1. The Foundry, figures available in the US from Patrick Wilson, business hours are from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Central Time, Mondays through Friday's (barring holidays, calls of nature, doctor appointments, and F5 Tornadoes). I may be faxed at 1-800-282-1802 (local calls to 405-755-8572) or phoned at 1-800-986-3060 (local calls, again, to 405-755-8863). In the UK 24-34 St, Marks Street, Nottingham, NG3 1DE, Great Britain.

In Wargames Illustrated issue 157 The Foundry ad indicates a new line of Wild West—Blood on the Plains. Figures include mounted and unmounted James bothers and Cole Younger. COOL. In Wargames Illustrated #158 the back page shows painted Blood on the Plains figures. On another page of the ad more Old West figures are coming—Quantrill, Jayhawkers, Vigilantes, Mountain Men, Texas Rangers, Indian Scouts and others. VERY NICE!! Now for the BIG NEWS! Mark Copplestone has returned to sculpting DARKEST AFRICA figures. I can't wait. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!

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. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

4. Articles of War, LTD., 3 Rodeo Road, Silver City, NM 88061-8710, (505) 534-8840. Checkout their new web site at www.articlesofwar.com, Bob is going to be primarily an internet dealer, the web site offers new features, easier browsing, and a new arrivals section. Highly recommended! email: warbooks@aol.com

5. Bob Burke, 4726 Apaloosa Court, Antioch, CA 94509. email: 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 Bob for back issues of the Heliograph. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

6. MWAN, Hal Thinglum, 22554 Pleasant Drive, Richton Park, IL 60471, $35.00 a year for six issues. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

7. Cannon Fodder Miniatures, P.O. Box 36604, Winnellie 0821 NT, Australia. gregoryblake@bigpond.com See the Review Also check out their web site members.xoom.com/canfodmins/canfodmins/home.htm Check out the free flags pages, These are really fine flags made just for 28mm figures. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

8. Lone Warrior, US- 1707 Ridge Road, Leavenworth, KS 66048. Lone Warrior LW132 Bjorn Saltorp's article "Madagascar – a Continent of Your Own" is a short article, a page and a half, but worth reading for ideas on creating your own continent for campaigning. The remainder of the issue has some very good ideas for solo campaigns as always. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

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.

Soldiers of the Queen Issue 102 Well, someone forgot to take the Heliograph ad off the inside back cover, I'm glad they did. Not to belittle the other articles there are two very worth reading. "Storming the rebel Strongholds: The Perak War, 1875-76" by Harold Raugh, Jr. and "Kabul to Kandahar" by David Murray.

Murray's article is basically about the march and has loads of great material from OBs to a great pen and ink sketch of the Battlefield at Kandahar. Raugh's article concerns a campaign on the Malay Peninsula and the article is a very good read containing everything for the gamer: great descriptions, detailed OBs, and a useful map for the table top.

Out of all the magazines I get I am glad I subscribe to this one. SOTQ contains more useful information than almost all the others put together. Excluding, of course, Asquith's Regiment, which has a very useful abundance of photos and illustrations. For the Colonial enthusiast these two (SOTQ and Regiment) are a powerful combination, of course, you would have to add the Heliograph to be complete. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!

10. 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!!!!

11. Wargames Illustrated, 18 Lovers Lane, Newark, Notts. NG24 1HZ Great Britain. Issue 157 This issue has an article entitled "The Indian Mutiny: A Skirmish Scenario" based on Cawnpore by Alex King. This set of rules is basically for an escape by boat not a combat skirmish game, although there is firing involved but at the English by the Mutineers. The article is all right, certainly different from most other Indian Mutiny articles. At first I thought these rules are useless, but then the idea came to me, no they are very useful. These can be used in any number of skirmish sized actions by either side to effect escape from their enemies. These rules could be useful even if you are not interested in the Mutiny. Issue 158 is interesting but nothing colonial. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

12. Osprey Military Journal, Osprey Direct, P.O. Box 140, Wellingborough, Northants, NN8 4ZA Great Britain. www.ospreypublishing.com Volume 2 issue 5 David Gore's "Destruction of an Army: The Battle of Maiwand" is the centerpiece of this issue for colonials. This is a good article with good sidebar information. Three of the illustrations are very useful. One is a map showing Mundabad and Khig and the British positions. The other two are great contemporary illustrations of the battlefield terrain, need I say more. The uniforms of the Afghan Army illustrated in color are from MAA 72. Highly Recommended!!!

13. Geez, I give up, not even Howard will write to me now. Howard Whitehouse, 409 Wellesley St. East. Toronto, Ont. M4X 1H5.

14. Caliver Books, 816-818 London Road, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, SS9 3NH, Great Britain. Check out their web site www.caliverbooks.demon.co.uk Battlefields and Age of Empires are available in the US from On Military Matters, (609) 466 2329. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!

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

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

17. 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.

18. Warrior Miniatures, 14 Tiverton Ave. Glasgow, G32 9NX Scotland. 0141 778 3426 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.

19. magweb.com http://www.magweb.com If you are reading this on magweb--how about a paper sunscription.

20. Regiment, Nexus House, Azalea Dr., Swanley, Kent BR8 8HU. BUGLES, BULLETS AND BLADES Issue 51, Part 2 of The Royal Gurkha Rifles: 1918-2000. Another stunning issue by Stuart Asquith. Normally I would report this period for most British regiments, but the Gurkhas between the wars fought in many campaign on India's frontiers. Stuart has filled ten pages with photographs of this period showing great uniform detail (dress and campaign), 'action', 1923 transport trucks, and a 1935 armored car. Very good. Well done! Stuart!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

21. And That's the Way it Was, 213 3rd St. NE, Hickory, NC 28601-5124 This is where to get your copy of The Sword and the Flame, this is a great set of rules and at 52 pages it is packed with great information and packaged very nicely. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

23. Military Illustrated, 45 Willowhayne Ave. East Preston, West Sussex, BN16 1PL UK £35 or $100 for a year sub. What an outrageous amount. Buy the issues you want individually they are cheaper that way.

Issue 148 Ian Knight's article "Death Among the Afghans" recounts the First Afghan War with nine black and white photographs and illustrations all very nice and quite useful. The one color illustration is W.B. Wollen's "Last Stand of the 44th at Gundamuck in the Retreat from Cabul." As always Ian delivers a well written detailed historical piece well worth reading.

Issue 149 I picked this issue up because of an article on the Mad Mullah. I was nearly halfway through reading it when I thought wow this is really good, and the style is familiar. I guess it should have been it was another article by Ian Knight "Hunting the Mad Mullah" accompanied by four black and white and three color illustrations. Well written with good detail, the discussion of the campaign is very useful for gaming. This is your chance to use your King's African Rifles, mounted and unmounted, Sikhs, sailors, marines, and Dervishes mixed with some Somalis. I will get you back for this Ian, this article made my mind wander to collecting, ahhhg, more figures and putting a campaign together. So I have begun more research into this. The only problem with Military Illustrated articles is the lack of references, this points no blame whatsoever to Ian or other authors, rather the editors.

24. Miniature Wargames, reported by Stuart Asquith:

25. Principles of War, The Magazine issue number 9 After a shortish break John Hollyoak and company are back with another great issue, particularly if you use PoW as your rules set.

The 19th Century Queries page has several interesting questions particularly on the Boer War. Kenneth Hockley's article on "The Burmese Wars" provides you with the troop tables necessary to fight campaigns in the First, Second, and Third Burmese wars.

While reading the editorial I found that there is a PoW web site www. Principlesofwar.com The best news is that John has "managed to persuade Tom (Penn) to put some notes together for what we are calling 'small wars' at the moment. It is designed to cover colonial conflicts involving small numbers of troops such as the British in Ashanti and New Zealand, French in Dahomey, American in Cuba and the Philippines, Portuguese in Madagascar, Cape Frontier Wars etc. It could easily expand to the Northwest Frontier, American Indian Wars, Borneo and Malaya. The rules would be almost identical to the 19th century, the main difference being the set up (there would be a lot more terrain). Rather than straightforward stand up fights the games will be scenario driven, such as getting a supply column across the table, relieving a besieged outpost, destroying a native village or capturing a native chief..." This sounds really good to me!!!

26. Walker Publishing Diana Preston The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900. This is a highly readable narrative history that is more than, and really does not pretend to be, a military history of the Boxer Rebellion. I was impressed that the author traveled to Beijing during the summer months to experience what those involved in the rebellion and the relief felt weather-wise, hot, oppressive, and dusty. This book will almost put you back into the era reliving the experience of a very diverse cross-section of individuals. Well worth reading.

27. While looking through the CD section of Borders Books last month I came across Drums of Africa and on impulse I bought it for background music for Darkest Africa. Well, did that work out right. This is very good for the purpose. I can see now my natives attacking to this CD.

28. While at Barnes and Noble last month I ran across Alan Malleson's A Close Run Thing about the end of the Napoleonic wars and the beginning of actions in India circa 1816 and on VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.