Guernsey Foundry, available from Pendragon Miniatures, 1549 Marview Drive, Westlake OH 44145 or Guernsey Foundry, La Guelle, Mont Arrive, St. Peter Port, Guernsey GYl 2AA Channel Islands Great Britain.

Neville sent along those figures shown on the back page of issue 97. These consisted of Victorian Bystanders, Mexican infantry and some gunmen. I won't discuss the figures shown last issue. You have seen the level of detail of Guernsey Foundry figures so I really don't need to extol them again. But I will anyway. WOW. There are six figures not shown in last issue that I will descnbe. The figures measure between 26 and 27mm from the bottom of the foot to their eyes.

OWTI9 Hellfire Logan: Preacher with an upraised bible and sawn off shotgun. This man is preaching to the unbelievers obey me or die now. Swansea used to have 'Street Preachers' gentlemen who would stand in the one block "downtown" yell bible quotations and scream preach that if you didn't listen and join them you would go to hell immediately- quite the fanatic. Logan is what they looked like- religious fanatics but with a gun. I live two blocks from downtown and we could hear them over the highway traffic right outside and through closed doors.

OWT20 Snakeoil Salesman, wearing a top hat and frock coat, wearing glasses and holding a cigar in one hand and a bottle in the other. This guy doesn't intimidate me like Logan but he sure looks the sleazy part.

OWC15 Cowhand eating beans, pass that gas. The cowboy is wearing chaps and an up turned wide bnm hat. He seems to be playing with his beans, you can count the beans on his plate, as if he's thinking "not beans again!"

OWA20 an Apache woman carrying a cradle board and wearing a bead necklace. I would guess that she is a White Mountain Apache. The Osprey's The Apaches #186, plate D8 is almost exactly this figure. The detail on the cradle board is wonderful.

VB10 the Fiddler, has on a narrow brimmed hat with rounded crown, long sideburns, legs spread and playing. The strings and little turn knobs are visiable.

VB11 the reporter, wearing a Fedora and wnting in his notebook. I think this is probably the least natural looking figure in the whole collection. The figure detail is very good. I suppose you could write in a notebook that way but it wouldn't be very comfortable especially the way he's holding his pencil. I like the reporter idea and the basic figure is great but I think the pose is off.

Overall, Guernsey is providing a line of figures (both the Old West and the Seven Years War) that are hard to beat. Now if we can just get them to do the Victorian era colonial troops............

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