Pendragon has announced that it is the U. S. Agent for Guernsey Foundry. They are alive and well as Wargames Foundry's U. S. retail mail orcler outlet and as such gets their stock directly from the factory. Brookhurst is the distributor to stors for those product lines. See Address below.

Wargames Foundry has a bunch of new stuff out, as usual. Perhaps the highlight of these are the 25 mm portrait figures of Wellington, Picton, Hill, Barnes, Pack, Kempt, Capt. von Streerwitz, and two other ADCs. Other new Napoleonic figures include French Guard Chasseurs a Cheval in both full dress and campaign dress, Bavarian Foot Artillery crews, and Austrian limber teams in 1805 and 1809 uniforms.

Also in 25mm are 23 new ACW figures in regulation 1861 service dress (frock coat, Hardee hat), a WWI German trench mortar crew and British RHA 6-horse limber, 17 Hundred Year War civilians, mounted archer and hobilar Grand Alliance European pikemen for the Marlburian Wars, Cavalry, Guard Cavalry, and Herati for the NW Frontier battles, and 14 Arthurian infantry including Arthur himself, as well as Vortigern, Hengist, and Horsa. The new Arab/Israeli Wars line is in 1/72 scale and is intended to cover the 1967, 1968, and 1973 wars. The initial release has 21 Israeli paratroopers and infantry. Available from Pendragon Miniatures, 1549 Marview Dr, Westlake, OH 44145. Brookhurst Hobbies, 12188 Brookhurst St, Garden Grove, CA 92640 is the exclusive distributor to stores.

Brookhurst Hobbies, 12188 Brookhurst St., Garden Grove, CA 92640 are the exclusive distributor of B & B Miniatures, Blade Miniatures, Colour Party Paints, Daisho Publications, Drew's Militia, FAA, Firebase Games, Fire Force Products, 1st Corps, Flags for the Lads, Hamilton Miniatures, Ian Weekley Models, MMS Classic Models, Monolith Design, N. W. London Wargaming Group, Peter Pig, Polly Olliver Castings 9AMR Range), Qualitycast, SDD, SHQ Miniatures, Tmbling Dice Miniatures, Two Dragons Productions, Wargames Foundry. In some cases other have the right to sell these mail order.

Battle Honors is now owned by 19th Century Miniatures of USA, producer of ACW and Napoleonics in 15 mm. Prices have been radically restructured, with infantry in bags of 100 for $20. 24 for $6.00, or 12 for $3.00, and cavalry in bags of 24 for $14 or 12 for $8. A catalog with sample figures is available for $2.00. 19th Century Miniatures, 13595 Green St., Grand Haven, MI 39417.

Collectair is a large line of 1/300 metal aircraft of WWII and later. Recent releases indude the He-162, Kawasaki NIK2-J, Mitsubishi J2M, P-82 Twin Mustang, Super Entendarde, Vatour 2B and the F4E and FRG Phantoms. By the time you read this they should also be producing another 30 new aircraft including such things as the CG-4 glider, Hs-293 guided bomb, Fairey Firefly, B-29, Tupolev SB3 and Shackleton AEW2. Available from SIMTAC, Inc., 1 SG Colton Rd, East Lyme, CT 06333, tel (203) 739-3609. SIMTAC catalog $4.00.

Scotia has released new WWII Japanese artillery in 1/300 scale. The 47 mm AT gun and 105 mm Howitzer are in both firing and towed versions, while the new versions of the 20 mm AAT/AA and 37 mm AT guns are towed. There are also some modern Russian items: BM-14 in firing and towed versions, 2S6 SPAA, BM-25 250 mm MRL, BMD-20 200 mm MRL and Zil-135 L4 Truck. Available from .SIMTAC Inc, 15G Colton Rd, East Lyme, CT 06333, tel (203:) 739-3609. SIMTAC catalog $4.00.

Frei Korps 15 has changed the metal used in their castings to produce a softer, more malleable figure that will be le.ss breakable. They say that the new castings will not lose crispness. The first range cast in this metal is for WWI in the Middle East. These are some 9 mixed-pose packs of British Infantry in peaked caps, Imperial troops in sun helmets. and Anzacs in bush hats, opposed by three packs of Turkish infantry, with Allied cavalry promised soon. There are also new Papal troops for Italy 1859: Chasseurs, Native Infantry, Foreign Grenadiers, St F'atricks Irish Bn, and Lt Horse/Napoleon Guard Hussars. 25 Princetown Rd, Bangor, County Down, BT20 3TA, Northern Ireland.

Musket Miniatures is now producing a new line of 15 mm Mexican War miniatures and buildings. There are 10 packs of US Infantry, plus mounted Dragoons, Artillery, limbers, caissons, mounted officers, and supply wagons. The Mexicans have a dozen varieties of Infantry, 4 of Cavalry, Artillery, mounted officers, and supply carts. There are 6 adobe buildings and a variety of wall and gate pieces, all in resin, to make up a Mexican village. Bulk and Army packs are available. P.O. Box 1976, Broomfield, CO 80038 tel (303) 439-9336.

Thoroughbred Figures produces a line of metal ACW ships in 1/600 scale. The newest additions are the CSS Columbia/Texas at $13.50, the USS Dictator at $15.00 and some packs of Dahlgren pivot guns and small Dahlgren deck guns at $1.25. 3833 Buckhorn Place, Virginia Beach, VA 23456 tel (804) 471-5918.

See Review (includes photos) of the Dictator and Columbia/Texas.

Two Dragons has released some new figures in their 15 mm Victorias Enemies line. These are Arabs standing firing Remington rifle, kneeling with spear and wicker shield, advancing with sword, and Fuzzies charging with sword, bearing flag staff, and playing drum. Available from Brookhurst Hobbies,12188 Brookhurst St, Garden Grove, CA 92640.

Quality Castings has come out with improved versions of their 15 mm M16 halftrack quad AA, German Pz35t, Russian KV-I, KV-II, and KV-85. They have also added a US T30 halftrack with 75mm howitzer, Jumbo Sherman assault tank, and infantry patrolling. The French now have Rhone-Gnome motorcycles in packages with sidecar and machine gunner, sidecar with officer, or simply with a dispatch rider. P.O. Box 11714, Alexandria, VA 22312, tel (703) 354-5469 eves.

See Review (includes photo) of Panther and Jagdpanther.

C in C has released towed and firing versions of the 2 cm Flakvierling in 1/285, along with the Sdkfz 231/8 RAD, late production version. For modern 1/285 gamers, there are the Leopard II and II improved. The WWII naval 1/2400 line now has the HMS Lively (a 1941 DD) Obedient (1942 DD), Urchin (1943 DD), and Obedient (1943 minelayer). 8090 University Ave NE, Fridley, MN 55432.

Redoubt has released Lukka and Myrmidon warriors for their 25 mm Trojan wars range. These are packs of 6 in a variety of poses of javelinmen, spearmen, swordsmen, or archers. Hector in a chariot with driver and running shield bearer can be had for $18.50 and Nestor or Diomedes in a chariot with driver costs $16.50. Achilles also is chariot-bome with driver and running shield bearer for $16.50, while Helen can be had for $4.00. They have also come out with a large sprung coach with four horses for the ECW or Three Musketeers. The coach is priced at $48.00, while you can have a driver, guard, and two passengers for either the ECW or Three Musketeers for $9.00. Available from Miature Service Center,1525 Bridge St #163, Yuba City, CA 95993, tel (916) 673-5169.

Lance Runolfsson, who ran Adventure Books and Games, is getting back in production with some new 1/100 WWII offerings. He says that the vehicles are similar to the best of his old Spanish Civil War line, and the infantry is much improved. German items include Pz IIIJ, StuG III, Berge P III, Hanomag armored halftrack AdKfz 11 halftrack, Opel Blitz Kubelwagen, 105 mm howitzer, Motorcycles with or without sidecar, Infantry, machine guns, and mortars. The Russsian items are a T-34/76, T-34/85, SU 85, BT 5, T26A, T26B, Komsolyets tractor, truck, motorcycles with or without sidecar, infantry, and heavy and light machineguns, Prices are $3.00-$3.75 for most vehicles, $4.00 for 24 infantry. 31 Lewis St, Medford, OR 97501, tel (541) 772-2439.

Tiny Terrain is 30 mm hex-based terrain sized for use with Red Sun, Blue Sky games. New releases include a variety of air bases, AA positions, building hexes, factory hexes and destroyed versions thereof, most for $3.50 for two or three hexes. Available from SIMTAC Inc, 15G Colton Rd, East Lyme, CT 06333, tel (203) 739-3609. SIMTAC catalog $4.00.

ACW Riverine Warfare is a set of rules for battles on the inland waters with 10 pages of rules, 6 of ship data, and now in its third revised edition, it is available from George Dunden, 1061 Still Hill Rd, Hamden, CT 06518-1139.

George Nafziger (8801 Tammy Drive., W. Chester, OH 45069 - WWW.infinet.com/nafziger) has announced the availablity of Volume 8 of the Soviet organization series by Sharp and more Italian WWII TO & E material. He also has The Air War against Malta - daily returns of attacks against Malta and a large collection of Japanese OBs for the Pacific drawn from MacArthur's unofficial official history of his campaigns. His book, Guide to Napoleonic Warfare will be published under the title Imperial Bayonets by Greenhill Books.

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