Ka’Bandha, is getting a “miniature” release as one of the biggest Chaos Horus Heresy character sets from Forge World!
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Las Vegas Open Preview
LVO is one of the biggest independent Warhammer events in the world, and one of our favourite places to unveil new stuff. If you can’t make it to Vegas, don’t worry – the Warhammer Preview Online will be here to introduce the latest and greatest from Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, and more.
New Horus Heresy Ka’Bandha Miniature
The newest addition to the Horus Heresy character series will be one of the most infamous names of the saga, Ka’Bandha. Sanguinius and Ka’Bandha fought almost to the death on more than one occasion, and while Ka’Bandha’s rules have been released for a few years now, we have yet to see a dedicated model for him.
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Needless to say, we’re impressed. He is covered in Khornate imagery and icons, and he stands over the broken body of a Blood Angels legionary.
Ka’Bandha revels in the slaughter and has added mountains of skulls to Khorne’s domain from the early days of the Horus Heresy to the twilight of the 41st Millennium. He cuts a fearsome figure on the battlefield, resplendent in detailed daemonic armour, and is by far the largest Forge World Character Series model released so far.
On a more sour note, the Preview specifically mentioned the possibility of using his model as a proxy Bloodthirster in both Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40k. We feel this implies a lack of intent to create unique rules for his use in either game.
Either way, we’re excited for Ka’Bandha to rampage through any warzone in the future.
Also worth noting GW unveiled a new logo for the Horus Heresy in Ka’Bandha’s teaser video:
Of course, a lot of folks we’re hoping for a new Horus Heresy starter set reveal at LVO instead of Ka’Bandha (sadly). Unfortunately, that didn’t happen but click here to see our updated post on everything we have seen for the new starter set, and Horus Heresy in general.
RUMORS: Forge World Ka’Bandha Miniature Size Revealed
From the video and still shots, we have a few “tells” as to just how big the size of the Ka’bandha miniature may be. Remember that Leviathan Dreadnought on the base from before?
Right there in the bottom left is not only a broken legionnaire but also the remains of a Leviathan Dreadnought too!
With a little photoshop magic, we can match the orientation of the Leviathan with a full model shot and scale it appropriately to get an idea of the base size of Ka’Bandha.
Assuming no scaling errors, it appears that Ka’Bandha may come on a 150mm round base that currently does not exist. The Onager comes with a 130 mm base along with The Great Unclean One, and Forge World set the bar at 160mm with the Ares, Astraeus, Ta’unar, and Tiger Shark kits.
So it’s feasible that if anyone was going to invent a new base size it would be Forge World with a new 150mm base to accommodate this big baddies girth.
Or we’re just bad at photoshop. Either way, this model is a CHONK that will measure at least 8″ to the top of his wings, and have a similar wingspan as well!
If you missed the lastest few previews from GW in 2021, you can get all caught up on those from our coverage below:
- GW Dead & Divine
- GW Mortal Realms
- Faith & Damnation
- Warhammer Fest 2021
- GW AoS 3.0 Dominion
- GW AoS 3.0 Dominion Celebration
- Warhammer Day 2021
- LVO 2022 Preview
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