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Although the Treaty of Paris was signed in December 1898 , bringing an end to hostilities between Spain and the United States....... in the depths of Mindanao at a small mission station... a last company of Spanish troops refuses to capitulate.....los ultimos de filipinas. A combination of...

275 years ago this week the '45 was finally broken at Culloden, as some 2000 Jacobites perished as the highland charge faltered against the left of the Hanoverian line. Thus ended the last battle on British soil. The background is the Culloden battlefield itself which i took on a visit a few...

Sitting amidst the ruins of a buddhist temple, while the last patrol comes in. A welcome river resupply of kit in one direction, while preparing to take out a VC captive and wounded in the other. best, Andrew :salute::

December 1883....the Egyptian expedition force under General Hicks has been massacred by the Mahdists......a royal navy expeditionary force has marched from Suakin into the Sudanese desert. Having set their Gatling and Gardener guns into position at an apparently deserted village square...

-25 degrees centigrade and in full retreat west...... best Andrew :salute::

The Kaiser and Hindenburg pose with the technological wonders of the age......March 1918, the Kaiserslacht, will see the final push!....... best Andrew :salute::

Hi guys.......... 1st July 1916....the British armies are shattered at the Somme..... best Andrew :salute::

With the fall of the Soviet Union, there has been a steady trickle of archival material reaching the west. This file of photos has just emerged from 1945...…..previously top classified......and perhaps explaining why Stalin to his dying day believed there had been a cover up by the western...

hi guys...….1916......with the French Army crippled after Verdun...… the western front becomes a an Anglo-German duel over who can be the most efficient logistics supplier to te guns ….

Hi guys, I have updated a dio I originally posted a few years back by adding an extra river section and a few more recent figures. this is one of my permanent displays in the mancave. best, Andrew :salute::

The British detachment walk into a hail of bullets on the veldt ! best, Andrew :salute::

Hi guys, I cant claim much originality on this one as I copied the K&C brochure positioning! But I had a perfect bridge to place them on...…. best , Andrew :salute::

hi guys, Chinese New Year holiday here in HK and I'm in the mancave...….time for another dio posting...… best Andrew :salute::

Hi Guys, I haven't posted a dio for a couple of years....but here is my latest.....Burma 1945. best Andrew :salute::

The Turks have set up the barricades, aided by some members of the Asien Korps, as the Anglo-Anzac frontal assault comes. The dio is a mix of JJD- K&C - TGM, and I think they combine pretty well...….but the wounded and falling JJD pieces really make it for me...….. wonderful dynamic animation...

Just a quick heads up for any collectors based In Hk or in SEA who may be passing through HK regularly.........saturday 18th May BBQ at my house in Stanley on the South Side .....a few of us are congregating. Have a good range of dios on display ( have posted 3 recently on k&C thread) and Darren...

Inspired by Rob getting out his Eighth army pieces in response to my RAF Mingaladon dio……..I have followed his lead and also ventured into North Africa..... Here the SAS rendezvous before heading out.... best Andrew :salute::

On the outbreak of war against Japan in Dec 1941 the 3rd Squadron of the American Volunteer Group (AVG) - the "Hell's Angels" - arrived at RAF Mingaladon , outside Rangoon, from Toungoo. The AVG Tomahawks and the RAF Buffaloes of No 67 squadron used separate intersecting runways and shared an...

1944 and Japan has lost air superiority..... but some Zeros are still out there hidden in the jungle.... best Andrew :salute::

Have they got the right guys ?........