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This fine fellow, is my great grandfather and this photo of him was only found very recently. I have always been told he was in the Signals but on googling their cap badge I am beginning to doubt this is correct. Can any of you WW1 buffs id this cap badge? Thanks

Hi I have recently obtained my late grandfathers war service records to try and understand why he is was hospitalised at Colchester Hospital for nearly a year. All he could speak of this was that he (and some fellow comrades) were snowed in somewhere and almost starved to death and he was...

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Here is my latest offering of my AWI collection (to date), with a little technique I tried for my background!

Shouldn't the latest dispatches have been released today on the K&C website, last day of the month?:confused:.com

Just wondered if someone could please explain why some people are able to upload photos into their posts that are a decent size to view already as soon as you click on the post? With the limit on the image size when I reduce it to the allowable size it makes the picture about the size of a...

Hi, just wondered with the forthcoming new release of a seperate fifer and drummer is the figure BR38 correct, as he is more of a multi-tasker. Would you have a drummer/fifer who carried both instruments or would they have been seperate i.e a fifer and a drummer?

In the UK we have an archaeology based programme called the Time Team, this week they were doing a dig at an old Estate belonging in the past to the De Vere family. It was mentioned during the programme about Edward De Vere 17th Earl of Oxford and that he may be the true author of Shakespeare's...

The 16th Light Dragoons as a regiment saw no more service in America after the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, however the soldiers actually continued to serve with the 17th Light Dragoons. My question is would they have continued to wear their 16th Light Dragoons uniforms or be issued with new...

I have just noticed that the only current K&C AWI series of Continental Army Soldiers (Rhode Island regiment) is now showing as discontinued. This usually means that a new range is forthcoming, has anyone got any news on release date and what regiment the new figures are going to be, any...

Due to a lack of released Militia figures you'll have to imagine that my redcoats are being picked off from all angles! {sm4}

How many guarenteed purchase requests do you think it would take to put a retired figure back into production again? Surely if K&C had a 100% intent to purchase or the money in advance to say produce 100, 500, 1000 or even way more of a certain figure etc could that ever happen? I want to...

I was re-arranging my display the other night and had a pang of regret that there are several multiples of certain figures that I need from a series that is now retired. I'm sure i'm not the only person in that position so why do sets etc get retired when there is still demand for them, surely...

Aside to collecting toysoldiers, I have been known to dabble with a metaldetector on the odd occasion and awhile back found this small object. It was absolutely filthy when I found it but following professional conservation from a local museum they managed to restore it to this revealing the...

Although my figures are K&C, this is aimed around my recently acquired Britains barn, so thought would post here instead of K&C section. Based on the troops I have got I like to think this is a little shot somewhere on the road during the British evacuation of Philadelphia leading to Sandy Hook.

With the higher and increasing cost for figures I was wondering if the manufacturers could give us a bit longer than usual before series are retired. Particularly for me as a collector of AWI and also I imagine ACW and Naps collectors where you want to perhaps set up multiples for a battalion...

Hi just a quick question on the 16th Light Dragoon figure (BR61) that has been bugging me (middle pic) Is the way this figure holds his gun pointing over his shoulder a pose that indicates marching casually along a road etc or heading across the field of battle to meet an enemy? Its just I...

Dear Ken, Just wondered if you have any plans to release the crops / cornstalks that you did for the missisippi indian village as commercially available sets in 54mm scale? Would be great if you were! {sm4}

I wondered if anyone could tell me from this uniform what rank could this figure be used as, what is the lowest rank and highest rank I could get away with using him for? Thanks

I am putting together a new diorama and have a problem of what to do with this figure (BR41), of which I have x10 of. I bought these to use as my front rank, going by the traditional images of a kneeling front rank, however as I read up on and researched more of the British armies tactics in...