Also we need to let you know that we are slightly behind of shipping orders at the moment do to family illness, we do apologise if you waiting for any items we will endevour to clear the back log as quick as possible and hope that you would be a little patient with during this trying time.

And now have a look at these, the new North African buildings, three shelled Adobes are just about ready for moulding, first thing in the morning we'll checking them over and doing a bit of last minute tweaking before setting them in RTV, form there we'll be doing a bit of 'proof casting' followed by some painting etc. all in all if you're liking the look of them they should be up for sale by the end of the week.

Also we are just putting the finishing touches to some new additions to your North African Building range, check back next weekend for more details

Well, first day of 2010 and we have a new goodie for you guys, it's KK-258 the Britcon '09 Objective Marker. If you haven't already seen it I think you'll appreciate the humour, it was very well recieved at Britcon last year. Right I'm going off to tend to my own splitting head, I hope you all have a prosperous New Year and the hammering in our heads ends soon.

Next up we've got KK-257 a 15mm Machine Gun Nest/Objective Marker, a really nice wooden bunker that could house a HMG or as per the rules in FoW of conversly it could server perfectly well as a command / observation bunker for an objective.

That's about it for now, check back next week when we'll be kicking the New Year off with something a bit special, until then eat, drink and be merry.

Also just to mention we have been informed that we are not going to be in our ususal spot at Warfare next weekend 21st-22nd November. However we are still definitey there so if your in the area drop by and say hi. Lastly if you are planning on pre-ordering items for the show can you please contact us by Wednesday 18th at the latest. Cheers.

Orders and the Postal Strike, I can confirm that we are 100% upto date in order shipping so if you are still missing an order we can only assume that it is held in a backlog somewere

Lastly, we are at Reading on the weekend of the 21st-22nd November, this will be our last show for 2009, we'll be back in 2010 starting at Vapnartak in February which is a new shown for us.Anyhow as always we arel imited in the amount of stock we can carry with us and it's very likely that we will run out of things over the weekend, if you know you especially want certain items you can always pre-order them by mailing a list of requirements and your name to theresinzombies@kerrandking.co.uk and we will make sure it's waiting for you to pick up.

My main reaon for chancing all this is to inform you that we are going to be away for a few days in October, so any orders placed after Friday 2nd October will not be shipped out until we get back on the 14th October, with a bit of luck I'll have a new computer sorted out by then and I'll be able to do a full update and show you all the nice new stuff we have, including our new City in a Box, new GW style sci-fi bases and scenery and a new bit of 15mm WWII kit.

Oh! before I go, we'll be at Derby this weekend for the Worlds, sorry no link I'm not confident enough for that, if you want to place any pre-orders the address is as always theresinzombies@kerrandking.co.uk. Which also reminds me, the mailinglist@kerrandking.co.uk address is also no operational at the moment, don't know why but I cannot get it to recieve on this borrowed laptop, so if you need to contact me do it through the gallery@kerrandking.co.uk address. Sorry for the inconvenience.

"Do I remember it? Hell Yeah I remember it like it wuz yesterday. The Lt. and me had been on an early morning recon and while we were gone our driver Private R. Mac Donald just flipped out. Sury he'd cooked us a 'big breakfast' like he did every morning but he painted the Lt's jeep in the most crazy colors and kept going on about having one in every town back home.

Well some times a guy went crazy like that, what with the war and everythin' nothing for it we just shipped him back Stateside, can't imagine he ever amounted to anything, poor S.O.B."

Well we finallly made it, it's been a close run thing but I just got the photos back of Craig who kindly agreed to paint this years Britcon giveaway for us. Cheers Craig, can't thank you enough. So there you have it, it's not a fillm this year, everyone in the Flames of War comp at Britcon this weekend will be getting one so hope you guys like it.

KK-220 15mm German SdKfz 250/1 Halftrack
KK-221 15mm German SdKfz 251/1 Halftrack

New stuff first, our highly successful sets of wall KK-022 the Adobe Walls Set and KK-023 the Stucco Wall Set have been re mastered and remoulded, with the addition of the textured base around the wall we think these offer a significant improvement over the previous ones.

Remoulds are many so I'm going to just give you a list

• KK-003 Forward Command Post
• KK-006 North Africa Fuel Dump Objective Marker for FoW
• KK-008 Pillbox
• KK-039 15mm North African Command Bases (Set of 4)
• KK-040 15mm North African Spotter Bases (Set of 4)
• KK-102 15mm Rural HMG/Mortar Bases (Set of 4)
• KK-105 15mm Rural Artillery Bases (Set of 2)
• KK-107 15mm Tram Barricade
• KK-108 15mm Tram Barricade Building - A
• KK-109 15mm Tram Barricade Building - B
• KK-129 30mm Dockside Bases(6)
• KK-205 4-Man Infantry Bases - Dead Cows

All of these are no available again and are coming out of beautiful new moulds. Also we have our painted masters of the 60mm GW style bases back from the painter and they are looking pretty nifty so if you saw them the other week and thought 'yeah, they're not bad' take a look at the panted ones see what you think. To save you scrolling down they are KK-077 60mm GW style Battlefield 1 base set, KK-078 60mm GW style Battlefield 2 base set and lastly, for now at least, KK-079 60mm GW style Deckplate base set. I know that some of the battlefield ones are destined to be used under my Tau Piranahs I've never been a big fan of flight bases myself.

Lastly for this week, we realise it's ages off yet but we've booked our annual holidays so just to keep you all in the loop we will be shut down from the 23rd June until the 10th July.

Salute was a blast as usual, it is always really nice to get out and meet you guys, sorry we didn't have anything new for you on the day but we haven't been idle. In fact today we have several new items for you. Firstly, we have 3 new sets of bases, a lot of you at salute asked about more GW style bases and top of the request list was 60mm rounds. As always we listened and decided that it would be a good idea, so as soon as we got back we set to making a couple of sets, they are KK-077 60mm GW style Battlefield 1 base set, KK-078 60mm GW style Battlefield 2 base set and lastly, for now at least, KK-079 60mm GW style Deckplate base set.

Also we have managed to get ahold of some scenic barbed wire to complement our field fortifications KK-201 Fortification - Barbed Wire Entanglement and KK-204 Fortification - Pioneer Set. We have two gauges of wire, 0.5 which is suitable for smaller scales such as 15mm, 20 and possible even 10mm as well as the heavier 0.7 which is excellent for scales from 25mm upwards. Both gauges are now available as KK-080 0.5 Gauge scenic Barbed Wire (10m) and KK-081 0.7 Gauge scenic Barbed Wire (10m).

That's about it for this week, I was hoping to promise you the re-release of our new improved Stucco and Adobe wall sets next week, but we have a heavy schedule of re-mastering and remoulding booked in over the next 7 days so we're gonna do our best to have them for next weekend but we're not promising. Until then, see ya!

Sorted, with a lot of help from our web hosts we have finally sorted out the email problems the have plagued us on and off for the last couple of months. However if you still encounter any problems resort to the emergency address below.

Also KK016 the artillery spotter base set has been temporarily removed from our listings as the mould has disintegrated again. We'll get it back ASAP but with Salute looming it's going to be a few weeks afore we have time to sort it. Apologies for the inconvenience.

EMAIL PROBLEMS

Apparently we're having email problems again, a number of your emails have been bouncing back to you guys from the 'resinzombies' address. We are trying to sort this out with our web hosting guys but in the mean time please direct all mail to nickfarnworth@blueyonder.co.uk, if you have placed any preorders for salute and not received a comfirmation email then please re-mail us at the above address to make sure we have your order. Thanks and appologies for the inconvenience.

With all that frantic activity you'd expect a slew of new goodies wouldn't you? Again sadly not true, what we've been doing is remastering and remoulding many, many of our items as they were beginning to deteriorate. Amongst the newly revitalised items are KK-111 the European City in a box, all the buildings in that set have been spruced up and remoulded using newly acquired mould making knowledge that makes for a moch cleaner demould and therefore a better product, also benefitting from this new found knowledge has been KK-134 the Horsa Glider again newly remastered and remoulded, KK-171 the Russian City in a Box - Kolkhoz has been remoulded and greatly improved thanks to moulding techniques that eliminate any pitch errors in the roofs. These are just the highlights as many base sets, far too many to list here have been redone and with many more lined up ready for re-doing the future quality of our products in well and truly assured, and as soon as I can catch a break we will begin work on our latest City in Box project which we were hoping to have ready for Salute but we thought it more prudent to keep the quality of or existing products up rather than knock out another set at the expense of our existing products.

Speaking of Salute, it's only a couple of weeks away, we are currently casting like crazy to fulfil order and builld up enough stock for the big day. If there is something you especially want from us I seriously advise you to mail us at theresinzombies@kerrandking.co.uk and place a pre-order so that it will be put on one side for you and you can pick it up at your lesiure

Lastly we have updated our events calendar so all our show dates for 2009 are now correct.

Right I'm of now to start working on the redesigned Stucco Walls and the new Horsa Glider wing. Hopefully should have more on those soon.

We realised that previously we had upset a lot of our oversees customers with the 2007 Bricton exclusive which was only available to Britcon delegate, this is a little unfair on or loyal customers so in an attempt to remedy the situation, we were very careful not to state that our second giveaway was going to exclusive to Britcon delegates but we did decide not to sell it during 2008. Anyhow that's basically it if you couldn't attend last year and would like to get ahold of one then it's item number KK-244. Next week we are hoping to have the newly redesigned Minefields and Barbed Wire entanglements for you.

A lot you guys asked for single sided trenches to allow you to have twice the amount of trench system for half the price and we listened and improved on that the basic set contains enough parts to construct over 4 feet of trench for less than half the price of our other set. You also asked could they be more 'non-scale' specific, again we listen, these new sections are devoid of the shell casings and items of battlefield detritus that adorn or other set so you can easily stand 20mm or even 25mm figs behind them. There is also a half-set available if you'd like to build up your collection more gradually.

This new trench system in no way heralds the demise of our earlier KK-161 set , each appeals to different markets and we will continue to produce both.

Now for the remoulds, we're constantly monitoring the quality of our moulds as soon as they show any wear they are retired and remade to ensure the quality of casting we insist on. To that end KK-023 Stucco Walls are currently out of production until we can get them remastered.

However, on the 'up side' we have just finished remastering KK-240 our series of Dug-in Panzer IV-H's as well as KK-012 Infantry Bases - Urban (Set of 6), KK-091 15mm Urban Infantry Bases: 4-Man (Set of 6), KK-092 15mm Rural Infantry Bases: 4-Man (Set of 6) and KK-103 15mm Rural Command Bases (Set of 4)

We've also temporarily opened two new email address for pre-orders for upcoming shows, the last couple of show have seen folks disappointed when we have sold out of what they had come for, to avoid this place a preorder there are 2 addresses game@kerrandking.co.uk for preorders for Game'08 in Manchester 1st&2nd November and warfare@kerrandking.co.uk which is unsuprisingly for the Warfare show in Reading 22nd & 23rd November.

We would also like to thank Harry Smoilis for the Photos of his Americans on our bases, very nice Harry. They are on display in our 15mm gallery if you wish to check them out.

We can also announce the return of a few items to our listings, just before we went on holidays a some of our moulds gave up the ghost and died, we have since we got back been toiling to get them all re-done. First up is KK-016 the Artillery Spotter/Sniper bases, now beautifully re mastered and ready of purchase, also we have redone KK-017 the Command Base Set. And then the big project for last week was to remould the entire Lingevres- City in a Box comprising KK-193 the large Civic Building, KK-194 The pair of buildings - shelled, KK-195 the Pair of buildings KK-196 Northern French Building with lime washed walls and Pan tiled roof and lastly KK-197 Northern French Building with rendered walls and tiled roof.

That's about all for now, thanks for your patience with our absence, we will continue striving to get your purchases to you with an little delay as possible

Also we are off on our annual Summer break towards the end of the week, the time between now and then will be taken clearing the orders we have so anything ordered from this point on will most likely not get shipped until after we get back in mid-September. Sorry for the inconvenience.

J.King

Hi again, back as promised and with a tidal wave of new releases. First of all we have all the new Northern France buildings to go along side KK-198 the previously released Les Verrieres 2 story house, there's KK-228 Les Verrieres small farm building, and at the other end of the scale there's KK-229 Les Verrieres farm large building, then there's KK-230 Les Verrieres Shelled Cottage and lastly KK-231 Les Verrieres Lime washed stone barn. As usual these all combine to form City in a Box which contains all the buildings at a discounted price which has us jumping forward several items to mention KK-241 the Northern France: Les Verrieres City in a Box set.

Our set of buildings is a lot more extensive, weighing in at an impressive 8 buildings. They are all Karelian in styling and before I go into the details of the range I'd like to personally thank Antti Heiskanen whom made this range possible, without all your help providing photographs and background information we would never have been able to bring this range to realisation "Thank you for all you help Antti"

As I have previously mention there are 8 buildings in the range kicking off with KK-232 a Karelian with covered staired entrance then it's KK-233 Medium Karelian house, KK-234 a Karelian hut with a decoratively carved door and then KK-235 another Karelian hut with damaged roof, KK236 Large Karelian house then one of my personal favourites KK-237 the 2 storey Karelian house with balcony which I think is very cool as the balcony is cantilevered instead of being supported from the ground up, it is also one of our most detailed buildings ever as it come in six sections . Then my absolute favourite KK-238 the Karelian Prayer House which has the coolest roof we have ever done and needed some pretty special moulding to get it to work, the last building in the range is KK-239 the Pair of Karelian houses. Again there is a City in a Box deal KK-242 which get you 5 of the buildings at a discounted price.

Also we have a new vehicle which should be of interest of any of you guys out there who are playing or planning to play late war 21st Panzer Division armies as we have by special request from Roger Witham KK-240 a dug-in Panzer IVH as detailed in Monty's Meatgrinder, in fact we have 3 different designs which will be supplied randomly so if using multiples there's no need to do any conversion work to give them a bit of individuality.

So as you can tell we have been far from idle, we have also been experimenting with new production techniques which allow us to produce much finer and more complex items some of our new buildings contain up to 6 components and are more like resin kit than simple casting.

Lastly we have also been putting off this latest up date mainly because we have been trying to put off the inevitable price increase, we haven't altered our prices for a few years now but our materials costs have rocketed, for instance or resin costs are 400% what they were a year ago. Back in July we decided that our next web update would see a price increase, I have put that off as almost long as possible. Almost, we are going to keep our prices as they are until after BRITCON, so everyone attending will be able to take advantage of our old prices and everyone else can have one last weekend where they can older what they want at the old price, including the new buildings, Cities in a Box and Panzer IV which will be on the site for purchase from Friday the same time people will be able to get them at BRITCON.