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... when it arrives! It can take a while for these to pass through customs etc but it only increases the anticipation. I sometimes think it'd be quicker and cheaper to take a plane to St. Petersburg. Congrats on it anyway.

I suppose you'll just have to raid the storeroom for your birthday present! Have a good day. (That's making the presumption that you're Classic Toys of course. If you're a twin brother then birthday greetings are extended to all).

On 21st July 1946 the Vietnam conflict entered into a temporary lull: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/21/newsid_3894000/3894175.stm Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are on the moon: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/21/newsid_2635000/2635845.stm I'm...

Ignore what I just said above: even allowing for mix-n-match across the 4 lots it would appear that few of the 12 sets are complete. I know Vectis usually show a representative sample from each auction lot rather than every item therein (eg last few there were AK25 sets within ordinary EA and...

There are 12 sets in 4 lots, but there has presumably been some confusion on behalf of the seller as to which items relate to each VN set, and Vectis have not corrected this. A while back I dealt with their military miniature specialist Simon Clark and although he (and Vectis generally) seem to...

Brad and Louis could do a version of 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', although I'm not sure if it'll result in any Warbirds. Firebat would probably try "Getting Better" as an ode to getting real. Alex could use his skills to try "Fixing a Hole". Ok so there's probably a song for everyone in...

Welcome on board Steveo. On the 8th Army headgear I've had some nagging doubts myself. Certainly the classic Mk I "Tommy" helmet had many variations, and in the Far East the Mk IV "Turtle" helmet saw most use. However, they Andy has a wealth of photographs to analyse the numerous variants in...

There was also a Napoleonic figure produced exclusively for K&C UK, referenced as NAP-03. I'm not sure if it was a repaint of a Del Prado figure. I can't find my old K&C newsletter from that time but I'm sure that the Neville's could provide more information on that piece.

Oz, In rugby it's a physical game and you need to respect the ref and his decisions. The culture of soccer, however, is very different: there's always a swarm of players yapping around a ref with every decision he makes. If video evidence was introduced for certain matters in soccer the pressure...

Sorry about the delay in replying Pat: time-zones and football (soccer). Most of the 12 Winter versions of the Waffen SS sets were intended for use as Eastern Front sets but 3 American sets were also released to complement these as a Bulge series, and they were referenced as YA01, YA02 and YA03...

The current LiveBid ends on 10/07/06, which is 10th July not 7th October! Maybe I shouldn't have said that, and just let most of you miss the closing date hehe he. Some interesting items: some Streets of Old Hong Kong rarities, and plenty of WWII (Arnhem AN12, D-Day DD10 Ambulance, GC03...

Nice to see that he has found a way to, erm, support himself!

Interesting to note that if Germany and Ecuador draw their game then Ecuador top Group A. The England-Sweden game is later that day. This could mean that neither England nor Sweden would want to win the game, as the winner of Group B would face Germany. (The final round of Group A and B games on...

A glance at the Aussie team-sheet shows that it's still quite an 'ethnic minority' sport if you can use the phrase. Plenty of Greek and Croat names. Interesting to see that 3 Australians are in the Croatian squad too. At least it's an improvement on the 1974 squad, which was packed with...

Some of the results (such as the bad performances of Poland and Sweden) have upset many of the predicted Group Stage winners/runners-up and thus the Quarter Finalists too. Never fear, here's the BBC's Predictor: it updates with the actual results as they come in, and you can still enter your...

I wouldn't want to hog a D-Day thread with someone like de Valera. He was American-born, and that probably saved his life in 1916 as he was not sentenced to death with the other rebels. Of the whole Churchill -v- de Valera rumblings you can follow their sad exchanges with one another even after...

Ireland was indeed neutral (British troops on Irish soil would've triggered another civil war) but tens of thousands of Irishmen volunteered to fight in the British/Commonwealth forces and tens of thousands more worked in the munitions factories in Britain. Eamon deValera had a pretty toxic...

You've probably worked out already that Andy, as a proud Scotsman, is probably cheering on any decision that fellow Scot Alex Ferguson makes regarding Wayne Rooney's fitness! (Then again maybe the Auld Enemy thing is disappearing: a Scot like Gordon Brown has taken to appealing to English...

My granduncles were there. It may be remembered that it wasn't exclusively an American operation. Think of Gold, Juno and Sword too. By the way happy birthday to Sceic2 who was born on the 7th anniversary of this magnificient day.

I can remember a classic BBC children's series adapted form Susan Coolidge "What Katy did", which unsurprisingly was followed by "what Katy did next". Perhaps we'll have a Sepp for all seasons, or something similar. (Never in my collection though).