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2017/05/27 06:48:29
Subject: Vanguard Miniatures update thread (May 26th: Novan Elites super heavy tanks out)
The turrets look suitably brutal, suitably functional.
Coenus Scaldingus wrote: In my day, you didn't recognize the greatest heroes of humanity because they had to ride the biggest creatures or be massive in size themselves. No, they had the most magnificent facial hair! If it was good enough for Kurt Helborg and Ludwig Schwarzhelm, it should be good enough for anyone!
2017/06/17 05:47:14
Subject: Vanguard Miniatures update thread (Jun 4th: new renders)
The small but beautiful range of gothic starships from the battlegroup helios range formerly available from our friends down south have been purchased by vanguard miniatures and will be in store very soon. The models will remain under the battlegroup helios label and all the other ships from vanguard will port over to this label as well and I hope to continue to expand both the hellian fleet and the other faction fleets over time.
I must thank Aaron and Zac for the opportunity to own these wonderful ships appreciated guys, and i'd like to wish them all the best in their future endeavours.
Statement from Aaron and Zac from Battlegroup Helios:
Hey folks,
As you've probably noticed it's been quiet around here lately. Both Zac and I have seen our lives get busier over the last year and it's left us with dramatically less time to devote to BGH. The result is the development of the Terrans have stalled and restocking has been intermittent. That's not really fair to all of you who've supported us and so we've decided that it was time for us to pass the BGH torch. For the past month we've been working with John at Vanguard and starting today, Battlegroup Helios will become part of the Vanguard Miniatures family. We trust you'll give him the same support you've give us. Check them out at http://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/ Thanks and see you among the stars!
Aaron and Zac
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Excellent, I have been waiting for a more local distributor for these ships
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Good news on the Battlegroup Helios. Having them closer when it comes to orders is indeed pretty useful.
Coenus Scaldingus wrote: In my day, you didn't recognize the greatest heroes of humanity because they had to ride the biggest creatures or be massive in size themselves. No, they had the most magnificent facial hair! If it was good enough for Kurt Helborg and Ludwig Schwarzhelm, it should be good enough for anyone!
Sweet, hopefully the Eloi will get an APC version plus some walkers and gun emplacements soon! EDIT: Also, you guys have any plans to stock the newer Onslaught stuff?
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Thanks for the compliments! As for the APC, how about this? As for a gun emplacement, the Eloi Established do have a Light Cannon support platform. But I guess you mean some of the bigger stuff?
Regarding the Onslaught stuff, they will be restocked, can't give you an ETA though.
Released today the Helian fleet from my new Battlegroup Helios range numbers are very limited so be quick if you are after any of these. Production on new castings have begun and I hope to see these by month's end cheers.
Oh and i've managed to drop the prices too.
The Helian Firedrakes are specialized dreadnoughts used for fire support in Battlegroup Helios. Firedrakes are easily identified by their massive prow cannon.
MLaw wrote: Sweet, hopefully the Eloi will get an APC version plus some walkers and gun emplacements soon! EDIT: Also, you guys have any plans to stock the newer Onslaught stuff?
MLaw wrote: Sweet, hopefully the Eloi will get an APC version plus some walkers and gun emplacements soon! EDIT: Also, you guys have any plans to stock the newer Onslaught stuff?
MLaw wrote: Sweet, hopefully the Eloi will get an APC version plus some walkers and gun emplacements soon! EDIT: Also, you guys have any plans to stock the newer Onslaught stuff?
MLaw wrote: Sweet, hopefully the Eloi will get an APC version plus some walkers and gun emplacements soon! EDIT: Also, you guys have any plans to stock the newer Onslaught stuff?
You claim that Onslaught has new releases that Vanguard does not yet carry, all I do is ask you which releases you are referring to. I don't see what me not being the owner of Vanguard Miniatures has to do with this. Maybe I'm missing something here?
(It's not as if the owner of GW is keeping the 40k related rumour threads updated...)
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Hi MLaw, i'm the owner of vanguard minis I have recently received my stock of all currently available to order onslaught minis. Granted there are more releases imminent which I will be ordering soon but it will be some time before they arrive here in the UK.
Malika2 is one of my designers as well as keeping news threads such as here updated for me across the net so he is quite capable of answering questions on my behalf. He's a great ambassador for the company so please consider him qualified to answer your questions or if necessary he will pass them on to me.
Unfortunately with also holding down a full time day job i've just not the time to run the company and update numerous forums as well Malika2 does this for me he's a good man and his efforts are really appreciated.
So anyway yes i'll be continuing to restock onslaught as and when new releases and funding permits.
vanguard mini's wrote: Hi MLaw, i'm the owner of vanguard minis I have recently received my stock of all currently available to order onslaught minis. Granted there are more releases imminent which I will be ordering soon but it will be some time before they arrive here in the UK.
Malika2 is one of my designers as well as keeping news threads such as here updated for me across the net so he is quite capable of answering questions on my behalf. He's a great ambassador for the company so please consider him qualified to answer your questions or if necessary he will pass them on to me.
Unfortunately with also holding down a full time day job i've just not the time to run the company and update numerous forums as well Malika2 does this for me he's a good man and his efforts are really appreciated.
So anyway yes i'll be continuing to restock onslaught as and when new releases and funding permits.
Cheers John
Yeah.. there is no way for us to know that.. From my perspective it was some random person questioning the accuracy of my claims about you guys stocking Onslaught.. remember that there's tons of other users and threads here.. so this interaction isn't exactly in a vacuum.
Last time I looked I didn't see the newer not-Taurox that Onslaught had. Unless you added them in the last few days, I am pretty sure that's still accurate. I was also hopeful that you would stock their bits system but I would totally understand why you might not do that.
As Onslaught is a US based company, I would probably tend to order more from them directly but I am putting together a decent order from your store in the next few weeks and figured I would get some onslaught stuff at that point and maybe save on some shipping. I wouldn't be ordering any of their not-IG/AM stuff at that point as I am still working on Orks and Space Marines but I was trying to figure out who to order what from for planning purposes.
Again.. this forum is full of people that like to jump in front of comments that aren't related to them in any way and without knowing about Malika being associated that's what that seemed like from my side. Like your models though and hope to see more new 6mm releases in the future. Hopefully one day you guys will do a multipart building system along the lines of the sweet looking human/ork sprues you have.
Troublemaker games wave 3 15mm figures are in store now. Also from TMG comes this classic back catalogue steampunk style tripod model. If interest is high we may well look at developing a steampunk range in the near future we already have some ideas for the direction we'd like to take with this.
And a little update regarding the Battlegroup Helios ships:
Just received these images from the caster ship production is in full swing but high summer temperatures are causing delays. None the less an initial batch is expected to ship to me late this week.
