both the Senoi Praaq and Bukit Kepong aticles are now included in the MalaysiaScaleModelling.com site

That dio brought back a few memories for me.

But the composition of the squad is wrong if you are refering to Senoi Praaq. The Senoi Praaq were a detachment under the Jabatan Orang Asli (surprise! :) ), tasked with counter insurgency, composed of members of the Orang Asli and led by a British "advisor".

In 1968 they were absorbed into the Royal Malaysian Police, and became part of the PFF (today's GOF).

I had the pleasure of working with them at the Northern border years ago. I remember once watching a trail, and dying of heart failure when one of them came up behind me so quietly I didn't even know he was there. In the 80s and 90s the SAS were a regular feature in that area, doing jungle training and tracking.

Yes, you are definitely right in that they were a detachment under the predecessor of the JHEOA known as the DOFA. I'm sure you are aware their first "commandant" Mohd Roslan aka Colin Dewsnup who was heading the Dept. of Aboriginal affairs past away in KL not to long ago (Dec 2005). Pity my interest in this dio began only recently as an interview with him would have been a once in a lifetime experience.

At any rate I think I did mention at the start in my SBS or perhaps in one of my replies from the original thread (which was not shown in SBS given in the link) that I have used an orang Asli tracker to represent the efforts and contributions of the Orang Asli in the conflict although the dio is loosely dedicated to the Senoi Praaq. I'm aware from the pics I've managed to get my hands on most of them were in military garb and armed with modern weapons rather than their more "traditional" garb worn by my Orang Asli tracker. While they may have learned about small group tactics from the SAS it was the SAS that learned more from them about jungle warfare.

I didn't know that. :(

You got that right mate. Kota Tinggi is (still) one of the best Jungle Warfare training schools in the world. Lots of foreign military detachments go there for training. Loads of guys wearing colourful berets, you know what I mean? ;P That's why I put the word "advisor" in inverted commas. They learned from us, we learned from them. And until the late 90s, there was an almost permanent detachment of Stirling's mob here. Say 40 weeks out of 52.

Still and all, it's a good diorama beachbum, better executed than anything I could have conceived. And it tells a "story" very easily and quickly. Let's not talk about why I dislike the colour green so much :P