Hi everybody ! A quick “hello” from …
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 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…