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.au New figures see the review, the figures come with a great Painting guide for the Colonial Egyptian Army. 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, Route 40 East, Tridelphia, WV 26059. Their latest flyers do not have anything new in the colonial period. Although I have heard that Dixon is coming out with figures for the French in Dahomey. 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, 419 Brian Drive, Manteno, IL 60950, $35.00 a year for six issues. NOTE Hal's new address. Congratulations to Hal for winning the HMGS Legion of Honor!!!!!

Issue 101 - Read "The Crusty Old Wargamers Notebook" by Chuck Vadun. This article consists of letters to and from Chuck and Dan Richardson concerning the construction of a colonial steamer to handle a Victorian Science Fiction Helicopter and its first outing against a variety of enemies - Fuzzy, Pathans, and FFL versus the Brits. Great reading. Good ideas. MWAN is full of great articles and as always a great read. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

7. Miniature Wargames. Recommended Reading! š Issue 196 a very nice article by Andy O'Neill "Bluffers Guide to Painting and Basing" Six pages of great painting tips. Issue 197 nothing colonial.

8. Cannon Fodder Miniatures, P.O. Box 36604, Winnellie 0821 NT, Australia. Some new figures see the review. Highly Recommended!

9. Lone Warrior, US- 1707 Ridge Road, Leavenworth, KS 66048. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

10. Clash of Empires, Keith Frye, 33 Ridge Road, Bloomingdale, NJ 07403. Highly Recommended!!!!

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. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!

12. The Melik Society, 202 Lambeth Road, London SE1 7JW, Great Britain. The purpose of the Melik Society is to advance public awareness of British and Sudanese history, particularly the development of river gunboats and the achievements of those involved in the military campaigns between 1883 and 1899. One of the immediate objectives is to facilitate the preservation and restoration of the remaining gunboats Melik and Bordein so that they can be exhibited, maintained and demonstrated to the general public. Every dollar or pound helps. Highly recommended charity!!!!

13. Wargames Illustrated, 18 Lovers Lane, Newark, Notts. NG24 1HZ Great Britain. I don't know what all the fuss is about having trouble getting a subscription directly from WI. I had my first issue in hand in 10 days. That's outstanding turn around time from England. WI 144 - "Death in the Sand: being a simple set of wargame rules for FFL actions in North Africa" by Peter Helm. I think I have seen some of this before - especially Saving Throws for Legion Officers. Anyway, some great ideas with even better color photos of a scratch built Fort Zindernouf - WOW!!!! "Victoria Regina Imperatrix or After Mrs. Brown: A skirmish scenario" by Richard Crawley using the three figures from the Foundry when you subscribe directly to WI. The figures are pretty neat, and the scenario has some very interesting ideas for use with very few figures, say ten or less.

WI 145 - Another Chris Peers masterpiece, he must have had these saved up for a long time to get them out so consistantly. "An Impossible Rider Haggard Romance: Belgians versus Arabs in the Congo, 1892-1894." I just finished reading Hinde's The Fall of the Congo Arabs so this is pretty familiar to me and Chris has written a great condensed version. Although Peers has glossed over two aspects that Hinde discusses in some detail, everytime they happen. First and foremost, there are never any bodies to bury - Cannibal allies make steaks, stews, smoke and dry their enemies mmmmmm! yummy! Second, a weather feature, four or five times during the course of two campaign years they experience tornadoes. Great rain storms lightning, thunder and wind that destroyes camps disrupts battles, sieges and chases. This article should be read by anyone who buys Foundry's Belgians as they should read Hinde's account. Highly Recommended! The Foundry ad has painting instructions for painting your Belgians.

14. Articles of War LTD., 8806 Bronx Ave., Skokie, IL 60077-1896. 847-674-7445. Lots of good books here. Please note ARTICLES OF WAR is moving to New Mexico around the first of the year so order now. I used the sale mentioned last issue to purchase: Omar al-Mukhtar: The Italian Reconquest of Libya by Santarelli et al. resistence to Italian occupation against the wider background of Fasist rule. Handbook of the Italian Army 1913 includes Colonial Troops. Battaglia Di Adua 1 Marzo 1896 by Stella while this is in Italian and I don't read it very well it contains B&W photos and illustrations Color uniform plates and Biographical profile of officers down to LT. very useful. And two novels Kalimantaan by CS Godshalk about a British Raj on Borneo great reading. Fenwick Travers and the Years of Empire by Saunders the first novel of an American Flashman, I think I haven't read it yet. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

15. Osprey, Osprey Direct,P.O. Box 140, Wellingborough, Northants, NN8 4ZA Great Britain. Osprey Military Journal, 64 pages six times a year, great articles, illustrations and maps. If you like Men-At-Arms or any other Osprey publication. you will like this journal, and if you don't you get your money back. $39.95 US, £25.50 UK and £42.50 rest of world. "The Barrier to Ladysmith: Battlefields of the Second Anglo-Boer War" by Martin Evans has some nice illustrations some great maps and considers a battlefield tour, modern maps, contemporary accounts to make a very nice text. 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 $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. 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. Battlefields is available in the US from On Military Matters, (609) 466 2329. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!

19. BY JINGO http://members.spree.com/sip/byjingo.

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.

22. Warrior Miniatures, 14 Tiverton Ave. Glasgow, G32 9NX Scotland. 0141 778 3426 www.warrioronline.demon.co.uk

23. Practical Wargamer Year Book 1999, $13.00. Nexus Media Limited, Nexus House, Azalea Drive, Swanley, Kent BR8 8HU While PW may be gone from the bi-monthly scene Stuart Asquith has provided us with a great Year Book, well done Stuart. This publication contain 18 excellent articles, two of which are colonial and two borderline. The two colonial articles are "The Seymour Relief Expedition: The first attempt to reach Peking during the Boxer Rebellion" by Bob Marrion and "Gun Boats on the Nile: An action on the River Nile near Omdurman 1898" by Bob Giglio. Both articles contain great illustrations and maps. Marrion's article is historical in nature and worth reading. Giglio's article is geared towards gaming and has detailed maps of the scenario he produced at last years Fall In that Stuart not only attended but took part in this game. Some good ideas and rule explanation for Soldier's Companion. Not strictly colonial but many would argue with me about it are two articles on the Second Boer War, both are good reading.

Two articles by Charles Grant "Writing Scenarios: Guide lines for the writing of your own scenarios" and "One to One - Fun and Games: Some basic rules and mechanisms for skirmish war games" are must reading for any gamer. All in all very well done publication, can't wait until next year, thank you Stuart. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!

24. Principles of War: The Magazine, issue 8, August 1999. John Hollyoak, The Farrows, Offmore Court, Offmore Farm Close, Kidderminster DY10 3XJ. See the ad! There are reviews for Frontier Miniatures Boxer Rebellion in 15mm. Falcon Miniatures in 15 and 25mm. There are articles on worth reading such as "Do it Yourself Armies" by Gary Dudleston (Pathan and British Army OBs rather than a real article) and "Defending the Indefensible" by Ken Natt (Spanish-American War) very nice article with OBs. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!

25. The Sword and the Flame, available from And That's The Way It Was 213 3rd Street NE Hickory, NC 28601-5124 $25 in the US, $31 USD rest of world 20 Anniversary Edition including the all new The Sword in Africa. This edition is certainly jazzed up and looks great. TSATF is my main rules set, with the inevitable home rule additions, so these are a welcome addition to me, as my first edition is wearing out. There are places on the table charts for your own additions which I really like. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

26. amazon.com.uk I ordered The Long Arm of Empire: Naval Brigades from the Crimea to the Boxer Rebellion by Richard Brooks. I am rather disappointed by the few photographs and illustrations. But that is my only objection. The information, including ship by ship naval brigade OBs, is well written, logical and very useful. The book includes 28 illustrations, glossary, notes index and 330 pages. £25.00 plus shipping. I ordered it over the web and got it in less than a week. Good service. Highly recommended book. Put your naval brigade to work.

27. Games Workshop. On the way back from a wedding in D.C. we stopped at Potomac Mills to buy a few things from Games Workshop. I bought a couple of packs of the Praetorian Guards, which look like British colonials in red coats and pith helmet. I also have been on the look out for a spray brown to paint some African natives they were pretty well out of spray color but had Bestial Brown which I thought I would try. I did and I like it as a follow up coat to a primer for the Africans. After letting the brown spray dry I used brown washs to darken the figures and added some darker and lighter high lights which really make these figures stand out. I may try some over spraying of two or three browns if I can find the colors I like from GW.

28. magweb.com Amazing as it seems the Heliograph is still in the top ten magazines for the last year and more! And magweb has sixty gaming magazines. If this keeps up I may not have to raise the price to $15. Although it is very interesting to see that more expensive magazines are lower down on the list. There is a contest on at wagweb check it out at http://www.magweb.com/sample/mw99surv.htm