| KING
& COUNTRY
BRITAIN'S ROYAL AIR FORCE
This first release primarily focuses on "The
Battle of Britain" which was fought in the skies over southern
Britain throughout the Summer and into the Autumn of 1940...
France had fallen, most of Western Europe was in German hands and the might
of Hitler's Luftwaffe was to descend on a lonely, beleaguered Britain
fighting for its life.
Hitler knew that if he was to successfully invade the little island Kingdom
he had to smash the Hurricanes and Spitfires of the Royal Air Force first.
The fate of democracy and what was left of the Free World hung, for those
few short months, in the balance. All that stood between the Nazis and
their all-too-real threat of world domination was a relative handful of
young fighter pilots and just over 50 squadrons of Hawker Hurricanes and
Supermarine Spitfires.
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| RAF001
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"Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding"
The head of Fighter Command and the
leading architect of the RAF's victory over the Luftewaffe. K&C's
figure shows him in a typical pose paying a visit to one of his front line
squadrons during the Battle
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$32.00 |
| RAF002
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"Squadron Leader Douglas Bader"
A flying legend in the RAF. Bader
lost both legs in a pre war flying accident but fought to return to
operational flying at the outbreak of the war.
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$32.00 |
| RAF003
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"Flying Officer "Moggy"
Cattermole & Reilly"
One of the leading characters in author
Derek Robinson's "Piece of Cake" novel about the Fall of France
and the Battle of Britain. "Moggy" is a "nasty piece of
work" but a great fighter pilot! "Reilly" is the squadron
mascot.
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$39.00 |
| RAF004
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"Sgt. Pilot Ginger Lacey"
James "Ginger" Lacey
was one of the NCO pilots who made up a quarter of Fighter Command's
strength during the Battle. Just 23 years old he destroyed at least 15
German aircraft (probably more) in the summer of 1940 and survived
the War.
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$32.00 |
| RAF005
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"Flight Lieutenant Sandy Johnstone"
Originally a civilian navigation
instructor and part-time pilot with 602 (City of Glasgow)
Auxiliary Squadron, Johnson flew Spitfires during the Battle first
as a flight Lieutenant before becoming Squadron Leader in July 1940.
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$32.00 |
| RAF006
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"Waiting... and Ready!"
Two RAF pilots on readiness await that
jangling phone call that will send them running for their aircraft. A very
typical "1940" scene.
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$79.00 |
| RAF008
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"RAF Ground Crew Set"
Without the invaluable help, effort
and support of the RAF's ground crew the Battle of Britain would easily
have been lost!
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$89.00 |
| RAF009
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"Flying Officer & Trophy"
"Keith Sutton", a
New Zealander, with a "souvenir" tail piece from a Me.
110 he shot down.
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$35.00 |
| RAF010
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"MG Sports Car Set"
Fighter pilots and fast sports cars
seem to go well together. Here, a young, rakish Flight Lieutenant
sits in his nifty little British racing-green MG Sports Car
enjoying a well-earned break from shooting down all those "nasty
huns!"
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$89.00 |
| RAF011
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"Wing Commander Guy Gibson V.C."
Accompanied by his faithful Black
Labrador "Nigger", Gibson led the raid and was one of Bomber
Command's most experienced pilots at just 24 years old! He was awarded
the Victoria Cross for the exploit. Sadly, he was killed on operations over
Holland later in the war flying a Mosquito.
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$39.00 |
| RAF012
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"Flight Lieutenant Les Munro"
One of Gibson's best Flight Leaders and
a New Zealander who volunteered to fly with the RAF. He is one of a handful
of survivors still living who took part in the epic raid.
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$32.00 |
| RAF013
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"Flight Lieutenant Harold
"Mickey" Martin"
A great Australian bomber pilot and
another of Gibson's key flight leaders. He survived the war and went on to
a long and very successful career in the peactime RAF eventually becoming
an Air Vice Marshal.
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$32.00 |
| RAF014
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Nissan/Quonset Hut
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$109.00 |
 RAF015
Available Now!
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"RAF Austin K2 Airfield
Ambulance"
A familiar and reassuring sight on
dozens of RAF airfields across the length and breadth of Britain during and
after the Battle.
Our model carries the markings of
"Biggin Hill", one of the most famous RAF fighter stations
of WW2 and is driven by a female WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force)
driver.
Planned Production Run: Just 250 vehicles
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$139.00 |
| RAF016
Available Now!
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"Supermarine Spitfire
Mk.1"
A superbly detailed model of R.J.
Mitchell's magnificent fighter aircraft. Although twice as many Hawker
Hurricanes actually fought in the Battle it was the nimble and
graceful Spitfire that captured the British public's attention...
and heart.
Our K&C "Spit" is
in the personal markings of Flight Lieutenant Alan "AL" Deere,
a young New Zealander, flying with 54 Squadron during the Battle.
Al Deere, who went on to complete a long and distinguished career in the
Royal Air force, shot down 12 enemy aircraft between May and
September 1940.
His Spitfire Mk.1, complete with smoke
stains from the gun ports and engine exhausts makes a worthy companion to
our earlier released Hawker Hurricanes.
Planned Production Run: 750 models
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$185.00 |
| RAF018 Available Now!
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"WAAF Officer"
All the Women's Auxiliary Air Force
personnel played a vital ground support role during the Battle and long
afterwards. Our Section Officer points skywards at a flight of
aircraft passing overhead.
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$32.00 |
| RAF019 Available Now!
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"WAAF Sergeant"
Clipboard in hand this female NCO is
on an "inspection tour" of the airfield.
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$32.00 |
| RAF020 Available Now!
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"Sergeant Pilot George
Unwin"
George "Grumpy" Unwin
enlisted in the RAF in 1929. In 1935 he was selected for pilot training and
was eventually posted to 19 Squadron as a Spitfire pilot. By the
end of the Battle of Britain he was credited with 14 enemy aircraft.
He was commissioned in 1941 and survived
the war. He died in 2006.
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$32.00 |
| RAF021 Available Now!
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"Sergeant Pilot Antoni Glowacki"
Toni Glowacki was a Free
Polish Air Force pilot who shot down 5 German aircraft on one
day (24 August 1940) during the Battle of Britain. After the fall
of Poland eventually reached Britain and, after flight training, joined the
RAF's 501 "County of he Gloucester"Squadron
flying Hurricanes. Only one other RAF pilot, New Zealander Brian
Carbury gained this "Ace-in-a-day" status during
the Battle.
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$32.00 |
| RAF022 Available Now!
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"Flying Officer Andy
Mamedoff"
Andy Mamedoff was one of the
first American pilots to fly with the Royal Air Force during the Battle of
Britain. Initially Mamedoff came to Europe to fly for Finland
during their winter war against Russia in 1940. Arriving too late for that
war he joined the French Air Force towards the end of the Battle
of France.
When France fell he and 2 other Americans
journeyed to Britain to join the RAF. He was one of the founding members of
No. 71 "Eagle" Squadron in September 1940. He was killed
in October 1941.
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$32.00 |
| RAF023
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"Flying Officer John "Pancho"
Villa"
"Pancho" flew with 72
Squadron throughout the Battle and shot down 7 enemy aircraft during
it. In August 1941 he was promoted to command 65 Squadron RAF...
he flew until 1943 by which time his score stood at 15.
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$32.00 |
| RAF024
Available Now!
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"RAF
Policeman"
An airfield security
corporal on guard duty... somewhere in England,
summer 1940.
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$32.00 |
| RAF025
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"RAF Kneeling Armourer"
This armourer,
festooned with belts of .303 ammunition, for the guns of a Hurricane or
Spitfire.
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$32.00 |
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