Normality isn’t quite restored, but we really are working on it.

Many thanks to all of you who have sent and indeed continue to send good wishes and support for Lindy.   She is now recuperating at home, and Is simultaneously sore and bored witless.   She will be able to return to work in a few weeks, but until then you are left with me doing the multi-tasking thing.  

I am pleased to announce the return of the weekly magic number.  This week we are up to #29437.    The events of the last couple of weeks have slowed us down, but we are making efforts to catch up as quickly as we are able.

One of the great joys of releasing a new range of figures is the first view of the castings bearing a fresh coat of paint and ready to strut their stuff in front of the Baccus camera.   However, despite our best efforts, we sometimes have to announce a new newly arrived range with one or two of the codes lacking a painted example.   In such cases, it is an immutable rule that it is just those figures that people REALLY want to see and I face a constant barrage of emails and phone calls demanding that a picture of the missing codes is made immediately available.

Such has been the case with the innocent sounding, OTT17 – Turkish Armoured Cavalry.    A photo of these chaps were missing from the release of the Ottoman mounted arm, and didn’t I know it!   Even people who weren’t actually buying anything to do with Turks or the Great Northern War began demanding that an image was forthcoming.  Well, I have finally rectified this, and, if I say so myself, these chaps scrub up very nicely indeed.

Last month’s Baccus Golden Ticket winner has been drawn, and the ticket is on its way to the lucky winner even as I am typing.   Was it you?   All will be revealed soon…

Finally, many thanks to all of you who voted for Baccus in the Yarkshire Gamer’s World Cup of Historical Miniature Figure Manufacturers.  We lost to the Perrys in the quarter final by the narrowest of margins, which is no disgrace given the enormous following that the twins have amassed over the years and the simple fact that there are loads more folks collecting 28mm figures than wonderful 6mm.   Maybe next time…