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Zane Bruce

Zane Bruce

@iarnulfr.bsky.social

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Disgruntled anarcho-geologist.

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 1d

When an antique spirit stove that was neither a Primus or an Optimus, and thus a brand with a reputation for blowing up in your face, blows up in your face, the only sensible response is to turn it's corpse into a silly robot:

A '50s era positive feedback loop spirit stove that has ruptured in a fuel explosion at the base of the tank, modified with the addition of googly eyes and the reversal of the pot supports into legs, to be come a steampunk robot.

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 1d

Long Lost Elder Brother!

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 1d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlto...

Charlton automatic rifle - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 1d

Mind you, the same attitude led to the modification of Long Tom Lee Enfields from the 1914 purchase of Obsolete rifles from Canada (our govt was always cheapskate) into an actually functional light machine gun that worked well enough that it would have done the job we'd usually need Bren guns for.

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 1d

High manganese corrugated steel roofing iron. It may stop rifle bullets. Same stuff that the chonkier sort of Quonset and Nissen huts are built from.

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 1d

For one of the gunners. Driver actually had a seat.

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 1d

At the time, the bulk of our army and materiel were in North Africa, but the advent of the Japanese Pacific Campaign meant that everyone was worried we'd lose Australia, and have to fight locally against a Japanese expeditionary force, so it sort of made sense.

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

Down at the aerodrome at Rangitata Island over Labour Weekend. Geraldine military museum and a bunch of vehicle restorers did an open day and displays.

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, I'm doing a disservice to the Schofield Tank, which was _So_ _Good_ that we sent it to the UK for evaluation:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schofie...

Schofield tank - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

For Reasons!

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

The underlying chassis, engine and drivechain is that of a Caterpillar R-series D8 bulldozer, so that's the standard, rather brutal, track tensioning and (lack of) suspension system of the D8. Although this replica isn't a D8, so that's a non-D8 track tension and suspensions system pretending a bit

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

Once all the gunners are in, including the two chaps above the tracks, you can no longer operate the bailer, as (old fashioned Wire Bales, of course, no twine) the wiring machine is apt to include stray Lewis gunners in the haybales. You can still tow a standard haybaler behind it tho!

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

They were very interested about 1943, but declined on the basis that bulk shipping to Tatooine was not included in the deal.

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot claim responsibility for this, although a family member at <undisclosed location> did the work on the propane movie guns for it, what, about a decade ago.

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

Bask in the unfeasible glory that is Aotearoa New Zealand's only locally designed and built Tank.

A turreted corrugated armour nightmare box festooned with machine guns, precariously balanced upon the chassis of an unmodified 1940s farm bulldozer.

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

Heh. they've started building them again, too. Saw one last weekend:

A replica corrugated armour Semple Tank, built on an unmodified 1940s bulldozer chassis. It is ridiculously high and unfeasibly festooned with machine guns.

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 12d

Uhoh. Well, I knew Collins was a fascist, but now she makes it obvious:
www.facebook.com/judithcollin...

New Zealand MP Judith Collins, in a facebook post image showing her sitting next to American fascist, Kristi Noem, with an arm around Noem's shoulders. Both are smiling, and the post text reads 'Lovely to be able to catch up with my friend Secretary for Homeland Security Kristi Noem where topics included people smugglers, transnational crime, and the excellent work of the US Coastguard in the Pacific.'

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · Sep 26

Net guns work.
Or that one guy at an early medieval reenactment camp who turned around from the shieldwall, noticed a drone, wound up, and took it down with a spear :-)

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · Sep 25

To a certain degree, I'm regarding mainstream politicians and media's scrambling to assign identifiable left, centrist or rightist ideologies to the intentionally politically incoherent meme shooters as akin to confused allied commanders in May 1940 wondering where to dig the lines of trenches.

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · Sep 21

This one: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · Sep 21

Snap! I just posted a link to the nature paper on one of your other blogs

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · Sep 18

Correct headline should be "Revenant Zombie Economic Terror Weapon from the '80s Concerned that Current Finance Minister isn't Doing Enough Damage To Matter"

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Former finance minister Sir Roger Douglas calls for Finance Minister Nicola Willis to resign

Former Finance Minister Sir Roger Douglas and Auckland University's Robert MacCulloch say Willis is 'sending New Zealand bankrupt'.

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · Sep 17

This will be why I'm suddenly selling a bunch of sheepskins and leather to some of the usual suspects :-)

Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · Sep 1

First day of pre-production!

Reposted by Zane Bruce

Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · Sep 1

First day of pre-production!

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · Sep 12

Aha. I suspect WSJ just googled up some casing shots for their dodgy article. With the current suspect in custody it appears the actual 'engravings' were 4chan/'groyper' style shitpost quotes and any 'antifascist' leaning is intended ironically.