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So I'm ramping up for a big return to the hobby (mostly for Necromunda and RPG purposes) which means I have been collecting again for a while now, and I want that collection to include the Sector Imperialis terrain - especially those wicked awesome statues. Tragically, I've learned that it's almost all unavailable now, including the statues, going for hundreds of dollars on eBay. It doesn't seem like that long ago...but regardless, it seems they released in 2018, and then cruelly went OOP in 2020.

So to avert how devastated I feel by this (feel free to watch to get the tears flowing with me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09u1v3T6iv4&ab_channel=Warhammer ), I'm starting to plan out grabbing these gradually/over time on eBay. But in order to do that, I need to know what sprues existed vs what are still available on the GW store in Kill Team boxes etc.

Clearly, GW still has the Sector Imperials Ruins set:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Sector-Imperialis-Ruins-2018
Check.

That and a liiitle more is in Kill Zone Chalnath:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/killzone-chalnath-2022

Aaand...I think that's all that's still available on the GW website.

SO. Does that JUST leave the sprues for the statues in the Sector Imperialis Bascilicanum and I guess the Sanctum set?
https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/KillTeamLaunch-July5-TerrainBoxes20vk.jpg
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/07/28/28th-july-tips-tricks-and-secrets-of-the-sector-imperialisgw-homepage-post-3/

Or what else will I need to eBay to get all that's currently unavailable from this range?

Omfg you are the man! Yeah looking around online even for 3D printed alternatives to this stuff just does *not* stand up to the real deal. I thought they'd be around forever, and instead my FOMO is increasing tenfold rofl. Time to start saving up and tackling eBay... Thanks a million Baltika!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
God if I didn't know any better I'd say that that was my spreadsheet.

I'm sure I made that exact same thing around the time of the original Sector Imperialis/KT release.

Do wish I'd gotten a second Basilicanum box...

I hear ya there. I don't suppose there's any precedent for GW re-releasing older terrain kits even as a temporary thing, is there? I really thought back in the day that these would at least be around for 5+ years. Can't imagine why they died after just two. Zone Mortalis is going on for what, 3-4 years now?

Naw those are $45 https://www.ebay.com/itm/195078081246?hash=item2d6b8f4ade:g:yXwAAOSw~aVijDnJ

as opposed to the Sanctum stuff which is like $500 for a pre-assembled version of the sanctum statues :(

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234515118049?hash=item369a30b7e1:g:URsAAOSw-ZtiXXtY

Which is really crap. But good lord beast_gts you're totally right... Maybe I should add it to my list.

I kind of think they would be good as a standalone for ash wastes in truth.

And right now I think they're (cruelly) the closest thing available to having even a hint of ecclesiarchy/Imperium statues on any battlefield (thankfully it's pretty well available on ebay) with any kind of good quality. I've found some few other substitutes online since making this post that are meant to fill a similar role of holy Imperium statues to litter my terrain with, but do far they all seem to have some really poor quality by comparison. I can't believe GW would stop selling anything like these so quickly.

Just as I also can't believe how even last week I thought these were still available and would be for some time only to realize this week that they're one of the hardest things to come by in the hobby for something so recently released. If only there were other hopes outside of ebay.

But does anyone here know of any good ecclesiarchy/Imperium statue stand-ins one could buy anywhere, in case I haven't spotted them?

 generalchaos34 wrote:
I honestly don't understand why they stopped making those kits, it makes NO sense whatsoever. They clearly CAN still make them since they ended up in the chalnath box. I managed to beg borrow and steal some over the years since I missed the original run. By far my favorite pieces of terrain for looks, aesthetics, and everything else.

On a side note the Battle Sanctum is still available AND still has a lot of the bones of the other kits so you can build it in all kinds of way. PLUS, cool sisters statue

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Adepta-Sororitas-Battle-Sanctum-2020

Oh absolutely, over the past year or two I've doubled down on keeping an eye on Last Chance to Buy stuff, but I guess I must have started that just after the Sanctum/Bascilicanum sets were gone. With all the other sets like the Battle Sanctum out, I always though the rest wouldn't go OOP, and after manually checking (a day or so before I made this thread), I've been losing my mind just a little bit looking for them I've long since had aspirations to cobble these together into a massive cathedral, I think I even made a thread or two in this forum for that. And now with all the Necromunda stuff I have, I have had every intention to just litter my Zone Mortalis with statues from these two sets, especially from the Sanctum.

I actually called every local store in my area that wasn't Warhammer (since they assured me Warhammer stores only carry items that are up like a year OOP at most), and even a few that weren't, and no luck whatsoever. A number of people suggested they were also remorseful that GW stopped selling them, though.

So now I'm sort of wondering...is a petition potentially a viable way to go here, with so many in the community feeling this way...? >.>

HAH. Yeah. I do feel like I must have lost some perspective or focus on life that I feel so strongly about it since learning about this. Or something like that. I think FOMO has just gained more and more and more power in my life over time...

Anyway maybe a petition IS a good way to go, then? Rofl Maybe idk, I'll start a Twitter post as a sort of quasi petition or something.

Also btw I did happen upon someone who has 3D models of the statues available online that they clearly made themselves and apparently we can pay for it, but, is that illegal or anything for them to have done even for OOP items? Even if it's not illegal for us to buy them? (I'm starting to lose hope I'll ever see the box available on eBay. I sure as heck have never seen assault canon drop pods available on eBay in these years I've been watching for it...)

So for real though, does anyone know if paying for/downloading files off of cults3d.com that have the likeness of OOP GW products is illegal or perhaps better to ask, is what *those* 3d modelers doing illegal in that regard? Or is it all perfectly legal because its just 3d models and not actually recasting?