1. 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. Check out the latest additions to the Darkest Africa line in the Darkest Africa review. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

2. Castaway Arts PO Box 7599, Cairns, Q 4870 Australia castawayarts@ozemail.com Great figures for the Ashanti War. I just ordered some for my gaming, How about you? HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

3. El Dorado, The South and Central American Military Historians Society Quarterly. Terry D. Hooker, 27 Hallgate, Cottingham, East Yorkshire, HU16 4DN, England. In the US Paul V. Walsh, 3412 Huey Ave. Drexel Hill, PA 19026-2311. Check this out on magweb.com or get a subscription.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

4. Wargames Box 278 Rte 40 East, Tridelphia, WV 26059 Now carries subs to Miniature Wargames and Wargames Illustrated. Latest flyers do not have anything colonial.

5. Bob Burke, 4726 Apaloosa Court, Antioch, CA 94509. BURKER1@aol.com Until further notice, all original back issues of Savage and Soldier are on sale for only $2.50 each (photocopies of earlier back issues are still $2.75). SEE THE AD HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

6. MWAN #99, Hal Thinglum, 22554 Pleasant Drive, Richton Park, IL 60471, $35.00 a year for six issues. Brother Aelred Glidden's As Per Margin rules are great, good for those pirates you just bought. Howard Whitehouse steals the show with his Battle Troll and A Dead Man's Chest great for Vikings and Pirates. Way to go Howard. MWAN full of great articles. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

7. Miniatures Wargames #189-192. Good reads but nothing colonial. #193 has skirmish scenario "Long Grass of Eshowe" by Ben yates. Yates presents an intersting way, using playing cards, of developing the Zulu force to oppose a vedette at Eschowe, revealing hidden forces and developing objectives. Very Interesting, quite worth stealing from. Recommended Reading!

8. Barnes and Nobles, 1-800-the-book. See the review of The Discovery of the Nile by Gianni Guadalupi.

9. Victorian Military Society, Dan Allen, 20 Priory Road, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 7QN Great Britain. If you don't belong to the Victorian Military Society you should, and tell them the Heliograph sent you. NOTE NEW ADDRESS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

10. Custom Wood Bases Mitru Costea III, 1386 Meetinghouse Road, Meadowbrook, PA 19046 loddus@aol.com All in inches: 1x1 5 cents each, 1x2 8 cents each, 1x3 10 cents each, 2x3 15 cents each, 3x3 20 cents each. Custom available. $3.75 shipping, orders over $20 S&H free. The 1x1s are made from what looks like 1/4 inch Luan board, the 1 x 2 and 3 x 3 are a very high grade of pine 1/4 inch ply that might even be a hardwood ply. I like the bases the 1 x 1s are all exactly the same size no deviation. While I like then they are too thick for my table. However, I will use them for my better painted figures of my collection that I keep separate for display. These will make great display stands. Recommended!

11. Wargames Illustrated #139 contains lots of colonial period articles.

The First Sikh War 1846" by Trickett & Whitehouse is a two page color photo spread. There are some really nice ideas here for painting. ng guide to Masai shields and Warriors. WOW great for your figures. Finally in this issue is an ad for wooden 30mm Foreign Legion and Arab figures from Windcatcher Graphics (703) 938 0376, I have seen these at Cold Wars and they are very tempting to collect. sets contain 10 foot or five mounted for $14.95.

Issue 140 "The First Sikh War revisited' by Trickett & Whitehouse is another two page color photo spread. There are some really nice ideas here for painting. "Gone for a Burton: Wargaming 19th Century Africa in Darkest Rawnsley' by Phil Robinson a very interesting scenario and write up on a first en Askais as well as Chalk's paddle wheeler or if you are artistically inclined the steamer illustrated in the article. A color page will give you ideas for painting your troops. The article has lots of good info, including OBs, for developing scenarios. "Bayonet and Bundock, Colonial Rules' by Bob Cordrey. An interesting set of rules with what must be some adoption from TSATF. These rules will be different give them a try next time you fight in the Sudan or have trained troops fighting trained troops. There are rules for spear etc. but this set seems really for use with formed troops.-Up the Creek ut of Sherwood, England. The second ad is from Mayhem Miniatures out of Milton Keynes, Great Britain that illustrate several building useful for Darkest Africa including a steamer station and jetty, elephants and native huts. Very nice additions to your table. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING!!!

12. Lone Warrior, US 1707 Ridge Road, Leavenworth, KS 66048. #126 Contains several articles, but nothing colonial, that are all worth reading for great ideas.

13. Dress Regulation 22 Kennard Rd., New Milton, Hants., BH25 5JU Great Britain. The Newsletter of the Uniform Study Group, Number 3 contains several articles worth reading and seeing the photographs. "English Line Regiments in the 1860s - Officers' by Chris Coogan and -Other Ranks' Uniforms Dragoons and Dragoon Guards 1894-1902' by P.J. Hoyer. Both are good articles. I hope they can get away from the dot matrix printer it is hard to read. But the color cover makes up for it.

14. Articles of War LTD. 847-674-7445. Lots of good books here.

15. Osprey, Osprey Direct, Freepost MID 16397, Wellingborough, Northants, NN8 4BR Great Britain. The Messenger, issue 9, Spring 1999 contains an article by Ian Heath -British India's Forgotten Frontier' a short write up based on his MAA 324 North-East Frontier 1837-1901. Very nice article with illustrations. The May-August Osprey list indicates MAA 327 US Marine Corps in WWI and 329 Austrian Army 1836-1866 (2) Cavalry, in the Campaign Series 61 Megiddio 1918 should be available by now. Recommended!!!

16. Redoubt, in the US from Miniature Service Center, 1525 Bridge Street #163, Yuba City, CA 95993, 530-673-5169. A 15% discount still continues. The latest flyer has a new price list for the March or Die, Zulu and Sudan Ranges $1.60 mounted or foot.

17. Howard Whitehouse, 312 Ridgecrest, LaFayette, GA 30728. Howard still has copies of his colonial classic book Battle in Africa for $10. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Howard also makes some really great scenery modules or whole tables of scenery. I have some small scenery piece Howard makes and they are outstanding, very functional, made to your specifications, good looking, and not that expensive. Give Howard a call. Highly Recommended!!

18. Caliver Books and Battlefields, 816-818 London Road, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, SS9 3NH, Great Britain. The Colonial section of the book catalog is long on Boer Warave never seen before Long Arm of the Empire: Naval Brigades from Crimea to Boxer Rebellion by Brooks, no not me. £22.50 I think I need to order this.Battlefields is available in the US from On Military Matters, (609) 466 2329. Issue 7 is finally here and a great read. One colonial article here concerns a strictly naval operation. I am glad to see the return of this magazine it has the best illustrations for articles of any hobby magazine, while the articles themselves are top notch. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!

19. BY JINGO http://members.spree.com/sip/byjingo20. Savage and Soldier Check this out atwww.dnai.com/~soongliu/SavageAndSoldier Highly Recommend. full of great information.

21. COLD WARS while there I made a few purchases, I don't even want to think about how much I spent particularly on books. Anyway some of the following I thought you might be interested in as it is colonial in nature. Pile of bones 2 x 3 inches with a pile of human skulls about 1 x 2 inches in the middle great for that canibal village.

Regal Miniatures, 1980 NW 94th St. Suite D, Clive, IA 50325 (515) 251 3906 has purchased Howard Hues paints and they are available again at $1.95 a 1 oz. bottle and $5.75 a 4oz bottle, plus $14.95 for sets (flesh, equine, scenery etc). I have several sets and love them.

RLBPS, 4827 Treeview Terrace, Rockford, IL 61109 (815) 874 5351. Have a colonial range that includes a steam launch, canoe and several different huts. This time I purchased FC8 African Village Accessories $6.90 (Clay oven, log drum, corn grinding stones, pot 3 sizes, 2 baskets and a fire). You could put the largest pot on the fire add a head and have a missionary for dinner. Very nice will add great detail.B2 a smallnch has a wood grained deck and the boiler is really a gem. Along with this strange looking but neat launch I got a bag of D2 Velociraptor (6 dinos) $15.00 in 25mm to use with my Darkest Africa figs. They have currently 14 different dinosaurs, this should add a little zing to some scenarios. Now I need 'Professor Challenger' to lead my figures to the Lost World.

TCS (401) 437 9820 H64 Medium stucco castle strong point for $8.50. The structure is about 4 x 7 inches and about 4-5 inches tall, at least two floors in the tower. They also ha Wuzzy and 5 Brits for Sudan and 5 Boer inf and 1 cav. 40p each or 50 figure packs for ú12.50, 100 figure Zulu pack for £ 24.95, that works out to 25p each about 40 cents US. If you have standard size 25mm write for a sample, send some cash along or use plastic.23. Model Master has a new d of steep but the colors are very nice. The skin tone are most welcome additions to my collection of skin colors, particularly the Shadow Tint. Recommended!