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Colonial One ends the year with a bang for my Battlestar Galactica Collection! I love this model! It looks great with my Battlestar Galactica Starship Battles miniatures and my BSG EPIC Scale Game too!
Eaglemoss made two great models to end 2019 with the Cylon Basestar in October and the Colonial One this month! They did this with the Original Galactica and New Pegasus early this year. That has all been great. However their planned release in 2020 are all the large scale fighters and even a New Cylon Centurion too. I love that Eaglemoss is making this series, but since I only buy the Capitol ships to use for BSG EPIC there is not much coming out for my collection until tale 2020.
I am very pleased to finally own a good selection of BSG Capitol Ships for my BATTLESTAR GALACTICA STARSHIP BATTLES EPIC Games! I hope my B6*R7 Fliers had a great holiday too!
I just received my BSG Collection notification from EAGLEMOSS! "Joseph Boss, We're pleased to inform you that your Battlestar Galactica Collection issues have been shipped from our warehouse and will arrive at the ship-to address specified in your order form within 7-10 business days. Your package includes: BGSUK013 x 1 - Galactica (2004) - COLONIAL ONE"
My BSG Brother Roberto just posted this week that the Viper MkVII is at the Ares Games warehouse right now and they are getting them ready to go right out to all of the sellers!
YUP... this year IS going to be a wonderful COLONIAL CHRISTMAS alright!
We all knew this would happen... and sure enough here it is! Spring is going to be great when these and the rest of Q1 2020 goodies are revealed! Checkout the new coolness in the Covert Oops article! There is a lot of neat stuff including the fact that these sets are the first hard plastic models coming to the classic Rebellion Era!
ROGUE ONE... on our tables: we are half way there now!!!
I love that FFG is continuing to make these cool little terrain sets! How cool are the updates for setups and the neat little hover carts that we can use to decorate the bases and depose on the battlefield! Checkout the new toys in the Vital Rules Of Engagement article!
The brave crew of The Yamato, Our Star Blazers, return home on December 8th in the year 2199. They bring with them the hard won Cosmo DNA
which restores life to Mother Earth. This is a week of celebration!
On December 8 2199 Mankind is saved by The Star Force!
Since Fantasy Flight Games announced their joint project; MARVEL CRISIS PROTOCOL with Atomic Mass Games I have been watching this new board game progress... I LIKE IT!
Atomic Mass Games is doing a great job showcasing the products for the game in their Badass Galleries! I am pleased with all of these goodies and I have decided to buy this one in 2020!
Late this year it was announced that the third series of the classic Star Blazers was going to be remade by the same team that did Yamato 2199 and 2202! This is going to be great, if they keep the extreme level of quality work they put into the first two series! They will of course because they are real artist and love STAR BLAZERS as much as we do!
I will be following this closely, and posting what I can right here!
This month's Collection Diary is all about celebrating the long awaited release of BSG SSB Wave II!
It is great to have these models at last, and it has been fun to play with them this holiday season!
The little things in life make life worth living! I hope you all have a great holiday this year! There is more Battlestar Coolness coming in December, and January... and I love it!
FFG's new Shifting Strategies article is full of fun!
For we RPG types who used miniatures with our narratives way back in the wonderful West End Games days... this "New" format might be fun to try. Gaddam the tournament blather, but there are some fun little ideas to play with here.
Ares games and Eaglemoss Productions have both been working for just under two years building their Miniatures Game and Model Collections. Both companies have just over a dozen releases. If you know The Battlestar Galactica universe; you know that 12 and 13 are important numbers with multiple meanings. I like that these companies have randomly (fatefully?) aligned in their efforts to bring us a great Miniatures Game and Collectible Models!
The American Debut of The Battlestar Galactica Starship Battles Game was at Gen Con in August 2018! A awesome social media friend of mine Roberto Di Meglio stared in a number of cool and fun to watch informative videos at the event. As he told us his intentions for the game: speaking with authority as The Production Manager of Ares Games... I liked him immediately!
The next Battlestar Galactica Starship Battles Game debut at Spielin October (Halloween-week) 2018 was the start of large BSG SSB group event demo plays!
ARES has released six models thus far with alternate paint-jobs making up a total of fourteen Spaceship Expansion Packs! There are two more models already done: the TOS Viper MkI and updated (Razor-B&C-1st Cylon War) Cylon Raider. These two models will makeup the next five Spaceship Expansion Packs which are all planned for an early 2020 release!
The BSG COL is looking great! The series is going to continue past the original plans of being a limited edition of twelve issues! I expect that Eaglemoss is going to make everything... hotdam... like they have done with Star Trek. I am not buying the entire BSG Collection. I am using the six wonderful Capitol ships for my versions of BSG EPIC (Star Wars Armada) scaled games.
