Patrick Wilson

Got my copy of The Heliograph last week and this might just be your best ever! I LOVE the cover and wish I could get it as a GIF or JPEG. Was it originally in color? Looks like it could have been.

The TSATF variant for Darkest Africa is great and very well timed. There are more works coming out For this new genre of Colonial Wargame all the time. In the March issue of BY JINGO! will be Mr. James Stuht's own "Mons Luna" which will be lavishly Illustrated with beautiful photos taken of his exquisite terrain and figures.

All of this activity is a further goad to my getting back to "Mad Dogs And Englishmen" and finishing work on the newest version of the combat rules. Just don't ask me when! Between BY JINGO!, "John Company", and some screwy doings in my own life, I'm busier than a flea on a fat lady!

Richard, I believe I asked you before, but could you PLEASE compose a three for four short paragraph autobio and send a photo for our Mentioned In Dispatches page at BY JINGO!? Larry Brorn looks a little lonely their at the moment and event though he's been promised company, he's still alone! As Editor of the only REGULARLY published strictly Colonial Wargames 'zinc in the U.S. (if not the world), and given the constant high quality of the Heliograph now and throughout its long publishing history, you deserve some public credit for your work and our Brother Colonialists equally deserve to know something about you, as well as the other key characters. Bob Burke is supposed to give us his autoblo and photo as author of "They Died For Glory", and the Immortal Mandarin, Milton Soong, is also a promised contributor. Indeed, in addition to yourself, I'd appreciate your own nominees for inclusion (and their E-mail addresses if you got).

Please don't make me come after you. Local #666 of the Benevolent Order of Ruga-Rugas have already offered me their "collection" services but I'd like to keep it friendly. Just send me your STUFF and nobody gets hurt.

Please keep up the good (if hard) work. My respect and appreciation for hobbyzine editors goes up every day that I wrestle with my own publishing deadlines, editing jobs, and general effort to produce something of use to the Brethren. And I don't even have to mail the damn thing! If you choose to run any portion of this scurrilous scrap, please be so kind as to include another mention of BY JINGO! and repeat our address at: http: //members. spree.com/sip/byj* ingo/

Thanks again, for everything,
Patrick Wilson, Editor-Not- So-In- Chief

No, sorry the cover was black and white in my source. May be the original was, but the book had color illustrations and I'm sure it would have been color if it was originally. I must be out of touch but "Mons Luna" means nothing to me, could you explain it please. I'll think about the Bio, but no promises. Scurrilous scrap, hmmm didn't you spell that last word wrong????

Grant Sigsworth

Just got it - I love it when other people talk about me. I wrote a note to Russ Lockwood saying that I hoped he appreciated me being his straight man.

I read "Intelligence" and amazingly, I actually have WI #135. First one I've bought in years. I am intrigued by Peter Pig's AK-47 Republic rules. I ordered a copy but haven't got it yet. I'll let you know if it has any potential. Also, I accept the challenge. I will send you the skirmish rules I use when I get them presentable. I've been having a lot of fun playing skirmish games with all the Foundry figures I've painted (there so damn expensive I figure I'd better use them!) I've also developed a dry brushing technique that goes fast and looks really good. Been painting figures for 20 years but didn't start dry brushing until recently. I'm a convert. I'm also a convert to acrylic craft paints. 2 ounces for 99 cents and they don't dry out, and millions of colors. It also helps that there is a craft store about two miles from me, while the nearest hobby store is about ten. Today was our first rainy day in two months. traffic sucked.

Well now you'll have to buy the whole lot of WIs. I'd like to hear more about your drybrushing. I didn't mean to start the mumbo jumbo concerning figure price, because of your letter. I have heard both sides of the story andjeel that both sides have something to say to the other. But I really think that prices will not go down only up to make the figures available that we seem to crave. I know it's not cheap to sculpt and produces extensive figure lines. Lots of manufacturers just break even. Anyway there's food for thought for both sides of the story. And I think I'll stay on the fence for now leaning toward the ... well never mind.

I hope you all enjoyed the issue, catalog and used your discount envelope to buy figures. If you have any articles, news or views send it in, but keep it clean.