• LW028 — Focke-Wulf Fw190 Professor Kurt Tank’s most famous design… the Focke-Wulf 190 caused shock and consternation when it first appeared in the skies over Northern France in 1941… Its speed, agility and powerful punch took the Allies completely by surprise.
  For 12 whole months there was nothing either the British or the Americans (or the Russians) could successfully put up against it. A simple, straight forward design the “190″ easily outclassed and outflew its opponents.
  By 1944 however even the “190″ was having problems with the hordes of new Allied fighters and the vast aerial bomber armadas the British and the Americans were unleashing upon Germany.
  This K&C model is in the “personal” markings of one of the Third Reich’s top fighter “aces”… Major Heinz Bär. This particular “190″ has the typical late war two-tone camouflage and the red “Defense of the Reich”, band on its fuselage.
  On the tail can be seen Bär’s tally of “kills” on the white section, Bär himself can be seen in the cockpit underneath the sliding canopy. Underneath the aircraft’s belly can be seen a special extra fuel, centre-line, drop-tank.As an added bonus a full set of fuel drums and jerricans is included with the aircraft. Each complete aircraft and fuel drums comes in its own specially-designed presentation box.

  “Planned Production Run” on this particular Heinz Bär Fw190 is just 750 pieces.

  About Heinz Bär

  Bär joined the Luftwaffe in 1935, flew over 1,000 combat missions and shot down 220 British, American and Russian aircraft by the end of the war. Tragically he was killed flying a light civilian airplane in 1957.

• LW029 — Oberstleutnant Josef “Pips” Priller
  Priller is perhaps most famous for flying his Fw190 on a single strafing run of “Sword Beach” on D. Day as seen in the epic “The Longest Day”.
  “Pips” Priller, during WW2, flew over 1,300 combat missions and shot down 101 Allied aircraft… including 68 Spitfires! This is the highest of any Lufwaffe ace’s tally for this particular aircraft.
• LW030 — Leutnant Josef “Sepp” Wurmheller
  Before he was killed on June 22, 1944 “Sepp” Wurmheller, flying an Fw190, was credited with 102 enemy aircraft (93 on the Western Front).
  His most successful day was during the ill-fated “Dieppe Raid” when he shot down 7 British aircraft… despite suffering from a broken leg! This K&C figure shows “Sepp”, still recovering, on crutches.
• LW031 — Leutnant Siegfried Schnell
  Another notable Luftwaffe fighter ace with 93 “kills” and recipient of the “Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves”. Although most of his victories were gained flying the Fw190 he himself was shot down and killed in February 1944 flying a Messerschmitt Bf109 “Gustav”.

Luftwaffe

WWII – D’Day 44 Americans

• DD130 — US Navy Officer
  This deck officer, dressed in workaday khaki can be seen on the dockside… on ship… or in one of our new landing craft.
• DD131 — Standing Sailor
  There’s always some guy around who just like to stand and watch!!!
• DD137 — Normandy LCVP Landing Craft (#PA26-21)
  The first of our two Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel boats originally designed by Andrew Higgins and built in one of his 7 factories in New Orleans, Louisianna. More than 20,000 were built and were an essential component of the Allied victory.
  This is K&C’s second version and boy… is it a real beaut and a big improvement…? It comes with a cox’n and two .30 calibre machine guns and gunners… The ramp raises and lowers and it can accommodate a whole bunch of GI’s or a jeep and trailer.
• DD138 – Normandy LCVP Landing Craft (#PA26-22)
  The Second LCVP (for those collectors who need at least 2 for their displays). This second craft has a different cox’n figure plus, of course, the two .30 calibre machine guns and gunners. As the other LCVP the ramp raises and lowers… as required.
• DD139 — Sailor with Binos
  Wearing his “steelpot” and navy blue windcheater jacket this sailor is on “lookout” duty.
• DD140 — Sailor Putting on Lifejacket
  It pays to be safe at sea… life can be dangerous so it makes sense to wear your life jacket at all times…
• DD144 – Crewman with Radio
  This sailor on shore duty using his “walkie-talkie” to contact one of the landing craft.
• DD145 — Crewman Shouting
  Another “swabbie” making his presence felt!

D’Day 44 Americans

Streets of Hong Kong

• HK184 — The Fisherman
  A Chinese fisherman doing what fisherman do the whole world over.

Streets of Old Hong Kong

WWII – Fields of Battle

“Civilians Caught Up In War”

During wartime it’s not only the soldiers and armies that are affected…. A sad and tragic feature of modern war is the uprooting of whole civilian communities that, in order to escape the carnage all around them, pack up some of their belongings… and take to the road as… refugees!

• FOB062 — The Refugee Cart
  A man pulls a heavily-laden hand cart overflowing with a family’s pitiful belongings… As he struggles to pull the cart his young daughter tries to help by pushing…
• FOB063 — Old Woman by the Road
  This old lady cannot believe that for the second time in her lifetime her world is about to be destroyed by war.
• FOB064 — The Pram Set
  A mother pushing a pram with a young baby inside leads her other little girl by the hand… both of them carrying pathetic little backpacks… where are they going? Even they don’t know… but as long as it’s away from the fighting.
• FOB065 – Father & Son
  Perhaps this is the husband and father of the woman with the pram and children?
  The man carries two heavy suitcases… his little boy a small case… They join the flow of refugees on the road.
• FOB066 — The Old Couple
  An elderly grey-bearded man gently leads his wife down the road… First, their house had been taken over by the soldiers… then it lay in ruins… Now they have nothing but each other to hold on to…

SPECIAL NOTE:
These civilian figures are part of the “Fields of Battle” range but can be used in almost any WW2 setting in Europe… The Fall of France, The War in Italy, even on the Eastern Front or Germany, Holland or Belgium at the end of the war… The choice is yours!

Fields of Battle