Buckshot Bear

Evil Can Never Be Dead Enough

Thanks pards, I really like this and been having some fun with it. It's a non flyer, it would take some skilled model engineer with some talent to be able to keep the boiler boiling and creating steam during flight. Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas, wishing all my pards a Safe, Prosperous, Healthy and Happy New Year. Hard to believe its 25 years since 2000 isn't it! .................Remember Y2K!

I have a lot of steam engines in my collection, but this is the first steam engine driven helicopter I have! Thought some pards might find this model interesting -

That's my preferred way to eat abs, let the acid cook it slightly. So many times I've heard people go on about their method of cooking them and boasts of "You just wait till you taste how I cook abs" and I've always been disappointed. They're just a big flat dirty smelly guts sea snail when its all said and done and overrated (at least to me).

Not to boast ....but the Sydney Rock Oyster is the BEST oyster in the world

Mussels....only ever steamed, that's for us just the ultimate way to cook mussels. Abalone.....I've cooked it and ate it everyway possible, I don't fancy it all that much like people go crazy for it. Best part of Abalone for me is the guts for fishing bait. We caught 12 kilos of sweet school prawns on Christmas Eve for Christmas Day, they were delicious and worth the sandfly & mosquito bites we got catching them.

This is on our front lawn......we eat a LOT of oysters! Just swim out, get 'em, shuck 'em and eat 'em! Also get a lot of mussels and abalone.

They're always looking for jillaroos.

She's a Canadian....I reckon she'll be able to handle herself Big chance she's going to meet a nice young Aussie fella and fall in love!

Dave this is the only pic I've ever seen of an Owen chambered in .45acp, I do remember reading a bit about it (or them) but can't locate it. Interesting Wiki read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_gun

Also just to add, we were still using the Owen in Vietnam -

My Dad was a Commando in the Australian Army and served in New Guinea in WWII, they were issued Thompson .45's SMGs with stick mags and drum mags. When the Owens were produced in numbers, the Commandos had to hand in the Thompsons and were issued the Owens. Dad said that they were good, but didn't have the stopping power that the .45's did against Japanese Banzai charges and just didn't put them down like the Thompsons did. The Commandos when they came across U.S troops found out quickly that the U.S soldiers would happily swap their Thompsons for Owens and this was how a lot of Aussie Commandos reequipped themselves with the venerable and much loved Thompson. The war in New Guinea was a war of attrition and there was no quarter given, no rules and no Geneva Convention, it was almost impossible for command to get prisoners for intel regardless of carrots offered to troopers for prisoners.

The Final F-35A Lightning II aircraft arrive for the Royal Australian Air Force

Service Tests of Modern Sub Machine Guns

Bad Aussie Santa