I found it online!
The original trucks used by the SASR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Patrol_Vehicle
And the new one I saw:
http://www.strikehold.net/?attachment_id=384
http://www.supacat.com/files/gallery/750_constW/121214135703-SupacatHMTExtenda1.jpg
It's called a "Nary", made by Supercat. Never heard of it before!
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HippieVan wrote:I hope you find one soon! And hope it doesn't cost too much!
I'm apartment hunting for the first time in my life. It's hard but also exciting!
I'm trying to find a place that will let me stay for just a month while I take a spring course, which is pretty tricky. Most people want to sublet for the entire summer so I'm getting a lot of responses like "If we can't find anyone to take it all summer we'll let you know." Which isn't very useful.
I was also hoping to find somewhere that would let me take my cat but I haven't had any luck with that so far. :(
(No worries, she'll just stay behind with my family while I'm gone. I would just be happier with her there.)
I found it online!
The original trucks used by the SASR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Patrol_Vehicle
A simple google search and I found at least two modelers who are scratchbuilding them plus a 1/35th scale conversion kit for commercially available Land Rover models.
And the new one I saw:
http://www.strikehold.net/?attachment_id=384
http://www.supacat.com/files/gallery/750_constW/121214135703-SupacatHMTExtenda1.jpg
It's called a "Nary", made by Supercat. Never heard of it before!
I did it's a model made by Airfix (well at least the British version) And there's an article on a modeling forum about how to convert one to a "Nary" Looks pretty simple.
Yes, the Nary seems just a bit more open from what I saw… as if there's ever anough difference to justify a whole name change. Like with our "Austyer" battle rifles.
Strange to have such an open veichle for the army… the old ones were like that too and I suppose all their stuff is. They don't seem to go for armor except from mines.
Like the veichle before it, they're for long range patrols, driving hundeds of kilometers into the middle of nowhere and staying out for days and days… With no shelter at all from your truck, even while driving. I mean, I know that's how they used to do it in ww1 and ww2, and before that with horses, but it seems anachronistic and horribly uncomfortable, especially if it's as hot and dry as it is here right now.
Open vehicles are better than closed ones for scouting. In hot nasty enviornments you don't want to be cooped up in an enclosed vehicle. Only when actually being fired on does anyone want to get inside the vehicle. Though ther are exceptions they usually end up being in tanks where they can bask in the warm safety of their armored cacoon.
Death before dismount.
I had kind of a funny encounter in the French area of town today. I was coming down from the second floor of a building where a bunch of stuff was supposed to be set up but it was all empty and dark. Met a small group of people coming up the stairs.
Me: There's nothing up there.
Lady: (in French) Pardon?
Me: Oh! Il n'y a rien.
Her: Oh! *turns to friend and speaks in accented English* There's nothing there!
HippieVan wrote:Have yet to meet an actual French person myself. Still, what was it with that empty building? What was supposed to be set up?
I had kind of a funny encounter in the French area of town today. I was coming down from the second floor of a building where a bunch of stuff was supposed to be set up but it was all empty and dark. Met a small group of people coming up the stairs.
Me: There's nothing up there.
Lady: (in French) Pardon?
Me: Oh! Il n'y a rien.
Her: Oh! *turns to friend and speaks in accented English* There's nothing there!
I remember long ago when I made attempts to speak Tagalog…. with hilarious results.
Me (attempting to speak in Tagalog): Gusto ko kumain ng bahay mo.
*younger cousins start laughing*
Me: What?
Mom: Do you really want to eat their house?
And then there was that other incident where I was helping my aunt prepare vinegar. I asked for vinegar… she reminded me that I should watch what I say in Tagalog. And that you don't put vomit in Chicken Adobo. -_-
Lonnehart wrote:
Have yet to meet an actual French person myself. Still, what was it with that empty building? What was supposed to be set up?
I remember long ago when I made attempts to speak Tagalog…. with hilarious results.
Me (attempting to speak in Tagalog): Gusto ko kumain ng bahay mo.
*younger cousins start laughing*
Me: What?
Mom: Do you really want to eat their house?
And then there was that other incident where I was helping my aunt prepare vinegar. I asked for vinegar… she reminded me that I should watch what I say in Tagalog. And that you don't put vomit in Chicken Adobo. -_-
Hahaha! Those are pretty good. As far as I know I've never said anything embarassing in French, although maybe no one ever told me. Oh, except for one time when I made a reference to my "chatte" (meaning a female cat) and then wasn't sure if it sounded sexual. :/ Fortunately that was in a room of other French students and not francophones, so if anyone understood it that way it was probably only the teacher.
The building was part of a historical festival we do here every February. Typically the second floor is made into a museum/arts and crafts type area, separate from the rest of the surrounding area which is meant to look like an authentic voyageur fort. It sucked because it's the only heated building there and it was around 25 below (C) today.
Most of the French people here (or francophones as we call them) actually speak English as well. It's pretty rare to meet an exclusively French-speaking Canadian in any major city other than recent immigrants from certain African nations.
@oz: You're clever, I'm sure you could learn another language! Although I don't know how much other languages are spoken in Australia? It's harder when you don't have anyone to practice with.
Heh… I can understand most Tagalog, but not speak it effectively. My siblings can speak it very well, but they all have accents despite being born and raised here. Weird…
Great. The Sims 4 is coming out this year. I plan on using part of my incoming tax refund to reserve it. Hopefully it won't require Windows 8, though as the article says it should be able run better on computers that aren't as powerful as is required to run The Sims 3. And since it's a lot more advanced in its character creation I could plausibly create anyone I know in the game.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/maxis-sims-4-will-run-better-on-lower-end-machines-than-sims-3/1100-6413584/
Luckily for any Sims I create I'm not a cruel person, even if that person is virtual. And I've heard of players who love putting their Sim in a 1x1x1 room with no windows or doors and watch with glee as that Sim starves to death while suffering… O_O
Strange.
I loved games back in the '90s with Sega and stuff but since then I haven't as much. When I got my first PC I did have some good ones, like Tomb Raider, Ultima 8, Dark Reign, Final Liberation, (awesome sountrack that I still listen to), Starcraft… but after going in bi for GTA Vice City, Battlefired 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 I haven't really felt much motivated to keep up with them. You always need bigger and better hardware ALL the time!
Well I did go in for the whole Mass Effect thing, but only after being convinced by Skoolmunkee, and that was a really low spec game with no crazy foccus on the latest greatest hardware to play, which was a very welcome suprise. Pitty about the shit ending, sort of soured me more on games.
Speaking of games, I bought my last big twoer PC years ago so that it'd be powerful enough for my graphic design stuff AND be a good games machine. All I use it for now is playin movies on my bi screens while I work on my laptop and cintiq, but it produces a lot of heat. So much so that on the hot days I'm havin at the moment I won't run it at all unless theres a cool breaze bowin and I've got the house open. In winter I have my office all sealed up and I use it to heat the room!
I'm SO happy with this slim little ultrabook PC, uses so much less energy! So much more effecient! And it's great to be able to work on hot days without baking yourself alive!
Repost this from Facebook because it's cooler than my brainfart about gaming:
I just finished doing a Quackcast interview with Jake Richmond of http://www.modestmedusa.com/
A pretty amazing webcomic success story. Starting out in Drunk Duck
with his comic in 2011 he's been able to quit his main day job and work
on his comic full time! He does some freelancing and teaching as well,
but his comic is his main source of income. That's awesome!
And this
wasn't by luck either, like that "being in the right place at the right
time" that a lot of the early big names leveraged most of their success
from, Jake got there though hard work and dedication to his readers.
A real webcomic inspiration!
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Seriously, where Jame is at now is the goal that every webcomicer should be aiming for and his success shows that it IS acheiveable! - Only IF you can put in that work though. It's not easy.
I wonder if a story like this sounds too common….
In his younger days this man was a hard working teenager/young adult with a few friends. On his 23rd birthday he was about be all set with his life. He was about to have a great job, his boss's daughter was going out with him and it looked as if they were on the road to marriage. Life was great for him.
Then, betrayed by a friend he was tricked into signing up for a mercenary unit and is dragged away the moment he realized what he had just done. He spends nearly a decade fighting for his life, fullfilling contracts and eventually buying his way out of his contract. All the while realizing that everything he was taken away from is no longer in his reach…
Now he's back to civilian life, ready to work as hard as he can on his new beginning using the wealth he amassed as a merc. But this chance is taken from him again and he is once again in the fight of his life. An evil dictator's armies have managed to wipe out the merc unit he was serving on, and vowed revenge against the man for being part of the unit that up until that point had thwarted that dictators attempt to sieze more power and land for himself… So now the man has to deal with things like assassins, special stealth strike units, bounty hunters and old rival mercs seeking to settle the score with him thanks to the evil dictator sticking a huge bounty on his head…
You don't suppose this sort of thing can break a person, right?
Sounds like the plot for Expendables III. You talk to Sly Stallone about this yet?
And he finds the few survivors of his unit and a few enemies who respect him and they fight with tons of explosions and defeat the dictator. There will be an old hand survivor mentor who will be found in a menial job because he was so so upset about everyone getting betrayed. He will be convinced to come out of retirement for revenge. Maybe he is the original boss who has been betrayed himself and this can also lead to the reignition of the love with the boss's daughter. And she's in a forced loveless marriage maybe to the evil dictator but still loves the hero. And there's the dark and exotic female double agent (or lady pirate or escaped princess in the premodern versions even played by Maureen O'Hara)
It's all been done in different genres from ancient sword and sandal to futuristic sci-fi. I know I've seen similar with a guy who went into the French Foreign Legion in the 19th century as well as African merc units in the 1960-80s. One great way to really put your mark on it would be to use a totally unexpected historical background. The guy coming back from the Crusades? The guy who went off to be pirate or the Irish rebel who joined the Wild Geese in the early 18th century the guy who went to Australia to make his fortune in the 19th Century, the guy who went West and comes back for the girl he left behind (now a big rancher until he loses it all…) It's a western, it's a foriegn legion adventure story, it's a pirate story, it's a space opera … throw in a kid with a map and it's Treasure Island, throw in Hercules and it's an Italian sword and sandal epic… or Expendables III
Yeah I was thinkin Stalone, Swarchenager, Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood… pretty sure they all did versions of that story- very popular in the '80s.
The French foriegn legion story was probably Beau Gest? That's a pretty famous one.
Thinking about Australia as you mentioned it- sounds like Quigly Downunder. Good film with Tom Selleck!
For the Crusades they sort of did that story with Robin Hood and Ivanhoe to name a couple, at least the Hollywood adaptions.
They've done one with Hercules now just recently and it's really awful… mixing up Roman hystory with Greek Myth in the worst way. Greek Demigod Hercules as a blond haired, blue eyed, clearn shaven soldier who becomes a GLADIATOR?????? WTF??????
That's like having a movie about George Washington where Washington's character is based on Oscar Wilde and played by Gerald Depardue.
History and myth by Hollywood writers who know nother about either.
This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em6Yw_EXNRA
And then there's the sequel to 300. Looks like Themistokles, Artemisia and the battle of Salamis get their chance to descend into Zack Snyder/Frank Miller ridiculousness. But it'll be fun and visually stunning. And I'll watch my DVD of 300 Spartans again and get a modicrum of historical accuracy. Last time I saw it I was comparing it to Herodatus and being amazed how they followed the story.
Now where's the movie about Xenophon and the anabasis? Or is that the next sequel to 300?
After enjoying the Sam Raimi take on Hercules for all those years on TV and the Disney movie nothing surprises me anymore. Those Italain movies went all over with Hercules going to Atlantis and fighting alien moonmen so bizarre combinations of Roman and Grek myth why not? After all to be really Greek shouldn't his name be Herakles? You know the Italians ruined the battle of Marathon with a Steve Reeves movie where he's the runner guy. Except since it is Steve Reeves he survives that first marathon run. He was also Aeneas is a tolerable version of the Trojan War/Aeneid tale. So this new take on Hercules is lame stuff. Let's copy 300 and Spartacus: Blood and Sand blah, blah, blah.
I am not going to lie, but when I saw the preview for 300: Rise of an Empire, I got a morbid curiosity to see it solely because it has giant Lamassu (human-headed, winged bull) statues. I never saw the original 300, but the time period and Ancient Near East is so rich in history. I am also such a fan of the Owls of Ga'Hoole movie directed by Zack Snyder and he is producing the 300 sequel.
Now the movie that's going to be a Debbie Downer is that new Pompeii movie. I have not read any of the spoilers, but based on the history I studied in Latin class, it will not have a happy ending. I mean, goodness, humans versus Mount Vesuvius? I will put all my money on the volcano.
The whole last days of Pompeii has been a big thing since Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote his book of the same name in 1834. Since then it's been a movie twice (1935 and 1959) and a miniseries (1984) so yet another movie about it gets a shrug. The volcano always wins but the hero and heroine always make it to a boat and sail away into the sunset, become Christians and so on.
I think there was also a Eddie Cantor parody of it in the 1930's too. He was the biggest star of the time and it would be funny if a tad dated. And of course Up Pompeii (1971) by the Carry on… gang. And their stuff is always worth a look.
Gunwallace wrote:I didn't know there were more. I liked Up Pompeii when I was little, that speaking to camera thing he did was very new and unusual to me back then. :)
Don't forget Further Up Pompeii (1991), with another great Frankie Howard performance.
I am currently in Upstate New York, leaving later this afternoon, which is a good thing because there was a snow blizzard the whole day yesterday. I went inside a hospital yesterday, no particular reason but to loiter around and try out some of the food in the cafeteria. The song "A Long December" by the Counting Crows finally made sense to me with the line "the smell of hospitals in winter, and the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters and no pearls" finally made sense to me. Hospitals do have this musty, airless odour filled with antiseptics and surgical masks so that walking through the halls feels like all the air has been sucked out of them. I know a few people who spent half their childhood hanging out in hospitals with their older relatives or working as a candy striper, so hospitals and hospital food brings them some sort of nostalgia. I associate hospital visits with medical emergencies and car accidents. I wish I could associate them more as a place for healing.
There has been a lot of buzz going around Hayao Miyazaki's final animated feature The Wind Rises because of the controversy that its main protagonist was the engineer behind the Mitsubishi A5M and A6M "Zero" fighter aircrafts used in WWII. The issue addressed is that these were the same planes used during kamikaze operations. I do find dangers with romanticizing parts of the war effort, however brilliant the inventor or innovative the design, millions of people lost their lives. Case in point–could a US-based studio make a full-length animated film about J. Robert Oppenheimer without so much as a backlash for the subject matter? Absolutely no. I have been watching Studio Ghibli films since Grave of the Fireflies and My Neighbor Totoro and they rarely shy away from depicting the horrors of war. I definitely want to see The Wind Rises because I have a penchant for somber cartoons aimed at an adult audience.
That'd be the sort of thing he'd do, he's a very serious minded fellow… but even when he takes on a subject like Graveyard of the Fireflys, as horribly sad as that was, it still had a lot of whimsy.
As far as I know, the Kamikaze flights killed few people (compared to other aspects of the war), they were a lot more tragic for the deluded, brave young men who flew in them. Lookin at a list of ships sunk it seems most of them were tiny things like landing craft, with a few destoryers and a couple of escort carriers being the bigest vessels…
Such a pathetic, inverted symbol of the samurai. They were hoping for another "devine wind" that protected them from the Mongols. ugh! WW2 was such a massive defeat of that harmful, conservative, rightwing romantasicim, a real kick in the arse that they needed.
"Cockpit" is another anime on the subject… I haven't see it. I should though!.
Apparently back in the day Animation was disrespected by the west (or so I've read). It was relegated to childrens cartoons. Animation in Japan is a lot more mature sometimes… all the way up to XXX. To those animators, it's just another medium they can use to tell a story, no matter how over the top it can be…
Playing The Sims 3 again. I'm so tempted to recreate the worst sime I have ever played… Frenchie Cassanova. Why is he so bad? Well… he lives up to his name.
And though he finally died from a meteor strike, he left behind a lot of broken hearts and quite a few red headed Sim children…
If we're just listing tv/movie versions of Pompeii, there was also a Doctor Who episode.
When I first saw the trailer for the new one I was quite excited (cool, ancient Rome movie!) and then quickly realized it was an action movie and wasn't very impressed.
kawaiidaigakusei wrote:
I associate hospital visits with medical emergencies and car accidents. I wish I could associate them more as a place for healing.
Yeah, the first time I went to a hospital was to visit my aunt who suffered from severe depression. I remember it being dark and sad. Since then I've always found hospitals pretty upsetting.
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I kind of want to put together an Emmy Altava costume because her outfit is so pretty, but I'm not sure enough people play Professor Layton and would get it.
HippieVan wrote:Oh my gosh, you should totally do it for an everyday outfit. It looks like it would make a cool uniform. I do not watch Professor Layton, but I love everything in that picture's color scheme: mustard, yellow, cream, orange, and brown. Lately, I have been shopping for mustard coloured cardigans and accent pieces and absolutely adore the color.
I kind of want to put together an Emmy Altava costume because her outfit is so pretty, but I'm not sure enough people play Professor Layton and would get it.
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