When you’ve been releasing as many different boxed plastic model kits as GW has, for as long as GW has – and especially if you improved your manufacturing technology halfway through, to produce far more detailed and dynamic-looking models – you end up with quite a long queue of ‘ugly ducklings’.
Anyone who’s dipped more than half a toe into the Warhammer fandom (whether Warhammer 40K or Warhammer Age of Sigmar) comes to learn at least two fundamental laws of this particular nerdiverse, and both are highly relevant to 40K’s new-and-improved Cadian Shock Troops kit.įirst: whatever stupendous new sculpted-plastic glories Games Workshop makes, there will always be several tribes of fans for whom all their troubled heart desires is an update to some poor, forgotten units in their army of choice, instead.
