From IanW - Baccus 6mm Mixture (64 Points)

Last week I failed to supply any figures for the first time in the Challenge but now I hope to make amends with two weeks worth over two posts. First up the little 'un's.

The new project started this Challenge so far has the one unit so I wanted to reinforce them with a splash of colour and nothing does that better than Saka Horse Archers.

One base has seven figures and the other eight so less than I would normally put on a 30x60 Naps cavalry base. Even so these are on a 60x60 base as I just don't see the small base of light cavalry taking up a small area, these boys want enough room to swing a leopard.

Whilst at York Peter from Baccus gave me one of his new Flock Applicators to try, it's a plastic bellows thingy and costs £1.75 and is supposed to make your flock stand up. Well it did not dissapoint and a full review will follow in a few days on the blog.

Six Elephants each with two crew, these are based on 40x60 bases and I have added infantry escorts in the shape of 4 peltasts each. The pikes are again bristles from a brush.

The elephants fill up the base quite a bit which is all fine by me as I want some feeling of mass from them. After all they will have to take on either pike blocks or legions and they have to at least look like they will dent the wall that opposes them.

Next we switch to Napoleonic's and a chance to paint more than a couple of figures the same colour. Whilst I am not painting up the Guard for Waterloo I have set myself the task of painting up every new Baccus new release for the French so could not pass these up. This is the 1st Squadron of the Guard Lancers, everyone does the Red Lancers so I wanted to be a bit different.

Quite nice figures and typically good to paint. Unlike all other Baccus Napoleonic cavalry I have painted these have the Lances at charge and whilst I would have liked more movement in the pennants I applaud the move from attention to attack pose.

Keeping with the Guard we have the Horse Grenadiers with their Bearskins. Nice rich blue after the very dark blue of the Lancers. These have the cast in place flag that I originally did not like of the new castings. Nothing has changed I am still not a fan and would cut it off if I could without making a worse job of it.

I went with a rich yellow rather than gold for the trims and think it came out better than a metallic finish. Again you can get a good look at that grass standing at attention, must be the influence of the Guard.

Away from the Guard but staying with the Elite we have the 1st Carabinier which came out at the same time as the two new Guard sets and brings me back up to date with the new releases. So ends my weeks worth of painting, next up the previous weeks painting :-)

So this totals forty two cavalry figures, eight infantry, six elephants and twelve riders. Rather short of what I need to paint per week to make my 2000, not sure what I can do to catch up.