Hi all,

Getting ready to get back into building plane kits after 7 long years of not doing much as far as flying is concerned.

I am seeking some help from anyone who has built a HOB ME 109E 1/12 Scale though.

In the Instructs it says I need the following Materials to complete the kit and I am not really sure where to get some of it as T/H doesn't list them or the search didn't find them. Any how, where is the best place to get these items I am needing or what would be good substituions for such items:

1 - TD .049 - .051 or equivalent Engine
1 - 1/2 motor mount equivalent (they say CB 5401, I have no clue what they are talking about there.)
2 - 3/32" wheel retainers
1 - 1/16" wheel retainer

Your ideas and/or opinions would be greatly appreciated.

I built one about 35 years ago. Had a TD .051 and no throttle. Two channels: elevator and aileron. Flew fine once I started using glass filled props rather than the unfilled nylon available back then in the Dark Ages. TD-Thimble Drome-engines may be available from a guy that bought all the left over inventory from Cox. Try a google search for cox engines. Otherwise any of the currently available .049 or .061 engines should work.

I'm not up to speed on what is available for the motor mount. Tower should have one small enough. The wheel retainers are usually refered to as wheel collars. I know Tower has them.

Chuck

There was an engine company, Norvel, that made small throttle operated 1/2A engines. Someone just picked up the company a year or two ago and started producing them again, I can't recall the name though. I have built a couple of the HOB P-51s and used the OS LA .15 engine. Good combo and we had a racing class for them using the .25 engines.
Anyway, the items you are looking for can be found in almost any hobby shop. They are common items.

You sure that's the 1/12 scale one? We flew the 1/12 scale combat planes with .10 to .25's back in the day?

I'm trying to remember. They had a smaller 1/2A powered plane then the 1/12 scale ones that had 36" wing spans and used RC engines.

MECOA sells the CB mounts now. You can get one here.

http://www.mecoa.com/cb/mounts.htm

THanks for the info folks, greatly appreciated.

R8893 - I wasn't sure that the retainers were the same as collars and didn't want to order something I didn't need, thanks for clarifying that for me. Been too long and out of the loop too long.



Gray Beard - Yeah I was originally going to get the OS LA .10 but will step up to the .15 though. I am also looking to get the HOB P-51 as well and maybe pick up a F4U Corsair. I am a fanatic with old warbirds and like those style planes.


AmishWarlord - Yup, unless the Instruction manual is lying to me, lol. Says 1/12, sport, stand off scale on the front and on the box.

Here is what is left of my little 6 channel .20 FP powered beasty.

WOW, definitely looks like it went through war, lol. Looked to be a nice looking plane at one time though.

I know my other planes I am thinking of getting are going to be either the .40's or .60's. I like sport planes but as mentioned before I really like the older warbirds. I have a SIG SE .40 kit that I had started putting together a few few years ago and only got one wing panel done, however all the stuff had to go to attic as our own daughter moved back home so needless to say the wing panel mysteriously disappeared. So now I am going to have to order a wing panel direct from SIG so I can get that bird done. But in the meantime I am going to put the ME-109E together first.

I think I'd go electric if I made a new one. So nice just to hit the throttle and take off instead of starting the plane upside down then tuning, then flipping over a plane with a running engine.

Not to mention folding props!