Hi Barkmann & All,
Thank you for sharing your K&C ‘Christmas Collection’! It's wonderful to hear that you've been collecting this series for some years and enjoy the quality of our figurine sets and gift packaging.
We look forward to continuing to bring you more Christmas sets to enrich your...
2. Items & Figures Being Retired…
Not a lot this month BUT King & Country is retiring the individual figures and items belonging to our King Arthur & His Knights of The Round Table.
MK137 King Arthur
MK138 Sir Galahad
MK139 Mordred
MK140 Sir Lancelot
MK143 The Round Table & The King's Chair...
F. ‘Look Out… Apaches!’
Now, how many times were those the fatal last words of an unfortunate U.S. Cavalry trooper or perhaps an unlucky settler who ventured into Apache territory…?
Here are a very useful and dangerous pair of Apache warriors who are on the lookout for any unwary ‘white eyes’...
E. ‘RULER OF A QUARTER OF THE GLOBE’
About a hundred years before John, Paul George or Ringo were born another child was delivered who, in later life, would be crowned King of the United Kingdom, its British Dominions and Emperor of India.
The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and...
D. “It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…”
So began the first track on the first side of what is considered by many to be the best pop music album of the 1960s and possible the most original rock album of all time
Everything about this album or L.P. (Long Playing Record) as we called them in the...
C. ‘The Battle of Britain… On And Under The Ground!’
One of the most important battles of The Second World War was the battle that was fought in the sky over Southern Britain in the summer of 1940.
For almost four months between 10 July and 31 October, 1940, the fighter pilots of the Royal Air...
B … And Now For Something Completely Different!
It’s a long, long way from the rubble-strewn streets of war-torn Mogadishu to the tree-lined boulevards of London.
It’s also a world away from elite fighting soldiers in dust-covered camouflage uniforms to other elite soldiers in their smart dress...
KING & COUNTRY DISPATCHES
September 2024
Hi Guys,
Welcome to this month’s ‘DISPATCHES’ and a pretty diverse and colourful group of new releases you would be hard-pressed to find anywhere else!
And so without further ado let’s get down to business…
1. BEING RELEASED THIS SEPTEMBER…
A...
Hi Guys,
This month’s ‘DISPATCHES’ features among many other items our brand-new ‘R.A.F. Operations Room’.
I also thought you might want to know what other R.A.F. figures and fighter aircraft are well into development for release either in late 2024 or in the first quarter of 2025.
First and...
Hi Guys,
In addition to the recent releases of the ‘Black Hawk Down’ series, you'll soon see some more reinforcement of our US Army Rangers battling the Somali Militia in our September's releases.
After completing our first major group of ‘Black Hawk Down’ figures, we've been hard at work...
Hi Mister T.,
Allow me to add my congrats to all the other Guys on your great looking ‘Vietnam’ display.
This entire series of figures and fighting vehicles is one of the most enjoyable I have ever worked on in all the years of K&C!
Seeing displays and dios such as this one not only confirms it...
Hi Guys,
Greetings once more from ‘The Pearl of The Orient’ and hope you are having a very enjoyable summer.
Here in HK I have just returned from my Annual ‘OzTour’ trip down under to visit and meet with our K&C Aussie dealers and collectors in Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne.
In...
Not so fast Poppo…The Senior Officer on horseback is just that…A senior Legion Officer is NOT The Commander of the Legion that figure will indeed be in a chariot which will be released later.
Andy.
BEING RETIRED
JN049X A Rare Surrender
PnM071 Queen Henrietta Maria
USMC011 Marine Flame Thrower
VN012 Marine Lying Prone Firing
VN030 Australian Patrol Section
VN085 Vietnam Flower Girl
VN088 The Viet Cong Mortar Set
VN095 S.F. Three Man Patrol
VN110 On Patrol
WS353...
D. ‘A Little Touch of Vietnam’
When we announced the retirement of the VN109 ‘Marines On Patrol’ 3-figure set we had more than a few requests and suggestions that we retain one particular member of the patrol as a ‘Single Figure’ reminder of that set.
The selected / chosen ‘survivor’ was the...
C. “THE ROMAN TRIUMPH”
‘The Roman Triumph’ (in latin ‘Triumphus’), was a civil ceremony and religious rite of Ancient Rome held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the success of a military commander who had led Rome’s forces to victory in the service of the State or, in some historical...
B. ‘Medieval Archery’
Although archery was probably developed in Africa by the late Stone Age it took a long time to be introduced into Europe and an even longer time to be a central part of waging war on the continent.
By the start of the early medieval period, Shortbows were used for both...
KING & COUNTRY DISPATCHES
August 2024
Hi Guys,
Well Guys, July is over but before I get to August, I would like to thank all of our great K&C Dealers & Collectors down under in Australia who made my most recent trip to this wonderful land so much fun and informative in so many ways…
In each of...
Hi Guys,
Today there is a lot of talk and discussion about what is called ‘A Clash of Civilizations’ between East and West. This is nothing new however and goes back many centuries to the days of ‘The Crusades’ and the mighty struggles fought over The Holy Land by the armies of Western...
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