New guy checking in. :)

WELCOME !!!!!!!!!!

To the funnest place on the web !!!!!!!!!!

Hi, Rsv1cox. Glad you found us. Welcome to CEF.
Rusty

WELCOME!

Very nice collection. Those Testors Flyem Zeros sure bring back memories; That was the first control-line model I ever flew!

To the cox Forum Rsv1cox. Looks like you will fit right in !!! fine looking bunch of youngins Been gluing , getting ready for the weekend !!

Welcome to the madness!

I would like to see more photos of your P-38 with two Golden Bees, pretty cool.
And see that black shelving unit in your photo, your going to need a wwwaaaayyyy bigger one!
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Welcome to the CEF!!!! :afraid:


PS have a greenie!

to the forum!

Welcome to the forum, you have come to the right place.

Ron

Welcome rsv1cox!
Lots of fun to be had here(or else).
Search or ask for answers, we're all in the
same fun boat.
Bob

Welcome to the forum! I like your engine display racks! My engines are either sitting in a box, or in pieces right now..

I also am drawn to your P38.. and would love to see some close-up photos!

Welcome, great place to be. I can't wait to see your six foot long 1X2's fly

After seeing rsv1cox's engines mouted up on a couple of boards, (welcome by the way), I dug up a picture of mine from a vintage & old wares expo a few years ago.  The engines have been swapped around a little since then and I regularly take the board around to vintage machinery rallies.  They attract a lot of interest and I'm regularly asked if I can fire them all up together.    
The old guys particularly recall the old Aussie Taipan Diesels.  Some fondly, some not so fondly, with scars to prove it.  



I have since put a selection of my 1/2A stuff on a flat sheet of plywood for display, including Coxs, Cubs, Wen Macs, Andersons etc.  Most people remember the Coxs from their youth, but the others weren't so common in their day out here.

Rod.

Oldenginerod wrote:After seeing rsv1cox's engines mouted up on a couple of boards, (welcome by the way), I dug up a picture of mine from a vintage & old wares expo a few years ago.  The engines have been swapped around a little since then and I regularly take the board around to vintage machinery rallies.  They attract a lot of interest and I'm regularly asked if I can fire them all up together.    
The old guys particularly recall the old Aussie Taipan Diesels.  Some fondly, some not so fondly, with scars to prove it.  



I have since put a selection of my 1/2A stuff on a flat sheet of plywood for display, including Coxs, Cubs, Wen Macs, Andersons etc.  Most people remember the Coxs from their youth, but the others weren't so common in their day out here.

Rod.

Nice set up there Rod , does that old washing machine have a engine in it ? (the one with a kick starter )

"Nice set up there Rod , does that old washing machine have a engine in it ? (the one with a kick starter ) "

No, but I did consider fitting a prop to the Mix Master and seeing what she'd do.

For those interested, you'll notice a classic bike on the right. There were lots of then at this show. (It's not mine).

The Cox engines on my display board have now been replaced and are mounted to the 1/2A display I mentioned. I've added a few extras to the board in picture including my Gilberts, a Mk-17 diesel, Torpedo Green Head .15 and a McCoy Red Head .35. My whole hobby (the powered part at least) started out with that little Mills diesel in the picture.

Rod.

crankbndr wrote:I would like to see more photos of your P-38 with two Golden Bees, pretty cool.
And see that black shelving unit in your photo, your going to need a wwwaaaayyyy bigger one!
HHHHAAAAAAHHHHAAAA
Welcome to the CEF!!!! :afraid:


PS have a greenie!

Thanks for the welcome and for others chipping in here with projects and photos.  Nice stuff.

Attached some pictures of the P-38.  I tried to find some old pictures when it was fresh with no battle damage, but came up short.

I built it from scratch building up the wing but mostly used hollowed out balsa blocks for the twin booms and cockpit.  Just to be clear.....I'm not good at this but the result was passable and it flies well.  Really nice when the .049's are in sync.  I get them that way then top off the tanks.













I modeled this on the later versions of the P-38.  I would have liked to model it on the earlier more streamlined P-38 but the engine nacelles would not be large enough to house the engines.

Thanks for posting the P38 photos! That has always been one of my favorite aircraft. How old is it.. and how long has it been since it's flown? I have a Comet kit (#3504-34" w/s).. but it's all "printed balsa" ribs/bulkheads etc. (as opposed to die-cut) which will require considerable time and patience to lay-out. It's on my "bucket-list" though.. It is a rubber-powered design.. but I figured I could adapt the nacelles to fit the later Cox .049 reed-valve product engines, with a single 1oz. clunk-tank mounted in the central-fuse pod.. substitute 1/16" sq. spruce for the wing spar.. and beef-up the landing gear struts with 1/16" music-wire for a 1/2A control-line scale flyer.  





Any plans on flying yours in the near future?

rsv1cox wrote:  Just to be clear.....I'm not good at this but the result was passable and it flies well.  

Hey, Rsv, I beg to differ. That it flies well says you actually Are pretty good at this.
Good stuff, thanks for sharing.
Rusty

Welcome to the Forum rsv1cox.
You have a nice collection! The P-38 is a beaut!

I see you have a few cars too. It's nice to see another tether car guy.
I have a few cars as well including a Riviera.

Shawn

Here is a video of my Riviera.


Shawn

I love those Comet plans roddie but agree, cutting out all of those parts would take a lot of Xacto skills and patience.  Looking at them I can see how much I missed the scale of the cockpit module.  Part of it was by necessity as the canopy was one I had on-hand and no where near scale for the P-38.

Last time I flew it was about 25 years ago.  I would guess I have about twenty flights on it without a significant negative event.  I would always top off the inside engine last hoping that the outside engine would quit first.  If it didn't it would surely spin in towards me.  

Wing loading is quite high and when the last engine quit it would fall like a rock, but by that time I had it near the ground anyway.  

I sold the original GB's long ago and as mentioned recently replaced them.  When I did I neglected to reshim the engines using small washers to get the thrust plane right, really noticable in the nose-on photo.  Took me awhile to get it right originally, so I will have to go through that all over again.  

When I googled tether Rivieras I found that video Shawn.  I gather that you still have it as for a moment I thought it might be mine as the tires are well worn.  

I haven't fired any of them up yet.  However the one on the left is complete and has not be ran, so I will probably never try that one.  The two blue Rivieras have been well used.  The first Riveria I bought came in a package with the Baja Bug and the F1 Wen-mac racer.

sdjjadk wrote:Here is a video of my Riviera.


Shawn

Shawn, just noticed your Southern Maryland location. We lived in Great Mills for many years then moved to Leonardtown then to Florida. We now live in West Virginia.

rsv1cox wrote:

Shawn,  just noticed your Southern Maryland location.  We lived in Great Mills for many years then moved to Leonardtown then to Florida.  We now live in West Virginia.

Wow small world!
Great Mills is about 15 minutes from me. I'm originally from Waldorf but I moved to St. Mary's County in 85 until 96
when I moved down to Jacksonville with some friends for a few months then I moved down to Seminole County in 97 (which is near Orlando) when I met my wife and I lived there for over 10 years. My parents gave my family and I some property so we moved back to St. Mary's County about 4 years ago.  
As for W.V., I have family on my Mom's side from there and we have spent the last 3 Summer vacations at Babcock State Park in Clifftop.

Where in Florida did you live?
Shawn

First lived in Pensacola when I was in the Navy, then transferred to Jacksonville (lived in Orange Park) for five great years. When we retired we moved down to Spring Hill in Florida and spent about twenty years there before moving to a little no stop light town here in WV called Capon Bridge.

My daughter lived in Valley Lee for awhile and we always enjoyed a trip down to Evans restaurant near Piney Point. Nice country there in SM.