutch:"... omdat het kan").

I made a step-by-step tutorial.

Step 1: fill your cockpit with old newspapers. It will save you a lot of clay!

Step 2: Put some plastic over the plane. It will prevend the sticky clay touching the plane.

Step 3: Put the clay over the plastic and make a nice shape for the cockpit.

Step 4: After a few days, when it's finally dry, take it out (be patient).

Step 5: Put it in a soda-bottle (PET)

Step 6: Use an electric heater (the kind you use to remove paint) at a low temperature to shrink the PET around the mold.

Now you can remove the edges that are sticking out.

Step 7: Make a cockpit bottom using any material you like (I used balsa and hotglue). Make sure the edges line up with the rest of the plane.

Step 8:Choose our pilot an make sure he fits in the cockpit.

Step 9: Choose our cockpit gauges using google, make them fit, print them out and glue them in.

Step 10: Put a little servo up the pilot's @ss (sorry for the abusive language, but it's Cartman we're talking about) and fasten the servo-arm on the bottom of the cockpit. This saves room in the space under the cockpit, which you need to put your lipo's in.

Mix this servo with your rudder (or ailerons) to get a really funny result: Cartman will look into the curve the plane is flying.

Also put a few magnets on to secure the cockpit to the plane.

Step 11: Fasten the PET canopy to the bottom of the cockpit using little sewing-pins. Make it just as pretty as you want.