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KING & COUNTRY DISPATCHES
June 2020
June 2020
How time flies when you’re enjoying yourself! That comment may seem a little strange in the light of the present world situation vis-a-vis this virus pandemic. However, with being unable to travel overseas and specifically up to China to visit our sculptors and the factories, here in HK l’ve been concentrating on designing a batch of new, full colour brochures and building some more dioramas.
Anyway suffice to say that design in all its forms is something I enjoy and this enforced staying in HK has allowed me to do more of it.
And when you enjoy something the hours, days and weeks just fly by!
So, here we are... In June already and half way through 2020... Let’s begin at the beginning...
1.BEING RELEASED THIS MONTH
A. “Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!”
Because of the success of our USMC battling their way across the Pacific we’ve decided to release some more Japanese reinforcements to provide a little extra opposition along the way.
JN061 ‘The Kenpeitai Officer’
The Kenpeitai was the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1881-1945. It was both a conventional military police force and a ‘secret police’ in Japanese occupied territories.
Their reputation for brutality was infamous in occupied countries and both ordinary civilians as well as military prisoners-of-war often became their victims.
The Kenpeitai were also active in Japan itself, especially during WW2. It’s a little – known fact that General Hideki Tojo, before the war, commanded all of these military policemen, both inside and outside Japan.
In the field and behind the lines they could be easily recognized by the special white headband worn around their helmets and a white, cloth armband bearing the two Japanese characters of their unit name.
JN062 ‘BANZAI!’ Set#1
Led by a pistol carrying and sword-wielding officer two additional IJA riflemen with fixed bayonets charge forward.
JN063 ‘The Mortar Set’
A crouching infantryman prepares to fire the Type 89 ‘Knee Mortar’.
A second, lying prone NCO (non commissioned officer) observes the ‘fall of shot’ through his binos.
JN064 ‘The Kamikaze Anti Tank Bomber’
From their earliest days in the Army Japanese soldiers were taught that their greatest honour was to ‘die for the Emperor’.
As Allied forces grew even closer to Japan in the latter stages of the war the Japanese Army got ever more desperate to imbue their soldiers with the true spirit of the samurai.
Here a lone Japanese infantryman crawls forward clutching a box of explosives which he will detonate after he has crept under a tank or into an enemy position.
JN-S03 ‘Captor & Captured!’
A lone British soldier comes face-to-face with one of the dreaded Kenpeitai...
AVAILABLE: Late June
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