Da Red Gobbo’s Tinboy
It's that time of year again: another Christmas miniature! This time it's Da Red Gobbo's Tinboy.
In case you want to take a look back, we covered the A-Bomb-Inable Snowman in 2024 and Da Red Gobbo Surprise and Grotmas Gitz the year before.
This year's design features the Red Gobbo inside a supersized wind-up nutcracker in the style of a Vostroyan Guardsman, priced at 27.50 GBP / 35 EUR. Da Red Gobbo's Tinboy will be available to pre-order today.
Warhammer 40,000 – Imperial Fists Darnath Lysander
Darnath Lysander was announced at the Big Summer Preview and has finally arrived alongside other updated Space Marine sculpts. It is important to note that Lysander did not cross the Rubicon Primaris, but instead received a miniature wearing the upgraded Indomitus Pattern Terminator armour.
As the captain of the Imperial Fists' first company, he is renowned for wielding the mighty Thunder Hammer, The Fist of Dorn, and for donning ornate Terminator armour and a Storm Shield. His leadership has turned the tide of many battles, particularly defensive operations, in which his strategic mind excels. Fiercely loyal to the ideals of the Imperial Fists and their Primarch, Rogal Dorn, Lysander embodies the Chapter's unyielding spirit.
The new Darnath Lysander miniature has been available since September 20th and has an RRP of 37 EUR (35 EUR at release, increased with the October price update). It includes a small sprue, a 50 mm round base, and assembly instructions, including a datasheet.
Warhammer 40,000 – Leman Russ Imperial Battle Tank Assembly Instructions
As part of our retro projects and coverage, I'd like to give you some throwbacks and vintage insights on the older kits. And today we're covering the Leman Russ Imperial Battle Tank.
While the Leman Russ Imperial Battle Tank is still around in a pattern / design that is very close to the vintage kit, there are some differents. We're going to look into it in one of the upcoming classic reviews, but here for now are the assembly instructions, as a first piece of guidance and check up to see if you got all the pieces you need or something is missing.
This is the instruction that came with the mid to late 90s boxed set of 2nd edition of Warhammer 40k. It was gray-scale and did not only provide the build instructions across eight pages but the data fax as well. All of it in four different languages, English, French, Spanish and German.
Warhammer – The Big Summer Preview Show 2025 Part 1
The Big Summer Preview Show was held on Friday of the Warhammer Open Tacoma weekend. And this certainly deserves the name BIG Summer PREVIEW, as this was not just a few teasers but a proper motherlode of upcoming releases. And they started the preview just like we do our podcast - what did you recently hobby did you do?
We're going to go through the announcements not in chronological order, but split into the Grim Dark of Warhammer 40k and 30k in part 1 and the Warhammer Fantasy systems in part 2.
Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team – Blood and Zeal
Today a new Kill Team supplement goes on pre-order - Blood and Zeal - introducing two new Kill Teams of Zealots, one following Khorne and the other the Adeptus Ministorum.
After the release of the starter set of Hivestorm and the first supplement Brutal and Cunning, we follow with Blood and Zeal the "regular" setup with two Kill Teams, a dossier and some terrain. Pre-Order starts today with the launch set for April 5th, the RRP is 82,50 GBP or 105 EUR.
Kill Team: Blood and Zeal contains two completely new kill teams. The Sanctifiers are nine Imperial zealots, including the likes of the Conflagrator, the Death Cult Assassin, the Drill Abbot and the Miraculist, who have been stoked into action by the rabid oration of the Confessor (a priestly figure attended by a Cherub). The Goremongers are a cohort of seven cybernetically enhanced operatives like the Impaler, the Skullclaimer and the Stalker who follow the commands of the towering Goremonger Blood Herald.
As pointed out, this is a supplement and you need at least the Core Rulebook to play. Never the less, the lite rules are free to download on Warhammer Community. It is a heavy boxed set and is another 5 EUR cheaper than Brutal and Cunning (which was already 5 EUR cheaper than Kill Team Termination). Maybe nature is healing or they count in, that the terrain is not new but a re-release from 2020.
Warhammer 40,000 – Forge World Imperial Sandbag Bunker
In addition to the Taros Underground Entrance I picked up the Imperial Sandbag Bunker a while back. They go for insane prices on eBay, but I managed to get it at a reasonable rate through one of the Bitbox events quite some time ago.
The article code was TR-40K-S-030 and was sold for 20 GBP / 34 EUR when available around 2006. The model was designed by Tim Adcock, who designed the Falcon and first 28mm scale Thunderhawk.
Warhammer 40,000 – Forge World Taros Underground Entrance
A blast from the past - a Forge World item from 2006 that I picked up a long time ago, but for a bit more than the original RRP of 16 GBP. Nowadays you would have to pay somewhere between 55 to 130 EUR on eBay to get your hands on one of these.
As it is so rare, I thought I would take some measurements. Just in case some of you want to scratch build this thing. Due to its bulky and non-organic structure, this should be within realistic limits. The grid of my cutting mat is 1 cm each.
Warhammer 40,000 – Converting the Space Marine Terminators
Last year I showed you the new Space Marine Terminator Squad, in updated scale and Indomitus pattern armour. And those were build with the intention of use in Space Hulk, as written last July as well. As I pointed out, a few options and poses were missing to fulfill all roles needed to play the different campaigns.
As a TLDNR sum up, there is the core game of Space Hulk and further campaigns, making use of the Terminator variant boxed sets for Dark Angels or Space Wolves, and I wanted to re-create this more Codex Astartes compliant with Sons of Dorn, the Imperial Fists. By using the parts from the Terminator Squad plastic kit and further sprues, among others from the Deathwing Assault set, I went on to convert the Terminator miniatures for the weapon load outs, that I would need to cover the extended gaming material.
While could build most of what we need, especially for the Space Hulk core set and Ultramarines campaign from the vanilla Terminator squad, there are still a few poses open.
From the Dark Angels campaign Bringer of Sorrow, we would need the third Terminator with a special weapon, in this case the Plasma Cannon, as we covered the heavy flamer with the multi-part squad and the assault cannon from Leviathan.
Da Red Gobbo – A-Bomb-Inable Snowman
Last year we got double-trouble with the Da Red Gobbo Surprise and Grotmas Gitz, and this year we get another christmas themed miniature by Games Workshop from the Commemorative Series, Da Red Gobbo's A-Bomb-Inable Snowman. As of now, he is not available from Games Workshop directly anymore, you have to go through the independent retailers network for that, but that shouldn't be an issue.
The latest of the Red Gobbos is priced at 34 EUR, unfortunately an increase towards last years 32,50 EUR. And of course, the miniature comes with a scenario for Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40k, which you can download for free from Warhammer Community.
Necron Invasion
Necrons are a fixed part of the 40k universe, and most people probably don't remember a Grim Dark Future without them. They were around since the early days, but more design-wise. The Chaos-Androids from Space Crusade / StarQuest are clear predecessors of the later Necron design, but the Necrons were properly introduced to the game mere months before the end of the 2nd edition in White Dwarf 217 and 218 (January and February 1998 - German issues #25 and #26). In the third edition they should shine, with a full codex in 2002 along with proper plastic kits.
But in this "small" time frame in 1998 from January to September (because in October 1998 the third edition dropped) all we had were a few pages of units for an entire army. Because all you could place were the only HQ choice they had, a Necron Lord, the regular Necron Warriors along with scarabs and the Destroyers for support. That was the entire armylist. We even had some Immortal sculpts, but now rules for those.
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