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ARES GAMES distribution is opening on the 18th... so we are actually going to get BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA STARSHIP BATTLES Original Series Spaceship Packs this Summer!!!
Hurray new Vipers! I did not go crazy on these because MkVII's are scarce in the fleet.
I felt like Ultron's minions needed to be represented in an Ultimate Encounter game, and these crazy little Alternate Ultrons are perfect! Since I upgraded Ultron I of course had to do the same for Tony with his Hulk Buster and Battle car! Being me I also needed to have a cool model for Professor HULK... cause it helps me to sleep like a baby!
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!
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!
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.
Ares Games is at Essen this weekend and some fan posted these images of the forthcoming BSG TOS Ships! Not the best images but we can see the ships together for the first time, and now know how perfectly Ares got the scale. This is like looking at scenes from the TOS production... and I love it!
Ares Games starts the week off right with their Previews of TOS Classic Viper and it's NEW Reimagined Series Viper Mk1, which is an updated version of the ship! This all looks fantastic! Ares plans to release these ships along with the TOS Cylon Raiders in the first quarter of 2020!
Ares previewed The Viper MkVII just in time for this holiday weekend! This expansion includes the Spaceship Packs - Pegasus, Pegasus Veteran and Apollo. Checkout their full article for more cool details! Ares wants to release this wonderful trio in December... we hope they can actually do that. SO SAY WE ALL!
I am very pleased to see that Ares made the Viper MkVII based on The Pegasus... all is as it should be!