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[Jack]

I can see it now, if I took her any where near those chocolates after we returned home it would be endless '' Does my bum look big in this dear ''.
Waynepoo.

I will take a wild stab in the dark and suggest that your wife does not read the forum!

 

[TomNT]

Gday Gents,
Having just joined this August group I have wondered how many of my fellow Aussies are among you, wth Australia Day coming up soon how about a mini poll or cenus so to speak of Australians out there.
I invite you to post to this thread who you are, where you are, what do you collect, what figures do you prefer, what are your interests and etc, post pics of your collection. The idea may be corny, I don't think so, but if you want to join in, I'm interested in you blokes.
I'll start off, you know my name. In Brisbane, I collect anything about the Great War, figures, models, books, medals, posters I even have spoons from then. Of course most of it is of the A.I.F
Also any Australian militria of WW2. I prefer King and Country figures but like any well done ones from other makers. I have posted some pics of my collection already. So I hope you will share and join the thread.
Thanks Waynepoo.

Gidday Wayne

I thought i would post my 10 cents worth to this thread! Im another Darwin collector junky and i have lived here most of my life (i was born here actually). I have been collecting for the last 5 or 6 years and i first started collecting WWII Forces of Valor. My interest is WWII and i have been interested in this conflict since i was a young tacker. I collect K&C AK, EA, Normandy (Germans, Brit’s & Yanks) and the Bulge (Germans & Yanks) and this includes new release and retired items. There are some retired items that I haven’t got and prob won't get unless they are going for an absolute bargain on Ebay or offered by another seller for a bargain price. There are also a few new release items in the 3 theatres that I prob won’t collect either. I collect other brands in WWII as well such as Figarti, Collectors Showcase, Thomas Gunn, William Britain and i just started collecting First Legion. I only collect the vehicles (and any figures that comes with them) in Figarti, CS, TG and FL. Just like K&C, i don't collect all the vehicles in these brands, i'll just collect the one's i like. I don't collect FV anymore but i still have quite a few German and U.S. vehicles.

You can see my K&C collection scattered on the K&C threads but i still have a few more sets that i haven't posted. I haven't posted any of my other brands on the forum (unless they are with K&C sets) but im going to get around to it sometime this year. That's if i can get my act together!

Tom

 

[waynepoo]

I have a copy of the 2/10th's regimental history packed away in a box somewhere - have you read it?

Well now that is a amazing thing to come upon , no I have not read any history about 2/10th but the odd mention here and there, and I must admit that I have concentrated on my Grandfathers and Uncles in the Great War. If you find a mention of QX14907 Gunner Robert McArthur Dow send me a PM.
Thanks mate.
Waynepoo.

 

[waynepoo]

I will take a wild stab in the dark and suggest that your wife does not read the forum!

Mate I have spent a life time avoiding the unnatural act of marriage , I have a very casual lady friend ( code for when it suites her ).
Waynepoo.

 

[waynepoo]

Gidday Wayne

I thought i would post my 10 cents worth to this thread! Im another Darwin collector junky and i have lived here most of my life (i was born here actually). I have been collecting for the last 5 or 6 years and i first started collecting WWII Forces of Valor. My interest is WWII and i have been interested in this conflict since i was a young tacker. I collect K&C AK, EA, Normandy (Germans, Brit’s & Yanks) and the Bulge (Germans & Yanks) and this includes new release and retired items. There are some retired items that I haven’t got and prob won't get unless they are going for an absolute bargain on Ebay or offered by another seller for a bargain price. There are also a few new release items in the 3 theatres that I prob won’t collect either. I collect other brands in WWII as well such as Figarti, Collectors Showcase, Thomas Gunn, William Britain and i just started collecting First Legion. I only collect the vehicles (and any figures that comes with them) in Figarti, CS, TG and FL. Just like K&C, i don't collect all the vehicles in these brands, i'll just collect the one's i like. I don't collect FV anymore but i still have quite a few German and U.S. vehicles.

You can see my K&C collection scattered on the K&C threads but i still have a few more sets that i haven't posted. I haven't posted any of my other brands on the forum (unless they are with K&C sets) but im going to get around to it sometime this year. That's if i can get my act together!

Tom

Gday Tom,
Good to hear from Darwin, I see there are at least two junkies up there, I'll keep an eye for your posts.
Waynepoo.

 

[TomNT]

Wayne
I live in Darwin and i collect a wide variety of King & Country AK EA FW IWJ etc.....
I also collect the odd japanese sword.
I were very close to my grandfather and he was a veteran from the 7th Division 2/4 field artillery.
So in a way i have always had an association/interest in Australia,s military past.
I came to Darwin for work 4yrs ago and have enjoyed its military history also.
Bren {sm4}

Bren

It will be great to see some of your AK and EA collection and it's good to see another Darwin junky collector on here!

Tom

 

[larso]

"I will take a wild stab in the dark and suggest that your wife does not read the forum!"

If our wives read this forum - all would be lost!!

 

[waynepoo]

"I will take a wild stab in the dark and suggest that your wife does not read the forum!"

If our wives read this forum - all would be lost!!

Simple answer :- stay single.
Waynepoo.

 

[Jack]

"I will take a wild stab in the dark and suggest that your wife does not read the forum!"

If our wives read this forum - all would be lost!!

Better the forum than your credit card statement!

 

[Currahee Chris]

{eek3}{sm3}
No doubt about it, we are a weird mob.

Nothing proved that more to me than when I was taking some rappelling training as a young private and we were shown the "Aussie way".
Essentially you lean face first over the cliff face and assume a perpendicular position. Hold the rope in one hand and tuck your weapon under
your other arm and essentially run face first down the cliff face. I tried, well, was going to try but as I had never done any rappelling before that it
didn't turn out so well- I essentially fell face first over myself and it was quite rather terrifying. Some of the experienced noncoms there
pulled it off without a hitch so it does work- funny little exhibition of Hollywood hijinks that does work.

Suffice to say, I have a very very healthy respect for the Aussie Military tradition. Funny thing is I have sold more of my older KC figures to
Australian collectors. I try to tell them to jump onto this forum but they seem reluctant. Go figure. :redface2:

Lastly, My uncle Jeff was an instructor at the US Army Ranger school. He told me of a time when Steve Irwin came to the school as a guest and
gave a phenomenal instruction to the Rangers about dealing with poisonous little critters- free of charge.

I have enjoyed all the interaction with the Aussie contingent over the years.

 

[marco55]

Somebody sent me pictures of Australian Beach Soccer.Let me just say It is now offically my favorite sport!{bravo}}
Mark

 

[Rob]

One of mine too - spent a good deal of time searching out spots on the WF, but it came at a cost. You have no idea the number of galleries of modern art that I have visited and had to then stare at what passes for art! In my wife's defence, we have also passed many wonderful hours at the Louvre and at your own National Gallery. I think you'd agree if I suggested to Wayne that you really must have a car to see anything of real interest. Langauge is no problem - apart from 'excuse me', 'thank you', 'pardon me' and 'you are very pretty and I am very rich' I have only a handful of French phrases. The most important is chicken nuggets neuf, grande coco cola and grande frittes. And they say Australians don't understand culture!

I carried home a rust encrusted 18 pounder shell casing from Dellville Wood. Australian Customs - you have to love them - let me bring that home but questioned me about the mud on my shoes!

At Beaumont Hamel did you walk around the Caribou (Moose?) to get 'that photo'? Been there three times and have never got it just right!

Jack, yeah got to have a car no doubt, you can walk around both Ypre and the Somme (see 'Walking the Somme/Ypre ' books by Paul Reed) but you'll never see as much as you can by car.

Me too, never quite got the Caribous pic right, impressive beast isn't it.

Do you mean one of these mate;

Sounds like Aussie customs are no sharper than UK customs, although this was pre 9/11 of course. I couldn't believe it Jack, I got out of the Car and walked into a field near Montauban and there were about nine of these lying around on the surface, they were all in a advanced state of rusting except one .I took two home but one was falling to bits within days and I ended up growing poppies in it in the garden.

Delville wood is obviously a good place to find items as it was here and around High wood that I found quite a bit of shrapnel and this shell fragment;

I remember shortly after finding that shell fragment I was in another field and spotted another fragment sticking out of the mud, without thinking I pulled on it and suddenly found myself holding a complete unexploded shell! I turned and looked at my wife who must have been fifty yards away and the look on her face seemed to say ' if that shell doesn't kill you I'm going to '!{eek3} I carefully lowered it to the ground and beat a hasty retreat. My favourite find though was also near Delville wood when I spotted a tiny bit of green colour in the earth , again pulling on it this emerged into my hand;

I also found this top to a rum jar and fragment of barbed wire;

Finally I found two of these percussion caps, this one has obviously had some impact as the metal is fused together almost, my wife uses the other at work as a paperweight!

But there is a sobering postscript to this too. One one occasion as I walked along a road near Flers I spotted something that appeared to be a human leg bone, was a very sad moment I must say. I would point out that I NEVER dig and never would, anything I've found has been lying on the surface, sometimes you find items and sometimes you don't, thats the way it is. Anyone thinking of digging over there should be very careful indeed, the laws have been tightened up now in regard to this and anyone caught will be fined and can have their car confiscated.{eek3}

Rob

 

[Rob]

Apologies for the pics wrong way round, I thought I'd fixed this on photobucket .

Rob

 

[waynepoo]

{sm5}

Nothing proved that more to me than when I was taking some rappelling training as a young private and we were shown the "Aussie way".
Essentially you lean face first over the cliff face and assume a perpendicular position. Hold the rope in one hand and tuck your weapon under
your other arm and essentially run face first down the cliff face. I tried, well, was going to try but as I had never done any rappelling before that it
didn't turn out so well- I essentially fell face first over myself and it was quite rather terrifying. Some of the experienced noncoms there
pulled it off without a hitch so it does work- funny little exhibition of Hollywood hijinks that does work.

Suffice to say, I have a very very healthy respect for the Aussie Military tradition. Funny thing is I have sold more of my older KC figures to
Australian collectors. I try to tell them to jump onto this forum but they seem reluctant. Go figure. :redface2:

Lastly, My uncle Jeff was an instructor at the US Army Ranger school. He told me of a time when Steve Irwin came to the school as a guest and
gave a phenomenal instruction to the Rangers about dealing with poisonous little critters- free of charge.

I have enjoyed all the interaction with the Aussie contingent over the years.

Told ya we're wierd mob but I should have added occassionally completely barmy.
Waynepoo.

 

[waynepoo]

Somebody sent me pictures of Australian Beach Soccer.Let me just say It is now offically my favorite sport!{bravo}}
Mark

Mark,
Did the palyers happen to be women in bikinis ????.
Waynepoo.

 

[waynepoo]

Jack, yeah got to have a car no doubt, you can walk around both Ypre and the Somme (see 'Walking the Somme/Ypre ' books by Paul Reed) but you'll never see as much as you can by car.

Me too, never quite got the Caribous pic right, impressive beast isn't it.

Do you mean one of these mate;

Sounds like Aussie customs are no sharper than UK customs, although this was pre 9/11 of course. I couldn't believe it Jack, I got out of the Car and walked into a field near Montauban and there were about nine of these lying around on the surface, they were all in a advanced state of rusting except one .I took two home but one was falling to bits within days and I ended up growing poppies in it in the garden.

Delville wood is obviously a good place to find items as it was here and around High wood that I found quite a bit of shrapnel and this shell fragment;

I remember shortly after finding that shell fragment I was in another field and spotted another fragment sticking out of the mud, without thinking I pulled on it and suddenly found myself holding a complete unexploded shell! I turned and looked at my wife who must have been fifty yards away and the look on her face seemed to say ' if that shell doesn't kill you I'm going to '!{eek3} I carefully lowered it to the ground and beat a hasty retreat. My favourite find though was also near Delville wood when I spotted a tiny bit of green colour in the earth , again pulling on it this emerged into my hand;

I also found this top to a rum jar and fragment of barbed wire;

Finally I found two of these percussion caps, this one has obviously had some impact as the metal is fused together almost, my wife uses the other at work as a paperweight!

But there is a sobering postscript to this too. One one occasion as I walked along a road near Flers I spotted something that appeared to be a human leg bone, was a very sad moment I must say. I would point out that I NEVER dig and never would, anything I've found has been lying on the surface, sometimes you find items and sometimes you don't, thats the way it is. Anyone thinking of digging over there should be very careful indeed, the laws have been tightened up now in regard to this and anyone caught will be fined and can have their car confiscated.{eek3}

Rob

Rob,
Great pictures Rob, glad to see you still have all your arms and legs, the more you blokes talk about the WF the keener I am to go bushranger to raise the funds to get over there.
Waynepoo.

 

[Jack]

Rob

Sounds like you should lead a 'Treefrog' Battlefield Tour'!

Jack

 

[marco55]

Mark,
Did the palyers happen to be women in bikinis ????.
Waynepoo.

Yes they were!!!Some real healthy girls over there.
Mark

 

[waynepoo]

Yes they were!!!Some real healthy girls over there.
Mark

I wonder if there was any bikinis at all now.
Waynepoo.

 

[Rob]

Rob,
Great pictures Rob, glad to see you still have all your arms and legs, the more you blokes talk about the WF the keener I am to go bushranger to raise the funds to get over there.
Waynepoo.

Thanks Waynepoo, you'll be really glad you did when you get there .

Rob

Sounds like you should lead a 'Treefrog' Battlefield Tour'!

Jack

Jack, now that would be fun wouldn't it, a bunch of Treefroggers meet up in London , sink a few and
jump on a coach and head off across the channel ( or under it to be precise) to check Ypre and the
Somme. Tell you what, if I win the lottery I'll hire a coach and pay air fare for a load of forum members to come over, how's that sound?!

(apologies for jumbled paragraphs am on iPhone and no idea why it does that)

Rob