Army Pictures: March 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Monday, March 29, 2010

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Beretta M9 Marine Commemorative

Emailed from a U.S. Marine. This is a collectible.
The M9 is the military designation for the Beretta 92FS 9mm.

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Beretta M9 Marine Commemorative

Emailed from a U.S. Marine. This is a collectible.
The M9 is the military designation for the Beretta 92FS 9mm.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Video: Paintgun Test

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Apology

Just want to apologize for the on again off again recently. Unfortunately this is the nature of personal issues currently being worked through.

This has been aggravated by the continual actions of some bitter and twisted individuals that I would normally have just ignored if not for the other issues and now will be.

That is a criticism I will wear, but I intend to leave the past in the past and with my trusty stick draw the proverbial line in the sand and move on. If others wish to perpetuate things, well good luck to you.

Thanks again for the support shown. As mentioned there won’t be new updates just now but hopefully not too long.

Cheers
Terry A

Century Arms FAL R1A1 Sporter 308

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Century Arms FAL R1A1 Sporter 308

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Guys,
Please note the 2 posting rules at right. I am unable to add any comments if your full name is not included as a signature if your don't have a Google account, thanks.

Rule 2. Trolls will not get past Go. A Troll is anyone who just want's to come on here making further accusations regarding the posting below even if you include your full name, got it.

That subject is closed, and I will not be goaded into re-opening it.

I trust that makes rule 2 clear enough!

Terry A

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Site future

As stated below I will not allow irrelevant factors to intrude on what I do. To make one thing clear, the decision to take down the site was influenced by certain individuals that congregate on the Flame blog site but didn’t prevent them from uploading a ripped copy of the site to the Rapidshare file sharing network. (I use the term “individuals” and “them” because most hide behind anonymity so we don’t know their identities, very courageous)

If not for other factors I would not have reacted in the same manner and I apologize for what would seem to be rather rash actions. As a result I will be putting the site back on line as it was a couple of weeks ago, it will be a day or so before all content in back on-line.

Please note there will be no updates at this stage as I still have remaining personal issues to be fully resolved, but removing other distractions from the equation will assist in that end. I also plan to redesign the site structure as well to hopefully make things easier to navigate.

I want to thank again everyone for their support which has helped in removing irrelevant distractions so I can concentrate on the important things in life.

I’ll keep this blog updated with further site developments.

Cheers
Terry A

Enough is Enough

Apologies for this, if you don't know what this is about, probably better to keep it that way as it's not a nice tale. I also apologize for posting about this subject again but I am at a complete loss of how to deal with the unending and savage accusations still be railed against me over the last two and a half years.

We have seen a lot of stuff posted by various individuals on the subject of the Panther DVD review posted some two and half years ago now.

An interesting point is back “when” things used to be about substance, the news and reviews etc.

But with the advent of this blogging phenomenon we see the emphasis change to that of the individual where it seems "who" is more important that "what?"

Why is this? Well basically it’s because those without any valid argument or facts to offer resort to character assassination, name calling and outright abuse, just the thing we have seen in abundance on the Panther Project and The Flame blog sites.

I have sort advice from numerous people on what best to do in a situation where no matter what I say it is twisted around to suit the agenda of others. These people have made up their minds on false premises and predigest, and are ready to put their connotation on anything said to fit in with their agenda; so why bother?

I have decided to simply ignore these people and urge people NOT to feed them, simply ignore them and let them wallow in their own mess.

Brian lives at Derby, Derbyshire, UK, I am in Perth, Western Australia the other side of the planet, yet he claims to know exactly where the DVD was and what Jon and I were doing at any given time, even what review I was working on at a given time. Give me a break, he must be the World's best clairvoyant as well? (Sorry to be flippant)

One could also ask why Brian re-posted the whole saga on his blog on March 9 even though he states he only makes postings in response to things I say. I hadn’t made any comment on this subject for months, so why did he make this posting if not to re-ignite the issue for his own motives?

The simple fact is you can't have proof of something that didn't happen; if anyone reads my e-mails without the suggestive prompting you will see this! For the umpteenth time; I, Terry Ashley wrote the Panther DVD review, why Brian can't understand this is beyond me other than he doesn't want too because it makes an even bigger mockery of his vindictive ravings.

I have no intention of admitting to something I didn't do just to appease some nasty foul mouthed bully.

Brian has again posted one of my private e-mails from 16 June 2007. I am actually glad he did because it shows I'm telling the truth in regards this Private forum if you ignore the usual leading by Brian, as well as tipping a bucket on his mate Vinnie Brannigan, way to go Brian.

I will put my hand up for one thing, saying in some e-mails that I was working on the review, which was simply to get this wining individual to go way. Something I bet nearly everyone including Brian has done at some time when asked if you're doing something, especially at work. You say "yes working on it" so you don't have to elaborate further, that's all. Yet he takes this literally because it suits his agenda, and should be seen as such.

And let’s not forget this is not just an attack on me and Jon Bailey it is an attack on free speech where someone who can’t challenge the review on factual issues resorts to the worst kind of personal abuse. Can you image the situation where everyone is just so scared to tell the truth for fear of being attacked in this manner for years after the event; reviews would be worth didley squat and would be nothing more than product adverts.

So Brian, I REJECT YOU and your vindictive foul mouthed hate campaign as a total disgrace and irrelevance.
I REJECT your trumped up allegations, arrived at by putting your twist on anything to suit your own agenda.

You can continue to post your vindictive tripe and fairy stories until you are a bitter and twisted old man (if not already) as far as I'm concerned along with the anonymous mates that have gathered around you like flies on a steaming cow pat.

My conscience is clear on all of this, I know what I did and didn’t do and that’s all that matters to me. The erroneous conclusions of others with predetermined agendas are a total irrelevance as are they.

Just to summarise, as my e-mail of 16 June 2007 proves I had no knowledge of or participated in any alleged conspiracy by some private forum group, I wrote the review and explained the so called "lying in e-mails" above. The rest is just hot air from a bunch of the most nasty, vindictive, foul mouthed individuals you would have the misfortune to run across in a dark alley and as said, I reject the lot.

I have far more important things in life to get on with. Again, I wrote the DVD review, which is the only story you are ever going to get from me because it's THE TRUTH, so deal with it! THE END.

I apologise if that sounds a little arrogant but this has gone on for two and a half years now and enough is enough.

Footnote:
With the review off line we have seen the emotive term “assassinations piece” emerge and without the review people have been unable to see for themselves. Therefore I will re-post the Panther DVD review and my Addendum so people can actually read these and decide for themselves without being led to a conclusion by Mr.Balkwill.

The review in fact is factual and technically accurate something no one to this day has been able to dispute, hence the nasty hate campaign and character assassination we have seen from Mr.Balkwill and his mates.

Let’s also not forget Brian said he would remove his postings from the Panther Project and Flame blog pages if the PMMS review was taken down, well that didn’t happen did it, the situation just escalated into a feeding frenzy by him and his anonymous mates.

Footnote 2 on Jon Bailey's involvement?
Yes Jon is my mate, not my wife meaning he doesn't tell me every little thing he does.
There has been a lot of talk about what did or didn’t take place on a private forum, the key word being PRIVATE. When people are at the pub or having coffee with friends they will say stuff they wouldn't think of saying in public, that's what private means.

In the end this would have remained on the "private" forum was it not for Brian betraying that privacy, not for the first time either. Whatever occurred on this private forum had no bearing on the review I WROTE as I’ve already stated I didn’t even know of the existence of this group until all this blew up. So what’s the relevance of continually talking about this group when they had nothing to do with the final review, just another giant smoke screen to try and make out there was some conspiracy, which there wasn’t other than in Brian’s mind?

It is claimed Jon has a hatred for Alasdair Johnston yet there is no proof of this anywhere other than what Brian and his mates say. The supposed ML posting on this is here, make up your own mind?

National War Dog Monument -El Paso Article

Air Force veteran seeks memorial to war dogs

By MIKE BAIRD Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Posted: 03/07/2010 11:38:40 PM MST

FULTON, Texas—A former Air Force sentry dog handler in Vietnam has one last mission.
He's working with others to honor military canines with a national monument.
"Our war dogs deserve recognition for the lives they saved," said Larry Chilcoat, who patrolled the combat perimeter of Camp Cameron, Vietnam, throughout 1969 with a German shepherd named Geisha.
"It's been 40 years, and I have a beautiful wife and granddaughter, but I don't carry their pictures," said Chilcoat, 62. "But I still carry a photo of Geisha; she changed my life."
"I love my family," Chilcoat said, "but Geisha was my lifeblood in a jungle nightmare, and we both relied on each other day and night to survive.
"She heard things I didn't and let me know, and I knew she would die to protect me."
Military dogs saved more than 10,000 lives in Vietnam, according to the U. S. War Dog Association. More than 200 of about 4,000 dogs that served in Vietnam, died while on duty, the Fulton retiree said.
Chilcoat is one of three former military dog handlers who received Pentagon approval in January for a proposed Military Working Dog National Monument.

The veterans presented plans for a bronze pedestal with a soldier and four dogs, designed by Brian Rich, of Fairfax Va. He's the uncle of a Marine dog handler, Cpl. Dustin Jerome Lee, who was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade on March 21, 2007, in Fallujah, Iraq. Lee's bomb sniffing dog, Lex who was wounded, later was adopted by Lee's family, said Rich, 35, a graphic artist and former Marine. "It's helped my family with the loss of my nephew, and motivated me to design the monument," Rich said. Chilcoat said Pentagon officials loved the design. He, project founder John Burnam of Bethesda, Md., and Richard Deggans of Plano are taking back a clay model in mid-April being made by bronze sculptor Paula Slater, of Hidden Valley Lake, Calif.

Chilcoat, Burnam and Deggans, who are among more than 10,000 Vietnam War dog handlers, met through the Vietnam Dog Handlers Association. Their push to honor their dogs led to then-President George W. Bush signing legislation in 2008 for a monument, to be built and maintained with private donations. A location is tentatively planned at Fort Belvoir, Va. They have raised about $20,000 of an estimated cost of about $850,000.
Pigeons, dolphins, horses and other animals have served in wars since World War I, said Burnam, 62, who served in the Army from 1966 to 1968. But no animal has done as much as the dog, which has served as sentries, scouts, trackers and patrol leaders, he said.

Burnam and his scout dog led infantry patrols.
Burnam knows firsthand the dogs, like his scout dog that led infantry patrols, deserve recognition.
"We were the tip of the spear, detecting sounds and movement in the jungles, that led to ammunition caches, underground tunnel complexes, and entrenched enemies," he said.
"If the dog's body goes rigid, they cock their head, perk ears, fix their eyes, you know it's dangerous," he said. "You certainly don't want to go where the dog doesn't want to go. They saved my butt from enemy fire several times."

In one incident his dog alerted as they led a patrol into a clearing, he said.
"We hit the ground—ambushed by enemies in bunkers," he said. "We laid behind a 10-inch diameter tree trunk, with enemies firing in front of us, and our guys firing over our heads. If we would have moved either direction, they would have blown the hell out of us."

National War Dog Monument

Video: Paint Gun Wars, The Headshot

Sunday, March 21, 2010

PSE Buckmaster Compound Bow

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Beretta 950 BS, 22 Caliber Short Pocket Pistol, a.k.a. The Minx, Circa 1968

Emailed to me from a Beretta handgun collector.

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Beretta 950 BS, 22 Caliber Short Pocket Pistol, a.k.a. The Minx, Circa 1968

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Thanks to all

I have bought back this blog so I can keep people informed about events now and in the future, if you wish to add a comment please read the posting rules. There are only two so it should be clear to everyone, if you want to post an anonymous comment or use an alias and then whine it didn’t make it, that’s your problem. Hope that’s clear enough?

Thanks for all the support shown during this unfortunate time. I’m sorry things have ended this way and apologise for the sudden downing of the site but unfortunately due to the savagery and persistence of the attacks on me I had little choice if I was to make any headway as far my personal situation is concerned.

Yes, I will agree I have made some stupid statements along the way and some out of sheer frustration which were not thought through due to other personal issues at the time which probably made the postings look quite unsettled.

It is not easy to know how to respond to fabricated “evidence” cobbled together from various sources to suit one’s own agenda, in some ways it’s impossible without looking as stupid as those making the accusations.

The site closing saga last November being the best/worst example of that and was mainly a result of unfortunate timing which I regretted making. Yes it did make me look rather stupid but was certainly not planned.

I may be in a position shortly to make a full statement on events leading up to the site closure and what the future holds, but at present I am simply stepping back to deal with the personal issues without these distractions.

I will say this though to those who wish to make comment, I give no credence to anything said on forums, blogs or anywhere by cowards who hide behind the anonymity of the internet. If you don’t have the courage to identify yourself with your REAL name then you are of no consequence and your opinions are worthless.

Thanks again for the support shown
Terry A

Friday, March 19, 2010

Remington 597 VTP Heavy Barrel Custom Stock

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Remington Model 11 Semi-Automatic 12 Gauge Shotgun

Emailed to me by an avid hunter.
Specs on this Shotgun:
19-inch Barrel, 7 in the Magazine plus 1 in Chamber.

Remington Model 11 Semi-Automatic 12 Gauge Shotgun

Emailed to me by an avid hunter.
Specs on this Shotgun:
19-inch Barrel, 7 in the Magazine plus 1 in Chamber.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Shotgun Flashlight

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Video: Iceball Gun

Monday, March 15, 2010

Video: Fully Armed

Sunday, March 14, 2010

270 Caliber Mossberg Model 810 Bolt-Action Rifle

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270 Caliber Mossberg Model 810 Bolt-Action Rifle

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Friday, March 12, 2010

Custom made Hand Grips

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

The first boat

Didn't take long for the first boat to float by.

Below is a press release from AirConnection on the new KV book by Neil Stokes

KV – Technical History and Variants
by Neil Stokes
Published by AirConnection, Canada
ISBN 978–0–9781091–2–7

AirConnection is proud to announce the publishing of the long-awaited book KV – Technical History and Variants by Neil Stokes. More than four years in the making, the book is in hardcover format with 560 A4-sized pages. The book includes 350 black-and-white photographs and over 300 drawings including 50 pages of 1:35 scale drawings and 12 pages of color profiles.

The book covers all major variants and sub-variants including the KV-1, KV-1S, KV-85, KV-2, KV-8 and SU-152. It draws upon wartime Soviet documents and technical manuals, factory archive material and other primary source references to provide the most in-depth treatment of the KV series ever published.

The majority of the photographs come from private sources and less than 10% have been previously published. They include rarely seen top views, interior photographs of the KV-1 and SU-152, along with previously unpublished photographs providing glimpses of the turret interior on the KV-2.

We expect that the book will available at the end of April, 2010.

The recommended retail price is $129.99 Canadian dollars.

The book is accompanied by a web site http://www.4bogreen.com containing modeling-related information including kit reviews, lists of available after-market products and tweaks lists. By utilizing the web site to complement the book, the author and publisher can more easily include information about new kits and after-market products as they become available.

Trade and personal inquiries for the Americas and Asia/Pacific should be directed to AirConnection and those for Europe should be directed to AJ-Press.

Video: Dealing With Military Insurgents

Thanks to all

A big thank you for all the kind comments, again it's all a bit overwhelming.

After all I only set out to try and provide the type of review I felt was missing at the time and unfortunately is still the case today in some magazines an online sites.

I never wanted any sort of notoriety or claimed to be any sort of expert but left the talking to the reviews, all this adoration type talk makes me a little uncomfortable and slightly embarrassed as I was just a modeller trying to help out other modellers.

Until recently this was an enjoyable pastime but just got more and more difficult as the enjoyment waned. There are a few factors that led to this so it’s hard to pin down just one cause, but it’s really academic now anyway.

I’ll also be keeping this blog going and may include the odd kit announcement of things that really float my boat as well as the odd build image.

Thanks again for the kind words; it’s nice to know all the long hours were appreciated by the vast majority of modellers who visited the site. And to the handful of sad little individuals who simply couldn’t handle the plain facts I leave you with the quant Australian saying “go stick your head up a dead dingos bum”

Ahh, that feels better, now let’s see what kit will it be?

Cheers

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

TZ-75 Double Action, High Capacity, 9mm Pistol

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TZ-75 Double Action, High Capacity, 9mm Pistol

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

“The time has come” the Walrus said......

It is with some regret I have to announce that due to personal issues there will be no further updates to this site.

I won’t go into the details other than to say that for various reasons I don’t have the same enjoyment or desire in doing what I do as before and after 13 years I’m just so tied and it’s time for a rest.

I want to again thank people for the support shown over the years and particularly during some unfortunate recent events, and especially to the site sponsors for their ongoing support and would ask modellers to support those vendors when possible.

The hobby has never been in better shape with an unprecedented number of innovative new releases announced for the future from an ever growing number of companies both big and small.

I won’t be leaving the hobby and one doesn’t know what the future holds, but please don’t read anything into that as far the PMMS site goes. I’ll simply slip back into the faceless throng of modeller’s that make up the majority of the modelling communities around the World.

All the best.

Terry A

Jennings Model 58, 9mm Pistol

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010