Hut-Dich-Baur Ich Komm!

Time for the first ‘proper’ Baccus update of 2025, and where would a ‘proper’ post be without a magic order number, which this week stands at #30817.

Our return to work after the festive season always sees us facing a backlog of orders to work through and we’ve been on that with a vengeance and we should be well on top of things by the end of next week.

A ‘proper’ post should also include the announcement of a new release or two, so let’s get to it with something that a lot of people have been waiting for.

I am delighted to able to announce that the first of the Landsknecht codes are now available.  You get these sartorially garish chappies advancing with pike,

and also doing the jabby, stabby, ‘Argh!’ thing.

There are 5 different poses in these codes.   Each posture has two separate sculpts with different variation in dress.   Each of these has had between four and eight copies made, all of which have been given individual headgear.   The end result is a spectacular range of appearance, appropriate for these most individual and snappy of dressers. 

The accompanying arquebusiers, two-handed swordsmen and artillery crew have all been sculpted, moulded, cast and sent off the sculptor to be given their individual headwear, and we hope to be able to release these in the next couple of month.

I really enjoyed painting these figures.   The lack of uniformity is a challenge, but once you get a system in place they paint up remarkably quickly and the end result is spectacular to say the least.  

I am working on some flagsheets for these chaps to be released at a later date.

Just to show that we have some lovely pieces to come, here is a photo of our master modeller and mould maker, Andrew, hard at work over a hot mould.  He is cutting in feeds to the next set of Teeny Tiny Terrain releases, which promises to be a spectacular set of models, but more of those later.

You can find all the details of the Landsknecht releases here.