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In the website of K&C, we can see two new figures and one of them is a WWI german soldier.

That serie will be great.

Pierre.
 
In fact, they are the two new figures for the Collector's club.

Pierre.
 
While I was writing my posts, I receive from Mrs Chan the advertisement of the two new figures. I already ordered them. The quality is still improving. I bought the CF010 not for any interest in the Crimean War but for the beauty of it.

Pierre.
 
Here are the images. The World War I figure, which I just ordered, blows the competition away. Not even in the same league. The range when it comes out should be just fabulous.
 
The WWI line is the most exciting news that I have heard from KC. I was starting to lose my enthusiasm, but the new line does wonders. I have about 10 St.Pete/aeroart WWI figures and they are my absolute favorites. Can't wait to start adding the KC sets.
 
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Just to be sure this other club figure is charge of the Light Brigade??????


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WELLINGTON...CAN'T TELL
 
Don't you guy's know that is Colonel Harry Flashman!! The greatest rogue of the 19th Century!! The man whose goading of that poor one-armed ninnie Raglan launched the charge of the light brigade (into to which he unintentionally got himself caught up - talk about hoist by his own petard!). Don't you gentleman read? The greatest author of historical fiction of our time is George MacDonald Fraser, and Flashman is his most famous creation (just edging Lt. Dand MacNeil and Private MacAuslan of the Gordon Highlanders).

You gentlemen don't have any idea what you are missing if you don't read these books, they take you on the most entertaining (and for the most part amazingly historically accurate) rampage through Queen Victoria's little wars. The basic gist of the series is that the bully from the book "Tom Brown's School Days", who got thrown out of the school "Rugby" for drunkeness, ends up talking his father into buying him a commission in the fashionable "11th Hussars" (who have just returned to the UK from service abroad in India, and whom Harry is convinced will see no action in the foreseeable future). After he gets kicked out of the regiment by that blockhead James Brudenell, the 6th Earl of Cardigan, for dueling (he cheats, getting the toady who loads the guns to palm the bullet intended for his opponent's gun) and marrying a mill owner's daughter (a real shotgun wedding, after his bubble headed beauty of a wife tells her sisters about sleeping with him on the banks fo the Clyde - right where Andy Neilson grew up) he ends up in India, and participates in Elphinstone's disasterous retreat from Kabul in the Aghan War (he is the mythical second european officer to make good his escape) in a swashbuckling adventure ill suited for a coward and bully such as Flashman. From then on, whereaver there is an unanswered question in 19th Century military history, from the Old West in the United States to China, from the frozen steppes of Russia to the steamy jungles of Africa, Flashman is there to provide the answer! I can't thank Andy enough for doing this - I have been begging him for figures from this series and from the MacNeil/MacAuslan series for years!

Andy Neilson of K&C worked with Mr. MacDonald Fraser's daughter in an add agency in the early 70's, and actually had coffee with Mr. MacDonald Fraser (who is also one of Andy's favorite authors). Now I have to join that darned collector's club, because there is no way I am going to miss out on a Flashman figure.
 
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I have been reading the forum for a while but have not posted anything until now. I have to agree that WWI is a great idea and will make for some interesting figures.

I noticed that the Collectors Club figure is from 1914 and I figure that K & C will concentrate on the early war years when the uniforms were more ornamented, e.g. having the German leather spiked helmets which were later replaced by the simpler M18 helmets. Concentrating on the earlier war years will leave out the Americans though.

A question for any K & C insider, any plans for a A7V?

Ken
 
Louis Badolato said:
Don't you guy's know that is Colonel Harry Flashman!! The greatest rogue of the 19th Century!! The man whose goading of that poor one-armed ninnie Raglan launched the charge of the light brigade (into to which he unintentionally got himself caught up - talk about hoist by his own petard!). Don't you gentleman read? The greatest author of historical fiction of our time is George MacDonald Fraser, and Flashman is his most famous creation (just edging Lt. Dand MacNeil and Private MacAuslan of the Gordon Highlanders).
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I admit that I haven't read the books, but look forward to doing so. The KC blurb indicates this is Harry's "half-brother" George. Is that from the books or is it just a way around the copyright issue? Lastly, when it comes to historical fiction, no one can be better than Patrick O'Brian! That is heresy. :) :)
 
Wow I always hoped K&C would do WW1....Well I won't get too sappy, I put my order in for the club figure, it looks marvelous, I look forward to seeing more. What a wonderful thing to come home from work to!
 
Having just seen the WWI figure, if that is any indication of what to expect in this range, me thinks K & C will lock down WWI just like they have locked down WWII...........:D
 
Combat said:
I admit that I haven't read the books, but look forward to doing so. The KC blurb indicates this is Harry's "half-brother" George. Is that from the books or is it just a way around the copyright issue? Lastly, when it comes to historical fiction, no one can be better than Patrick O'Brian! That is heresy. :) :)
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Sorry Combat,

Read the whole O'Brian series, including the last unfinished book, its great, but not even in the same league as Flashman. Frankly, I liked the Hornblower Series better than O'Brian's stuff. I guess I'm a historical heretic. Oh.and the half-brother references are clearly to avoid a copyright infringement problem.
 
Mascleo said:
I have been reading the forum for a while but have not posted anything until now. I have to agree that WWI is a great idea and will make for some interesting figures.

I noticed that the Collectors Club figure is from 1914 and I figure that K & C will concentrate on the early war years when the uniforms were more ornamented, e.g. having the German leather spiked helmets which were later replaced by the simpler M18 helmets. Concentrating on the earlier war years will leave out the Americans though.

A question for any K & C insider, any plans for a A7V?

Ken
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Welcome aboard Ken,

You are right, it seems that K&C will concentrate on the early WWI years. I hope that we will have some historical figures like the Kaiser and the Tzar.

Pierre.
 
I know the club figure is early war, but I can't believe Andy will forego the tanks, better aircraft and Doe Boys of the late war, all of which will be far more profitable in the U.S., K&C's biggest market.
 
This should be a fantastic range ,so many great possibilities.
Australian light horse,lawrence of arabia,kilted scots etc etc etc.
I,ve got to admit I cant wait for the release of this range.
 
Louis Badolato said:
I know the club figure is early war, but I can't believe Andy will forego the tanks, better aircraft and Doe Boys of the late war, all of which will be far more profitable in the U.S., K&C's biggest market.
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(...WWI No pics as only in sketch concept point. I do know more but unfortunatly as you can imagine what they will be doing is of interest to more than just us! However it is early WWI...)

It's that part of the post by Tony Neville (thread entitled Back from London and it rocks, page 4, post number 31) that let me said that it will be the early years.

Pierre.
 
Pierre,

Thanks for pointing that out, I miss that post. I do hope Louis is right and they make doughboys, late war aircraft (with some pilot figures as K & C did with the WWII aircrafts) and some tanks! Tanks for WWI will be easy since they only had the Mark series (a bit ugly, but will make an interesting model), some armoured cars, 3 French tanks and the gigantic A7V.

I will happily forgo authenticity and combine 1914 soldiers with a Mark IV and an A7V to redo the first tank battle at Villers-Bretonneux. Anyway, however it goes, I am quite exciting about this series. :)

Ken
 
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