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The Joy Of Six – 2019

Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:33
Written by Mike
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Another year - that means another Joy of Six show!  The organising team are all really pleased to let you know that the Joy of Six wargames show will be taking place at Sheffield Hallam University on Sunday 7th July 2019.

Regular attendees will notice that this is a week earlier than usual, as we've been forced to change in order to avoid Sheffield city centre's annual deluge of urban cyclists who have caused so much disruption to the show in the last two years.

We are now inviting applications for those of you wanting to stage games at this year's event.   For more information and a booking form contact us here.

As usual we will be holding our workshop tours around the Baccus Megacorps Industries manufacturing facility on Saturday 6th July.   It's a great way to make a full weekend event.    Places on these sessions are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment.  Once again, if you need a place reserving, contact us here.  Alternatively use that old fashioned telephone thing  0114 2724491.

See you there!

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JOS18 Of Seminars And Sceptics

Monday, 02 July 2018 15:50
Written by Mike
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As I type this, there is just thirteen days before the Joy of Six 2018. Yes, less than two weeks before one of the best shows you will see on the Wargame circuit. On the last post I listed all the great games and traders that will be there on the day.

There will be lots to see and do on the day. The vast majority of the games will be participation, so as well as looking at the eye candy, you’ll be able to join in the action.

The ever-popular Dr Mike’s Painting Clinic will be in attendance. The eponymous Dr Mike is a wonderful teacher and offers free advice and input to complete novices and experience painters alike. If you’ve ever said to yourself, ‘I don’t know how you paint anything that small!’, then pop into Dr Mike’s clinic and receive a free cure for your crippling doubt.

We’ll also be hosting two seminars. The first is the regular Baccus Sunday Grill, where disgruntled gamers can vent their spleen on the captive Baccus staff and attempt to catch them out with tricky questions and demand for information. Always a lively and fun event!

The second is something a little different. We’ve assembled a panel from some of the Great and Good of the hobby, namely John Treadaway, (editor of Miniature Wargames), Wayne Bollands , assistant editor of Wargames Illustrated) and Neil Shuck and Mike Hobbs (both of the Meeples and Miniatures website). They, and the attendees will be addressing questions about why 6mm wargaming has such a poor profile within the hobby and perhaps even coming up with a few answers to improve the situation.

As usual, we’ll also be doing our bit to improve that image problem by running our ‘6mm Sceptic’ scheme. This is for all those who really cannot see the point of attending a show catering purely for 6mm gaming. If your preferred scale of figure tends to the taller, then just declare your complete disinterest at the entry desk and we won’t charge you. Yup. Free entry. If you change your mind and actually see the little guys in a new light and fancy having a go, then go back and pay up your entry fee and we’ll give you a ‘Reformed’ badge. Several of the traders will offer deals or discounts to the Reformed as a mark of your conversion.
So there you have it. A great venue with lots of natural light, some wonderful looking games, lots to play and do and good quality, reasonably priced catering. Why not give it a go?

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Baccus 6mm – The Joy of Six 2018

Wednesday, 20 June 2018 12:25
Written by Mike
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There is now less than a month to go to this year's Joy of Six and it really is looking like another outstanding show.

In terms of traders we have the following attending, their shelves, racks and tables packed with 6mm merchandise of all types:
• Baccus
• Wargames Emporium
• Commission
• Brigade Models
• GM Boardgames
• Heroics & Ros
• Rapier
• Leven Miniatures
• Christopher Morris
• GS Miniature Workshop

We're really pleased to be able to welcome GM Boardgames who are travelling to attend the show all the way from Poland. They'll be showing off their ACW game and a lovely range of figures.
Also new for this year is Christopher Morris who'll be selling books - a real gap in the products available in previous years' events.

The list of games is really quite stellar:
• GM Boardgames
• Wakefield and District Wargamers
• SAD Wargamers
• Cold War Commanders
• COGS
• Dan Hodgson
• Gripping Beast
• Naval Wargames Society
• Per Broden and Wyre Foresters
• Commission Figures
• Mailed Fist
• Yorkshire Renegades
• Ian and Mark Henderson
• MAD gamers
• Baccus 6mm
• Milton Keynes
• Harry Ryder
• Grantham Strategy and Gaming Club
• Robert Dunlop
• Sheffield Wargames Soc & WD
• James Mitchell
• Deeside Defenders
• Wargames Emporium
• Battle of Seven Pines
• Ultra fast Sci-Fi
• Operation Excess
• DBA
• Action at Gilly, June 1815
• Swordpoint 6mm
• Zeebrugge Raid 1918
• Horka 1708
• Napoleonic
• Normandy 44
• Megara
• Hastings
• Future War Commander
• Manchester 1642
• DBMM Ancients
• Battle of Issus
• Battle of Britain
• Matz 1918
• Clitches of the Great Patriotic war
• ECW - Halfway Down
• Austerlitz
• Command Horizon

That's two dozen games of the very highest quality with 75% of them being participation. You not only get to see some great sights, but you get to join in too!

For those of you wishing to sharpen up your painting, Dr Mike will be once again be opening the doors of his splendiferous painting clinic.

There will be two seminars; The Baccus team will once again be placed in a locked room with a load of customers and pinned against the wall and made to deliver up the deepest and darkest secrets about what goes on behind the scenes at the Grim Workshop of Doom. The second will be a new format to us in that we've assembled a panel of some of the Great and the Good of our hobby to chew over some topical 6mm related issues. There'll be more details of this coming along later, but I think that's going to be a cracking session!

Add in to this heady mix a Bring and Buy, good food and very reasonable places and a mere £3.00 entry fee, then you have the makings of one of the best shows on the UK games circuit.

You can find all the details HERE

If you fancy making a full weekend of it, then why not book yourself in on a Baccus Workshop Tour? We'll be holding two sessions on Saturday 14th July. Numbers are limited, so get your reservations in now or risk disappointment as they are very popular. Just email or call us on 0114 2724491.

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Baccus 6mm – New WW2 Artillery

Monday, 30 April 2018 19:20
Written by Mike
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New Releases - WW2 Artillery and our first tank!

Another week, another set of releases and this time it's a subject that has generated more correspondence, questions, demands and the odd threat than any other I can think of.   Yes, we've got the very first of our WW2 artillery models and the first of our projected line of vehicles.

The British kick off the party with a 6pdr and the ever-popular 25pdr;

And the Germans get the 88mm Flak shown earlier, a PAK40 and a 10.5 cm leFH 18:

Also in this bumper fun package comes the very first model in our planned range of vehicles for the period.  We're starting with the ever-popular Sherman MK1.

As you can see from these pictures, the detailing and proportion on the straight line models is outstanding.  That's because all of the patterns are designed using 3D modelling techniques rather than the traditional method of hand-built masters.  This enables us to produce finished models that remain consistent in scale and proportion.  It enables us to add wonderful levels of detail.    Above all, it now means that you get the very best in straight line models allied to consistently sized and well modelled and detailed infantry and crew.   A combination that has been sorely lacking over the years.  Finally there are all at very competitive prices, especially considering the quality of the end result.

You can find out more details if you click here.

I know that there's lots of you now wondering where the assorted Cromwells, PZIVs, Jeeps, Half tracks etc. are.   Well, the answer is that they are in various stages of production.  We'll shortly have another batch of models to go through the process, so all I can ask for is patience.    As many of you will know, once we start a project we keep going with it.

The best, as they say, is yet to come...

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New Great War Russians

Monday, 16 April 2018 17:08
Written by Mike
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Yes, it's been a three year wait, but at long last the Russian army for the Great War is now available.

The requests for these chaps arrived pretty much from the first day of our releasing the first figures for 1914.   I know that it's taken some time, but the wait will be well worth it.   We've got some lovely figures on offer.  You can see the HQ set (complete with Orthodox priest in attendance) above.   I've already previewed the infantry and these are joined by the mounted arm.

and some excellent artillery pieces and crew.

 

We've also created a Division and Corps HQ packs for the brilliant Great War Spearhead rules set.

You can find out all the details and order here

We've a few more bits and pieces still to come for the Russians and these will be added in due course.   The next army in the pipeline is the Austro-Hungarians and these have already been sculpted, as have the Serbian infantry.   We'll be rounding out the Eastern Front later in the year with the addition of the Italians.

We've still got loads more releases in other periods to come over the next few days, so keep looking for the announcements.

Finally for today, this is a VERY important announcement if you going to be attending the rescheduled Hammerhead show on 28th April.   We've just got back from Salute where our shelves and stock were savagely depleted.  For the next couple of weeks we will be concentrating on mail orders and will NOT be restocking.   This makes it really important that you get collect orders into us if you know what you are after - even if it is ony one pack.    Unless you do this, our conversation at Newark will sound a bit like this:

Customer:   'Have you got?...'

Me: (interrupting)  'Probably not.'

Customer:   'Perhaps I should have emailed you beforehand...'.

 

More new goodies to come very soon...

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