Sons of the Empire (1 Viewer)

[PolarBear]

It is great to see K&C tackle the British Empire in the period 1880 to WWI. This will be a great series for fans of this era. It will also be manageable since the releases will be small and as Andy says "occasional". By occasional does this mean periodically throughout the year? Say every 3 months, for example.

Thanks Andy for listening to us British Empire Fans!

Randy

 

[jazzeum]

Randy,

I think you could see this coming with the Collectors Club Figures. I was fortunate to pick up most of them quite cheaply and am now poised to add the just announced ones. The Sons of the Empire range, if you can call it that, reminds me of Britains Redcoats series.

 

[lancer]

Skinner's Horse, my all time favorite cavalry unit. I currently own examples from Britains and Somerset and will now have to add these terrific KC figures. How does one display 3 scales together? The Light Horse is a must have also. Going to be some tough decisions coming. I love the whole time period. KC has done it again with an absolutely brilliant set of releases. -- lancer

 

[jazzeum]

Al,

Did you get some of the CC figures? They would go well with the mounted Skinners Horse.

 

[lancer]

Al,

Did you get some of the CC figures? They would go well with the mounted Skinners Horse.

Brad, unfortunately not. They are beautiful, but I did not think I could use the dismounted figures. Looks like I was wrong again. The new Skinners are a must have for me. Should have known KC would follow the CC figures with a series. -- Al

 

[jazzeum]

Al,

You have to say Ron was right with his theory that a CC figure usually means something down the road. I got the four figures for a song, $75. Can you believe that? What's the old saying, "even a squirrel will find an acorn now and then."

 

[lancer]

Al,

You have to say Ron was right with his theory that a CC figure usually means something down the road. I got the four figures for a song, $75. Can you believe that? What's the old saying, "even a squirrel will find an acorn now and then."

Brad, that is a nice acorn you found. If you lose your taste for acorns, please remember me. - Al

 

[Cyber Field Marshall]

Interesting new series and was telegraphed by the CC releases in the past few years. I wonder if this might pave the way for some Zulu war releases? I'd really like to see some Red coats in those big white helmets and some Zulu warriors. I know other manufacturers have done this however K&C hasn't and I think they'd do an awesome job.

Cheers
CFM

 

[Hadrian]

I am very delighted to have now British Empire figures from K&C ! Great new range ! By occasional hopefully means: every month you will get the occassion to buy at least 3 new figures
Marcus

 

[Evzone]

I'm really excited by this range, and the period getting the full K&C treatment. As I've said in a previous thread I think there is scope for expansion in to other European powers of the same period.

This together with John Jenkins foray in to the Sudan promises to be a great if not expensive collecting new year!

 

[PolarBear]

Interesting choice of title by Andy

See this 1993 book on the British Empire

Sons of the Empire: The Frontier and Boy Scout Movement 1890-1910

In Sons of Empire, Robert H. MacDonald explores the place of the colonial military scout -- the tracker, forward observer, or guerrilla-like irregular -- as a popular figure in British military units and British public imagination at the end of the last century. Brought to military prominence by the exigencies of colonial warfare and to public attention by popular American accounts of frontiersmen and Indian fighters, the scout was Anglicized in the African campaigns and boy's adventure fiction of the nineties. But the most powerful promotion of the scouting ideal was through the Boy Scout movement. Founded by Baron Baden-Powell in 1908, the organization numbered over 150,000 members by the eve of World War I. MacDonald links public fascination with the scout to fin-de-siecle anxieties of degeneration and decadence. These anxieties, he argues, led many Englishmen to equate life in the "old countries" of the metropolitan core with decline.

And:

In Sons of the Empire, Robert MacDonalf explores popular ideas and myths in Edwardian Britain, their use by Baden-Powell, and their influence on the Boy Scout movement. In particular, he analyses the model of masculinity provided by the imperial frontier, the view that life in younger, far-flung parts of the empre was stronger, less degenerate than in Britain. The stereotypical adventurer - the frontiersman - provided an alternative ethic to British society. The best known example of it at the time was Baden-Powell himself, a war scout, the Hero of Mafeking in the South African war, and one of the first cult heroes to be created by the modern media.

When Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts in 1908, he used both the power of the frontier myth and his own legend as a hero to galvanize the movement. The glamour of war scouting was hard to resist, its adventures a seductive invitation to the first recruits. But Baden-Powell had a serious educational program in mind: Boy Scouts were to be trained in good citizenship.

MacDoanld documents his study with a wide range of contemporary sources, from newspapers to military memoirs. Exploring the genesis of an imperial institution through its own texts, he brings new insight into the Edwardian age.