First releases for 2022!

One week into the New Year, so it's time to start out as we mean to go one with another batch of shiny new releases.  This time, they are all from our Second World War range as we round out the German and British forces.

Starting with the British, we now have the extremely useful Loyd carrier,

That was 2021, this will be 2022

Once again, I find myself staring at a computer screen posting my ramblings about the past year and trying to part the shrouds of time to peer into the future.  

Let’s start with the certainties.  It has to be said, that in current times, the only certainty is that things are very uncertain.  With that little preamble out of the way, some twelve months ago, I made some wild predictions about what we were going to release in 2021.  Let’s see how I did.   My forecasts are in italics…

Santa's little helpers...

‘It HAS to be a finger’, I thought, staring at the scabrous and ill-formed digit being pointed at my stomach,.  ‘It IS attached to his hand…

‘Right you!’ spluttered the grimy, bearded figure standing in front of me.  ‘Me and the lads, we’ve been talking and we’ve decided to from a..a…a ONION!  That’s right, we’re getting together to tell you our demands and YOU have to do what WE say.’ 

It's the most wonderful time of the year...so they say...

It’s this time of year when the grubby casters working at the lead face magically transform into Santa’s Little Helpers and start making toys for deserving boys and girls all over the world.

Sadly, this does nothing for their tempers, manners, boorish behaviour or bodily hygiene, but you can’t have everything…

The week, we have reached order number #19016, .   As always this is a ‘headline’ number, some of you with numbers prior to this will actually find their orders going out next week.   We will be working right through until Christmas Eve and orders will be being sent out every day until the start of the holidays.

New Pony Wars boxed sets

Well, it seems that the production team were motivated by the threat of laceration from flying shards of porcelain shrapnel. As a result we reached order #18920. However, that's not the whole story as we now have a mountain of orders cast and awaiting processing all of which will be going out early next week. Great inroads are being made into the backlog and we are working hard on getting those waiting times down.

What we did last week

Apologies for the lack of an update last week - at the time I would normally have posted the piece, I was in a van driving around the Surrey countryside on my way to the Warfare show.   As of close of business yesterday, we had send out order #18800.   However...

and really, as Howevers go, this is a massive However, I have to add a couple of caveats to that statement.   There are a number of orders prior to 18800 that were not sent out last week, and instead will be on their way early next week.   By the same token, there are some order numbers after this that have managed to get ahead of the game.  These discrepancies are a consequence of the way we process the orders and are impossible to iron out.

With the distractions of the show season now behind us, the aim is to get the backlog of orders down to reasonable levels.  With this in mind my first thought was to get down and throw the kitchen sink at the problem.

News from the Lead Face

After a hard week of pouring molten metal into spinning moulds in the desolate dinginess of the dungeon that passes for the Baccus workshop, I can announce that we have reached order number #18624. (Please note that there is the usual 'health warning' that a few orders prior to this number will be waiting until next week to go on their way).  

That Was the Salute That Was...

Before I get stuck into this weeks’ update, as of last Friday, we had sent out all order up to number #18560 .  

We are now in the recovery period following a very hectic Salute weekend.  Many thanks to those of you who turned up and kept us busy on Saturday.   We never get a real chance to talk to customers at this event, but it was great to see so many familiar faces.  However, the real highlight has to be Per Broden’s wonderful Poltava game getting the Best of Show award.   This is the first time that a 6mm game has ever achieved this, and there was some very stiff opposition.   It is a testimony not only to Per’s hard work and determination, but also to his vision and flair for presentation.    Well done from all of Team Baccus – an award that was richly deserved.

See Carolus Rise!

I've had a fascination with the Great North War, and especially the exploits of the Swedish army and their king, Charles XII, for over four decades.   I can remember fruitlessly pestering figure manufacturers to produce armies for the period, only to be told that there would be no demand.   As a result, when I started making my own figures through Baccus, one of the very earliest ranges to be sculpted was, quite naturally the Great North War.

It's all about Salute

Yes, one week to go to Salute and it's definitely occupying our minds.    Moving the world's biggest wargames show and them plonking it down in what is already a massively busy period for us was bound to cause us the odd logistical nightmare, but thus far, we are coping reasonably well.   Proof of that lies in the fact that despite spending a good proportion of our time preparing for the show, we have send out order #18511.