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These are all looking fantastic! Might just persuade me tio get back on with my BFG projects!

Are you actually looking for international stockists? I would be interested in becoming one if you were, via Great White Miniatures.

Very nice stuff, personally I'm going to hold off until the range is expanded a bit and/or there's a stockist in the UK (or at least EU), but I've definitely got you guys bookmarked for future reference.

Thanks guys!

@Lavuran: I don't think we are looking for a stockist quite yet, but thanks for asking. I'm sure we'll need one eventually.

@professionalAmateur: we're working to expand the range and we're hoping to have some smaller frigates up soon. There's some progress shots on our Facebook page if you are interested.

Wow! That is some great work!! I see they have two ships available now.

@Vaaish: By the way, what's the link to your Facebook page?

@Malika: Here's the link to the FB page: https://www.facebook.com/battlegroupHelios

By the way, Horizon took some pictures comparing the Battlegroup Helios ships to some other stuff out there: link.

Wow, seeing the side-by-side pics, I actually prefer these to the old BFG ships! And, imo, they are different enough to set them apart - much less "gothic", even with some similar aesthetics. It's clear they're "inspired by", but I think they've made them they're own and I would choose these over Imperial BFG ships any day (which never really appealed to me, while these do somewhat).

What I would really love to see if a whole range of ships, of course, but even just having two (variants on the same chassis) with another on the way is enough to tempt me! If you can make a full fleet of this "faction" I very well may succumb as I know that Wehrkind has been itching to play some games using the old BFG ruleset, and I loved it the few times I tried it.

Well, Mangozac is working on a Frigate, so that's a start. Here a sketch by the way:


There was also mention of a potential Battleship, but I think Vaaish and Mangozac could tell you more on that.

I ditto the 'WOW' statements from others.
Unfortunately it's not a system I'm in to but good luck.
Amazing paint jobs like this can only help.

BFG is not that hard to get into, besides, combined with 40k (for campaigns), it could really add another layer to your games.

Thanks guys! We are planning on doing a whole range for the Helian ships, but it will take a bit to get models designed and in production.

Right now we're focusing on expanding the range so it supports a full fleet. So first up is the Frigate and we've been talking about doing a destroyer next.

This is brilliant stuff!

I don't play at all, just paint, but I'd be keen for a Battleship in this style, just to paint up as a display model.

Will there also be variants of the Frigate, kinda like what you did with the Cruiser?

Very nice paint job indeed! It really makes your ship pop, even though the color scheme is very neutral.

Great job!

 Malika2 wrote:
BFG is not that hard to get into, besides, combined with 40k (for campaigns), it could really add another layer to your games.

Very true. My group uses BFG and Epic in just that way. Uncharted Seas and Warmaster are also great ways to expand on Warhammer games.

Will there also be variants of the Frigate, kinda like what you did with the Cruiser?

There will be two variants of the frigate. One with a prow cannon and one like in the sketch earlier in the thread.

These are spectacular. Will look amazing facing off Against my wintersforge space bugs. I'd like to take advantage of the free post over $200 but I don't need 6 cruisers at this stage, only 5. Any indication when the frigates will be ready?

Soon?

Right now the hull is into final detailing and the standard prow is mostly done. After that we need to do the gun prow and build up stock for release.

Hopefully by the end of February.

Thanks for the updates, Vaaish

Recently sold some BFG stuff that went for an absolutely disgusting amount of money. And by that I mean way more than they were really worth!

Judging by that, think there is definitely a market for this kind of stuff as the game still has a following - and the ships look great in their own right!

Very interested in picking a few of these up.

Whilst I do have a BFG Imperial Navy force, I'd missed the opportunity to buy the rogue trader ships and on reflection, I think I might like these a good deal better!

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Very interested in picking a few of these up.

Whilst I do have a BFG Imperial Navy force, I'd missed the opportunity to buy the rogue trader ships and on reflection, I think I might like these a good deal better!

Exactly what I'll be using mine for, a Rogue Trader vessel. I'll be integrating the Helios designs into my 40K headcanon as pre-Imperial vessels of the Saturnyne Polity(no, I don't know why FW had to swap the I for a Y either ), so I can use them both for 40K and Heresy-era fleets.

I really love the GW Imperial ship designs and I'm still going to try and scrape together the rest of the ones I want, but all the new options coming onto the market right now are brilliant, first time BFG players have been spoiled for choice in years

Looking forward to the frigates! I may just order a few ships once there is a little more selection, they are too beautiful to resist...

I never really liked any ships I saw in this scale until I saw these.

The design on that ship is truly fantastic.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Very interested in picking a few of these up.

Whilst I do have a BFG Imperial Navy force, I'd missed the opportunity to buy the rogue trader ships and on reflection, I think I might like these a good deal better!

Exactly what I'll be using mine for, a Rogue Trader vessel. I'll be integrating the Helios designs into my 40K headcanon as pre-Imperial vessels of the Saturnyne Polity(no, I don't know why FW had to swap the I for a Y either ), so I can use them both for 40K and Heresy-era fleets.

I really love the GW Imperial ship designs and I'm still going to try and scrape together the rest of the ones I want, but all the new options coming onto the market right now are brilliant, first time BFG players have been spoiled for choice in years

Saturnine stuff? Very curious to see what you'll be doing with that!

These are (Battle) cruisers any plans on battleship size ships? And any plans of different design the ships.

Like these?

 Malika2 wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Very interested in picking a few of these up.

Whilst I do have a BFG Imperial Navy force, I'd missed the opportunity to buy the rogue trader ships and on reflection, I think I might like these a good deal better!

Exactly what I'll be using mine for, a Rogue Trader vessel. I'll be integrating the Helios designs into my 40K headcanon as pre-Imperial vessels of the Saturnyne Polity(no, I don't know why FW had to swap the I for a Y either ), so I can use them both for 40K and Heresy-era fleets.

I really love the GW Imperial ship designs and I'm still going to try and scrape together the rest of the ones I want, but all the new options coming onto the market right now are brilliant, first time BFG players have been spoiled for choice in years

Saturnine stuff? Very curious to see what you'll be doing with that!

Probably not a huge amount tbh, it's just fluff right now; I wrote the RT up as having a pre-Imperial grand cruiser, so the Saturnyne aspect in the latest FW HH book seemed like it fit in well. Plus it gives me an excuse to buy lots and lots of Helios ships if I ever get round to running a Heresy-era BFG campaign

These are (Battle) cruisers any plans on battleship size ships? And any plans of different design the ships.

There are plans to do a battleship, but it's a ways off. Right now we are focusing on getting the line expanded so there's enough available to build a fleet using Helian ships.

After that we plan to get an adversarial fleet built. Once we have that done we'll hit the Battleships.

The thing is, most folks will just buy a single battleship for a fleet and it's the single biggest model to design and build making it the most expensive for us to do with the least return.

Man, I really need to get better a ship design! Would really love to design something that would fit your line. Oh well, practice makes perfect I guess.