After my first box frame cut turned out better than expected, I figured I might make a backup quad. At the same sort of time, my carbon supplier got in touch and mentioned their coloured carbon sheet, and with the Fortress frame being all cut from one thickness of CF I figured it could look pretty sweet, so I ordered a sheet and a bunch of components to put together a build, colour coordinated of course!

Build used an Aikon stack this time, which turned out to be slightly easier to package in the confines of the body than the Hobbywing stack I used in the first build. Whilst a bit of an awkward size means it won't be ideal in every quad, the Race Dragon ESC looks to be a really nice board coming in at a great price. The rest of the build is much the same as the first, the exception being a switch from Xing 2208s to 2306s for aesthetic reasons. If I build a third I might try the 2207s just to establish which of the three I prefer.

Once the sheet came, I tore straight into it - turned out that whilst the carbon itself cut butter smooth as I've come to expect, the silk strands which give it the coloured accents wasn't cutting cleanly, leaving me with a lot of work to do cleaning up the edges by hand with silicon carbide paper. The end result really looks great though, especially with gold prints and the Xing 2306 motors. Lockdown time well spent!