Hey Flying Kangaroo,
Welcome the forums, and another Sydney-sider! Be sure to keep an eye out for our Sydney Collectorate meetups. Our first one this year was at Sydney Airport and a whole TWO of us turned up lol!
We also meetup sometimes at Hobbyco - Rhodes, which seems to be near you (looking at your recent post) so it'd be great to meet you. Most of us are 1:400 collectors, so the Sydney Collectorates post does reside in that section of the forum.
Too bad for me, I'm looking at parting with my Emirates A340-500, but it's in 1:400 scale
Cheers,
Dan