KING & COUNTRY Dispatches -- November 2018 (3 Viewers)

The best intro to the Vietnam War currently is the Ken Burns TV documentary series. When it was originally shown in the UK by the BBC, each episode was edited down to one hour from an hour and a half. The unedited series is currently available to see on Netflix.
 
graycap said:
The best intro to the Vietnam War currently is the Ken Burns TV documentary series. When it was originally shown in the UK by the BBC, each episode was edited down to one hour from an hour and a half. The unedited series is currently available to see on Netflix.
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Completely agree, i'm at the Tet episode (i believe the sixth) and it's a great great series...Love every moment, poignant, moving (the story of Denton Crocker ..)...one of the best doc. i've ever watched.
 
I thought the series was just ok. I think Vietnam: A Television History, which was also produced by PBS, is better. The Canadian production, The 10,000 Day War, is also terrific and I’d rate it better than the Burns series, which was extensively discussed here.

You can find these series on YouTube.

I’d also recommend Stanley Karnow’s book, Vietnam: A History that accompanied the PBS series. Karnow was a seasoned veteran of Vietnam and knew the country very well.
 
jazzeum said:
I thought the series was just ok. I think Vietnam: A Television History, which was also produced by PBS, is better. The Canadian production, The 10,000 Day War, is also terrific and I’d rate it better than the Burns series, which was extensively discussed here.

You can find these series on YouTube.

I’d also recommend Stanley Karnow’s book, Vietnam: A History that accompanied the PBS series. Karnow was a seasoned veteran of Vietnam and knew the country very well.
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I am happy to say I watched both the PBS and Ken Burns documentary series on Vietnam and enjoyed and was educated by each one. These series are worth their weight in gold as a huge source of reference material and ideas for a company like K&C and I am very grateful to the makers who made them.
All the best,
Andy.
 
jazzeum said:
I thought the series was just ok. I think Vietnam: A Television History, which was also produced by PBS, is better. The Canadian production, The 10,000 Day War, is also terrific and I’d rate it better than the Burns series, which was extensively discussed here.

You can find these series on YouTube.

I’d also recommend Stanley Karnow’s book, Vietnam: A History that accompanied the PBS series. Karnow was a seasoned veteran of Vietnam and knew the country very well.
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Brad, I'm currently re-watching Vietnam A Television History, I have it on DVD. Excellent series. It gives a more detailed account on how the USA became involved.
Gary
 
Andy.
As a former Army MP during the 80’s I’m excited with your release of the two Army MP’s.
Thanks. They are on my must get list. Hopefully we can see some fighting poses in the future.
 
The History Channel aired Vietnam HD last Saturday or Sunday. The footage was excellent.
 
I can not recommend the book "Matterhorn" enough. This is the best Vietnam book I read.
 
King & Country said:
I am happy to say I watched both the PBS and Ken Burns documentary series on Vietnam and enjoyed and was educated by each one. These series are worth their weight in gold as a huge source of reference material and ideas for a company like K&C and I am very grateful to the makers who made them.
All the best,
Andy.
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Above all else, Ken Burns is very good at creating a mood for the time period he studies, such as The Civil War. Vietnam was the same; at various times I felt like I was transported back to those times. An impressive achievement.
 
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Howard waited 10 years for his tank might be waiting same for this one Andy {sm4}
 
King & Country said:
Perhaps you mean 'Hanoi Jane'...And I think she was actually photographed wearing a Russian-style steel helmet and sitting in one of the gunner's positions...A pose she very much regrets today but back then seemed quite happy to adopt.
Andy.
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I was concerned about Jane being a current living person so chose the psedenom :D

And ............ what about some anti war demonstrators with placards. Then K&C collectors can vent their revenge by replicating the Kent Uni shooting (apologies to any who were present -I am discussing historical fact).

Poor Andy - I had an interesting discussion with him about certain Vietnam figures when he was in Sydney for the dinner. ^&grin^&grin. All the figures have now been mentioned so "great minds think alike". ;)
 
jazzeum said:
I wouldn’t have an issue with the figure as it would be just as edgy as an execution set. They’re both iconic in their own way but I doubt we’d see a Hanoi Jane set because it wouldn’t sell enough, not to mention that there would be copyright issues as she is still very much alive.
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Don't post often but read the forum every month to see the dispatches and dioramas.

This discussion and releases hit a chord for me.

Here is my two cents.

Like the stormtroopers and I would also like the figures with the tank available separately as I too own the tank from way back. Would like it if there are more WW1 items released soon as this weekend ends the era on the 100th anniversary and worried that will possibly make the line die out. Sunday, 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month lest we forget.

Been very happy with the VN range. Great looking poses, vehicles, everything; the Marines and Japanese; John Ford Cavalry Real West. Still buying many lines. On the VN series it is time for the River Boat with Apocalypse now Crew. Do an updated release Robert Duvall and crew with a new Huey. Make us a couple of surfers too, I always wanted to make that dio with "hey that's Charlies point!" All of these would be great. But if you do Colonel Kurtz please give him a tummy tuck so he doesn't look like Jabba the Hut lol and make his wild jungle fighters American included.

I severed in the military from end of Vietnam into the beginning cold war years. Jane was hated in my family, friends, neighborhood you name it. Watching her on TV at the same time guys in our area were dying and watching the devastated friends and neighbors when the families were notified. On producing the figure I would be fine with it in her Russian Helmet with all her CP glory so I could build a dio with her in front of my M50 A1 ONTOS, or perhaps smashed under the tracks. A bottle of gloss red paint spattered everywhere and awesome dio. The fact that they tried to make her woman of the year a few years back and that it was stopped because there are enough of us that remember the despicable person she is. When she turned in the POW's for messages.....well you know. Maybe making the figure can keep the memory of what she did going after she falls in and drowns in golden pond. I can go either way, make it...I buy it.

On the making of controversial figures. In the beginning I shied from the Berlin 38 stuff because I was like will all my friends and family think I am a Nazi lover. After having dioramas of so many era's and battles I finally decided to go there. I put a little note above the display that says Lest We Forget like I think Andy had done at one time. And you know, everyone from every walk of life that has seen it understands it and makes no negative comments. Since then I did the Berghof etc.

I picked up the surrendering emaciated Japanese and have them coming out of one of the holes in my KC Iwo Jima Mountain Bases that I have joined together making a massive table top display. No one makes negative comments about it. They say wow how realistic, how cool.

I think going places other makers are afraid to go is what makes KC special, that and quality and all the lines offered. I knew KC was unequivocally my favorite when you produced Black Adder figures! I almost lost it. One of my absolute favorites.

So keep doing it there is always going to be critics. That what the second amendment is for! {sm4}

Chao
 
Flyboy said:
Don't post often but read the forum every month to see the dispatches and dioramas.

This discussion and releases hit a chord for me.

Here is my two cents.

Like the stormtroopers and I would also like the figures with the tank available separately as I too own the tank from way back. Would like it if there are more WW1 items released soon as this weekend ends the era on the 100th anniversary and worried that will possibly make the line die out. Sunday, 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month lest we forget.

Been very happy with the VN range. Great looking poses, vehicles, everything; the Marines and Japanese; John Ford Cavalry Real West. Still buying many lines. On the VN series it is time for the River Boat with Apocalypse now Crew. Do an updated release Robert Duvall and crew with a new Huey. Make us a couple of surfers too, I always wanted to make that dio with "hey that's Charlies point!" All of these would be great. But if you do Colonel Kurtz please give him a tummy tuck so he doesn't look like Jabba the Hut lol and make his wild jungle fighters American included.

I severed in the military from end of Vietnam into the beginning cold war years. Jane was hated in my family, friends, neighborhood you name it. Watching her on TV at the same time guys in our area were dying and watching the devastated friends and neighbors when the families were notified. On producing the figure I would be fine with it in her Russian Helmet with all her CP glory so I could build a dio with her in front of my M50 A1 ONTOS, or perhaps smashed under the tracks. A bottle of gloss red paint spattered everywhere and awesome dio. The fact that they tried to make her woman of the year a few years back and that it was stopped because there are enough of us that remember the despicable person she is. When she turned in the POW's for messages.....well you know. Maybe making the figure can keep the memory of what she did going after she falls in and drowns in golden pond. I can go either way, make it...I buy it.

On the making of controversial figures. In the beginning I shied from the Berlin 38 stuff because I was like will all my friends and family think I am a Nazi lover. After having dioramas of so many era's and battles I finally decided to go there. I put a little note above the display that says Lest We Forget like I think Andy had done at one time. And you know, everyone from every walk of life that has seen it understands it and makes no negative comments. Since then I did the Berghof etc.

I picked up the surrendering emaciated Japanese and have them coming out of one of the holes in my KC Iwo Jima Mountain Bases that I have joined together making a massive table top display. No one makes negative comments about it. They say wow how realistic, how cool.

I think going places other makers are afraid to go is what makes KC special, that and quality and all the lines offered. I knew KC was unequivocally my favorite when you produced Black Adder figures! I almost lost it. One of my absolute favorites.

So keep doing it there is always going to be critics. That what the second amendment is for! {sm4}

Chao
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Many thanks my friend for your support and your service!

Our 'Vietnam' ranges, both the Americans & the Aussies, are just beginning however...I am delighted with the enthusiastic response from collectors all over the world...

In addition, quite a few of your own ideas and suggestions that you mention in your post are 'echoed' by a number of items that K&C have already in development and will be appearing in coming months and into 2019.

Feedback and comments from collectors such as yourself and others are indeed noted and discussed at length back at K&C HQ and often acted upon... especially when we believe they are practical, commercial and of interest to the majority of Collectors elsewhere. Collector 'input' is and remains, vital to the continuing success of K&C and the fun and enjoyment that all of us have, including myself, in this great hobby.

Best wishes and happy collecting now ...and for many years to come!
Andy.
 
jazzeum said:
Above all else, Ken Burns is very good at creating a mood for the time period he studies, such as The Civil War. Vietnam was the same; at various times I felt like I was transported back to those times. An impressive achievement.
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You are spot on with that going back in time. They would give a time, example May 1966 and I would remember what I was doing at that particular period of time. Another thing was that it was absolutely true that guys would come back from Vietnam and never speak about it. I had a partner from 1969 to 1975 that I worked with almost every day and all he ever said was he was in the seebees at Pu Bi and that they got some rockets fired at them. Also that his cousin who was in the Marines had been killed there. But that was it.
 
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