A few words from Belgium ..
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Hi everybody
! A quick "hello" from Belgium...
I
joined after receiving some hints from a Spanish contact, Juan, whom I had
contacted with a question concerning furled sails on the Revell 1:96 Cutty Sark.
His
answers, and all your hints, more or less confirm my idea to use tissue paper
and soak it with diluted white glue.
I am
also wondering if hair lack could do ...
Well,
old Cutty Sark is just starting, it will be some time before the sails are
added...
I
saw that Jtilley wrote to Juan:
"Please don't apologize for your
English. You'll quickly discover that perfection of grammar and spelling
are not requirements for participation in this Forum. Frankly, if the
papers I get from the students in my freshman-level U.S. history courses were written
as well as your first two posts, I'd be a happy man."
When
I first spent a few months in England, back in 1958, I saw on TV a reception
given by the Lord Mayor of London to then US Vice President Richard Nixon.
Nixon
mentioned in his address the pleasure "to be in an English speaking country".
In
his reply, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, a half-American through his mother,
said with a wry smile "concerning our common language, I have often experienced
the pleasure to make myself somewhat understood in your country"...
Making
oneself understood, that's the problem !
For my
first flight with Aeroflot, I had carefully rehearsed a sentence in Russian to
order some vodka. The hostess made me repeat ... and went immediately to fetch
a bottle of Coke !
So
much for my Russian...