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B. ON THE BEAT IN HONGKONG Among the many great delights of living and working in this great city of Hong Kong for almost 50 years (47 to be exact) is being able to tell overseas visitors and tourists how clean and safe it is to walk around it, day or night. Certainly, a lot safer and cleaner...

KING & COUNTRY DISPATCHES December 2024 Hi Guys, Welcome once more to this month’s ‘YULETIDE DISPATCHES’ and… a relatively modest batch of releases for this Christmas Season. Having said that, they are all very useful additions for two very different ranges of figures depicting everyday life...

Very well done, mate…please show us more! All the best, Andy.

Hi Guys, Although many of the Argentinean ground forces were poorly trained and led during the Falklands War, some units, like this 3-man squad of Argentinean soldiers, fought bravely in very difficult conditions and circumstances. This 3-man rifle section is depicted opening fire from behind...

Hi Guys, Here’s a little ‘look-see’ at the Front Cover of our latest 2025 Calendar which we are distributing to K&C Collectors with their latest mail orders and also to our network of International Dealers around the world. Best wishes and… Enjoy! Andy

Some time in January I hope. All the best, Andy.

Xcell Excellent suggestion mate! You can look forward to it. All the best, Andy.

Post Script: Mr. Brett Williams The Military Workshop Brisbane, Australia It is with great sadness that while in America I heard of the tragic news of the sudden passing of one of our hobby’s great supporters and promoters of TOY SOLDIERS in the world today. Brett, together with his wife...

BEING RETIRED THIS MONTH… AF044 The Flying Tiger Trio SP121 The American Base Flag Set USMC053 The U.S.M.C. Pacific Sherman WH089 Dismounted Assault Gun Crew #1 WH090 Dismounted Assault Gun Crew #2 WS347 Dismounted Tank Crew #2 WS348 Obersturmbannfuhrer Max Wunsche WS357 Tank Commanders Set...

G. ‘A CASUALTY OF WAR’ As stated before, on many occasions, some of our best suggestions have come from collectors and dealers and proved to be very successful. One such suggestion put forward by a collector in America was to provide an alternative colour variation for a ‘Fallen Knight’ which...

F. ‘AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT’ From the cold, damp, windswept Falklands to the burning hot sands of the Middle East comes K&C’s latest display item… SP127 “The Desert Village Gateway” This simple and useful structure is ideal for any scene set anywhere in the Middle East...

E. DEFENDING ISLAS MALVINAS The Falklands War lasted just 74 days and ended with an Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982, returning the Islands once more to British control. During the 10 week conflict the opposing land forces took part in a number of violent confrontations from large, full...

D. “FATAL COLLISION” Nine years ago in 2015, K&C released a little ‘Arnhem Ambush’ scene with a Citroen / German Staff Car that was shot up by British paratroopers leaving all the occupants well and truly dead! Since that first release we have had many request from collectors and a few dealers...

C. ‘RETURN TO ARNHEM’ This past September marked the 80th Anniversary of one of the most famous battles of WW2… The doomed attempt by the British 1st Airborne Division to capture the famous road bridge over the Lower Rhine at the Dutch city of ARNHEM. This was part of Operation Market Garden...

B. ‘CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR’ With November being just next door to December K&C would be remiss if we did not come up with one of our Annual Christmas sets featuring Father Christmas doing what he does best… delivering all kinds of presents, all over the world to all types of little...

KING & COUNTRY DISPATCHES November 2024 Hi Guys, Welcome to this month’s ‘DISPATCHES’ and a terrific bunch of releases they are too with a whole collection of dynamic new figures and a couple of fresh adaptations of K&C ‘firm favourites’… But, before I get down to business let me provide you...

Sorry, see above, Andy.

Sadly not this month Brendan, With apologies, Andy

Hi Guys, In addition to the 14 all-new British Airborne figures for the ‘Operation Market Garden’ series and the tribute to ‘The Magnificent Seven’ that we previewed earlier, you can look forward to a great little addition for your Christmas Gift wishlist in the upcoming November Dispatches...

Hello Mark, Like many others I have just heard the terrible news of Brett’s sudden death. Even now I cannot quite believe it…Back in July we met up in Brisbane for the beginning of the K&C annual ‘OzTour’ and it was one of the very best in which Brett and his loving wife Gerelou played a very...