As part of our “Golden Years” series and further celebration of Rob as Toby, we bring you a special treat. As mentioned yesterday, Rob doing smokey goodness through-out “The Haunted Airman” was a huge bonus. Being a reformed smoker (TRYING), it’s not easy for me to watch people draw on ciggies … unless of course they sizzle like Rob while doing it.  Where’s that big industrial fan again? Need now!
Hang onto your chairs or better still, take a load off, kick back and enjoy the smokin brilliance that Maria so beautifully compiled for us today. THANKYOU from the bottom of my heart.

*hangs* Warning sign here.

At RPAustralia where we love nothing more than to celebrate Rob and his career on a daily basis, we will be bringing you a series of goodness as we take a closer look at and appreciate Rob’s on screen performances.   The “Golden Years” will be celebrating highlights of Rob’s amazing work from 2004 when he first graced the screen as a professional, to his most recent projects of 2010.

Today I will be kicking off with a scene from “The Haunted Airman”.  Rob’s performance as Toby was outstanding and so convincing, that upon first watching, I was instantly drawn into waves of emotion and all senses were subjected to the dark place which was this character’s reality. A performance so powerful, the focus on plot became secondary (for me) to Rob’s masterful brilliance.  In addition to this, the consistent smoking through-out proved to be a real bonus.  Here are some screen caps and a short video which capture moments from one of my favourite scenes and I hope you enjoy the magic of video presentation (as much as Michelle and I did), which can only be credited to our very own talent, the one and only Maria.

p.s. click for BIG action when viewing screen caps. Trust!

Golden Years: Haunted Airman from RPAustralia on Vimeo.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you most probably saw the pics of Rob’s new haircut for W4E.  Well I’m not going to post them here for obvious reasons, but it has given me inspiration to do a montage of Rob’s different hairstyles over the last few years.  Oh cannot wait until they start filming this weekend and we hopefully don’t have to wait long to get a glimpse of Jacob Jankowski (thought I’d better define!)   Thanks to Campbell Mitchell for the gorgeous photo of Rob as Richard.

Chris asked us to prepare a montageâ„¢ of Rob clean shaven – at first I thought this was going to be hard, I mean Rob I’m sure often starts off clean shaven in the morning, but by the time he gets to any premieres or whatever, he is anything but.  So I’ve done my best and most might not be as clean shaven as you wanted, but Rob has NOT made this montage easy.  Thanks to our friends and elite affies Robert Pattinson Source and affie MrPattinson for the tagged pics.

I know how much we all, (well I speak for myself & many of you) LOVE the gorgeous pics of Rob smoking, so I thought it was time for an updated smoking montageâ„¢. Plus I can make .gifs now too *smiles* It’s a bit quieter tonight so thought it was the perfect time to share this with you all.  Perfect way to rid our minds of the possible musical BD news too *shudders*  Thanks to our friends & elite affie Robert Pattinson Source for the tagged pics & kathywath89 for the second Tyler .gif.

Source & Source

I just love Toby from Haunted Airman and this, as most of you know, was the role that had me hooked on Rob even though I had noticed him in GoF.   For me it was so obvious what was yet to come and so I’m happy to post these HQ stills thanks to our friends and elite affies Robert Pattinson Source.  RPS you always have the best qual HQ!  Ooh Rob in  uniform *sigh*. Oh and if you haven’t watched HA yet, then don’t look at last pic as it’s a *spoiler*