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Well, that is water under the bridge. I buy Bulge, Normandy and some D-Day. I also have Rev. War and some Indians. 
I started collecting K&C about six years ago. I`ve always been interested in the Napoleonic era from a young boy about seven or so. My farther would buy me a box of Air-fix soldiers 1.32 every Thursday ( pay day ), i would wait for him to arrived home from work , looking out of the living room window watching the front gate for any movement.
One day he bought me a set of French imperial guards, after that weekend watching Waterloo for the first time on the BBC ,i was fascinated with the numbers, scale and all those colours of uniforms in it.
I was hooked and from then on, i only wanted more and more Napoleonics. My farther would paint them for me in the famous red and blue uniforms.
He would set them up in ranks in my bedroom and we would take and turns to throw rolled up socks at them as cannon balls.
Great memories as my farther has now passed away.
So after finding them on the Internet a few years ago, i started with just one figures from each regiment that was released.
The rest is history, i collected every figure that is released and in multiples ,i have hundreds of figures in three glass shop cabinets now, and i`m thinking of building an massive Waterloo battle diorama in the next few years,about 4mtrs x 3mtrs in my soldier room.
By the way my first figure was NA21 French 3rd line voltigeur kneeling loading.
Cheers Mark
I started collecting K&C about six years ago. I`ve always been interested in the Napoleonic era from a young boy about seven or so. My farther would buy me a box of Air-fix soldiers 1.32 every Thursday ( pay day ), i would wait for him to arrived home from work , looking out of the living room window watching the front gate for any movement.
One day he bought me a set of French imperial guards, after that weekend watching Waterloo for the first time on the BBC ,i was fascinated with the numbers, scale and all those colours of uniforms in it.
I was hooked and from then on, i only wanted more and more Napoleonics. My farther would paint them for me in the famous red and blue uniforms.
He would set them up in ranks in my bedroom and we would take and turns to throw rolled up socks at them as cannon balls.
Great memories as my farther has now passed away.
So after finding them on the Internet a few years ago, i started with just one figures from each regiment that was released.
The rest is history, i collected every figure that is released and in multiples ,i have hundreds of figures in three glass shop cabinets now, and i`m thinking of building an massive Waterloo battle diorama in the next few years,about 4mtrs x 3mtrs in my soldier room.
By the way my first figure was NA21 French 3rd line voltigeur kneeling loading.
Cheers Mark
Mark,
Great story about you and your dad. Appreciate your posting it
Hello Mark,
Thanks very much for relating your personal story on collecting.
I am sure that you have very fond memories of your dear father and the shared moments of joy collecting toy soldiers.
My father has also passed on and I cherish his memory. He did not collect toy soldiers.
However, he was a WWII veteran having served with an auxiliary unit of H. M. Forces in the Defence of Hong Kong, 1942.
It seems a while since our discussion on the birth place of Lt. Chard and the Doris Gun.
Hope you are keeping well.
Best Regards, Raymond.
I discovered K&C when I was looking to add some dioramas to go along with my military print collection. Did some searching and was blown away by their products. It has been several years later now and the K&C collection has taken over
