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What scale are you working in? This is 4mm to the foot and I use powder rather than paint for the mortar. I've used dry cement, pumice and weathering powders at various times but the technique is the same. This is 4mm lasercut card so after painting the bricks with artists acrylics I give it a spray with cheap hairspray, you mightn't need that step with plastic. Then powder is brushed across the model ensuring that it is packed into the mortar lines, excess is brushed and blown off gently then another spray of hairspray to seal it and make it smell nice.

What really annoyed me about La La Land is that thats the same name as a wickedly funny TV series of a couple of years ago where British comedian Marc Wootton does an Ali G style 'documentary' where he plays 3 different characters - a fake psychic, a strugging actor and a documentary film maker. He goes to LA and manages to fool various unsuspecting public and film industry people. When I first heard that there was a movie called La La land I got all excited. Boy, was I dissapointed,

Maybe I am a little bit different but I do have a lot of time for William Shatners musical output. Here as an example is his rendition of Queens Bohemian Rhapsody, and I think he makes it sound like Shakespeare wrote it.

Or a Bunnings? Allan s there a sausage sizzle happenning out the front? If so then its what we call a Bunnings.

In the same way that you didn;t know about boogie boards, I don't know what a Tescos is! Is it a good thing?

These days if you are 12 you can just nag your parents into getting you the xbox game that lets you do all that from the comfort of your bean bag and big telly until you get all fat and then do your gap year in Sydney as a fat surfer god. Which actually means in the case of brit back packers, you don't need to surf you just hang around the Coogee Bay Hotel dropping your dacks and yelling out "Checkitoutdarlin!!

The music is dated, but only because 2017 is the 1970's in spider years. Despite their gay flamboyance, Peacock Spiders were only discovered a couple of years ago, just outside Sydney. Although only about 5mm in size, they probably still want to kill me

Oh, and forget about prancing spiders, we have dancing spiders! The music is dated, but only because 2017 is the 1970's in spider years. Despite their gay flamboyance, Peacock Spiders were only discovered a couple of years ago, just outside Sydney. Although only about 5mm in size, they probably still want to kill me

Well thank you Allan for your inquiry.. It opens up a discussion about the surfing hierarchy down here. At the very pinnacle are surfers. Bronzed gods who challenge the sea with only a thin piece of fibreglass. They tend to look like this: I made them look fat because they are d*cks. Being locals they consider the beach is completely theirs, and any non locals are squeezed out and often get back to their cars to find "Westy go home" carved into it with a key or a rock. (If you live not near the beach then you live in the Western suburbs and are therefore a source of scorn in the eyes of these fat surfers. .) Another group is the kayakers who ride the waves. These are also looked down upon by the fat stupid surfer gods as 'goat boats: Finally there are the boogie boarders, The fat stupid surfers who just sit on their boards waiting for the perfect wave so then they can go all zen about it call them 'Speed bumps" Boogie boarders seem to have the most fun, which annoys the fat surfer gods and makes them sad. Basically they have like a little surfboard that you lie on and do fun stuff like this. (. Especially check out at the 1 minute 50 mark where all the fat surfers are being too fat and stupid and just bobbing up and down waiting for the sharks to come and put them out of their misery while the boogie boarder does ballet in the foreground.) I have a wind surfer that I use in flat water so I kind of avoid all this tribal surf angst.

Basically, I reckon this sums it all up..

Oops, in that case maybe I did! Apologies! I'm still having issues with the actual vote - oops, sorry 'opinion survey'. They say that a majority of votes, sorry again - opinions - will decide either way if it then progresses to a vote in Parliament. But they have left the term majority unclear. Is it a straight out count covering all the country, or is it like a normal election where its a majority on a seat by seat basis, or is it a majority like a referendum requires, where its a majority of states? Its all very half ar5ed. And the stupid thing is that even if the majority of Australians vote yes, including the majority of states, including the majority of voters in Tony Abbots seat, he can and will still vote no. So what has it achieved in any way apart from getting rid of that annoying extra $122 million we obviously had lying around..

Hmm, maybe you missed the Comedy Central logo down there on the right hand side... I didn't see the 'it will come compulsory' argument, rather the 'if gays marry they will release gay spores into the atmosphere which will infect straights and stop us from loving our spouses any more and we will all have to live in underground bunkers suppressing our sudden liking for the same sex whilst on the surface cute bikers maraud around Mad Max style' argument. I'm sure Tony Abbot will think that one up before the poll closes.,

We have the same technique here, though we have to replace the toilet roll tube with a chinese food container or lettuce crisper: But if you want some Huntsman spider wrangling tips complete with weird moody extra family member wearing satin pyjama shorts n the backgound then this was made for you..

The wildlife is surprisingly tameable so she'd not be lacking in queues of things waiting to be fed. My dad has whole fanilies of birds - magpies, butcher birds, pee wees and willy wagtails that wait for him to go out to his back verandah with a bag of mince (just cheap coles mince so there would probably be heaps more if it was Mrs D with her fancy stuff!). He rolls it into tiny balls and tosses it into the air, its amazing to see the dexterity with which they all catch it. I had a blue tongued lizard that I'd coax out from behind my shed with chicken to the point that it would come when it saw me. And then there was this guy, who \just anounced himself by landing on my leg and now expects food four times a day. Actually we play up the deadly stuff but we are kind of frauds because the dangerous stuff is usually quite shy and prety well keeps itself to itself mostly. In 53 years I've seen maybe 30 snakes. I've only ever seen one funnel web, though that one time was more than enough. I was down at my then in-laws lakeside house down near Nowra. I'd just come out the water and was standing on the concrete pad under the house drying myself off when I happenned to glance down at something about 4 inches from my foot. I realised that it was a funnel web spider in that raised about to attack stance that they do. I jumped back and may have let off a girly scream because my father in law wandered out to see what the noise was. I told him about the funnel web which by then had scuttled off into the grass, but rather than being sympathetic he took it as some kind of criticism of his house.

But there IS a reason! I've posted this before trying to highlight the dangers, and I'll keep posting it until you watch it!

Speaking about Americans the ones I've met who are visiting here, (usually servicemen on secondment cos I work for the RAAF) always seem to have a strange bemusement about the place. Their main two issues are why we gave our guns up, and the second is when they find out that our snakes and crocodiles are protected so we can't just blow them away. . If theres a snake in my backyard I call up WIRES and some snake bloke will turn up ( though I won the lottery when the Lara Croft lookalike turned up to save me from the red belly black in my aviary) put it into a pillow case and release it into the bush somewhere nearby. When they find that out they can't believe that we don't just kill them, and assume its because we no longer have semi-automatics and are therefore helpless. Kind of like this guy. He's pretty watchable for an American, has a TV show where he tries out dirty jobs and in one series he came down here. This episode has him trying out the snake catching thing with brown snakes.He has the same "Why don't you just kill them?" attitude.

Good of you to drop in Allan - pull up a pew and have a Fosters........ cos no one down here drinks it! Despite your assumption that we have a natural talent for naming things imaginatively, the truth is actually the opposite. This is actual recorded dialog at the times major discoveries here were made: Look, theres an Octopus, it has blue rings on it what shall we call it? How about The blue ringed octopus?..No worries. Look, those mountains have got a bit of snow on them, what shall we call them?. How about The Snowy Mountains? Beauty. Look, this reef here is like a bloody great barrier. What do you reckon we should call it? How about the Great Barrier Reef mate?.. Alright. And so on and so on. Mount Disappointment, Mount Misery, The Red belly black snake, The great sandy desert......

Not really a sign as such but I spotted this a couple of years ago while wandering around an old overgrown pet cemetery in the backwoods of Northwestern Sydney.

THat IS pretty gory. Whats even more gory is that this being Australia you'd have about a billion flies all walking over that in 5 minutes. I just put this picture in the Whacky Signs or whatever thread, but then I came here and found your picture. I found this in an old overgrown pet cemetery (movie link! - though it wasn't built on an Indian Burial Ground) in an out of the way rural patch of North West Sydney. Appealed to my sense of humour.

Mine turned up in yesterdays post. Found the required 'dark pen' decided on what 'mark' to use - thought I'd go with the classic 'X'... and put it in the wrong *#@&$# box! I have NO idea how I managed that. Its a simple question needing just a yes or no answer and I buggered it up. Think I will report it lost stolen or damaged and ask for another one.

Stephen King ALWAYS comes back to just Indian burial grounds! I just googled "Shining Stephen King Indian Burial Grounds" and my computer exploded from too many hits. Once it had stopped flaming I checked the top entry, which as usual is Wikipedia, and it said , Among interpreters who see the film reflecting more subtly the social concerns that animate other Kubrick films, one of the earliest and most well-known viewpoints was discussed in an essay by ABC reporter Bill Blakemore entitled "Kubrick's 'Shining' Secret: Film's Hidden Horror Is The Murder Of The Indian", first published in The Washington Post on July 12, 1987.[87][88] He believes that indirect references to American killings of Native Americans pervade the film as exemplified by the Indian logos on the baking powder in the kitchen and Indian artwork that appears throughout the hotel, though no Native Americans are ever seen. Stuart Ullman tells Wendy that when building the hotel a few Indian attacks had to be fended off since it was constructed on an Indian burial ground. Blakemore's general argument is that the film as a whole is a metaphor for the genocide of Native Americans. He notes that when Jack kills Hallorann, the dead body is seen lying on a rug with an Indian motif. The blood in the elevator shafts is, for Blakemore, the blood of the Indians in the burial ground on which the hotel was built. As such, the fact that the date of the final photograph is July 4 is meant to be deeply ironic.

We get the English tabloids down here thanks to the internet web thing, and I just have to ask..., Ex on the Beach, Love Island, geordy shores, chelsea whatever....... what the hell is going on with reality show english girls today?? All bright orange freaks with lips like goldfish and vacant stares and stupidly fake boobs like half rockmelons and really really really stupid eyebrows. Give me Sofia Loren, any day even if she did go to school with your great grand mother I did \like Misery, but the Shining DID have an Indian burial ground thing at the end I seem to recall....didn't it?

What I hate about Stephen King is that he always seems to play the "Indian Burial Ground" card when his plot goes a bit shaky. Everything gets explained away because there was an Indian Burial Ground near by or whatever./. Full disclosure, I haven't been a Stephen King fan since the early '80's when it was mainly Pet Semetary and Salems Lot so maybe he's moved on and got a new plot device since then and I am being needlessly harsh.

Thanks Allan, thats really nice of you to say, I must say that I've found rmweb to be on the nice side of the forum scale , I read more threads than I post in and I have seen very little pettiness, vindictiveness or trolling, which is a nice change from some of the forums I've given up on. Any heated argument seems to be due to peoples passion for a particular subject - debates about pre-war GWR handrails or whatever. I'll admit I'm an architecture modeller, not a railway modeller but I still enjoy all the too-ings and fro-ings about the tiny details that go to make up a model railway, and the depth of the knowledge pool about even the tiniest esoteric items. As to Mrs Downse's spider phobia, she has a lot in common with my son who is the worst spider phobic I know. If you are arachnaphobic then Huntsmen spiders are the worst and although they are harmless - basically they are just kittens with 4 extra legs - they are really big AND pop up in unexpected places just to freak you out. And they DO love freaking people out, this one travelled all the way to the UK just to mess with the locals: (For "Poisonous predator" read "not very venomouis" I can't believe your press prints such innacuracies..) http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/831493/huntsman-spider-uk-trek-from-australia I was driving my son back to his mothers place after he'd had tea at my house and unbeknownst to me a huntsman had appeared on the top of the windscreen on the passengers side, just above his head. IMy son was sitting in the passenger seat and one second later he was in the back seat, He had somehow undone his seatbelt and back flipped neatly between the two front seats and landed in the back. I only knew something \had happened because his foot clipped the gear stick on the way through and suddenly the car was in neutral. Every Austarlian at one point or another will come upon a giant Huntsman, in fact in acknowledgement of that the Sydney zoo - Taronga - holds occasional; weekend courses where you can go and they'll get you over the scared phase. Graduation is letting a Huntsman climb all over you, apparently once you've done the course you are magically cured and you have no fear. I bought a voucher for my son for his 18th birthday but he was to scared to use it. To bring this back to thw worlds worst movies... which I can.. , the movie Arachnophobia had cast its major big name spiders but still needed hundreds of supporting spiders as extras, so they evaluated various species via a kind of spider olympics and the Huntsman came out on top. They were intending to use Australian Huntsmen but Actors Equity - our actors union - feared that our spiders would be exploited and so black banned the movie from using them. However, l uckily for the movie producers, aussie Huntsmen had been sent to New Zealand in the '20's so the movie was able to use them since they weren't in a union. That IS a true story but I can find no proof on the world wide web. Which being a web, it is ironic that it hasn't that spider information.

G'day Allan and Mrs Allan,, I'm not sure why everything is trying to kill me but you know what they say - Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that everything isn't out to get you! And when you consider for instance that the Sydney Funnel web spider which can have your relo's fighting over your inheritance 15 minutes after you've been bitten has a bite that is only lethal to primates, ie us - dogs and cats and birds and everything else just laughs it off - then it is a bit hard not to take it personally. And then theres the murderous marsupials, which this award winning short documentary illustrates (just brief boob glimpses sorry) Down here we admittedly do tend to take a perverse delight in talking about the many ways nature can do us in so to to avoid this post turning into a Crocodile Dundee style "Thats not a deadly spider - This is a deadly spider" (See, even our scientists do it) brag session, I'll hand it over to this thread of a couple of weeks ago that you mightn't have seen that is the natural progression of this in that there is me and a who's who of us Australians (and English visitors!) Rmwebbers doing it.. It IS informative, even I discovered that I didn't know everything I thought I did about Drop Bears. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/125159-for-those-that-fear-coming-to-australia/ (Can I just take a sec to mention I'm really enjoying your walk down memory lane of all the pics of your models you are posting up. Also the pics here of the pretty ladies..)