I think I mentioned that I recently found a Tamiya Marder, with an Italeri LAV 25 Delco turret in the box, in my stash.
Now for a sort of real world sort of whiff, sort of regret, in the early 2000s I had three job applications in and I was offered the one I was least impressed with first and basically had to take it as I was due to start on the day I was meant to have my second interview at the one I wanted and meet the hiring manager. Anyway my concerns over the job I took were well founded when the entire department I had been hired into was wound up two weeks after I started, I rang to see if the other roles were still open, no luck there, in fact I was told that I was the second of two preferred candidates who had pulled out of the process to have had their jobs fall over and that the third candidate had been employed without competition. Very disappointing, the employer was GD Land Systems at their Australian facility where they built Delco Turrets and assembled ASLAVs.
Several years later at another company I noticed a bit of ASLAV paraphernalia in a senior managers office, he was a good bloke and I got along very well with him so I asked him where he got it. He was the hiring manager I didn't get to meet at GD, not only did we get along very well, it turns out the role I had applied for was more senior and better paid than I had realised and the bloke they had hired when the other candidate and I had dropped out had been sacked, after multiple warnings, for repeated OH&S violations. So instead of styrene, I could have been building 1:1 out of steel.
