Last week we had the new Codex for the Space Marines, now we get a few new offerings for the Primaris - and with the new Primaris transport not on here - we're sure to be getting more next week!
​This week we finally get a good look at the ​Primaris Invictor Tactical Warsuit, which comes with alternate weapons and some posing options. It's a very utilitarian rugged new look for the Space Marines, being very functional and new looking - definitely not something from the Grimdark. It will be very interesting to see this up against the undisputed masters of the mech suits, the Tau! This new kit of course comes with the compulsory Ultramarine transfer sheet.
Also next week we have some minis previously in boxed sets, but now available for individual orders - the Primaris Captain in Phobos Armour, Primaris Librarian in Phobos Armour and the 55th Primaris Lieutenant model, this one with a with Power Sword. None of these models come with alternative weapons or heads.
In books next week, the new Warhammer Adventures titles Forest of the Ancients and Secrets of the Tau. Both will be heading my nephew's way, which tells you how likely they are to read this!

The Community has been ablaze with SM Bois wanting a new Codex for the MOST serviced faction in Warhammer 40K, the Space Marines. Well now they have one with the new Codex Space Marines on pre-order this weekend. The Ultramarines of course can't miss out with a Codex Supplement which comes in two flavours - Is There Any Colour Other Than Blue Standard Edition and Girlyman Is My God Collectors Edition (webstore exclusive). Excitingly there is also a Codex Supplement for the White Scars!!!
How nice is it to see Space Marines that aren't blue? The White Scars are back - lets see how Games Workshop handle cultural appropriation - with their very own Codex in But Painting White Is Hard Standard Edition and The Great Khan Is Not Dead Collectors Edition (webstore exclusive). Excitingly there are also a few new minis to go with this release, Primaris-ified Chief Librarian Tigurius and Primaris-ified Kor'sarro Khan with literally the second biggest bird we've seen all day on his arm. But if you're into White Scars, the goodness just keeps on giving with a White Scars Primaris Upgrades & Transfers set (tad pricey, but super cool they FINALLY added transfers to these sets) AND there's also some very cool White Scars Dice. There's also Ultramarine Dice, because why would they just produce generic Space Marine Dice when every Space Marine is obviously just a repainted Ultramarine... grrrr! Oh, and there's Space Marine Data Cards, White Scars Data Cards and Ultramarines Data Cards.
There's also a fair few books out next week too - the The Uriel Ventris Chronicles: Volume 2, Knights of Macragge featuring Cato Sicarius, Age of $igmar adventures abound with Hamilcar: Champion of the Gods in paperback, Kal Jerico: Sinner's Bounty (Limited Edition), and the audio drama Agents of the Imperium.
We don't usually cover Forge World, but they're finally rolling out their Dark Angels with the Dark Angels Legion Contemptor Dreadnought (which comes with alternate chest decoration) and the awesome Dark Angels Legion Praetor in Cataphractii Terminator Armour. The mighty 1st Legion are finally here!
By the by, there is also the Codex: Space Marines Indomitus Edition which retails in Australia for $420 - and believe it or not - after just 35 minutes on pre-order it's sold out!

Who said sticking to one project was a good idea. Having been going full steam ahead with the War hounds Project, I got a little distracted - and by all things, Goblins. Have no idea why, maybe some moon-powered magic. This project was really about updating the old Stabbas/ Shootas kit and making a more Brian Froud looking Goblin force. Brian Froud is the visionary behind The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, with a particular style to Goblins - a style Games Workshop have obviously been influences by for their latest Gloomspite Gitz faction for Age of $igmar. Really I just wanted to experiment with infantry, so this was a good place to start. Taking the standard Stabbas/ Shootas kit I cut the heads off and replaced with with the heads from the Squigg Hoppers kit. They don't kit perfectly, so there's a bit of trimming, but they are a big improvement on the original heads. Then I went about sculpting different types of armour on the hands and arms with Green Stuff. This was meant to look haphazard and old, worn out. Then it struck me that a form of spiky or chitinous armour on their backs would be cool, so I bought some Grey Stuff due to it's harder and sharper consistency. This works better for armour plates that Green Stuff as it will give you sharp edges. It also dries a lot harder so you can sand or scrape it into shape. Small balls were then added to make rivets. Overall quite happy with them. The standard bearer has more armour as an experiment for the leader's look, which I haven't quite worked out yet...
Painting has begun, and you will be happy to know that this project will get done before I start another - no matter how much I can hear the War Hounds calling to me.. .and maybe the Dark Angels again too.

With two exciting universes having new releases this week, it was a bit of a tough choice to see who went first - but with Warcry getting a lot of Community buzz (despite the ridiculous two week pre-order window), they won out.
The last three Warcry warbands are on offer this weekend, and what a delight they are - packed with detail and dynamically posed, they offer a lot in themselves and certainly a lot in terms of bitz for the bitz box! From the horrendous The Unmade, to the cunning Splintered Fang (those helmets!) to the swift strike of the Corvus Cabal, each of these warbands offers something new ion terms of the aspects of Chaos. Like last week, this week we also get another Ravaged Lands terrain piece, this time the Shattered Stormvault.
The other biggie this week are the Palanite Enforcers for Necromunda. Not to be confused with the Adeptus Arbites, these guys now slot somewhere under that piece of venerable fluff to take on the street level crims and hive scum. This set is basically two identical sprues with two main weapon options - a very cool human-sized bolter or a shotgun. Disappointingly there are only two shock batons, but in great news, this is an entirely multi-pose kit, so the torsos are free from the legs and you can go wild with posing options. A with other Necromunda releases we get the Enforcer Patrol Dice Set plus a new Necromunda expansion, the Book of Judgement giving you an overview of the seedy underbelly of the Necromunda hive. There's Enforcer Tactics Cards (which also include some gang tactics cards too), plus the Intrigues & Rackets Card Pack to bring the world of crime to your gang, the Underdog Card Pack for when your Juves have to face a load of Goliaths, and the Dramatis Personae Cards 1 to represent a bevvy of Hired Guns.
In books, we get Book 12 of the Primarch series with Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter. Written by Guy Haley, here's hoping he does this awesome Primarch justice. If he isn't vampire Batman that's a real shame!

With the two week pre-order window still open for Warcry, Games Workshop have given us a bit of a filler week this week - but there are some interesting products. It is interesting that GW didn't take this week to offer at least one more warband f0r Warcry, so here's hoping we don't get the slow trickle of gangs that we got with Necromunda. 
Made To Order kicks it off with three classic Chaos Sorcerers - the Space Marines Sorcerer with Force Sword, Chaos Space Marines Sorcerer with Force Staff and Plasma Pistol and the Chaos Space Marines Sorcerer with Force Axe. The later was produced in Finecast at some point (and the version we have is a beautiful cast BTW) but these are the old-school metal versions.
The rest of the pre-orders this week are books with the next Warhammer Chronicles: The Orion Trilogy, centring around Orion the forest king. Can we get a decent miniature of that cover illustration please? As we touched on last week, Warcry doesn't have a novel yet... well, here it is, the Warcry: The Anthology. The Horus Heresy continues with Book 48: The Burden of Loyalty now in paperback and Celestine gets her own novel. Curious timing on this one, you'd think that maybe they would bring this out closer to the Sisters of Battle release. Finally, in audio dramas, part 3 of the Blackshields is out, this one is The Broken Chain. We follow this one as the main character is a World Eater they call The Hound in reference to his War Hounds lineage - always a selling point for Beardy Hammer considering the ongoing War Hounds project.

As Games Workshop is a little low on stuff this week, lets shoot over to Forge World who have two great looking mini-Knights in the form of the Mechanicum Knight Moirax with Lightning Locks
and Mechanicum Knight Moirax with Volkite Veuglaire and Gyges Siege Claw. AT $85 AUD these are only $20 or so more than a normal Armiger Helverin plus you get new carapace and armoured sections, multiple heads, new weapons and other details. Seems like oddly great value from Forge World. 

When the Chaos Knights were released, their little cousins - the Armigers - were oddly missing from the release schedule. We'd seen them in pictures in banner ads across the GW site (see below) but not on offer to buy. Well it seems that they did appear, but only in New Zealand and in a not entirely finalised and confused write up on their webstore. The entries mention both Imperial Armigers and War Dogs, in fact even the box art are the Imperial versions. Be curious to see when we do get these, but now at least we do know what they will look like! The Knight Armigers aren't the only ones - by the way - their much larger cousins the Chaos Knight Tyrants are also on the GW NZ Webstore! Like the War Dogs, these don't have an extra Chaos Upgrade Sprue with spikes and the like, it's just a different colour scheme and again a confused partially done write up which doesn't show Chaos decals or the box art.
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EDIT - And then without any warning or fanfare, they've turned up, a day later, on the Australian webstore

Warcry really set a lot of tongues wagging when we first saw the warbands start to appear at various Games Workshop events. This is Chaos in it's minor forms - those wish to pay tribute, wanting to be at the echelon of Chaos Warrior and Chaos Champion, and the fighting in Warcry is how they will do it!
This weekend the two week pre-order window opened for not only the Warcry Starter Set boxed game (and the bevy of miniatures in it), but also the first of the warbands - the awesome Cypher Lords. These guys are so close to the Slaaneshi troops we've been imaging this was an instant buy! If you saw the box and didn't want to buy the whole Warcry Starter Set, the Warcry Core Book is also available separately and with a multitude of warbands still to come, why tie yourself down to these forces? There is also a terrain set as the Sigmartie Mausoleum gets reborn as the Ravaged Lands: Corpsewrack Mausoleum with a two-sided battlemat and tokens to add more battlegrounds to fight on. As is the case these days, the cards keep coming with the Warcry Battleplan Cards, and then cards to add Stormcast Eternals, Legions of Nagash, Idoneth Deepkin, Gloomspite Gitz, Nighthaunt, Ironjawz, Flesh-eater Courts, Bonesplitterz and Daughters of Khaine to the game. Accessories abound too with a Warcry Ruler and Warcry Carry Case, which is soft so good luck not having bitz break off in that thing. Thankfully there's no Warcry novel this week, but as this is a two week pre-order window, we're suspecting that will be next week with at least one or two more warbands.
If you do order the Starter Set this week you'll also get Warcry Faction Art Cards - 8 double-sided A5 cards, featuring artwork, and descriptions of the game’s main warbands.
​You could do that, or you could save $80 and buy it from a local hobby store.

Henry Cavill is The Witcher, and boy does he smash it!!

For some weeks now I've been tooling around with a Chaos chariot, wanting it to fit into a Slaanesh force. Having never painted pink, this was interesting as it's such an overpowering colour. Thing is, pink is just one aspect of Slaanesh, there are purples and especially blacks, so when it came to the driver it was time for more experimentation using a dark pink and a new skin tone to have a more dusky look. My vampires and Dark Eldar have a warm grey tone, so this needed to be different and was Flayed One Flesh with a wash of a warm grey and a touch of purple, then working the highlights up with the base and white. The miniature itself is a Kairic Acolyte sliced and diced with a Slaanesh Daemonette head. The straps across the body are Green Stuff and the shoulder armour is from the Hellstriders kit.
There's no real rush on this model, so will tinker away at it and see what works!

There was a time, not too long ago, that Games Workshop were calling their Elves "Aelves". Well fast froward to today and that little piece of history has well and truly gone, because not only do we have Sylvaneth Wood Elves this week, we also have Blood Bowl Elves and not a single random old English 'A' in sight.
The Sylvaneth are an interesting group, the more spirit-base element to the Wood Elves, both in touch with and fully part of nature herself. Next week sees the release of a brand new Battletome for them which, as normal these days, comes in Trim Your Hedges Standard Edition and the Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree Limited Edition. Interestingly the character on the front cover has not been released from it's boxed game for this release, but you do get the new Endless Spells: Sylvaneth new Sylvaneth terrain with the Awakened Wyldwood, some Sylvaneth Dice and the requisite Warscroll Cards.
These aren't the only Elves out next week because Blood Bowl gets it's Wood Elf team, the Athelorn Avengers - stunning miniatures in dynamic poses. With all new teams there are also Wood Elf Dice, and a rather ordinary looking Wood Elf Pitch to play on. Bit of a shame that! Next week is also a Spike! week, with Issue 6 showing off the Athelorn Avengers, plus the Wood Elf Team Card Pack and a set of Blood Bowl Match Inducements cards.
Meanwhile, in The Shire, the Prime Minister is disgracing himself outside McDonalds - that's a joke for Australians - but really we're talking about Middle-Earth where The Shire is under attack in the new Scouring of The Shire expansion book. We also see the return of some classic minis, with Bilbo Baggins, Bandobras Took (on Foot & Mounted), Golfimbul (on Foot & Mounted), three different Gandalf the Grey (on Foot, Mounted and on Cart) and the Ruffians set. Not a release that's going to set the world on fire, that's for sure!
Do you like your Adpetus Titanicus? Well there's a new Titan hovering around - Acastus Knight Porphyrion be thy name and the Acastus Knight Command Terminal Pack... which you'll need to use it. There's also a tonne of other neat Adeptus Titanicus releases too; you can command legendary Titans with either the Traitor Titans of Legend or Loyalist Titans of Legend Command Terminals and two sets of dice - Loyalist and Traitor. There's also Loyalist Legio Stratagem Cards and Traitor Legio Stratagem Cards.
Warhammer 40K has some re-releases with the Eldar Spiritseer now available separately and two new Star Collecting sets; Start Collecting! Primaris Space Wolves and Start Collecting! Thousand Sons.
Books! There's usually a book or three - well next week there's a few more with Vaults of Terra Book 2: The Hollow Mountain, the Ravenor: The Omnibus, an anthology of 18 short Age of $igmar stories Gods & Mortals, The Horusian Wars Book 2: Incarnation ​​and finally July's White Dwarf - oddly half way through the month, which is okay because if you get it through Australian subscription you'll get it in October anyway!