The inaugural Micromodell Championship in Poland 1/2 September by Jim Baumann
I was invited to attend by fellow Model-Warshipper   Sylwester Grabarczyk—editor of the magazine MODELARSTWO OKRETOWE.

 My accommodation ,food and transport was  all kindly arranged and paid for  by Sylwester and the Wielun Model club .

The hospitality  was superb—and  many  intense modeling discussions took place in the evenings over a mass dinner encouraged no doubt by the local ‘amber nectar’.

I flew slightly roundabout route - flying from my local Southampton (UK) airport via Paris CDG and thence onwards to Warsaw. This was done primarily so as to avoid any complications at the Security  stages  with the transport of  two small model ships in glass(!) cases - in a specially custom made wooden  flightbox- as hand luggage…

I had  learnt some  stock phrases such as  “very very  Fragile”….,   along with “ this box cannot under any circumstances  be  put in the hold”  in both  French and Polish…!  As it happened I did have  to open  up the box in Paris—I guess  that as one of the models – Henri IV-was a ‘Cuirasse Francaise ‘…may have compensated somewhat  for my poor French with the Customs officials!



 

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ModelWarships.com -- -- 2007
 


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