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Chris Nally
ohhh how much did you pay for that big bugger Kerry?

Kerry COX
At the QMHE comp I got it for $80.00, then from BNA for the second I wanted, $90.00.

Chris Nally
Kerry 80 is a good deal but being new to the Meng/Takom armour stuff myself I can only get advice before purchase these days mate

Kerry COX
Chris. All I can say is that the detail and fun to be had with the extra bits is something you will NEVER forget mate. 👍

Chris Nally
Oh yes my my, I just snavelled an Academy Merkarva M IV for 32 bucks free postage an hour ago, not sure what Academy Armour is like buy I intend to use some Legend stuff on it already

Chris Nally
PS just updated my photo mate, I am on the left by the way

Kerry COX
Thank Chris. I saw you there. 🙂

Chris Nally
Having fun in Angola...well not really

Kerry COX
I salute you my friend and thank you for you service and dedication. Greatly appreciated. 👍

Chris Nally
Cheers mate, what a silly bugger I was...mad as a cut snake

Chris Nally
Don't forget your own Service too Kerry

Kerry COX
Thanks Chris. 🙂 I was motivated by Menzies talk of the "yellow hoards" coming down to take over Australia, and, I wanted to kill gooks. !!!
But once the issue of American style basic webbing was the order of the day and the training at the SME at Casula down the tunnels started. I saw all that bravado take a big step back and started thinking seriously of what my options were.
I'm no chicken mate, stand up to anyone who wants a piece of me, but the horror stories that started to filter back really had all of us behaving in a way that spoke of preservation, and as I had worked on the SS Cape Leeuwin, a lighthouse tender on the Queensland coast, they wanted my skills in 32 Small Ships Sqn, so that was me for 6 years. Joined at 17 in 64 and still in tact at discharge in 70. I have 70 years under my belt and I syill get rubbished at the RSL on Anzac day for not being a 'real' soldier. But hey. ! thats life and some of the good deals we are handed. 🙂 I was really lost for a few years after discharge, as all I had were military 'skills' and none of which were compatable in civy street, so I had to be creative to get the black dog to stay in it's kennel.

Chris Nally
Hey Kerry , when it comes to metal flying around and tunnels and bunkers etc , plus initiating contacts at 2 meters in the jungle is dam well not for everyone. You were smart mate. I don't have a bar of the RSL, cannot stand them, I am only a Member of the TPI Assoc. No other. Black dog got me big time through the 2000's and I have lost so much memory of events and things that happened I have to ask about photos, when that happened , it is a bastard injury I would wish on no one. I can accept physical injury as par for the course , but never thought I would get PTSD. Worst injury ever, and it wrecked my life, my working life, and dam near my marriage. She is my carer now. F**K the RSL...my only skills available on civvy street I found later were as "plant management" {for driving tracked vehicles} and lots of skills for the new Outdoor Adventure Taring stuff going on. I managed for a while doing that and loved it.

Kerry COX
Well Chris. It does seem that we have landed on our feet, but not exactly as planned. 👍
What keeps me going is a saying my mum would always take great delight in reminding me of every time I had a winge. "I once complained when I had no shoes.....................then I met a man who had no feet." . My modelling helps me stay focused on better things. 🙂
My engineering brain eventually saw me go to Uni and attain a civil emgineering degree, putting me in places I only ever saw in tour books.
I am also a bit of a pedantic perfectionist with the modelling, doing detailing that at time I have to check myself on. I go too far. :-/

Chris Nally
Yeah Kerry, I read Stoic Philosophy, but that only helps so far, nevertheless, get on with it is the motto. Ha I wish I did Engineering or the like, I instead di Ancient History/Classics and am slowly doing Geology { I like Archaeology most}. It only helps with my personal interests, but geez I have travelled a lot and seen amazing things Nat Geo is only putting in their Mags now!
Me too I am too pedantic which is why I am so slow and finish too few per year, but hey I like the research and study and trying to make things look real in scale mate, :-}

Kerry COX
Chris. I must admit, I too am quite pedantic about the modelling I do. To an extreme at times and loosing the 'have fun' aspect of the whole thing, but that is just the way I have approached most things. Some may say 'anal'. But I don't like rough edges so to speak.👍
Geology. !! Wow. That is something that has had a strange history. Being those who see a world of civilizations light years ago and are told, 'You can't publish that'.
I remember reading the story of the giant skeletons found in the middle east and of the one that is in the Smithsonian Museum that was never to see the light of day, as the 'establishment' feared it would change the whole picture of how it all happened and the conservative view on humanity and it's development.
I am more curious about the world now that I can seek the information that interests me and get some answers, some truth, other stuff just theories, but fun to do.
I am dreading the day oldtimers disease grabs me, but in the meantime, the sponge I am, soaking in as much as I can, keeping the grey matter from becoming a blob. hahahaha
🙂
Like how the pyramids are still being called 'tombs', and not wanting to admit that there are other aspects about them that are slowly being uncovered that is going to possibly upset the whole theory of the Egyptologists that don't want to let go of the unscientific beliefs and embrace the rethink that is taking place. 🙁

Peter Hardy
Hope you guys don't mind me jumping in here to what has been a bit of a private conversation but...Strewth Kerry! You are getting to be a conspiracy theorist! If all the information withheld from the world's general population were available would we all run around in a panic? Who knows? However, on the same subject I have been amusing myself by making note of the difference in reporting of the North Korea issues at present between the American media and the rest of the world's press. There is a substantial difference. I fear there is as much political propaganda on one side of the Pacific as on the other? Back on subject, I have the same "control issues" as you with the loss of the fun aspect in the very real drive to create the best model you can do. I am embarrassed by the last model I built when I have finished the next one. I have only a four year history of model building so the development rate is still pretty steep and this is a common occurrence. I have a Takom Porsche King Tiger with full interior in the stash and will build it only when that embarrassed feeling dissipates.
On the subject of wise advice, my late mother in law once told me "if I don't use my head I'll end up using my legs". Every day I repeat that to myself after I have had to use my legs after failing to use my head.