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 RECO

2. Castaway Arts, PO Box 7599, Cairns Q 4870, Australia, castawayarts@ozemail.com.au 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

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 #100, Hal Thinglum, 22554 Pleasant Drive, Richton Park, IL 60471, $35.00 a year for six issues. Issue 100, wow CONGRATULATIONS HAL!!!!!! While there is nothing really colonial here there are some very good reads with stuff well worth stealing from. One article in particular is by Scott Hansen with a short series of three articles on gaming the Russo-Japanese War. Very good into to the war and a good set of rules.

7. Miniatures Wargames #194-195. Good reads but nothing colonial. #195 has a "Zeppelin in 1870" scenario--lots of good ideas to steal, er, borrow.

8. Cannon Fodder Miniatures PO Box 36604 Winnellie 0821, NT Australia (08) 89816283 gregoryblacke@bigpond.com See review this issue.

9. Lone Warrior, US- 1707 Ridge Road, Leavenworth, KS 66048. #127 Contains several articles, but nothing colonial, that are all worth reading for great ideas especially for those of us who game solo!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

10. Playmobil, 1-800-playmobil. Yes, Playmobil and they make stuff like Legos. Anyway someone asked where they could get Acacia trees and thought it might be Playmobil. I checked out their web site and they have three oak trees that could work quite well and are pictured below, as best they can be. I am not sure of the scale, but based on the figures they sell, about 2 inches tall, they should all work well with either 15s, 25s or 28s. My local store could have ordered them but I would call direct. Sorry I have no idea of cost, I would assume anywhere from 3 to 10 dollars.

11.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. –Issue 97, June 1999, has six great articles, my favorite was ÒWhy was the North-West frontier of India the scene of so much conflict in the period 1849-1901?Ó by R.A. Johnson. While onlyn three pages long, it contains some very thought provoking ideas and statements for those interested in the NWF. It is also a very good intoduction to the NWF. An index of main articles is available and back issues can be purchased from The Scarlet Gunner, 127 High Street, Tenterden, Kent TN30 6JS, Great Britain.

12. The Melik Society, 202 Lambeth Road, London SE1 7JW, Great Britain. The purpose of the Melik Society is to advance public awareness of Britiah and Sudane Every dollar or pound helps. Highly recommended charity!!!!

13. Wargames Illustrated, 18 Lovers Lane, Newark, Notts. NG24 1HZ Great Britain. Issues 142 a

Issue 142: -Traders and Slavers in Nyasaland, 1887-1895, part 2, Forces and Figures' by Chris Peers is a great background history to obtain scenarios to use The Foundry's new Darkest Africa figures. The article has lots of good info, including OBs, for developing scenarios. Illustrations and notes on war costume of the natives, includes some great color photos. The native descriptions discuss which of the Foundry figures would work best as certain specific tribes, very useful.

Issue 143: The is a photo ad for Hovels new 20/25mm Arab Tomb with detachable domed second floor, WOW! Most of my native and arab buildings are scratch built, I will have to buy this soon, it is beautiful. -Pirates in West Africa, a cutthroat participation game' by John French. Nicely illustrated, some color. Very interesting set of rules with chance cards. Some good ideas to use your pirates and natives. -

14. Articles of War Ltd., 8806 Bronx Ave., Skokie, IL 60077-1896. 847-674-7445. Lots of good books here. Please note that during September and October ARTICLES OF WAR is having a SALE -- 25% off all in store titles. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

15. Osprey, Osprey Direct,P.O. Box 140, Wellingborough, Northants, NN8 4ZA Great Britain. The Messenger is bein Highly 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

17. Howard Whitehouse, 312 Ridgecrest, LaFayette, GA 30728. Howard still has copies of his colonial classic book Battle in Africa for $10. If you don't have one you need it. This is the best of its kind! 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 War booklets. I did happen to notice a book I have 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. I had forgotten about this book until reminded by Bob Burke, I will have to try again. Battlefields is available in the US from On Militruary 1884Ó by Grayde Bowen. Very nice article with British OB and maps as well as contemporary color illustrations. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!

19. BY JINGO http://members.spree.com/sip/byjingo I had a few free minutes and read three articles: -With Hicks in Kordofan, a multi-player, solo game system' and -Drums Along the Watusi, Bush Warfare 1870-190ca, The growing range from the Foundry'. Lots of other stuff here but I don't have that much time.

20. Savage and Soldier Check this out at www.dnai.com/~soongliu/SavageAndSoldier Highly Recommend full of great information.

21. ColonialWars@onelist.com, another colonial site. You must first go to onelist.com find colonial wars and ask to subscribe, once you are accepted you start receiving all the email/chat. Three day. Individuals write in a stream of thought, whatever comes in to his head he writes and sends, so you can have three liners from the same guy six straight messages none connected. Don't let me put you off there has been some really great stuff, I think about 10 percent of the 2,000 plus messages I have kept. Keeping up with this is a steady chore, and that's not really what I want from the hobby. I may unsubscribe soon.

22. Warrior Miniatures, 14 Tiverton Ave. Glasgow, www.warrioronline.demon.co.uk They carry 25mm colonial figures, sorry I do not know whether they are standard or large, I assume standard. The line includes 7 inf and 2 cav Brits and 10 Zulus for the Zulu Wars, 5 Fuzzy Wuzzy and 5 Brits for Sudan and 5 Boer inf and 1 cav. 40p each or 50 figure packs for £ 12.50, 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 line of acrylic paints $1.99 for 1/2 oz. Kind 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!

24. magweb.com Amazing as it seems the Heliograph has kept in the top ten magazines for the last year and more! And magweb has sixty gaming magazines. http://www.magweb.com/sample/mw99surv.htm

25. RAFM, has apparently decided to bring out the Space 1889 figures, single figs, Humans/Martians $1.00, Horse/Gashant $2.00 Flying figures $1.25, and shipping $4.00 These are new figures. This offer is only available, right now, through Flintloque@aol.com