3 races into the 2019 race season and I'm getting good results with the Morningstar builds, for playing a game of consistency over speed they're excellent since they're crazy tough and difficult to stop short of battery ejection. Unfortunately not all event formats favour the consistent approach though, rewarding one blazing heat rather than 5 good ones. Noticing a lot of the top pilots are now running 6S too, and with my tired 4S packs starting to experience major sag, I figured I'd take the chance to do a new build to see how 6S goes for me. Ordered motors first...then promptly decided at the same time to redesign the SKEW_R from the ground up to make my most powerful quad also my lightest.

The SKEW_R wasn't a massive success - the crossbraces were too weak, the camera wouldn't hold at the right angle, and most annoyingly I lost 2 motors after they came loose in flight and destroyed themselves. Also the layout which left the pod standoffs in line with the middle of the stack left no room for most 4-in-1 ESCs (which stick out at the back with the battery pads). The redesign addressed all of these issues - crossbraces went from 2.5 to 3.5mm carbon, camera went to a fixed 45 degree mount, went to a 4 rather than 2 screw mount for the motors, and reoriented the standoffs from mid stack to corners (I tried every way to avoid copying, but in the end I was forced to imitate the mounting on Andy Shen's Flaco design, there's just no better way I can find). Was originally going with zero motor protection, then later added some little removable extension spikes which should help in a tumble on hard ground. Another little touch, I 3D printed little low profile mounts for the ESC, and integrated an edge cover for the baseplate which should stop battery straps getting cut all the time.

Frame weight is 100g, built it with whatever parts I had knocking around (except the motors obviously). Ended up being a surprisingly clean build, probably won't stay like that for long though!