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Waves, boats, paint systems, and Kill Team nights where the model arrives before your backlog forgives you.
The miniatures desk is table presence: new armies, skirmish boxes, paint ladders, and preview streams that turn wishlists into preorder reflex. Expect shopping filters after Warhammer reveals, Tone Pro try-before-rebuild advice, and Custodes-versus-skirmish honesty. We will not invent prices Games Workshop did not print. Franchises include Age of Sigmar identity bombs like Khazalite Holds, Kill Team seasonal killzones, Necromunda plastic, and specialty games that spike Discords harder than marine posters. Bring a budget sentence. The stream will write one for you if you do not. Paint throughput often beats another centerpiece. Listings below are the live hobby wire under that filter for people who still have grey armies watching from the shelf. If you are new here, start with the newest listing and check scale before you clear another drawer for plastic.
The Khazalite Holds Army Set for Warhammer Age of Sigmar goes up for pre-order next week, and the Fyreslayers are joining its battletome. Here is what is in the box, which Fyreslayers units stay or go, and a pre-order checklist.
Tone Pro lands in Warhammer stores and independents September 26. Miniatures desk Monday: try before you flip your whole paint shelf. 30 colours, five tones each, media and brushes in the preview notes.
Warhammer+ dates the three-part Kharadron Overlords series Arkanaut for October 2026, with Astartes II still aimed at December from the Autumn Preview. Streaming calendar, not a forged tabletop codex.
Games Workshop's Big Autumn Preview landed twelve reveals. Headliners: a new Age of Sigmar duardin army, Codex Adeptus Custodes with Aquilon Terminators, Kill Team Armageddon with Legion of the Damned, and Tone Pro paints on September 26.
Games Workshop's Big Autumn Preview put twelve reveals on the board. Here is the lasting read on what actually matters for paint desks, skirmish nights, and campaign calendars.
Gargant plastic cleared the Saturday till. Sunday is the hangover: receipts, limited boxes walking, and whether you open a sprue before the next preview cycle.
Gargant plastic hit the preorder window and the tabletop calendar did not get quieter. Miniatures desk files the Sons of Behemat appointment without inventing a points cost.
Atomic Mass Games' Leaders of the Separatist Alliance (SWQ49) hits shelves this Friday: five minis, three commanders, two operatives. Street-day filing, not a fake points gospel.
Age of Sigmar Sons of Behemat wave preorders Saturday September 12 around 1 p.m. ET, streets September 26. Battletome, Stomper Tribe, Brawlers of Behemat, Boss-stompers, Ma Maegran. While-stocks-last boxes are the chase.
Assassin's Creed Animus remains on an October 2026 Kickstarter shipping window with retail Christmas language behind it. Era-spanning assassin miniatures are still the product inside the board game carton.
Star Wars: Legion Leaders of the Separatist Alliance streets September 11 at about $62.99 with Dooku, Trench, Grievous, Ventress, and Savage. Three commanders, two operatives, cards included.
Warhammer Community's September 4 Factoria Pipes guide sells modular Zone Mortalis plumbing with column spacing, vertical runs, and Gunk Tank silo crossover. The underhive's personality is industrial, and this kit is how you buy it.
Assassin's Creed Animus is targeting October 2026 Kickstarter shipping. Thousands of backers. A shelf of era-spanning assassin miniatures. The board game is how the plastic arrives.
Necromunda's second-wave Goliath and Escher kits, journals, cards, and dice go up for pre-order September 5, 2026, with a September 19 street date. Pets included. Pronunciation footnotes included.
An honest miniatures shelf argument after a thin news day: Hivestorm's living-room kit math still explains why skirmish fire teams eat display-parade space in 2026.
September's Miniature of the Month is a Space Marine Scout available from September 5, plus an Ogor Mawtribes coin. Warhammer Community says it is the last traditional free store miniature before an unnamed October offer.
Sky Castle Studios' Wildmagic Frontier is a buy-once deck-building tactics RPG for PC and browser that imports your Hero Forge miniatures, with solo and three-player co-op. Kickstarter opened September 10.
Zeratul, a siege tank, a Ravager, an Immortal, Lost Temple terrain - and a shipping calendar that is already arguing with the models.