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England have got better, game by game and now look confident and competent. That was a very good performance, throughout the team and even throughout the squad. I did think before the game that the Ukraine's exertions against Sweden might cause them to fade, but ot never really came to that.

Or it was obsolete stuff that wasn't a patch on the more modern covering films, including the excellent product from one of those Chinese suppliers.

https://www.balsacabin.co.uk/product/sitka-spruce-strip-48-1220mm/

It's just spruce, as far as I'm aware.

Denmark 2-0 up, which is nice. ?

That's a belter that Geoff - that "there's no real fog these days", which is rolled out regularly :). Travel a bit further afield in these islands and you'd see there most certainly is still real fog about. Plenty of fog that you certainly couldn't drive at 30mph in. 5mph, if you're careful, maybe.

It's very unusual to see the annual modeller's convention on fog lights (or a variant of it) in the summer. Is this going to become a bi-annual event now? ?

Best team won in the end - England outfought Germany there for 60 out of the 90 minutes. Sterling MOTM looked sharp and dangerous throughout, but it was a proper team performance. Grealish has to start the next game. Well done England -really didn't expect that. ?

Germany started better and brighter, but England have grown into the game as the half went on and took control in possession. Quite finely balanced at the moment.

I use UHU-POR much more as a contact adhesive these days and it is excellent in that role. In this case I'd be inclined to use POR as you describe and to fit an internal depron doubler over the repair and tape it up whilst it sets. The joint should be every bit as strong as the depron itself, provided there isn't too much compression damage to the depron. It was a very hefty arrival, so I'd be checking for that level of deformation -once the depron is creased and deformed it's structural integrity might be compromised and definitely worth fitting a doubler. The model flies superbly and can easily carry the little bot of extra weight that a doubler would add.

2mm Correx is pretty lightweight, though not as light as depron it is still suitable for some small model use. Thinking on, the tail surfaces of my PMP BAe Hawk slope soarer are 3mm Correx.

Here are the Mugi plans from the Wayback Machine. Morgan is too busy flying full sized airliners to be running his Mugi empire these days, last time I heard. https://web.archive.org/web/20140318044923/http://www.mugi.co.uk/evo_plans.php

US Aircore, with their power system modules, which could be swapped from model to model - were around in the nineties too.

As for pros and cons for small model use - Correx is virtually indestructible, though a little heavier than depron. If you are intending using the design techniques of folding and tape wrapping it needs a different methodology than depron, but that is compensated for by it's bounceability. I'll have to bring the e-Mugi out of retirement - the transparent Correx of the original means it could be illuminated with high intensity LEDs and Morgan used to slope soar his at night -resulting in some interest from the local newspaper. ?

Hi Tosh Yes, I've used Correx for modelling, have made or flown a couple of models made entirely from Correx, notably the Mugi, which I electrified way back in the day and a less successful design called the Yorkie. Morgan Wood, the designer of the Mugi had a range of his own designs, including a Hurricane and some other sports models that he took around the fly-ins in the early noughties. I still have my e-Mugi, but the Yorkie has long gone. Also very useful for winglets, some tail surfaces - you can reinforce Correx with a carbon rod inserted into the flutes, make a super simple hinge line by just slitting one side of the flute and leaving the upper surface intact. Lots of other modelling uses - I've made battery cooling tubes, use Correx as a sacrificial surface for building boards, line the walls of my model storage racks and made a lightweight canopy over the top to keep the dust off. Marvellous stuff. ?

Well the Parkzone Corsair was good as gold from a hand launch, flies like she's on rails and is definitely a keeper, well worth replacing the retract. Also maidened my new (to me) Parkzone SE5a, which was quite unlike anything I've flown before, looks lovely on the ground and in the air, so a happy bunny yesterday. ?

It's been one of the better aspects of this tournament, the refs not getting conned by diving and letting the game flow. Austria were transformed in the second half of extra time and unlucky not to take it to penalties,

Very disappointing performance from Wales, after a bright start they simply couldn't live with Denmark and didn't trouble the keeper at all - a bit of defensive naivety didn't help either. The scoreline didn't really flatter the Danes. So just England left in to get battered on Tuesday then.

Scottish Aviation Bulldog went over earlier - these used to be a common sight, but it's a while since I've seen one.

Put it all back together and touched up the damaged paintwork, with the B & Q match pot acrylics - they really are a very good colour match. On checking out the repaired model one aileron servo was very notchy and had obviously stripped some teeth on the gear train. Luckily I had an exact replacement long lead servo in stock, so was able to replace that. Fingers crossed indeed.

Why would you risk vapourising a toxic chemical in the microwave that you are presumably also going to use for food, rather than just warm it up in a dish of warm water?

Frise a Jolly Good Fellow!

Yep, have seen this quite often with ZAP 30 minute epoxy, especially if it's been stored in the cold. In my previous workshop it was a pre-requirement to stand the epoxy bottles in a tub of warm water to bring them up to a temperature where they would be able to flow.

Rolling membership sounds like a bad idea for clubs, making more work for the Membership Secretary and making it harder to check that the club has 100% of club members properly insured at any one time.

Nothing to do with boldness, just my own pilot error. The wind direction required a take off on the crossways runway, across the field and a turn before approaching the pits, so a very shallow climb out wasn't really an option. It would have been better to wait for a better wind direction, allowing a longer straight climb out.