Lovely setup there, I have done a very similar setup for the base rig other than I have designed it 100% from scratch, which in all honestly was a massive pain and there is barely any benefit to it. The one benefit it did give me is make a 100% adjustable pedal mount. I have used 2 40x40 beams which run all the way from the seat to the back of the rig where my feet would be, parallel to what in your case is the 160x40 beams. This was something I wouldn't have been able to do with any other kit rig, well not without making a massive amount of customisation which would drive up the price. These beams act as rails and allow me to mount pedals at any position length-wise easily making it very adaptable for rudder and simracing pedals without the need for a slider. It also has more reach than a slider, meaning anyone from a kid to a 2m giant to have a go on my rig. Which has come in handy when my girlfriend wanted to have a go at it. I also wanted this incase I ever get into helicopter flying, or if I would want a floor mounted yoke/flight stick, because of the rails I can easily make a mount for it and just use the same system for adding a flight stick which sits between my legs. Another thing I have done differently is cable mounting, I bought a 100 pack of those cheap velcro re-usable cable ties, which can easily can be extended by just sticking 2 or even 3 ties together, the work brilliantly both horizontally and vertically and can carry any cable weight you might want. One thing I kind of disagree with was one of your last points when talking about the size and mobility of a rig. I don't disagree with the size part, you need room for a rig like this, but I don't feel you should shy away from getting this if you haven't "settled down yet", yes if you are looking to move countries and such, it is big bulky and heavy so shipping it will cost you, but the beauty of these rigs is the fact you can disassemble and assemble these with relative ease. I wouldn't recommend it if you are moving house every 3-6 months, but other than that they are built to be able to be taken apart and be put back together (unlike most IKEA stuff).
Nice one Squirrel! I made my first rig from wood, bought a seat off the scrapyard and went from there. Added Ikea "tables" later to get in and out better. Now, after 13 years of use, i'm sporting the obutto evolution, got some seatbrakets to raise the seat more, and now in the forwards position i can race and truck with the OSW20, in the seat-back position i can comfortably fly with the G940. My old rig went to a friend of mine in Rotterdam! A rig is never done indeed.. just got the Almar SKS last week and it's a wonderful addition. Enjoy your rig m8, great video's... and you've lost some weight, haven't you ;) Must help with the real world flying calculations eh? Good on you! Have a great weekend!
Its T- Slot Extrusion made by Bosch (Europe), 8020 (USA) etc. It comes in many sizes - 1", 1.5", 20mm, 25mm, 30mm, 40mm and 45mm. Its mainly used in Automation but can be used for anything. I built my van interior out of 1 1/2" T Slot.
This is amazing to watch. I'm not into gaming, but saw some of your video's about Derail Valley. This was very interesting to watch and listen to you. You explain everything very clearly. So for people who are interested in getting a rig, this is a great tutorial.
awesome tour squirrel, on a side note for others who may be wanting to do something similar some of the items that don't have mounting options if you have access to a 3d printer and the know how of 3d design you may be able to 3d print your own custom mounts which make it personalized also
For folks like me, LSA is all I will ever be able to actually get off the ground with so flight simming is now my closest dream and the more real, the better!
Man the amount of ideas I'm gonna steal from this. My GT1-EVO is waiting in six boxes for me in the garage. I'm gonna have one of those swivelling keyboard arms, though.
Easily 10grand if not higher, but I would imagine a good portion of this is sponsor furnished. He has a custom ASUS ROG watercooled PC with an OC 3090 and other top components. The PC is easily $4000. The rig frame is probably another $500-$1000. Flightsim stuff (yokes & HOTAS) another $1000 (the honeycomb set is $500). The racing stuff alone another $2500 (the wheelbase is a cool 1500 euros alone, plus the wheel another $1000 estimating. Total: probably $10k factoring in other things like lighting, filming gear, etc.
love the idea of the color stickers but if you really wanted to get fancy, i'd suggest getting a Brady labeler. they can make label wrap stickers so then you can mark what cable is what
Great job Squirrel. I agree about the Sim Deck. Thanks for the heads up on the metal plate. I'm building a mobile flight sim wood desk that rolls in front of my recliner now that the year old prototype worked well enough. Mounting the Sim Deck is the real question remaining. I want the buttons to be more vertical which puts the base at a 45 degree angle. 🤔
Thanks for this. You have given me ideas for upgrading my aluminium profile rig. But as someone that is planning to invest in Honeycomb gear also, I wish there was a super easy and quick way to switch from driving to flight.
This is a good example of why I decided against trying to make my Sim Labs P1 rig into a racing and flight rig, it’s just too much work to go from one to the other.
Literally just assembled the NLR GTTrack and hated it 2 minutes after I built it. Doesn't fit my desk, my old man back, nothing is the solution I was going for. It's for immediate Sale fully assembled and ready to make someone's holiday dream come true! ;) Wishing I had slowed way down and then I would have seen this obvious more perfect solution and quite honestly maybe the parts to fix this iron anchor and turn it into what I was going for??? Anyway, thank you!
I don't understand a thing about programing and software, but I would have a blast building that structure up, and later on playing on that of course lol
Lovely setup squirrel. For my emergency stop button I ended up just unscrewing the 4 holes and drilling a hole through the back and bolting straight to my rig. I surprised there is not more flight sim gear to the level of SIM racing companies like simucube, Heusinkveld etc. Also have you managed to create some good ffb settings for your simucube when driving euro truck simulator?
I did consider opening up the box and trying to bolt it. Good to know it can be done. I'm not happy with my simucube settings for ETS2. I feel like they could be better. There's a bunch of profiles on True Drive Paddock which others have made. Could try some of those.
Do you regret not having triples? I currently have triples and with trying to also run a separate desk using the same PC I am getting overwhelmed by the amount of cabling. Seriously considering going to an ultrawide but also don't want to regret it after dropping 1k on a monitor.
Question: Yes. SimLabs. However, which manufacturer of extrusion has SimLabs settled upon? There are quite a few manufacturers of Extruded Aluminum ("EA"). I need to build a larger "desk" and I want my "desk" to be the same manufacturer as the EA from SimLabs. I cannot afford to end up with two different slightly incompatible manufacturers of EA once my desk is complete and I want to add my SimLabs kit. Any insight? 80/20? Some other manufacturer?
When I received my Honeycomb Bravo Throttle the baseplate came with four holes pre drilled that would fit a counter sink screw. The Honeycomb Alpha Yoke did not have those holes pre-drilled. Looking at their website for extra base plates, the picture doesn't show the holes. I wonder if they've updated the base plate with the pre-drilled holes but haven't updated their website.
I checked on this a couple months back and they had not. The sales rep didn't even know what I was talking about so I sent pics. Hahahaha. Ultimately I located a few choice locations for the alpha plate and drilled my own small holes inside the bracket locations and inside the back tab locations (never used those). Note the bottom of the plate too I you do this. Has worked just fine. I used some pan head screws. The head was short enough not to protrude the plate surface.
Why not have more than one rig with castors; that is what I did; a Next Level Racing F-GT for sim flying; a Playseat F1 rig for F! and open wheel sim racing; and my old Playseat Evolution for my truck siming; so I don't have to unmount any peripheral controls
The only thing I didn't see was where did you put the computer that works all these items on your play pen? The other thing is how many power cords do you need to run the whole setup please. Thanks .
I have a Samsung CRG9 49" 5120x1440 monitor and I would like to ask, when you record or stream game play on your 5120 display, is there a way to do it so the gameplay recorded is in 1080x1920 for making videos? Thanks.
Do you get force feedback in fs22 and do you have issues with the heusinveld I get no feedback on the simucube 1 and I have to go in the input control file and set the sensitivity to 400%
are you running heusinkvelds through usb-hub ? I have been trying to find one that I could use ... I seem to have some lag etc problems after some random time of usage..
Your rig is a dream tbh. Looks amazing 👏. I am wondering how much a airplane ✈ would cost compared? My dream rig will cost £20000 without monitors or a pc. Big money bud, enjoy 😉 my rig now is £4k 😆
I swear... man’s can fly planes, race, drive trucks irl... as long as he has the license and can handle the real weight of the controls on those things... I say that because I don’t know how accurate sim rigs are to the real thing...
For landlord's super, the Dev has released a special testing branch for the upcoming free-build update. If you want the code to access it you can go to the discord or just ask someone if they know it
Im beyond jelous. Also i know you've worked really hard to get this far. I remember back in the Dayz Mod Days then your crew went their own ways and you went into trucking simulator etc. I remember that trucking set up. NOTHING compared to this now. My mind is blown how far you've come. I also didn't realize i became unsubbed. but i got you
Squirrel IRL videos are top quality. Appreciate the effort that goes into all the shots and sound and all. Some MKBHD quality if you ask me.
Great guide Paul. And here was me thinking the big red button 26:55 was for in race/flight Yorkshire Tea requests!
I thought it was for DCS missile firing.
Lovely setup there, I have done a very similar setup for the base rig other than I have designed it 100% from scratch, which in all honestly was a massive pain and there is barely any benefit to it. The one benefit it did give me is make a 100% adjustable pedal mount. I have used 2 40x40 beams which run all the way from the seat to the back of the rig where my feet would be, parallel to what in your case is the 160x40 beams.
This was something I wouldn't have been able to do with any other kit rig, well not without making a massive amount of customisation which would drive up the price. These beams act as rails and allow me to mount pedals at any position length-wise easily making it very adaptable for rudder and simracing pedals without the need for a slider. It also has more reach than a slider, meaning anyone from a kid to a 2m giant to have a go on my rig. Which has come in handy when my girlfriend wanted to have a go at it. I also wanted this incase I ever get into helicopter flying, or if I would want a floor mounted yoke/flight stick, because of the rails I can easily make a mount for it and just use the same system for adding a flight stick which sits between my legs.
Another thing I have done differently is cable mounting, I bought a 100 pack of those cheap velcro re-usable cable ties, which can easily can be extended by just sticking 2 or even 3 ties together, the work brilliantly both horizontally and vertically and can carry any cable weight you might want.
One thing I kind of disagree with was one of your last points when talking about the size and mobility of a rig. I don't disagree with the size part, you need room for a rig like this, but I don't feel you should shy away from getting this if you haven't "settled down yet", yes if you are looking to move countries and such, it is big bulky and heavy so shipping it will cost you, but the beauty of these rigs is the fact you can disassemble and assemble these with relative ease. I wouldn't recommend it if you are moving house every 3-6 months, but other than that they are built to be able to be taken apart and be put back together (unlike most IKEA stuff).
Nice one Squirrel! I made my first rig from wood, bought a seat off the scrapyard and went from there. Added Ikea "tables" later to get in and out better. Now, after 13 years of use, i'm sporting the obutto evolution, got some seatbrakets to raise the seat more, and now in the forwards position i can race and truck with the OSW20, in the seat-back position i can comfortably fly with the G940. My old rig went to a friend of mine in Rotterdam! A rig is never done indeed.. just got the Almar SKS last week and it's a wonderful addition. Enjoy your rig m8, great video's... and you've lost some weight, haven't you ;) Must help with the real world flying calculations eh? Good on you! Have a great weekend!
Just from the intro that looks like a lovely setup. Well done squirrel!
Its T- Slot Extrusion made by Bosch (Europe), 8020 (USA) etc. It comes in many sizes - 1", 1.5", 20mm, 25mm, 30mm, 40mm and 45mm. Its mainly used in Automation but can be used for anything. I built my van interior out of 1 1/2" T Slot.
This is amazing to watch. I'm not into gaming, but saw some of your video's about Derail Valley. This was very interesting to watch and listen to you. You explain everything very clearly. So for people who are interested in getting a rig, this is a great tutorial.
awesome tour squirrel, on a side note for others who may be wanting to do something similar some of the items that don't have mounting options if you have access to a 3d printer and the know how of 3d design you may be able to 3d print your own custom mounts which make it personalized also
Just orderd my rig can't wait
Very informative, perfect description on each step. Not to long, not to short.
I don't know if you get enough credit for the quality of rig you set up here. Fantastic work - engineering marvel
You know for 10 dollars more you can have a real Cessna.
you cant drive a truck in a cessna
But then you can only fly a Cessna... and you have to pay for gas every time.
If memory serves, he has a 172. I guess this is the next step!
For folks like me, LSA is all I will ever be able to actually get off the ground with so flight simming is now my closest dream and the more real, the better!
...but it's a part of his job
That’s one neat elaborate setup, I like the idea. I hope you’ll do some more FS2020
Nice video, but come on Paul let's see some flight sim stuff from you, like you used to do.
Thanks so much for sharing all your design data - beautiful system for sure - Mike
Man the amount of ideas I'm gonna steal from this. My GT1-EVO is waiting in six boxes for me in the garage. I'm gonna have one of those swivelling keyboard arms, though.
I wonder how much he actually spent on creating that sweet setup and how many hours were put into it.
Easily 10grand if not higher, but I would imagine a good portion of this is sponsor furnished. He has a custom ASUS ROG watercooled PC with an OC 3090 and other top components. The PC is easily $4000. The rig frame is probably another $500-$1000. Flightsim stuff (yokes & HOTAS) another $1000 (the honeycomb set is $500). The racing stuff alone another $2500 (the wheelbase is a cool 1500 euros alone, plus the wheel another $1000 estimating. Total: probably $10k factoring in other things like lighting, filming gear, etc.
Nice video and coverage of the system.
love the idea of the color stickers but if you really wanted to get fancy, i'd suggest getting a Brady labeler. they can make label wrap stickers so then you can mark what cable is what
Wow man, I havent seen you in years. So glad I came across your channel again!
Great job Squirrel. I agree about the Sim Deck. Thanks for the heads up on the metal plate. I'm building a mobile flight sim wood desk that rolls in front of my recliner now that the year old prototype worked well enough. Mounting the Sim Deck is the real question remaining. I want the buttons to be more vertical which puts the base at a 45 degree angle. 🤔
Thanks for this. You have given me ideas for upgrading my aluminium profile rig. But as someone that is planning to invest in Honeycomb gear also, I wish there was a super easy and quick way to switch from driving to flight.
Wow, I am glad you are still simminmg Squirrel.
that set up is amazing an i love it, thank you for taking so much time to show us this i bet it took a long time to film this so thank you sir
This is a good example of why I decided against trying to make my Sim Labs P1 rig into a racing and flight rig, it’s just too much work to go from one to the other.
Curious if you've ever looked at Virpil flight gear? Seems to be a step up from the Warthog stuff.
The ultimate rig for Landlord’s Super
29:30, its a smug squirrel 🤣🤣🤣, thanks for showing you rig dude, I dint think you have made anyone jealous at all. all the best dude🤘🤘
Great video Squirrel - your channel is one of my favorite on YT - thanks for the great content!
Paul is an absolute engineer
Wow! You have the setup many simulator gamers only can dream of!
Great video, Squirrel!
Literally just assembled the NLR GTTrack and hated it 2 minutes after I built it. Doesn't fit my desk, my old man back, nothing is the solution I was going for. It's for immediate Sale fully assembled and ready to make someone's holiday dream come true! ;) Wishing I had slowed way down and then I would have seen this obvious more perfect solution and quite honestly maybe the parts to fix this iron anchor and turn it into what I was going for??? Anyway, thank you!
Awesome stuff Paul !
Great video and a beautiful setup!
This is probably the greatest sim rig I`ve ever seen
Simply brilliant Squirrel.
Thanks squirrel 🐿, this gives me ideas for my own rig. However I thought I had an impressive setup thanks for taking me down a notch lol.
This is awesome, like really cool.
Some day fellas, some day we'll all have one like this.
MISUMI has cable channels for 40x40 frame pieces, and they are self locking in the slots maybe you could try that as a next upgrade!
Out of pure curiosity, do you have any idea what your peak / average electrical load is for this set up?
Amazing rig! When I win the lottery I'm going to hire you to build mine :D
Bloddy hell Nice rig m8👍
Those rudder pedals look amazing. I can imagine the force feedback on takeoffs and landings, a totally sim changing feat.
G'day Squirrel. You mentioned Allen keys early in the video. Correctly they are Torx keys. Great video, you make them and I'll watch them.
I don't understand a thing about programing and software, but I would have a blast building that structure up, and later on playing on that of course lol
Hmmm a combined flying and racing rig ... now you're giving me ideas
Wow. Great rig man🦾🦾never seen you do simracing on video's
@ squirrel Why does a person want a simulation rig? If I could mount it to my office desk? Which is better mounting it to my desk or a simulation rig?
one rig to rule them all
Lovely setup squirrel. For my emergency stop button I ended up just unscrewing the 4 holes and drilling a hole through the back and bolting straight to my rig.
I surprised there is not more flight sim gear to the level of SIM racing companies like simucube, Heusinkveld etc.
Also have you managed to create some good ffb settings for your simucube when driving euro truck simulator?
I did consider opening up the box and trying to bolt it. Good to know it can be done.
I'm not happy with my simucube settings for ETS2. I feel like they could be better. There's a bunch of profiles on True Drive Paddock which others have made. Could try some of those.
@@squirrel yes I will try again. What racing Sims to you drive? I love my simucube. Really is nothing more immersive for the normal consumer.
Do you regret not having triples? I currently have triples and with trying to also run a separate desk using the same PC I am getting overwhelmed by the amount of cabling. Seriously considering going to an ultrawide but also don't want to regret it after dropping 1k on a monitor.
WOW... Nice!
Nice one. The only thing missing is.. a shed :D
Question: Yes. SimLabs. However, which manufacturer of extrusion has SimLabs settled upon? There are quite a few manufacturers of Extruded Aluminum ("EA"). I need to build a larger "desk" and I want my "desk" to be the same manufacturer as the EA from SimLabs. I cannot afford to end up with two different slightly incompatible manufacturers of EA once my desk is complete and I want to add my SimLabs kit. Any insight? 80/20? Some other manufacturer?
Very impressive. Proper goals!
Feel rather inadequate with just my PS controller currently! 😂
Seeing how long it took to mount the simucube live was painful :'D AND the P1-X comes with the adjustable feets, you have an old model.
When I received my Honeycomb Bravo Throttle the baseplate came with four holes pre drilled that would fit a counter sink screw. The Honeycomb Alpha Yoke did not have those holes pre-drilled. Looking at their website for extra base plates, the picture doesn't show the holes. I wonder if they've updated the base plate with the pre-drilled holes but haven't updated their website.
I checked on this a couple months back and they had not. The sales rep didn't even know what I was talking about so I sent pics. Hahahaha. Ultimately I located a few choice locations for the alpha plate and drilled my own small holes inside the bracket locations and inside the back tab locations (never used those). Note the bottom of the plate too I you do this. Has worked just fine. I used some pan head screws. The head was short enough not to protrude the plate surface.
@@TwoSierraEcho Is it a metal base inside or are you screwing into plastic?
@@squirrel For the Sim Deck and the honeycomb plate, into a wood.
Why not have more than one rig with castors; that is what I did; a Next Level Racing F-GT for sim flying; a Playseat F1 rig for F! and open wheel sim racing; and my old Playseat Evolution for my truck siming; so I don't have to unmount any peripheral controls
wow nice job, amazing, i don't have that kinda money, pro setup!
out of all the sim i see ur is def is the best
11:38 lovely slippers
Great video, keep up the good work Paul :D
I am still undecided ... is this crazy or awesome?!?
...what? lol.
Can you go over that again? :P
Serious kit there.
What do you think of the Logitech Gstack for Euro truck simulator
The only thing I didn't see was where did you put the computer that works all these items on your play pen? The other thing is how many power cords do you need to run the whole setup please. Thanks .
You can see that in the Studio Tour video, or even the Desk video
I've always been worried using USB hubs on my rig as input delay.. Is this not a problem to worry about?
I use the Honeycomb Yoke and Throttles through a generic powered USB hub and don't notice any delay
@@anthonyjolson87 very good to know!! Cheers buddy
I have a Samsung CRG9 49" 5120x1440 monitor and I would like to ask, when you record or stream game play on your 5120 display, is there a way to do it so the gameplay recorded is in 1080x1920 for making videos? Thanks.
Very informative as usual 👏
Sounds like someone who explains how good a Lamborghini fits your grocery shopping needs 😉
Do you get force feedback in fs22 and do you have issues with the heusinveld
I get no feedback on the simucube 1 and I have to go in the input control file and set the sensitivity to 400%
are you running heusinkvelds through usb-hub ? I have been trying to find one that I could use ... I seem to have some lag etc problems after some random time of usage..
Yes, and I have zero problems. It's the light grey cable going into the USB2 hub
Your voice is so smooth it makes me go to sleep
THANK. YOU!
i build these alot at work :)
Are you going to return to euro truck sim again soon? I miss them videos. Hope you are well.
curious, why do you need a emergency shut off for the direct drive?
If the motor gets a bad signal it can go crazy and spin out of control, if that happens it can break things.
Squirrel, you still gonna make more ets2 videos? 🤔
I have no idea what your on about but I enjoy the video
What do you think about motion rigs? Not worth the hassle?
Not for me, personally. I think motion rig works best with VR.
Your rig is a dream tbh. Looks amazing 👏. I am wondering how much a airplane ✈ would cost compared? My dream rig will cost £20000 without monitors or a pc. Big money bud, enjoy 😉 my rig now is £4k 😆
Great video, thank you, really nice set up if you have unlimited funds.
I swear... man’s can fly planes, race, drive trucks irl... as long as he has the license and can handle the real weight of the controls on those things... I say that because I don’t know how accurate sim rigs are to the real thing...
You haven’t played euro truck for over a year now, what’s happened, I used to really enjoy you playing euro truck, bring it back
Ok now let’s go flyingk
jeez man, i remeber when i started whatsing you, you were playing ets2 with a joystick,
Looks good for a 20.000 pound setup.
Wooow, but if it was me, I'll save up a bit more and hire someone to build it, and I just explain what I want 😁😁😁
only thing you didnt say is the price. those things are crazy expensive
Either you’re loaded or you must have saved up for a long long time
Get the alcohol out people. One drink every time he says 'extrusion' and a half when he says 'gusset'
I want one that works
Y'all are gonna think I'm crazy but I would wonder if I can put that rig in a travel trailer.
For landlord's super, the Dev has released a special testing branch for the upcoming free-build update. If you want the code to access it you can go to the discord or just ask someone if they know it
And the cost of all of this...? :)
slippers 👍
Im beyond jelous. Also i know you've worked really hard to get this far. I remember back in the Dayz Mod Days then your crew went their own ways and you went into trucking simulator etc. I remember that trucking set up. NOTHING compared to this now. My mind is blown how far you've come. I also didn't realize i became unsubbed. but i got you
nice and all but cable management ruins the set up
yo, come lets fly some F16's on DCS
First
your rig looks amazing :)
First dislike of your comment ;)
@@mistaspliff :)
no, no! You need to dislike my comment too ;)
Looks very expensive