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Zane Bruce
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Disgruntled anarcho-geologist.
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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:
Long Lost Elder Brother!
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.
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.
For one of the gunners. Driver actually had a seat.
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.
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.
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
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
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!
They were very interested about 1943, but declined on the basis that bulk shipping to Tatooine was not included in the deal.
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.
Bask in the unfeasible glory that is Aotearoa New Zealand's only locally designed and built Tank.
Heh. they've started building them again, too. Saw one last weekend:
Uhoh. Well, I knew Collins was a fascist, but now she makes it obvious:
www.facebook.com/judithcollin...
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 :-)
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.
Snap! I just posted a link to the nature paper on one of your other blogs
This will be why I'm suddenly selling a bunch of sheepskins and leather to some of the usual suspects :-)
First day of pre-production!
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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.