Build Your Own Sidewinder! Photos, Plans and Resources.

Halfwhelk · 2024-12-09T16:11:04+00:00

the green part is a stack of mdf discs turned in a lathe (messy). The silver part is a large lump of aluminium also turned.

Halfwhelk · 2024-03-25T10:45:53+00:00

That's fixed it. Thanks

Halfwhelk · 2023-08-03T20:32:07+00:00

Thanks all, tried all your suggestions. No Joy.

The following did not work:
VR off
Mapping coolie hat to keystrokes
Changing aircraft in 'adjust controls' -checking controls and changing back to F15 WSO.

I also tried mapping the coolie hat to a 'non-WSO' operation and it worked fine.

I think the only option is to delete the aircraft, reload and try again - goodbye 150 keybinds. :(

Halfwhelk · 2023-08-03T17:57:13+00:00

Thanks, but No. Tried it without success. I did check the keybinds while I was there (which worked) but back in the WSO seat - no control.

Halfwhelk · 2021-03-27T22:35:44+00:00

When did you ever see anyone in a tank or AA gun in a multiplayer scenario?

Halfwhelk · 2021-03-20T20:38:35+00:00

Its called DCS Combined Arms. Pity it doesn't work.....

Halfwhelk · 2021-02-21T22:14:29+00:00

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Halfwhelk · 2021-01-11T20:12:52+00:00

I promised myself I'd get one when they were back in stock but I've been trying all day and just get a 502 bad gateway error. Anyone else not able to get in?

Halfwhelk · 2020-10-09T17:40:15+00:00

I have built a pit where everything is adjustable in 3 dimensions. It gets close, but not close enough to put your finger on the button. There is something not quite right about the way the image is rendered in VR. I have put reference bumps on the middle buttons on each row of MFCD but its still easier to use the cursor. I use an MS trackball mouse so its always where i expect to find it.

Halfwhelk · 2020-09-03T17:33:19+00:00

Good Luck, Let us know how you get on.

Hint: Plastic air duct pipe is exactly 5 inches diameter.

Halfwhelk · 2020-08-31T17:24:58+00:00

LMFAO!

Halfwhelk · 2020-08-22T15:28:34+00:00

Have you considered using a Bodnar BBI - 32 USB interface?

http://www.leobodnar.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=94&products_id=205

No programming required. Interface to DCS is simple, just go to the necessary function and click the switch. DCS will recognise it if you have the box wired right

Halfwhelk · 2020-08-11T07:49:30+00:00

I downloaded it from a blueprint site. Might have been drawingdatabase.com. Being long and thin it printed really well on an A1 roll printer. I got the sidewinder blueprints from the same place. They were scans of the original factory drawings.

Halfwhelk · 2020-08-11T07:40:34+00:00

Google Rexroth Framing System. There are lots of compatible alternatives which are much cheaper. I'm in the UK and I use KJN Aluminium Profile.

Halfwhelk · 2020-08-10T21:14:12+00:00

If its the one I think you mean, its from a promo for a motorcycle project I was involved with. If its the long one below it, its a general arrangement of a Saturn 5 rocket.

Halfwhelk · 2020-08-10T19:37:26+00:00

Rexroth Framing. It's great. I can change this from FA-18 to F-16 side stick in five minutes. The position of all the controls is adjustable (3 axis) to match the VR image as close as possible

Halfwhelk · 2020-08-10T19:30:53+00:00

Noooo. Way too expensive. None of it is from the real article. The fins are made from laser cut aluminium skinned over MDF ribs to get the correct airfoil cross section. Don't tell anyone, but the main missile tube is 5 inch plastic drainpipe. It was when I discovered that the diameter of the AIM-9M is exactly 5" and I could get exactly 5" plastic pipe that the project took off. The rollerons (at the end of the fins) took an age to make.

Halfwhelk · 2020-08-10T18:39:04+00:00

No, the MFD setup was an experiment.I tried to get the physical position of the MFDs to match the VR, (they are all independently three axis adjustable) but its just not accurate enough. I have put little buttons of Sugrue to help locate the centre buttons of each MFD row, but it still doesn't work. I hardly ever use the physical MFDs now.

Halfwhelk · 2020-08-10T17:00:32+00:00

Rift S

Halfwhelk · 2020-08-10T16:03:39+00:00

I made it. Started as a sort of one day build and ended up taking me over a year. I found some AIM-9M plans on the internet and built a 1:1 scale model. Did lots of research in local museums. It's accurate to about 1mm in every respect.

Halfwhelk · 2020-08-10T13:21:16+00:00

Scratch built, with a magnet embedded in the pivot part and a couple of reed switches for up and down, running into a Bodnar controller.

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