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Here’s a preview of our next ‘VIETNAM’ vehicle... It’s the mighty U.S. Army Gun Truck mounting the Quad .50 calibre machine guns plus an M60 up front.During the war U.S. truck convoys were constantly …

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The Battle of Assaye was a major battle of the Second Anglo-Maratha War fought between the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company. It occurred on 23rd September 1803 near Assaye in Weste …

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John gave us the following info on this upcoming range:"The 33rd Virginia Infantry Regiment was raised in the commonwealth of Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army and was part of the fa …

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Traditionally, the Trojan War arose from a sequence of events beginning with a quarrel between the goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Eris the goddess of discord, was not invited to the wedding …

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Looks like there are a few new Marines coming in the near future! …

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Traditionally, the Trojan War arose from a sequence of events beginning with a quarrel between the goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Eris the goddess of discord, was not invited to the wedding …

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"This September I will be previewing work from the new series, THE TROJAN WARS.Starting appropriately with the city itself, TROY!TROY or ILION was an ancient city, known as the setting for the Greek m …

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The impact and early significance of castles in Spain can be measured by the fact that the noun “castle” (from the Latin castella meaning “castles”) forms the origin of the name of Spain’s historicall …

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This is my sixth and final post on the history of Peter Nathan Toy Soldiers. To most of you this is not history, but a snapshot of where the Company is today.King and Country remains as the largest su …

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In 2009, we left the joint use with The Tin Soldier and moved, by ourselves, upmarket to the beautiful Queen Victoria Building, a late 19th. Century building, completely restored to its original cond …

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Today’s post will cover the period 2003-2007We are now firmly in the era of King and Country first, Britains a fair way behind and then a large gap to the rest of the manufacturers. WW2 was the main …

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Today’s post will cover the period 1999-2002 which was a major period in the history of Peter Nathan Toy Soldiers.In 1999, we moved into the Sydney CBD to join the Tin Soldier, in the Mid City ce …

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