Howdy All,

I just wanted to take a moment of your valuable time surfing Armorama to point out a bloke amoungst us who is Guilty as sin!!
Not only is this guy a constant perpetrator of sharing his scratch/bashing techniques with all of us, but he persists in commiting henious crimes of encouragement and mentoring to those of us in need.
Worse than all of the above atrocities, this 'Crocodile Dundee' lookalike has added the word 'Pusher' to his reperatorie of deadly monikers.....that's right ladies and gentlemen, this lad's a dealer of modeling 'drugs'!!
And he doesn't mind doling out more than his share of the stuff. At every opportunity this dasdardly villian will slip you habit-forming drugs called 'Pointer's', or ' Guidance', or even worse, he'll be more than happy to supply the 'junkies' of this fine craft extra 'Goodies' just to ensure you get your 'high'.
There's even photographic evidence of him trying his best to 'recruit' fine looking Aussie lasses (posing as Park Ranger's.....can you believe it?) to help him ply his trade...............the 'Horror'.........the 'horror'.............

If you haven't already been able to figure out what villianous creature of which I speak.....then let me reveal this vile, and verminous cad, and throw back the cloak behind which he hides!!!!

da dad dadaaaaaaaaa MR. ROO!!!

That's right fellow Armoramaites, our (supposedly) good Cliff Hutching's is the culprit of all this.
His hideaway (wouldn't you know it) is far, far away, down around the bottom of the Earth in Australia of all places. Not only that, but he's out in the middle of nowhere, far from the 'Arm's of the modeling Law's' wouldn't you know. In a place called Gympie (although I have it on good authority that this name is actually false, and that the real name of the place he lurks is a place called New Jersey!).

So...in closing, my fellow Armorama members. The only way we can fend off this kind of psuedo-criminal activity being perpetrated by the indomitable Mr. Roo, is by all of us paying veeeeeeeeeerrrrryyyyy close attention to his antics..........that way he can't get away with it any longer!

Be warned Mr. Roo.......the 'light' of appreciation..{cough!}.....err, I mean, consternation...is upon you!




Tread.

LOL Tread, but oh so true......... for Cliff

Yeah, Roo is a nice fellow. sometimes too nice! especially to my lady friends!!!!

I HATE HIM!!!!!!!!!!

Bravo!!!

John

Tread- We'll all certainly be on the lookout for this Heinous Marsupial, but I believe you should have to back up some of your more extreme claims... Hmmm... Let's start with posting the Photographic evidence of the :-)8 "fine looking Aussie lasses".

Is this a joke or are you serious
If you are serious why didn t you first get in touch with the rest of the STAFF MEMBERS as he is one of them. And get your piece of mind first with the STAFF MEMBERS and then with the rest of us, because this seams to be quite serious what you ve done or I might not get the clue of the joke

Tread ... I am so glad you started this post. If you hadn´t, I would have. To add to the story:......
A few months ago, when I was building my DUKW, I got a lot of advice from Roo (among others). When I asked him about the hood bows on his, he told me he used the 2.5 ton truck ones as they were the same.
So I asked on the Stockholm IPMS board, if anybody had a spare set. Right away I got an offer. After a few weeks I e-mailed the guy again, but his father had been very ill for some time and had just died. He hasnt been to the latest meeting (understandably) and now there is a 2 month summerbreak.
So I decided to scratch them and my first thought was to e-mail Cliff about some measurements. I never got any measurements ... I got sent a full set of hood bows instead. That was last week. Today when I came home from work, my marsupial post had arrived. No contraband .. just the hood bows.

Some times, it just bowls me over, the goodwill and generosity of some people. I guess if you put "good mate" or gentelman on an envelope, it would probably go direct to the Roo man. Thanks Cliff.

Guys when I can stop laughing for a minute about Treads thread I will say this in my defence.

A lot of guys helped me out with advice, parts etc over time here on armorama and in my own way I am only following the tradition formed here on Armorama of helping folk out.

I will continue to do this were I can as I do not mind answering questions if I can or suppling spare bits if I can to help out.

So anyone who thinks I can help. JUST ASK

MisterRoo is already my hero (him and William Shatner) because he let me into his campaign without seeing a shred of talent on my part.

He was kind to me when I was expecting to be kicked repeatedly in the hindquarters and told to play in traffic by the users herein.

I am seriously contemplating naming the first 3 of my offspring MisterRoo.

Yea, that Mr Roo is a sneaky sort. Always weaseling some little tidbit of useful info. He's making the rest of us have better models and we can't have that now can we......can we?

Roo....WE LOVE YOU so much it puts a tear to my eye

for he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow, FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOOOOOOOWWWW!!!!

My fellow admirers of MrRoo I have to agree with you 100% I too am a recipent of cliffs good will when I was first gfetting into modelling he sent me is old AB free of charge for which I am for ever grateful.

Bravo for Mr Roo . Thats all i have to say . Sophisticated Scratcher and a gentleman. Especially with ladies ....if u know what i mean

LOL :-) Costas you are giving all my secrets away :-)

And out of the blue he sent me some truck wheels!.... Is there no end to this guy's talents?, even my wife thinks he's charming...More than she thinks of me...Jim

Nice aren't they Jim, got some of them as well. Handy for replacing the 20" wheels next time I chop up a gun tractor................

I am 15th posting here and I see 14 guys told all the good things in their posts..all i can add :I am proud to have you as a friend Craig. long and happy living with your lovers ,my fearless friend.(just remembered the crocodile photo)

LOL I was more interested in patting the pretty keeper then being scared of the croc :-) :-) :-)

Thanks guys it is nice to know my efforts are appreciated

Oh!......did I forget to mention, the cad also sent me some of his superb wheels as well!
Seems he's trying to lure me into his 'den of inequity' by tempting my staunch resilience with more of his 'Goodies'.

....The Horror............the horror................

Tread.

We'll make 'truckies' of you all yet............