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RobinNilsson
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Posted: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 09:26 PM UTC
petbat
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Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 07:22 AM UTC
I thought you were referring to me for a moment 
RobinNilsson
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Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 07:48 AM UTC
The title of the post is intentionally cryptic.
Sort of a social experiment to see how many that would be curious enough to look at it and maybe reply
Sort of a social experiment to see how many that would be curious enough to look at it and maybe reply
Kevlar06
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Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 07:58 AM UTC
I saw it, and thought it was a reference to the shape of a bus— thinking maybe it was something about Miniart’s new London bus. I was disappointed to find it about “just another boring release of an M3 variant”...ho-hum (kidding here). Oh well, at least it wasn’t about another Panther or Tiger😆
VR, Russ
VR, Russ
TankManNick
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Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 08:36 AM UTC
Love the camo! Looks like a really cool variant.
ivanhoe6
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Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 10:03 AM UTC
Me too Nick ! The Third Armored Division cammo is the way I'd go.
Questions for our "Down Under" members, any idea where the Third AD served, what's a "Bushape" anyway and do you guys like the phrase Down Under ???
I like how MiniArt is treating the M3 Lee. Not trickling each variant slowly out but slaming us with all the options available.
This one might be "the one" for me!
3 out of 3 beer rating based on concept and the current build log going on !
Questions for our "Down Under" members, any idea where the Third AD served, what's a "Bushape" anyway and do you guys like the phrase Down Under ???
I like how MiniArt is treating the M3 Lee. Not trickling each variant slowly out but slaming us with all the options available.
This one might be "the one" for me!
3 out of 3 beer rating based on concept and the current build log going on !
RobinNilsson
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Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 10:27 AM UTC
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1260380
Bush Ape: mythological creature, similar to Big Foot, Yeti et.c. Also known as Yowie
http://bushapes.blogspot.com/
In modern times the term has been used for other purposes but back in the days of the photo above it ought to have been the Big Foot equivalent.
/ Yowie
Bush Ape: mythological creature, similar to Big Foot, Yeti et.c. Also known as Yowie
http://bushapes.blogspot.com/
In modern times the term has been used for other purposes but back in the days of the photo above it ought to have been the Big Foot equivalent.
/ Yowie
ivanhoe6
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Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 11:06 PM UTC
DUH, Bushape is actually Bush Ape, DUH again !
kaleu
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Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 05:00 AM UTC
Very cool. I like the paint scheme. Might have to get this one.
petbat
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Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 09:16 AM UTC
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Questions for our "Down Under" members, any idea where the Third AD served
Served as home defence only during WW2. Originally based in New South Wales, later Queensland (East Coast of Australia). Intended to repel a Japanese Invasion that came close, but never eventuated.
Interestingly, Australia had far more Grant's than Lee's.
ALBOWIE
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Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 11:58 AM UTC
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Me too Nick ! The Third Armored Division cammo is the way I'd go.
Questions for our "Down Under" members, any idea where the Third AD served, what's a "Bushape" anyway and do you guys like the phrase Down Under ???
I like how MiniArt is treating the M3 Lee. Not trickling each variant slowly out but slaming us with all the options available.
This one might be "the one" for me!
3 out of 3 beer rating based on concept and the current build log going on !
A Bushape is also a very derogatory term for an ugly country woman (And I am absolutely sure that is the meaning intended here)
. Was quite common as late as the 90's and the name was banned for A Vehicles in 2 Cav in the late 80's. Only three M3 mediums (Grant Dozers) served outside of Australia, the rest were never deployed. The 3rd AD was short lived and disbanded between March to August 1943 (raised Nov 42). it was mainly based in Queensland and disbanded due to Manpower shortages. The three AD were initially raised for service in the Middle east but then re roled for Home defence against the Japanese.
Al
petbat
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Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 02:20 PM UTC
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A Bushape is also a very derogatory term for an ugly country woman (And I am absolutely sure that is the meaning intended here)
Al
Gee Al, up here the term is 'Bush Pigs'..... which we have a lot of (the real 4 legged feral animal kind I mean)
Just goes to show different terms from State to State apply to slang as well
Runners/Sand Shoes/Joggers
Icypole/iceblock
Jumper/Pullover
Cosies (swimming costume)/Bathers/Swimmers
Cantaloupe/Rock melon
XXXX/Tooheys/VB/ cat's P.....
HermannB
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Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 05:47 PM UTC
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Questions for our "Down Under" members, any idea where the Third AD served
Served as home defence only during WW2. Originally based in New South Wales, later Queensland (East Coast of Australia). Intended to repel a Japanese Invasion that came close, but never eventuated.
Interestingly, Australia had far more Grant's than Lee's.
I wnder if any nation would be that crazy to invade an entire continent?
RobinNilsson
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Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 05:57 PM UTC
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Questions for our "Down Under" members, any idea where the Third AD served
Served as home defence only during WW2. Originally based in New South Wales, later Queensland (East Coast of Australia). Intended to repel a Japanese Invasion that came close, but never eventuated.
Interestingly, Australia had far more Grant's than Lee's.
I wnder if any nation would be that crazy to invade an entire continent?
It is mostly uninhabited, most of the population is along the coasts. The success of an invasion and subsequent occupation depends on getting control over the population and resources. When you have control over the coastal regions you have control over most of everything. The rest is semi-desert or desert inhabited by kangaroos, rabbits, sheep, snakes et.c.
Japan didn't fear invading China (lees industrialised but a LOT more population)
Vicious
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Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 06:14 PM UTC
it is very sparsely populated and difficult to defend but the regions near the Japanese outposts are wild and with few if not nil roads today in the 40's even worse, open a beachhead would be easy but from then a logistical nightmare. ..for what? ... sugar cane, banana and mango? ... at least in my area of north Queensland ... attack 'most southerly where "all lies" is too far from their bases .... what if
petbat
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Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 06:35 PM UTC
I believe the thought of wading through...
Great White Sharks (and other lesser sharks)
Blue Ringed Octopus
Irikandji jelly fish
Stone Fish
Salt water Crocodiles
followed by encounters with
Coastal Taipan
Inland Taipan (most toxic venom in the world)
Eastern Tiger Snake
Eastern Brown Snake
Red Belly Black snakes
Yellow Belly Black Snakes
and then dealing with
Funnel Web spiders
Red Back spiders
Mouse Spiders
and finally
Australian Housewives
The Japanese were said to have uttered "
"They can have it"
Seriously though, Australia had oil reserves, coal, minerals and ores, agricultural resources all of which was desirable to the Japanese and their war machine.
Just think, had they succeeded, they could have had their hands on 'Yellow Cake' too..... Think of Japan with means to make the first Atomic Bomb...
Great White Sharks (and other lesser sharks)
Blue Ringed Octopus
Irikandji jelly fish
Stone Fish
Salt water Crocodiles
followed by encounters with
Coastal Taipan
Inland Taipan (most toxic venom in the world)
Eastern Tiger Snake
Eastern Brown Snake
Red Belly Black snakes
Yellow Belly Black Snakes
and then dealing with
Funnel Web spiders
Red Back spiders
Mouse Spiders
and finally
Australian Housewives
The Japanese were said to have uttered "
"They can have it"
Seriously though, Australia had oil reserves, coal, minerals and ores, agricultural resources all of which was desirable to the Japanese and their war machine.
Just think, had they succeeded, they could have had their hands on 'Yellow Cake' too..... Think of Japan with means to make the first Atomic Bomb...
Golikell
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Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 06:46 PM UTC
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The title of the post is intentionally cryptic.
Sort of a social experiment to see how many that would be curious enough to look at it and maybe reply
I saw it, opened the post, but did not see fit to reply. Maybe because I get all new product announcements from MiniArt directly.
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 07:05 PM UTC
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I wnder if any nation would be that crazy to invade an entire continent?
Nazi Germany, apparently. The Soviet Union in 1941 was almost three times the size of Australia.
ALBOWIE
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Posted: Friday, October 18, 2019 - 05:30 PM UTC
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A Bushape is also a very derogatory term for an ugly country woman (And I am absolutely sure that is the meaning intended here)
Al
Gee Al, up here the term is 'Bush Pigs'..... which we have a lot of (the real 4 legged feral animal kind I mean)
Just goes to show different terms from State to State apply to slang as well
Runners/Sand Shoes/Joggers
Icypole/iceblock
Jumper/Pullover
Cosies (swimming costume)/Bathers/Swimmers
Cantaloupe/Rock melon
XXXX/Tooheys/VB/ cat's P.....
Interchangeable terms and just as common when i was in. Mt Tilly carried the name Bush Pig for a few months before falling short of the PC brigade
MJWard
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Posted: Friday, October 18, 2019 - 06:48 PM UTC
Down here (New South) that last line wouod be
Barbed Wire/Pooeys/Veebs/Gnat’s Pee.
So how are ya you old Banana Bender ? (I’ll let you explain that one !)
Barbed Wire/Pooeys/Veebs/Gnat’s Pee.
So how are ya you old Banana Bender ? (I’ll let you explain that one !)
mmeier
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Posted: Friday, October 18, 2019 - 09:46 PM UTC
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I believe the thought of wading through...
Great White Sharks (and other lesser sharks)
Blue Ringed Octopus
...
Not to mention the Emu. As far as I know those birds could hold their own in a war against a 1930s army quite easily...
Dioramartin
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Posted: Friday, October 18, 2019 - 11:06 PM UTC
Nice spiral tangent going off here – according to a very close relative (who knows more than most on the subject of Australia’s defence strategy) questions continue to be raised about how 10 French submarines (A$60 billion and counting) designed for nuclear power but being experimentally converted (on CAD monitors) to diesel-electric (yep, 80+ year old technology) all to be based on the INDIAN Ocean side of this vast continent will fare beating back airborne deployments over the major Pacific seaboard population centres. The few-score RAAF biplanes oops very 2nd-hand US fighters that are operational at any one time wouldn’t last too long.
But any invader will have no answer (neither has Australia because there is none) to its greatest and most numerous defender which nobody’s mentioned yet – 200 million lethally weaponised, all-terrain + stealth capability, perfectly camouflaged…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8IiLqIEV0
Nobody’s tackled the question “why Down Under?” either – some say it’s a reference to genitalia, but if not it’s probably to differentiate from those living Up Over
But any invader will have no answer (neither has Australia because there is none) to its greatest and most numerous defender which nobody’s mentioned yet – 200 million lethally weaponised, all-terrain + stealth capability, perfectly camouflaged…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8IiLqIEV0
Nobody’s tackled the question “why Down Under?” either – some say it’s a reference to genitalia, but if not it’s probably to differentiate from those living Up Over
RobinNilsson
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Posted: Friday, October 18, 2019 - 11:44 PM UTC
If the Japanese had come back then they would probably have developed a delicious dish, similar to the poisonous blowfish .....
southpier
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Posted: Saturday, October 19, 2019 - 09:16 AM UTC
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The title of the post is intentionally cryptic.
Sort of a social experiment to see how many that would be curious enough to look at it and maybe reply
oh; like "click-bait" on youtube!
petbat
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Posted: Saturday, October 19, 2019 - 09:19 AM UTC
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But any invader will have no answer (neither has Australia because there is none) to its greatest and most numerous defender which nobody’s mentioned yet – 200 million lethally weaponised, all-terrain + stealth capability, perfectly camouflaged…
Nah, too easy to kill...
Have you seen this Tim:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1l4z8
As to Emu's, well the more dangerous is the Cassowary. Emu only become aggressive if cornered or defending themselves. You can go to many zoo's and parks and can walk amongst them. Cassowaries are a different matter. Any in captivity are securely separated from the public....
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