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As night draws in an Aussie patrol returns home for the safety of their base after a long day patrolling and looking for the elusive VC

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Outstanding! Love the new Aussie vehicles and that hut looks fantastic.
This shot provides a good perspective as to the size of the various pieces; thanks for sharing.
 
King & Country said:
You also could not have done it without the very considerable 'help' of King & Country's 'Aussies in Vietnam' series which you are very clearly piggy-backing on.
Andy C. Neilson
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That's okay. You still the top dog in the toy soldier world. TGM is no threat to your reign. More than 80% of my collection is KC.
 
wayne556517 said:
Don't understand this comment ?
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Andy announced his future release of an Aussie Landrover last year and made mention of it during his last July trip to Australia.

He’s also mentioned several times over the years the commercial risk TS manufacturers face announcing their plans for future releases and the possibility of others taking advantage.
 
This is interesting - clearly K&C and TG don’t, and by the looks of it probably won’t, work together, but if they could at some sort of level, the potential for widening and deepening (rather than replicating) a series could be beneficial to everyone....

Also the argument about who led on what cuts both ways doesn’t it? while I grant the “Aussies in Vietnam” is a very specific series, it’s also true that TG led the market in the recent renaissance of Imperial Rome for example which other manufacturers subsequently followed up on.

Anyway both are great manufacturers and it benefits us all having both of them in the game, but at the risk of upsetting our antipodean friends, can I please, please request from either or both of them more US Vietnam vehicles please? Another differentiated M113 or three, a Patton, Sheridan? A US gun and enough crew to man more than one? Must be plenty of ideas out there... the Aussies really are fine fellows but.....


QUOTE=Desertkiwi;883098]Andy announced his future release of an Aussie Landrover last year and made mention of it during his last July trip to Australia.

He’s also mentioned several times over the years the commercial risk TS manufacturers face announcing their plans for future releases and the possibility of others taking advantage.[/QUOTE]
 
Desertkiwi said:
Andy announced his future release of an Aussie Landrover last year and made mention of it during his last July trip to Australia.

He’s also mentioned several times over the years the commercial risk TS manufacturers face announcing their plans for future releases and the possibility of others taking advantage.
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So if Andy says he is/might make something thats it no one else can ?
I like both companies and a bit of competition is healthy for us all.
Still dont understand the comment.
 
wayne556517 said:
So if Andy says he is/might make something thats it no one else can ?
I like both companies and a bit of competition is healthy for us all.
Still dont understand the comment.
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This isn't the first time this has occurred, clearly there's some sneaky stuff being done behind the scenes. And what about TGM using King & Country figures in the Diorama. It's OK for collectors to mix things up, but when a manufacturer uses competitors products to promote their own new products, it's not quite the same is it, at least IMO.
 
OzDigger said:
This isn't the first time this has occurred, clearly there's some sneaky stuff being done behind the scenes. And what about TGM using King & Country figures in the Diorama. It's OK for collectors to mix things up, but when a manufacturer uses competitors products to promote their own new products, it's not quite the same is it, at least IMO.
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I would call it flattery using other companies figures in your promotional pics free advertising,never heard the owner complain.
Sneaky dont get that comment either.
 
wayne556517 said:
I would call it flattery using other companies figures in your promotional pics free advertising,never heard the owner complain.
Sneaky dont get that comment either.
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If, what you’re saying is true Wayne...Imitation must be the sincerest form of flattery...However...

Personally speaking, it pays a company to be original... and not ride in on the coat-tails of other’s efforts.
Andy.
 
wayne556517 said:
I would call it flattery using other companies figures in your promotional pics free advertising,never heard the owner complain.
Sneaky dont get that comment either.
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Yes, I know you "don't get" some of these issues, perhaps because they are less important to you.
 
King & Country said:
If, what you’re saying is true Wayne...Imitation must be the sincerest form of flattery...However...

Personally speaking, it pays a company to be original... and not ride in on the coat-tails of other’s efforts.
Andy.
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How can you be original mate in this hobby ?
Everyone has made something another comoany has done so I just dont get it.
First in best dressed mate.
 
OzDigger said:
Yes, I know you "don't get" some of these issues, perhaps because they are less important to you.
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Or pethaps i just dont understand the comment mate ?
If TGM make something Andy spoke about making how is that sneaky or whatever.
TGM have made a tonne of original stuff so I dont think they ate hitching a ride on K&C.
 
So when is Thomas Gunn going to do New Zealanders in Vietnam, over 9000 served.
Have seen there Land Rover, will be waiting for the King and Country Land Rover as they will produce one that is more accurate.
Must be somewhat annoying when a company can't have an original thought, cant wait to see the Thomas Gunn M113.
 
wayne556517 said:
How can you be original mate in this hobby ?
Everyone has made something another comoany has done so I just dont get it.
First in best dressed mate.
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Andy’s taken the time and visited Australia annually for anumber of years now. He makes himself freely available at different dinnerevents and actively engages with collectors and dealers from across the countrylistening to their ideas and thoughts about the hobby. As a result K&C haveinvested a ton of time and energy into producing specific Australian figures,such as the ALH, WW1 ANZAC & Oz figures and now the Vietnam Aussie’s.

If it wasn’t for this special relationship then these ranges simply wouldn’t exist or certainly not to the same extent.

Surely you understand that?
 
wayne556517 said:
Or pethaps i just dont understand the comment mate ?
If TGM make something Andy spoke about making how is that sneaky or whatever.
TGM have made a tonne of original stuff so I dont think they ate hitching a ride on K&C.
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From your earlier posts on this and similar matters you give the impression that you don't care who copies who's products and ideas, especially if they are less expensive. If you don't consider there's anything sneaky here, I doubt there's anything more that I, or anyone else, could say that's likely to change your way of thinking.
 
Desertkiwi said:
Andy’s taken the time and visited Australia annually for anumber of years now. He makes himself freely available at different dinnerevents and actively engages with collectors and dealers from across the countrylistening to their ideas and thoughts about the hobby. As a result K&C haveinvested a ton of time and energy into producing specific Australian figures,such as the ALH, WW1 ANZAC & Oz figures and now the Vietnam Aussie’s.

If it wasn’t for this special relationship then these ranges simply wouldn’t exist or certainly not to the same extent.

Surely you understand that?
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I do Mate but what has that to do with this Landrover ?
 
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