Aren't all the best Space Marines black?
Exhibit A - Dark Angels. 'nuff said!
This week yet another Chapter falls to the Primaris scourge, in fact two - the venerable Iron Hands and the way-too-emo Raven Guard - with not only a Codex supplement for each, but also new plastic goodness!
Iron Hands were always a First Founding Chapter, all the way back in 1st Edition Rogue Trader and now you can field them in the new edition of 40K with either the Cold Dead Hands Collectors Edition or the Chrome and Cogs Standard Edition. Both supplements are 64 pages, so not huge, BUT they do have the rules in it for this guy - Iron Father Feirros - a mighty Techmarine with a tonne of gear strapped to his back. Amazing looking mini, probably a must-buy just for the bitz. The Iron Hands also get a new Primaris-flavoured Iron Hands Upgrade Sprue which includes decals and some Iron Hands Data Cards. No dice though, oddly!
In other noir-related news, those newly-named First Founding Raven Guard also have a new supplement. It comes in Daddy Doesn't Love Me Collectors Edition and But I Want To! Standard Edition. Raven Guard Chapter Master Kayvaan Shrike has also gone all Primaris-flavoured with his new mini, which come without alternative weapons  or an alternative beaky helmet head - which seems a real shame. Feel like you need feathers on your army? Well let me introduce you to the Raven Guard Upgrade Sprue - everything has feathers, and if you like emo, well the heads come in My Chemical Romance flavour! In reality, if you've read the Horus Heresy books you know the Primarchs all had massive Daddy issues, so the Raven Guard are the perfect Space Marines. Oh and The Raven Guard don't get dice either, but they do get Data Cards.
In other Primaris news, the Eliminators can now be bought separately in what looks like a really nice kit with a nice selection of extra bitz. Not sure why they are drying their washing on their armour, but they are and by far the most dynamic Primaris so far, the Primaris Lieutenant in Phobos Armour is also out next week (again single pose and no alternative weapons or head). 
In books we've got the Brunner the Bounty Hunter Omnibus, set in the Warhammer Old World and next week is White Dwarf, so if you live in Australia and get it via mail order, you'll have that in mid-October.

In the old world there was a hero, small of stature but giant of valour and victories - he was Gotrek Gurnisson... and he's back with an absolutely cracking plastic model! Thankfully not too expensive (comparatively) this will be gracing many people's armies that's for sure. 
Warcry continues to evolve, with it's first expansion Monsters & Mercenaries out next week. Add the Untamed Beasts and Iron Golem warbands as well as the Chaotic Beasts from the original Warcry boxed set as well as a repacked Chimera (a sadly oft-forgotten kit) and you've got more options for those wanting to play! There's also a nice scenery set, the Defiled Ruins, adding some Age of $igmar to the Chaos realms.
Books this week is all about Gotrek - some solo Gotrek action in Ghoulslayer, or if you like him in a buddy-cop mode then Gotrek & Felix: The Fourth Omnibus may float your boat. In audio dramas, there's Realmslayer: Blood of the Old World and a nice addition, you can also get the  Realmslayer: A Gotrek Gurnisson Series – The Complete Script in book form.

Who doesn't love Thallax? Apart from the poor sods you have to build these incredibly fiddly bloody models of course. The Thallax look amazing - the super soldiers of the Mechanicus, these are how the Space Marines would have been in they were human-augmented robots and not robot-augmented humans. During the Great Crusade and through the Horus Heresy, the Mechanicum would task out these powerful sentient robots to the Adeptus Astartes Legions, so surely the XIIth Legion War Hounds would have had some, right? They certainly used Praevians, and Praevians need robots!

It's pretty amazing that games Games Workshop would once release as a Specialist Game through Forge World - like Titanicus and Necromunda - are now getting the full GW plastic boxed set treatment. It's actually a brilliant time to be part of the hobby, and this weekend sees the return of the classic Aeronautica Imperialis... and in the same scale as the afore-mentioned  Adeptus Titanicus!
The Aeronautica Imperialis game itself is called Wings of Vengeance and comes with an Imperial and Ork squadron, which thankfully GW have also released separately next week too - so if you don't want to stump up on the game (and get twice as many planes) you can get the Dakkajets, Fighta Bommerz, ​Imperial Navy Marauder Bombers, Imperial Navy Thunderbolt Fighters and Imperial Navy Marauder Destroyers as individual sets, which is super cool and we're sure you will be seeing these flying around every game of Titanicus from now on. There's also some very cool Imperial and Ork Ground Assets (that again will be turning up as scenery in Titanicus games...!). The release of the game also includes a campaign book, Rynn's World Air War Campaign Book and a double sided board set called Rynn's World Area of Engagement. What would a GW game be without some sort of integrated card element? We have the Aircraft and Aces Imperial Navy Cards and ​Aircraft and Aces Ork Air Waaagh! Cards, plus of course the Ork Flyboyz Dice Set and Imperial Navy Dice Set. There's also a set of Order Tokens which include maneuvers and what each plane is doing.
As you would expect, this week's books generally fit around the theme, with Dan Abnett's Double Eagle, and the Wings of Blood Anthology all about those magnificent men and their flying machines. The other book next week is the Blood Rite book - which is set around the second series of Space Marine Heroes miniatures - Terminators. When will those get released?
Now if you're a good citizen and order enough Aeronautica Imperialis stuff from GW this weekedn, they will give you swag; the super cool Aeronautica Imperialis Ace Markings for your car/ laptop/ Dakkajet and if you order either the Rynn's World Air War Collection, Ork Air Waaagh! Collection or Imperial Navy Collection you will get the Aeronautica Imperialis Crew Cards (soon to be available for free as a download).

As an interesting aside, the packaging for Aeronautica Imperialis is completely different for any current GW product - you wouldn't even know this was to do with Warhammer except for a small badge on packaging. It did also remind us of the old Dust Tactics boxes a bit! Very crisp and clean.

Sorry for the delay this week - I have been away for work and didn't get the chance to do this - but next week sees yet another addition to the Blackstone Fortress game, this time a new large set with a bevy of cool new miniatures. Blackstone Fortress: Escalation brings a new set of adventurers into conflict with more Chaos Cultists, these ones drawing influences from some of the design elements in Warcry (check out the helmets) plus a touch of fire!
With a chunky box, it's just a few books left for next week - the intriguing Rites of Passage set around Navigator Houses (they've scrubbed up well from the Rogue Trader days), Terminal Overkill based in the Necromunda universe and the first novel featuring Severina Raine, Honourbound, get's it's paperback release.

Before we leave you, have a look at these lovely minis! Those Cultists are very nice and the fluffy Rogue Trader-era goodness coming out of the explorers is amazing. Lovely set!

To the unmistakable clang of machines of war, a new Mortarch rises in Games Workshop's new animated preview of what will be previewed at the NOVA Open. This preview seems to show a whole new range of Necron-like Undead for Age of $igmar with a mechanical look, new armour and shields and the tantalising glimpse of war machines firing green fire. As an Undead fan, this preview is very exciting - no longer are the Undead just falling apart bones in rags, these are proud warriors standing tall. How quickly will we see these bitz make their way into the ranks of the Necrons too? Stay tuned later this week for more.

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!