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I agree my friend…all in good time. Andy.

Simply outstanding Damian! Having just spent a couple of days with Howard and his incredible dioramas and displays, this one is one of your best…fantastic! I wish Gordon could have seen your work…I know he would also have loved your many ‘works of history and art’. Many congratulations from...

A very big Thankyou to our good friend Robin in Adelaide for welcoming myself and our new K&C dealer, John and his good lady earlier today to visit and go around his maga-amazing ‘Man-Cave’ next to his lovely home. Robin is one of several ‘Uber collectors’ in Australia whose collections truly...

Many thanks Rob happy to know you’re enjoying our metal Sherman! All the best, Andy.

Hi Hi Rob, Greetings from Brisbane Australia! I really like this little French village ‘Liberation’ setup with some additional architectural features…very, very creative and illustrates what can be achieved with just a few figures, a great tank and a building or twoI Congrats, Andy.

Good to know John…but I reckon that there might still be a few other blokes who don’t have those Wilson Edward’s ‘Neds’ and still might de interested. As Ned is said to have remarked as he stood on the gallows, “Such is life…” All the best from Brisbane, Andy.

G’Day Guys, Today I fly out to the land of “Down Under” to meet up with a great bunch of blokes (and a few of their ladies) in Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne. For many years now this has been one of the great hilights of my Toy Soldier Year both for the beautiful, cool Aussie Winter...

Hi Guys, Whenever, I think of the 'Vietnam War' I also hear the soundtrack of that conflict in my ears. As as young guy in the 1960s it's my soundtrack too... and I was all the way back in Scotland until I went to work in America in 1969... But that's another story. Here, in the meantime, are...

Hi Jazzeum, The figure has been retired for a long time. It was probably misprinted and should be printed as "Afrika Korps Military Policeman". All the best, Andy

2. BEING RETIRED IN JULY… Not a very big list but some excellent Napoleonic figures… Check them out please! NA417 Colonel of the Regiment NA418 Infantry Captain NA419 Infantryman with Pike Staff NA420 Drummer Boy NA421 Reaching For A Cartridge NA422 Kneeling Cocking His Musket...

G. ‘BAGS OF SANDBAGS’ During the many years that I worked with my late brother Gordon to build dioramas and displays one of the small but important items that we were constantly searching for was ‘sandbags’ especially in 1:30 scale! In the beginning we actually used 1:35 scale plastic sandbags...

F. ‘SEMPER FI’ A late additional reinforcement for our most recently U.S. Marines marching out with full backpacks and folded tent covers… USMC070 U.S. Marine w/ B.A.R. (Browning Automatic Rifle) An advancing ‘Leatherneck’ with the classic M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle better known as the...

E. A STROLL IN THE COUNTRY From the rugged and sometimes dangerous terrain of the ‘Old West’ to the more bucolic beauty and peacefulness of a small European farm or village… MK231 ‘The Country Maid’ A young maiden goes about her daily duties… in this case gathering apples perhaps to bake an...

D. ‘HOME ON THE RANGE’ During the ‘Cattle Drive’ boom that lasted from just after the end of The Civil War in 1865 until the mid 1880s there was one piece of equipment that was indispensable to the cowboys that rode all the way up from Texas to the northern rail heads in Kansas and beyond… the...

C. A VERY BLACK DAY IN MOGADISHU!’ Introducing the advance party of a dramatic new series that tells in 1:30 scale military miniatures the story of one of the U.S. Army’s bloodiest days in modern warfare… SOMALIA in East Africa during the early 1990s was a ‘basket case’ of a country. Years of...

B. ‘A TRIO OF VICTOR CHARLIES’ This is definitely not a little troupe of musicians but three, very useful Viet Cong and one N.V.A. figures who are operating under the dense jungle canopy of Vietnam as those ‘HUEYS’ fly overhead. VN186 ‘Commissar Delivering Orders’ The Viet Cong being a...

KING & COUNTRY DISPATCHES July 2024 Hi Guys, Welcome once more to this month’s ‘DISPATCHES’ and one of my favourite times in the King & Country calendar… JULY. On Thursday 11 July, I fly off to Australia and, first of all, to the great city of Brisbane where I will begin what I like to call...

Hi Guys, While we were way out west it seemed like a good idea to try another setup and so here we have ‘Home On The Range’ but first we had to clear away all the ‘cattle poop’ left behind by that big herd of Texas Longhorns! Anyway once that was done we assembled this little scene and for...

Hi Guys, One of the many fun aspects of this little hobby of ours is creating all kinds of scenes that bring together figures and backgrounds to make a display that tells a story. In this particular setup I made a little base 24” x 12” that I could place all the K&C Texas Longhorns that we had...

And a lot of that belongs to you Tom! Many thanks once again for all your assistance on that great project. Also… Congratulations to our friend ‘Western Outlaw’ on the terrific pix. And finally, a fond farewell to Donald Sutherland…The first time I remember him seeing him on the big screen was...