Harry P.

Welcome! We actually have several other Finnish members, so you should feel right at home!

Ok, Ed, step up to the front of the class so I can whack your knuckles with a ruler!

Oui.

Let's call it "enthusiasm," not impatience!

BTW... it's not "JAY-PEG"... it's "SHZ-PEEEHHH" (think French!).

Good tip, but I'd go with brass tubing, because when you are sanding the disc to shape, if you used plastic tubing you have a good chance of sanding into the tubing and getting your disc out of round. Brass is much harder; you'll be able to sand the edge of your disc right up to the brass tube and get a perfectly round disc without worrying about sanding into the brass tube.

Ever since I've been working in web design and online graphics (since the late 80s), it's been "GIFF," not "JIFF," to me and everyone I've ever worked with. Kind of late in the game for the creator to now come along 25 years later to tell us all how to pronounce it.

You don't send the cash to the people, you donate to the charity, who then spends it as needed.

Not a bad choice. I also like his work a lot.

No, something is very right!

ok... keep in mind that I have never done this before, so I'm pretty sure I'm doing it "wrong," or at least not the way model airplane guys would do it. But the end result is what counts, not how I got there! First I bought a piece of muslin fabric (no, not Muslim... muslin ). To cover the wing, I cut out a piece slightly larger than the top surface–I will first cover the top surface, bringing the edges of the fabric down and around the wing edges, glue the fabric edges onto the underside structure of the wing, then cut a piece the exact shape of the wing and use that to cover the underside of the wing (and to hide the folded-over fabric from the top surface). First step is to glue the fabric all along the leading edge of the wing on the bottom surface of the leading edge by applying drops of CA right on top of the cloth. The CA soaks right into the cloth and grabs on to the wooden structure. Remember, in this photo you're looking at the bottom surface of the wing facing up, leading edge away from me: Now I take the cloth and fold it under the wing. The wing is still bottom side up, leading edge away from me, same position as it was previously, The only difference is that now I have the cloth folded under the wing. I now take the edge of the cloth closest to me (the trailing edge of the wing) and tape the cloth down to my work surface like so: Now comes the slick part! With the cloth taped down, I take the wing and flip it over, flip it towards me, so that the wing is now laying on my work surface right-side-up with the leading edge facing me... and then push the wing away from me. Remember, the cloth is glued to the leading edge of the wing, but not yet to the trailing edge, and the loose (unglued) side of the cloth is taped to my work surface... so as I push the wing away from me, it stretches the cloth evenly and consistently across the wing from front to back. Once the cloth is stretched, I apply dabs of CA all along the trailing edge of the wing, to "lock down" the cloth: Now all that's left is to trim away some of the excess cloth and fold the edges of the cloth over the edges of the wing structure and glue those loose edges on the underside of the wing. Then I take the second piece of cloth, the one I cut to the exact shape and size of the wing, and glue it to the underside, to cover both the underside of the wing and the edges from the cloth on the top side that were folded over and glued to the bottom side. It sounds complicated reading it in words, but actually it's a pretty straightforward process. Again, maybe not the way it's "supposed" to be done... but this is my first time, so I basically made this up as I went along, relying on logic and common sense. The lower wings were done in the same exact manner: More to come...

This one is tougher than a Pocher, but probably because I've built a lot of Pochers and sort of know what to look out for... but I have never before built a model plane that wasn't a typical injection-molded plastic kit, or has anywhere near this much detail, so this is literally virgin territory for me. Especially the covering of the fuselage and wings. Never done that before!

More on the way.

Without looking it up, who is Agnes DeMille?

No offense to your dog, but that's not exactly setting the bar very high...

Actually it's better to not send stuff, but to send $$$ so that whatever needs to be bought or paid for most urgently can be bought and paid for. Let the people on the ground decide what is needed most. Feed the Children has an office right there in Oklahoma City. http://www.feedthechildren.org/site/PageServer?pagename=dotorg_homepage

No argument here. I agree 100%. KISS is all show, all theatrics, zero content. I agree 200% on Nicki Minaj. She is the reason I stopped watching "American Idol." Can't stand her, not no way, not no how.

As far as the woman who insisted that the Earth is the center of the universe... depends on other factors. If she was hot, I'd let her believe anything she wants to believe!

Another jolt gets you a point. Three points get you a 30 day forum vacation. As long as there aren't any in the room.

If you're talking about using them to burnish the foil, I'd be afraid of the tool tips tearing into the foil. I'll stick with a piece of old T-shirt wrapped around a finger.

Well, yeah, I knew he uses a talkbox.

Huh? I don't get it. What about Peter Frampton?

Remember, before you ever start a model, Google is your friend... http://www.google.com/search?safe=off&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1358&bih=721&q=1969+dodge+charger+daytona&oq=1969+Dodge+Charger+DA&gs_l=img.1.0.0l6j0i24l4.1644.5960.0.8925.21.11.0.10.10.0.92.693.11.11.0...0.0...1ac.1.14.img.xh5g4Se70NQ

I agree with that. It's not so much a lack of actual singing talent these days, but a lack of quality writing, musicianship, arrangement, etc. There are plenty of technically talented singers... singing garbage. These days all you need is a drum machine for a beat, some fake synthesized "instruments," and some inane lyrics.