Good morning from a chilly San Francisco Bay Area and welcome to the new February releases from John Jenkins.
We have some terrific releases this month including Knights of the Skies, Peninsular War and Sudan War, so do not miss out. We are hoping to have these available for the West Coaster Show, so if you are interested in seeing these or any other Jenkins pieces, please let us know.
The January releases have started to arrive, so for those of you that ordered these you will be seeing them shortly.
As always we hope you will like the new releases as much as we do.
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Mike
Sierra Toy Soldier Company
KNIGHTS OF THE SKIES
The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy until near the end of the First World War, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form a new service, the Royal Air Force, the first of its kind in the world.
The RNAS engaged in interservice rivalry on land as well as in the air, possessing for a time the UK's only mechanised land forces in the form of the RNAS Armoured Car Section made up of squadrons of Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars. Commanded by Commander Charles Samson, the section was originally equipped with unarmoured touring cars and intended to provide line of communications security and to pick up aircrew who had been forced to land in hostile territory. Samson saw the possibilities when he armed one vehicle with a Maxim gun and ambushed a German car near Cassel on 4 September. He then had a shipbuilders in Dunkirk add boilerplate to his Rolls Royce and Mercedes vehicles.
The new armoured car squadrons were soon used to great effect forming part of Naval mechanised raiding columns against the Germans. By November 1914 the Section had become the Royal Naval Armoured Car Division (RNACD) eventually expanding to 20 squadrons.
As trench warfare developed, the armoured cars could no longer operate on the Western Front and were redeployed to other theatres including the Middle East, Romania and Russia. In the summer of 1915 the RNACD was disbanded and the army took over control of armoured cars, with the units soon coming under the command of the Motor Branch of the Machine Gun Corps.
BGC-03 ROLLS ROYCE ARMOURED CAR, ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE, 1914
(3pcs)
Retail us$176
Model Size 6 ½” x 3” x 2 ¾”
Armoured car Naval crewman, wounded pilot, and accessories will be available at a later date.
The 1914 pattern “lancer” jacket, which was often referred to as a “Maternity Jacket” was peculiar to the RFC, and was also worn by some officers.
BGC-08 Sergeant, Royal Flying Corps,
(1pc)
Retail us$39
THE PENINSULAR WAR 1807-1814
PSG-04 SPANISH GUERILLAS, DRUMMER,
(1pc)
Retail us$39
THE SEVEN YEARS WAR
LEUT-08 THE BATTLE OF LEUTHEN 1757 PRUSSIAN GRENADIERS FIRING,
(3pcs)
Retail us$78
THE FIRST SUDAN WAR 1884-1885
Naval brigades were detachments from ships consisting of seamen and Royal Marines.These were landed ashore to undertake naval operations or to support the army in a wide variety of campaigns.
Both officers and men received regular training in the techniques of land warfare at the gunnery school, HMS Excellent, at Portsmouth.
SRN-05 British Naval Brigade, Naval Officer,
(1pc)
Retail us$39
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861-1865
Marine rank distinctions were based on the Regulations for the Uniform of the Army of the United States, 1847. The Marine Corps did not adopt the army’s chevron system until the new 1859 regulations were introduced. The Marine chevrons however differed from the army’s in several respects, especially the shape which is not straight but set on a curve more like inverted “gull’s wings”.
ACWM-02 U.S. MARINES 1861-1865, Sergeant and Corporal,
(2pcs)
Retail us$68
THE BATTLE ON THE MONONGAHELA 1755
BAL-09 PACK HORSE #5
(5pcs)
Retail us$50
Hope you liked the new releases as much as we do. We hope to have a mid February announcement for John Jenkins Club figures, so watch for this.
Best regards
Mike
Sierra Toy Soldier Company
KNIGHTS OF THE SKIES
We have some terrific releases this month including Knights of the Skies, Peninsular War and Sudan War, so do not miss out. We are hoping to have these available for the West Coaster Show, so if you are interested in seeing these or any other Jenkins pieces, please let us know.
The January releases have started to arrive, so for those of you that ordered these you will be seeing them shortly.
As always we hope you will like the new releases as much as we do.
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Mike
Sierra Toy Soldier Company
KNIGHTS OF THE SKIES
The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy until near the end of the First World War, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form a new service, the Royal Air Force, the first of its kind in the world.
The RNAS engaged in interservice rivalry on land as well as in the air, possessing for a time the UK's only mechanised land forces in the form of the RNAS Armoured Car Section made up of squadrons of Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars. Commanded by Commander Charles Samson, the section was originally equipped with unarmoured touring cars and intended to provide line of communications security and to pick up aircrew who had been forced to land in hostile territory. Samson saw the possibilities when he armed one vehicle with a Maxim gun and ambushed a German car near Cassel on 4 September. He then had a shipbuilders in Dunkirk add boilerplate to his Rolls Royce and Mercedes vehicles.
The new armoured car squadrons were soon used to great effect forming part of Naval mechanised raiding columns against the Germans. By November 1914 the Section had become the Royal Naval Armoured Car Division (RNACD) eventually expanding to 20 squadrons.
As trench warfare developed, the armoured cars could no longer operate on the Western Front and were redeployed to other theatres including the Middle East, Romania and Russia. In the summer of 1915 the RNACD was disbanded and the army took over control of armoured cars, with the units soon coming under the command of the Motor Branch of the Machine Gun Corps.
BGC-03 ROLLS ROYCE ARMOURED CAR, ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE, 1914
(3pcs)
Retail us$176
Model Size 6 ½” x 3” x 2 ¾”
Armoured car Naval crewman, wounded pilot, and accessories will be available at a later date.
The 1914 pattern “lancer” jacket, which was often referred to as a “Maternity Jacket” was peculiar to the RFC, and was also worn by some officers.
BGC-08 Sergeant, Royal Flying Corps,
(1pc)
Retail us$39
THE PENINSULAR WAR 1807-1814
PSG-04 SPANISH GUERILLAS, DRUMMER,
(1pc)
Retail us$39
THE SEVEN YEARS WAR
LEUT-08 THE BATTLE OF LEUTHEN 1757 PRUSSIAN GRENADIERS FIRING,
(3pcs)
Retail us$78
THE FIRST SUDAN WAR 1884-1885
Naval brigades were detachments from ships consisting of seamen and Royal Marines.These were landed ashore to undertake naval operations or to support the army in a wide variety of campaigns.
Both officers and men received regular training in the techniques of land warfare at the gunnery school, HMS Excellent, at Portsmouth.
SRN-05 British Naval Brigade, Naval Officer,
(1pc)
Retail us$39
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861-1865
Marine rank distinctions were based on the Regulations for the Uniform of the Army of the United States, 1847. The Marine Corps did not adopt the army’s chevron system until the new 1859 regulations were introduced. The Marine chevrons however differed from the army’s in several respects, especially the shape which is not straight but set on a curve more like inverted “gull’s wings”.
ACWM-02 U.S. MARINES 1861-1865, Sergeant and Corporal,
(2pcs)
Retail us$68
THE BATTLE ON THE MONONGAHELA 1755
BAL-09 PACK HORSE #5
(5pcs)
Retail us$50
Hope you liked the new releases as much as we do. We hope to have a mid February announcement for John Jenkins Club figures, so watch for this.
Best regards
Mike
Sierra Toy Soldier Company
KNIGHTS OF THE SKIES
...I have officially become a relic...I feel like I'm being phased out...my order this month will be for only 1 piece...that has never happened before...
