Greg Blake

Thanks for asking about me. I'm fine. I hope you are well.

I did email you something a couple of weeks ago but I think it went to one of your other email addresses.

The news regarding CFM is that I have been concentrating on 15mm Modern Special Forces and getting the 28mm US Marines [1920s] ready. The Marines are now awaiting a mould and should be available by the end of November. There will be ten different figures, four with rifles, two with shotguns, one with a drum magazine Tommy Gun, one with a BAR, one with a Lewis Gun and an officer. All are wearing the campaign hat. Some have gaiters and some have loose trousers. As I said, these should be available by the end of the month. I'm working on some additions to this line, one is a sniper team of two figures [sniper with scoped 03 rifle, spotter with binos] and another officer [jodhpurs and swagger stick].

I'll put an advert together and send it to you soon.

I thought you might like to use this. I have a few of these sketches I have done over the years and can send images your way of you want them. I decided to put a few of my art works up for sale on my site. This one is of an Afrikaner mother defending her son somewhere on the veld during the early 1800s.

Donald Featherstone

I truly appreciate your kind thought in sending me copies of the Heliograph, and I particularly appreciated your printing my letter in the Dispatches column. I am so keen to get across to my many American friends just how much their kindness and thought means to me.

You mention in Issue 133 that you have no outside articles for the future and I wondered if the enclosed (see below) might seem suitable for your pages. I note you concentrate on Colonial and more obscure items of that Era, and it seems that this stuff of mine might fill the bill.

If it doesn’t suit, then I won’t be offended and-—if you like it-—then I will be pleased to find something else to send you in the future.

Don we would appreciate anything you send on the colonial period. Again thanks for the article!

Timothy Boyd

Subscription time again? Already? I’m not going to say, “How fast the year flies!” but it does, and, increasingly, it seems to fly faster and faster, as if, when I was 10, it was just getting off the ground at Kittyhawk and now, when I’m in my 50s, it’s a Concorde! If I live to be 80, will it be traveling at Warp 5? But—check enclosed. I’m going to e-mail you something about building ignorance into wargaming (a natural subject for me!) which comes from my recent reading about Methuen and his bloody march towards Kimberly.

Jeff Johnson

Thanks for letting us know in advance about the coming rate increase. Since I was due to renew at Issue No. 135 I will take advantage of your kind offer and renew now at the current rate of $12.00 per year. My check for $12 is enclosed.

Also, I will be writing up some figure reviews and other items for you in the coming weeks to help out with the need for articles. I’ll do them in Word and send them via email. Lastly, I noticed that both Pulp Miniatures and Copplestone Castings have new figures to be released in December or thereabouts, according to the web sites. There seems to be lots of interest in central Asia and the Chinese frontier recently…A whole new arena for colonial gamers.

Thanks for the interesting items you have put together for each issue of The Heliograph. I’ll be looking forward to the new issues in 2003.

Thanks for the kind words from both Tim and Jeff and better yet we have their confession on record about sending articles for publication. The idea of gaming in central Asia seems to have caught on from the first? figures from Cannon Fodder’s Yangpats line to Pulp and Copplestone with more coming from all three manufacturers. The Yangpats line is expanding with US Marines with at least 8-10 figures already available.

Gerry Webb

I'm glad you like the article, I finally got myself motivated after so much promising.

I really enjoyed writing it so you can expect more in the future if you want them.

It's also wonderful that Don Featherstone is back in the saddle and writing again, a real coup for Heliograph!

As for the figures, I still have to finish painting some for myself. Home renovations have got in the way, but so far everything is proceeding on schedule.  When the home front settles down again I'm afraid I will have yet more miniatures to tempt you with.

Curse you with great business income, for being able to tempt me with new figures so often.