Buckshot Bear

Had a great life living here, always felt blessed. I

FFS 10 people didn't get to even see 2025 because of this scum......hope he's burning in Hell.

Wow......that's incredible!!! I bet that's taken Ellie a long time to accumulate and I bet you stop at all little way out of places searching for an elusive addition to the collection. Wonderful!

Most are going onto 75+ years, many 100+ years and lots newly constructed. They were common boys toys back before the turn of the Century and right up to the 1950's before they fell out of favour because probably "Golly boys can't have anything that has a flame!!! They'll burn the house down". Most have come from the U.K and the U.S as 'barn finds' or 'attic finds' and they are always missing parts etc and I make all the missing parts and get them running again. We did have two Aussie manufacturers here Scorpion & Renown and I have an example of all they made except for one that has eluded me, being canny Aussies they used old WWI & WWII brass artillery shells for the boilers. Cabin Fever Expo is on our bucket list to visit one day in Pennsylvania and then do some traveling around the U.S cowboy shooting and meeting up with pards.....unfortunately, it didn't work out for the beginning of 2025.....maybe next year (fingers crossed). https://www.cabinfeverexpo.com/

Biggest job is once a year taking everything down and dusting them......golly I hate dust Eyesa!

Wishing all a Wonderful, Safe, Healthy & Prosperous New Year. Made a lot of friends here and appreciate you all.

Wishing all a Wonderful, Safe, Healthy & Prosperous New Year. Made a lot of friends here and appreciate you all.

Yes, I have a problem....luckily though a wonderful understanding wife 💖 This is around 5 years ago, they have almost doubled since then and have escaped to many nooks and crannies throughout the house

I reckon the population would've been bigger except for this -

A lot of people made a lot of money out of Y2K didn't they.

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.