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Greetings fellow aviators! I am Captain Hawkwood AFC and am new to this Mess..I hail from Australia and have just begun collecting and playing WOW...any way hello all..

Captain Hawkwood wrote:Greetings fellow aviators! I am Captain Hawkwood AFC and am new to this Mess..I hail from Australia and have just begun collecting and playing WOW...any way hello all..

Good Day Sir! Glad to have you with us!

How many hours do you have in the air?!

Welcome to the board from a fellow Australian!

How popular is the game in your area?

Kaufschtick wrote:

Captain Hawkwood wrote:Greetings fellow aviators! I am Captain Hawkwood AFC and am new to this Mess..I hail from Australia and have just begun collecting and playing WOW...any way hello all..

Good Day Sir! Glad to have you with us!

How many hours do you have in the air?!

not many at the moment , only started flying last week,

Roger_Wilco wrote:Welcome to the board from a fellow Australian!

How popular is the game in your area?

well it must be popular, hard to get stuff locally...and everbody seems to know about it, four of us have formed an informal little group called Jasta Biggles..

I've found it near impossible to get anything here. Have resorted to sending my money directly off shore via E Bay. Walrus and Carpenter (Tin Soldier) is doing the importing for Australia so its a snail pace trickle (as usual). As the Aussie $ has been so strong against the US$ its actually been cheaper to buy from there than locally anyway. A single seat including postage exchange etc for AUS$13.35 and a two seater for AUS$15.00 , compared to $19.95 for a single and $25+ for a two seater locally.

so it is Tin soldier...they don't have much!!!! well yes OS it is..

Roger_Wilco wrote:I've found it near impossible to get anything here. Have resorted to sending my money directly off shore via E Bay. Walrus and Carpenter (Tin Soldier) is doing the importing for Australia so its a snail pace trickle (as usual). As the Aussie $ has been so strong against the US$ its actually been cheaper to buy from there than locally anyway. A single seat including postage exchange etc for AUS$13.35 and a two seater for AUS$15.00 , compared to $19.95 for a single and $25+ for a two seater locally.

Stop making fun of our economic situation.

I see it only getting worse in the next 10 years or more.

Sorry! Not making fun!

But if it gets worse over there I'll send you some boxes of Vegemite so you wont starve!

Its no good to us anymore as we've got no water left to wash the bad taste from our mouths

Your loss our gain...it is nice to be in a strong position for a change , remember when the aussie D was around 55 US cents...things were expensive then..

Bronco-Stoj wrote:Stop making fun of our economic situation.

I see it only getting worse in the next 10 years or more.

Yeah, if the WWII minis aren't out by then!!!

Roger_Wilco wrote:Sorry! Not making fun!

But if it gets worse over there I'll send you some boxes of Vegemite so you wont starve!

Its no good to us anymore as we've got no water left to wash the bad taste from our mouths

LOL!!!

Stoj, I hope you're not being serious?

Well, all I need are minis and the gas to drive to my buddies to duke it out WWI style!!

Hey, I always thought the US Military's M.R.E.s (Meal Ready to Eat)were OK in my younger days, so Vegemite...M.R.E..., hell, after a couple beers, who cares! Bring on the minis!

Nothing like Vegemite to bring on renal failure from super high blood pressure in later life.

Vegemite is black for one reason "ITS EVIL"

Ahh! Yes! The days of 55 cents in the dollar, that was 1987-88 when I had packed my bag and went touring around the world, had to come home earlier than planned because the money ran out twice as past as I had realized. "I'm sorry sir but your credit card has been declined, Boris handcuff this man to the kitchen sink". Thank goodness for my emergency AM-X card, gave me the cash I needed to get home of course at about 42% interest............ Those were the days, took me 15 months to pay off that $300.

Just add too that even though the US dollar is struggling its still cheaper to buy stuff from you guys that YOU IMPORT than it is anywhere else. Well except for China of course.

Roger_Wilco wrote:Welcome to the board from a fellow Australian!

R_W, is it just me, or does it strike you as odd that both the US & Australia have two planes now represented in this game as miniatures, and the French have only ONE!!!!

Two Australian Snipes, a US Spad & Airco DH.4...

I hope the French get a little more love in set three, I mean come on, I like the whole Allied representation thing going on, but I think the French rate more than just one plane in their colors! Unless it's some kind of whacky marketing ploy!

This whole game has me reading & looking for WWI aerial combat books, and I'm reading about a lot of French pilots...and not seeing a lot of minis in French colors!

I like the US minis and all, but you've got to give credit where credit is due. Now don't get me wrong, I think getting the different Allied nations represented is great, I'd just like to see some more minis in French colors, is all.

Roger_Wilco wrote:Nothing like Vegemite to bring on renal failure from super high blood pressure in later life.

Vegemite is black for one reason "ITS EVIL"

LOL!!

Ah heck, a couple Sam Adams...a little salt...a couple more Sam Adams...

Roger_Wilco wrote:Ahh! Yes! The days of 55 cents in the dollar, that was 1987-88 when I had packed my bag and went touring around the world, had to come home earlier than planned because the money ran out twice as past as I had realized. "I'm sorry sir but your credit card has been declined, Boris handcuff this man to the kitchen sink". Thank goodness for my emergency AM-X card, gave me the cash I needed to get home of course at about 42% interest............ Those were the days, took me 15 months to pay off that $300.

ROFLMAO!!!

Uncle Sam has decided to send out an "extra" economic relief tax refund starting right about now, supposed to help give the economy a shot in the arm. The running joke at work is:

Spend the money at Wal Mart and it goes to China...
Spend the money on food, it goes to Mexico, Honduras and Guatamala...
Spend the money on a good quality car, it goes to Japan...
Spend it on computers and it goes to India...
Spend it on gas and it goes to the Middle East...
The only way to keep that money here stateside is to spend it on football tickets and beer!

Could be just a coincidence, I'd also bet its a marketing move. Seems though the Aussies may get an RE8 mini in the next set and two SE5a cards as mentioned in the Dogfight Booster pack as hinted at the end of the Ryrie thread.

I'm surprised there are so few French planes and no Italians, I would have thought the Spads would have been represented by a Frenchman, an Italian and a Brit and then kept the Nieuports in Set three solely for the Americans.

LOL! Just think that football team has Australian Punters in it, and you'll probably find the beer you drink is owned by an offshore company too!

Cheers to those Beers!

Roger_Wilco wrote:I'm surprised there are so few French planes and no Italians, I would have thought the Spads would have been represented by a Frenchman, an Italian and a Brit and then kept the Nieuports in Set three solely for the Americans.

One of the Spads is actually an Italian, the tan one. The roundel is red outside, white, then green in the center. It's hard to tell it from the French roundel. Angiolillo made mention of that Italian military sent out instructions to mark their aircraft with green, white and red roundels, but initially made no indication as to the sequence of the colors. So in the begining, some units marked their aircraft red, white and green from the outside in until the higher ups clarified things.

I can't recall the pilots name on the tan Spad, but on the underside of the wings it's painted red and green.

So the Allies have the UK, France, Belgium, Italy, Australia and the US so far in miniatures, which we all know, is where this game is at!

Roger_Wilco wrote:LOL! Just think that football team has Australian Punters in it, and you'll probably find the beer you drink is owned by an offshore company too! Cheers to those Beers!

I never met a Foster's beer I didn't like!

Fosters is awful, hardly anybody in Australia drinks it...VB is much better.. though now I prefer German and Belgian beers (Becks and Stella), and a nice kiwi one , Speights and the Tasmanian brands , both of them..

Which of th aircraft are piloted by Australians?

Captain Hawkwood wrote:Fosters is awful, hardly anybody in Australia drinks it...VB is much better.. though now I prefer German and Belgian beers (Becks and Stella), and a nice kiwi one , Speights and the Tasmanian brands , both of them..

Kaufschtick wrote:I never met a Foster's beer I didn't like!

Well, I've got to be honest here...I've never really met any beer I didn't like!

I can very nearly honestly say that! Actually, there have been one, maybe two or so beers that I've not wanted to try again...but I'll rarely admit it!

Captain Hawkwood wrote:Which of th aircraft are piloted by Australians?

I'd have to go and get my minis, but I'm fairly certain that two of the three Sopwith Snipes are piloted by Australians, or so the cards say. I happen to think that that is extremely cool.

Yes I'm an Idiot. I have the box of planes sitting just off to the side and realized that I completely FUBAR'ed the last post. I also have some other "brand" SPAD's mixed in with the lot and at a glance I got confused as they are all similar (The extras are from pre-paints from Japan 2 x SPAD's and 2x Albatros DIII's) and I just didn't look properly before I "thinked".

Never met a Fosters you didn't like??????

Man your either not too fussy when it comes to your beer or your taste buds are shot to hell!!!!

Sorry my PC crashed in the middle of typing the last reply, now the thread has the continuity of an Australian soap opera.

The Australian Planes are two of the Sopwith Snipes from the newly released second set. Baker's WW08e and Ryrie's WW08f Both are AFC planes from 4 Squadron

Back to the beer, I'm hooked on Cascade myself, but can't ever go past a Carlton Draught on Tap.

Roger_Wilco wrote:Yes I'm an Idiot. I have the box of planes sitting just off to the side and realized that I completely FUBAR'ed the last post. I also have some other "brand" SPAD's mixed in with the lot and at a glance I got confused as they are all similar (The extras are from pre-paints from Japan 2 x SPAD's and 2x Albatros DIII's) and I just didn't look properly before I "thinked".

LOL!!!

Shoot, I had no idea the tan Spad was Italian until I read that post by Angiolillo!

Roger_Wilco wrote:Never met a Fosters you didn't like??????

Man your either not too fussy when it comes to your beer or your taste buds are shot to hell!!!!

I think the one time I had Fosters was in 88', in England, on an airbase. It was on tap, and the locals introduced us...all I can tell you was that it was good. I can't remember the rest!

Roger_Wilco wrote:Sorry my PC crashed in the middle of typing the last reply, now the thread has the continuity of an Australian soap opera.

LOL!!!

Roger_Wilco wrote:The Australian Planes are two of the Sopwith Snipes from the newly released second set. Baker's WW08e and Ryrie's WW08f Both are AFC planes from 4 Squadron

Was that you, or did anyone ever find out who Ryrie was? I lost track of that thread...

Roger_Wilco wrote:Back to the beer, I'm hooked on Cascade myself, but can't ever go past a Carlton Draught on Tap.

I like to try to expand my horizons, and I am always willing to try new beers. I have my favorites...ones I'd try to avoid a second time around, but one thing I've noticed is that the beers are only as good as the company you keep when drinking them.

I think the one time I had Fosters was in 88', in England, on an airbase. It was on tap, and the locals introduced us to it on tap...all I can tell you was that it was good. I can't remember the rest!

Nah! It wasn't really good it was actually bad, so bad that the chemicals in it scrambled your memory to make your recall believe it was good.

My first hangover was when I was 16 and yachting. It was caused from an extreme over indulgence of that dreaded liquid. Funny thing is I never got a hangover from any other beer...... well not that I can still remember.......See I told you it was bad, beer that clear and pale shouldn't give you a hangover.......... I only drank about a 2 dozen cans that afternoon and it shouldn't have sent me to sleep either.......