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Hydro Dipping a DJI Mavic Air


hey guys I’m Nate hey man I’m Brian
brushwood from the mana road you watched
the monitor road right please watch the
bottom road if you don’t you should
Brian is out here because he wanted to
know more about the Hydra dipping we
showed you in a previous video
yeah specifically can you do it with
electronics and how well does it work
we’re gonna be trying that out today DJI
has sent us a Mavic air to use in our
videos and while it does look pretty
cool just the way it comes out of the
box
we thought we could spruce it up a
little bit alright so what’s the first
step for setup the first step is that we
need to get a box or some kind of
container that can hold water and then
we need to fill it with water which
we’ve already done we’ve got a big old
tub full of water
or you know water’s heavy turns out
especially if you have a lot of it
that’s the first step alright so we got
a bunch of water and I said we’re gonna
dip it in and what you need a layer of
paint on top and it just wraps around
like magic yes exactly it is a lot like
magic you need to make sure that your
surface that you’re trying to paint is
well prepped and then you add paint into
the water it forms a nice little sheet
and as you slowly lower whatever you’re
painting down through it into the water
all of that color gets added on to
whatever you’re trying to color in the
last video what we did is we made sort
of bull’s eyes with the paint always
spraying one color inside the other
color and it does make a really cool
marbled pattern but I think we wanted to
try branching out and see what happens
if we spray a little bit more
haphazardly can we get a good camo
pattern that way that’ll be good now
we’re not gonna go for a camo pattern
that will perfectly blend into the
landscape around us I think what we’re
going for is gonna be a combination of a
couple shades of blue white and black so
maybe a bit more of a snow camo pattern
oh there we go yeah like an Arctic camo
yeah
we don’t have a lot of snow around right
now but I still think it’s gonna look
good
so what we’re actually gonna try doing
is removing just the top case from the
Mavic air of course and then we’ll paint
that perfect now before we throw paint
on our Mavic air I do want to take it
for a test flight and just drive it
around a bit see how it works you know
what this reminds me of is did you have
transformers when you’re a kid and you
gated the instructions to know how to
get it to like I do I make it a robot
right there it’s turning into a I hope
it turns into Optimus Prime but I’m a
little doubtful these are the landing
gear and the antennas for the drone
clever alright so the controller I
assume these are antennas that go up and
these things fold
there’s attachable joysticks that’s
adorable
that is awesome much less likely to
break off while you’re transporting it
somewhere oh that’s perfect and these
are handles oh and of course if you have
the DJI app do this app is amazing right
so you there it is there it is
hello so it’s ready to go I’m ready I’m
gonna press the go up button
take off the hello there we go you’re
airborne you gets astonishingly
intuitive there you want test drive it
I’ll give it a shot you get into the
dome this is so ominous this is straight
from the future and even in the breezes
ya itself really well decently windy out
here what it’s doing pretty good it’s
got personality I feel like it needs a
cute name
like qv7 the design reminds me a little
bit of those portal centuries might am I
oh wow that was like the scariest angry
bees landing on my head that I’ve ever
experienced Oh a swarm of one drone
coming at you
that thing is that precision is awesome
that’s pretty nuts especially with the
amount of wind we’ve got out here it was
still able to stabilize itself pretty
well on fire on just where we wanted it
that’s great
love this thing let’s potentially break
it I don’t want to just start spraying
willy-nilly and then dip something in I
want to have at least an idea of what
we’re gonna be going for so do test
scores of course yes yes I’ve got white
Bulls that we can just hit these with
primer yep
they should take the paint the same way
and then we can just try a whole
different spray patterns until we figure
out something that’ll work dig in do you
have music for this part it’s helpful
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missed that one I didn’t play a lot of
green cats most people didn’t get ready
in the comments you’ll remember it give
a shot whoo it’s not mixed up enough
then we can just keep shaking them well
what do you want to do you want to try
doing the rings that we did before and
light see how that patterns coming along
we just do this alright that’s a pretty
cool pattern now it’s gonna close there
a little bit it collapses so now we can
take the bowl let’s just lower this down
through this part over here like it
tight I then drop the bowl a little bit
but go down and then just sort of shake
it all off so it doesn’t stick to it on
the way back up alright where I swear I
dropped it we had a little bit of an
issue it hit too hard and fast but all
around the outside look at those swirl
patterns like isn’t that pretty friggin
cool yeah it’s almost I guess only one
is it for it to be a little bit patchy
er right alright let’s try going less
this time so fewer rings we’ll just go
through us you know what we’ve got a few
times
we’ll have smaller amount of paper let’s
stop there let’s see what happens so
there’s definitely a lot less going on
it’s not so busy this time unless like a
tie-dye more or like camel now we’ll
just shake it around in there separate
it out well that looks great look at
that looks like camouflage how about we
try instead of just spraying in circles
we get a little more fast and loose with
it we just kind of spray around in some
snakes see what happens there all right
I like snakes said no one ever
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okay so this is having just a couple of
bands now we have a long border feels a
lot more chaos in there definitely some
chaos I’m liking this what do you think
about using less of the black I feel
like that’ll give us more shorter shots
with the black black can be overpowering
oh this feels right too much white I
don’t know I kind of like that yeah yes
I mean this is the most concentrated
spot and then it did hit a white patch
so what do you think you like the
banding or do you like the chaos I I
like the banding more I like it a little
bit more open maybe not quite so open as
that one where you only had like a few
layers of rings yeah but this is looking
pretty good to me yeah yeah so here
compare these these all feel like art
this one looks the most camouflage new
to me
does look pretty good just sort of a
natural chaos okay we’ve got a good
strategy so let’s pop the top off add
some tape to protect the inside and then
hit the outside with some primer of
these patterns which one are we trying
closest to emulate I like this
yeah this one we do want a little bit of
the black this one I really like and I
think we got some of this splattering
bike getting down close to the water
yeah it would spread out a little so I
think that’s gonna be our goal plenty of
the light blue which I think I have
light on the black and medium of the
all right I think we’re good what looks
like the best spot to you I want to say
this area that right there all right
here goes we’re known for that area
right there when we get one shot you got
the drama’s killing me oh we nailed it
do it that looks great
that looks excellent oh we got we got
not too much black plenty of the light
blue some of the splattering that’s what
I was hoping for like this ocean wave
this is world or the white coming in I
am loving this up like a frozen Jupiter
man that’s awesome
let’s just add a shot of clearcoat let
that drive it kiyo off the tape on the
back and we should be good to reinstall
this bad boy so we need in the studio is
a disembodied hand that I can just stick
tape to this is officially the coolest
looking DJI Mavic air in production not
even production just custom made for us
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Brian how do you feel about our drone
better than we deserve we’re artists and
didn’t even know it that looks so good I
love this color scheme it goes so well
with the colors already part of this
we’ve got the black and white to make up
the body and the propellers the two
different hues of blue really make a
difference as well that little bit of
splatter makes it look other where
everything just pops super nice very
cool Brian for those of our viewers not
familiar tell me about your channel the
modern row dude me and my buddy Jason
Murphy are on a quest to become the
ultimate gentleman warrior and scoundrel
we get up to the hijinks and shenanigans
almost everything’s held together with
duct tape it’s a lot of fun guys is a
great channel go check it out new videos
every Friday Mad Science – magic tricks
have you ever noticed that like
airplanes that they make them
camouflaged it’s like you’re supposed to
think those are trees up there you would
think they would paint them blue planes
yeah you paint the bottom blue and then
the top you paint just sort of like the
color hem around maybe the top could be case there’s a higher plane
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