The Foundry, figures available in the US from Pendragon Miniatures, 1549 Marview Dr., Westlake, OH 44145, 440-871-4587, fax 440-892-5887. Guernsey Foundry, Hubert's Lane, Off Doyle Road, St. Peter Port, Gurnsey, GY1 1RG, Channel Islands, Great Britain.

These figures are pictured on the following three pages.

DA2 Ardent Adventurers - (from right to left) Frobisher, Wilbur Vanhuysman, Malto Cortese, Graf von Schynder, Enfield, Young Stanley, and Captaine Crapaud.
DA3 Askari Command - includes two flag bearers, two drummers gun bearer, machette man, Head Askari (with bugle) and Askari. All except the gun bearer would lead an expedition. The bugle was used to signal the Europeans in the column while the drummers would announce the column to villagers.
DA8 Heavily Armed Askaris: Martini Henrys, Winchesters, etc.
DA11 Baggage - what's an expedition without lots of baggage
DA16 Those Ragamuffin Ruga Ruga
DA21 Villainous Zanzibaris advancing with muskets - these can be used as slavers along with
DA16 and would make a great scenario battling their way back to Zanzibar to sell their captives. Now if the Foundry will make a pack of slaves in chains it would be great.
DA22 Vicious Zanzibaris all firing - useful for the scenario above.
DA25 Bearers 2 - everyone needs several packs of bearers 1 and 2 to make the expedition look and feel right. You can even add some of the Indian bearers from the Indian range to fill the expedition out. Stanley's 1876 expedition to Lake Victoria and beyond started with about 250 bearers, and very few carried food, most carried gifts for the natives and as trade items, and scientific instruments.
DA31 Tribal Spearmen 2 you can also never have too many spearmen for attacks.
DA32 Tribal Spearmen 3 ditto above
DA36 Trepidatious Tribal Musketmen
DA37 African Villagers - the second from the left looks to be pounding/de-hulling rice, the third from the left is a woman carrying a child. With the two or three other village people available or soon to be a full village will be possible and will add greatly to any scenario.
DA39 Tribal Spearmen, Feathered Headress 1 includes a war ax.
DA40 Tribal Spearmen, Feathered Headress 2 - come with several swords for diversity.
DA41 Tribal Spearmen with Feathered Plumes - comes with several war clubs of differing shapes to help add even further diversity.
DA46J Spears - two different types of spears in a bag of 32.
DA42 Tribal Spearmen with Braided Hair
DA43 Tribal Spearmen Sculpted Hair
DA47 African Tribal Casualties - these figures are sculpted on both sides as figures two from the right and three from the left indicate. One from the left is in a fetal position against a rock and two from the left is attempting to sit up.
DA45 Pygmy Archers - I love these guys, there are one or two other pygmy packs available which I will need multiples of, never enough pygmies.
DA26 Baluchi Matchlockmen in Indian Dress - next to DA1, 2 and 3 these are my favorite figures in the collection. These will soon be added to by another two packs, one in Arab dress and one with swords. Each carries a shield as figure five from the right indicates.

By painting up the specialty figures, for example DA39 and 40, these can become your main or veteran / experienced (or gunfighters if using The Rules With No Name) warriors for any village while the remaining spearmen and archers are militia. Actually you could then have as many tribes represented as there are specialty figures/groups, and even these can be painted differently to give more tribal variation.

These 21 packs all had some flash on the figures, but you must clean any figures before washing and base coating anyway so no big deal.

The pygmy figures measure 23mm from the bottom of the foot to the eyes, while the other figures measure 28mm from the bottom of the foot to the eyes. These figures are full bodied and well animated, heck even the baggage has character.

This whole range of figures has to be the most original idea in wargaming figures in quite a while. So far I have seen about 30 packs of figures which is about 240 figures in less than a year, when does Mark Copplestone sleep or have the Brits cloned him? To be able to turn out this many excellent different figures in a short period of time is amazing. Plus he has to do the research to ensure accuracy. Mark must have a secret book about the Nile and the natives who live near it and its headwaters. Also having a few of Stanley's illustrated books about doesn't hurt. So, Mark what are your resources for the figures?