Bit of a ramble this week, but do keep reading...

Sheffield is the home of Baccus 6mm  and we are steadily changing our packaging to proudly feature the coveted 'Made in Sheffield logo. 

It’s a city inextricably linked with the Steel industry and the manufacture of cutlery.  If your only contact with Sheffield is the wonderful film, ‘The Full Monty’,

then your impressions will be of a depressed and run-down place of grime and despair.  However, the truth is very different, as our home town is a vibrant bustling place and surprisingly green.  Very green indeed,  with the highest ratio of trees to population of any city in Europe. If you don’t believe me, try looking at the place on Google Earth.   All of which brings me to the point of this ramble, as driving to work this morning, it’s very apparent that the green leaves are steadily changing colour to a riot of oranges, browns and yellows.  Yes, Autumn is upon us, and for the UK at least, that means that the busiest time of the year is here.  

Between  now and December we have five wargames shows over a period of just nine weeks.  And that is why you will read posts from me repeatedly asking you to get your orders for collection in to us, preferably in good time.   It helps us, as we can make sure that we cast things that will sell, and you because we have things to sell that you want.   As the saying goes, ‘What is there not to like?’

Coming soon to a Baccus shopping cart near you!

I’d like to start this week’s offering by thanking all of the organising team and club members who were involved in the Colours show last weekend.  It was really well organised by a team working what is not the easiest of venues to manage.  Well done!

Moving on to the housekeeping, this week’s magic order number is #24583.   A combination of staff holidays over August, plus some days lost to illness put us behind schedule, but a real effort by the casting team has seen much of that backlog cleared and we are now well on track with getting orders turned around in a reasonable time.

New Release: The armies of Sumer and Ur

As I’ve telegraphed over the last couple of weeks, our latest range goes all the way back to the beginnings of history.   Some 6000 years ago, the area known as Mesopotamia became home to a remarkable civilisation that we generally call ‘Sumerian’.   It was a civilisation of city states and saw notable innovations ranging from intensive agriculture, irrigation, an organised religion, architecture, literature and written records.

New Baccus Showcase video no available

I am very pleased to able to say that, at long last, I have finally completed and posted another Baccus Showcase video.   The subject of this presentation is our Seven Years War Prussian range.   I often think that this is an area much-overlooked by wargamers who are tempted away by the glamour of the Napoleonic wars.  

This follows the same format of the others in the series and includes a quick step by step painting guide.

I do enjoy putting these together, but their release is subject to how much time I can devote to them during the working day, so the rate of release as high as I would wish.   The script and structure for Showcase number 5 is already done, and this will over the armies of the Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth of the late 18th and early 17th centuries.

You can view the new video here 

If you’ve not seen any of its predecessors, they can all be found here. 

Enjoy!

Armies for Ravenfeast and a look at our next new release.

The new school term beckons, days by the beach are a fading memory and thoughts at Baccus now turn to the months ahead as we enter the Autumn UK wargames show season, and the prospects of a good-sized batch of new releases and ranges.   But first, in a return of the tradition, here is this week’s magic order number which stands at #25327.   As it’s been a while since I posted one of these updates, I will repeat that you must not panic if your order precedes this, and you haven’t had an notification from us.  There are always a few orders that miss the cut for various reasons, and they will be processed in the next few days.

We're all going on a Summer Holiday...

...no more working for a week or two...

Well, not all of us, just the Baccus admin staff; the casters remain at their stations diligently spinning moulds and cranking out customer orders.   However, Lindy and I will be away until the 14th August.   As a result, no phone calls will be answered and emails will not get a response for a few days.    All of this has not stopped us getting orders out this week, with the resulting magic number of #25111.

We’re baaackkkk….

After a couple of skiving, and sitting around doing very little, we are back with the weekly updates and announcements.  The first thing to do is to issue this week’s magic order number, which currently stands at #25066.   As ever, some orders prior to this may just have missed the cut, but we will pick up on these next week.

More Big Base Battalia!

The dust is now settling on the aftermath of the Joy of Six 2023, so it’s time to roll our sleeves up and get back to the serious work of making toy soldiers for the enlightened members of our wonderful 6mm wargames community.  But first, it’s the return of the ever-popular Magic Order Number, which this week stands at #24955.   We aren’t quite working on next day deliveries, but we have got the delay between order and despatch down to 8-10 days.

So what’s new for this week?

Joy of Six 2023 - Many thanks

This is just a quick note of thanks to all who made this year's JOS a massive success.   I am sure that the internet will soon be awash with photos and videos, so I will let others tell the story of the day for the moment.

What I would like to do is to thank all those who staged some jaw-droppingly awesome games - to single any one out would be both divisive and unfair.  Large or small, the quality and enthusiasm behind them were first class

New Baccus releases for the Joy of Six

Only one day to go before the doors to the Joy of Six are flung open.    The excitement is rising and those who are lucky enough to be attending are preparing for their journey to Sunny Sheffield.   However, lots of you out there are probably more interested in knowing about their orders with us, so the first announcement today is this week’s magic number of #24845.