Warhammer is an costly pastime and has been for a really very long time. Grabbing your self a viable pressure of Games Workshop’s tabletop miniatures—whether or not it’s in Age of Sigmar’s fantasy or 40K’s far future flavors—can value a whole bunch and a whole bunch of {dollars}, even earlier than all of the package to construct, paint, carry, and play with it. But this 24-year-old package takes the cake.

Hobby YouTuber Squidmar Miniatures (through Polygon) has charted the journey of the skyrocketing worth of one of many rarest Warhammer miniature kits in existence. A 1997, tabletop-scaled, all-metal Space Marine Thunderhawk Gunship was given a customized paint job, turning a uncommon, unbuilt copy of the package into probably the most invaluable Warhammer mannequin on the planet. Sold at public sale to an Australian pastime store for show at a very absurd $34,882 (enjoyable truth, that’s roughly 64 instances the worth of a military of pointy-hatted Lumineth Realm-Lord elves I simply purchased, readers), the assembled and painted ship is now formally the priciest Warhammer miniature ever.

The Thunderhawk Gunship—a Space Marine warship that’s basically half heavy assault fighter and half troop transport for the large, armored troopers of Humanity’s Imperium—has had a number of fashions since this uncommon 1997 launch. The present one, for instance, will set you again a still-hefty $770. What makes the unique Thunderhawk so uncommon is that not solely is it an all-metal package (the fashionable one is resin, and subsequently received’t make your arms buckle while you attempt to choose it up), however it was a part of a particularly restricted manufacturing run. Games Workshop produced a number of for its personal shows at conventions within the mid-‘90s, but then put the set to retail for $650 in 1997, where just 500 were made, and placed in numbered, lavish wooden boxes.

Assembled and unassembled versions of the kit have previously sold for a fraction of the price of the one here—according to Polygon, anywhere between $3,000 to $5,000. That makes Squidmar Miniature’s paint job on the already uncommon mannequin add a frankly bananas quantity to the frenzy round its public sale. I’ll by no means complain at a field of five elves on kangaroos costing $60 ever once more.

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