Farewell, Eisenhorn (and Welcome, Eisenhorn!)

With the recent Specialist Games sell-off referenced in my previous post, it had to happen eventually. But in a rather understated post on the Conclave, Koval announced the awful truth - that Inquisitor Eisenhorn's model is No Longer Available to purchase on the GW website.

I've bought a 54mm Eisenhorn figure, and he's currently sitting in bits in a drawer at my parents' house. I've always loved the figure, and it serves in many ways as a token of my affection for Dan Abnett's seminal trilogy. These are the figures that spawned Inquisitor - and without Inquisitor, there would never have been INQ28.

So I'm sad to see so many of these figures going - especially with the resultant price hike that eBay will doubtlessly enjoy. It really is an end of an era.

In other news, I saw on the Black Library website that Xenos, the first of the Eisenhorn novels, has recently been re-released in French. The exciting thing about this is the new artwork that's been created for the cover - I'm very impressed!