“Here and There…” (1 Viewer)

[King & Country]

Hi Guys,

My compliments to “DM101” and his excellent photography…his images are always crystal clear and pin sharp — Thank you for all your hard work.

Re “Figures for a Chinese Junk” …I agree some coolies loading and unloading as well as a couple of nautical types would not go amiss…The problem, as usual, is (are) too many other things to do and being “hijacked” onto other more urgent figure requirements. Apologies to one and all and thankyou again for bringing it back to “center stage!”

“Surrender of Singapore” has always been one of my favorite historical subjects…How almost 120,000 British and Empire forces were beaten by half that number of Japanese! Of course, it helps if you have almost total control of the air and sea plus you have an aggressive, well-led and battle experienced army that also has tanks and plenty of bicycles!!!

One of these days I would love to explore that campaign…toy soldier wise!

And then there’s our old mate Kevin (Panda1gen)…Another outstanding documentary photographer of K&C and our work over the last 30 years…Many, many thanks Kev…and stay well!

Finally, Kudos also to one more fine photographer…Frank (fmethorst)…His work on the First Legion site is simply stunning! Very well done and congratulations to all of these photographic artists!

Best wishes,

Andy C.

 

[panda1gen]

Hi Guys,

My compliments to “DM101” and his excellent photography…his images are always crystal clear and pin sharp — Thank you for all your hard work.

Re “Figures for a Chinese Junk” …I agree some coolies loading and unloading as well as a couple of nautical types would not go amiss…The problem, as usual, is (are) too many other things to do and being “hijacked” onto other more urgent figure requirements. Apologies to one and all and thankyou again for bringing it back to “center stage!”

“Surrender of Singapore” has always been one of my favorite historical subjects…How almost 120,000 British and Empire forces were beaten by half that number of Japanese! Of course, it helps if you have almost total control of the air and sea plus you have an aggressive, well-led and battle experienced army that also has tanks and plenty of bicycles!!!

One of these days I would love to explore that campaign…toy soldier wise!

And then there’s our old mate Kevin (Panda1gen)…Another outstanding documentary photographer of K&C and our work over the last 30 years…Many, many thanks Kev…and stay well!

Finally, Kudos also to one more fine photographer…Frank (fmethorst)…His work on the First Legion site is simply stunning! Very well done and congratulations to all of these photographic artists!

Best wishes,

Andy C.

Andy,

Many thanks for the kind words. I feel very honoured, but I should say thank you to you for getting me into this hobby with such realistic figures etc, it was great for me to relax when I was working and now coping generally.

I have been very lucky and privileged to photograph some amazing collections, especially Louis' and still enjoy the photos. I have over 100,000 I recently realised so still find many I can't remember! (perhaps not that starange!)

I also think Gordon's amazing dioramas add such a lot, I think all my best shots are in his diorama bases. Good luck and keep well yourself with all this hectic work you do. The stuff you keep doing gets better and better, keep ignoring the siren voices.

I hope you will allow me to drop a few pictures in here of some less well seen pieces for those new to the hobby.

glossy civil war on Gordon's bridge

Vietnam firebase built by Gordon with wooden chopper, apcs' and matt figures

Pz3 on a couple of Gordon's diorama bases

wooden torbeau, ambulances and HQ truck, prototype raf truck and Gordon's papier mache tower. Also glossy raf erks

wooden rarity plane, Gordon's papier mache buildings

If only there was a book big enough to put them all in! All the above shots were from Louis Badolato's collection.

 

[fmethorst]

Thank you Andy,

It's just wonderful to see so many people being creative with their figures.

Frank

 

[RAMC]

Well said Andy

I would also like to personally thank Kevin (Pand1gen) for putting together one of his excellent photo books for my mums 80th. I don't think I thanked him enough at the time.

Regards

Glynn