Games Workshop Tape Measure - Official Citadel Wargaming Accessory (Earlier Hard-Case Version)

Product Overview

• Item: Official Games Workshop tape measure
• Brand: Games Workshop
• Case: Hard black plastic, contoured profile
• Branding: Games Workshop wordmark and Imperial Aquila printed on the case face
• Blade: Retractable steel blade with belt clip
• Markings: Imperial and metric
• Version: Earlier hard-case production, predating the current soft-rubber model
• Compatible With: Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, Warhammer Fantasy, Middle-earth, and all Specialist Games

Description

Every wargame lives or dies on measurement. Movement, weapon range, coherency, charge distance, deployment zones - the entire architecture of a Games Workshop game rests on a number of inches between two points, and the tape is the instrument that settles it. Which is why a tape measure is the one piece of equipment nobody at the table can borrow their way through an entire evening without.

This is the official Games Workshop version, carrying the company wordmark and the Imperial Aquila on the case. The double-headed eagle has served as the emblem of the Imperium of Man since the founding of the Great Crusade - a symbol of unity between Terra and Mars that survived ten thousand years of decline to become the most recognisable icon in the setting. Rendering it on a piece of hobby equipment is very much in keeping with how Games Workshop has always approached the boundary between fiction and hobby: the tools are part of the world too.

The hard-case construction dates this to an earlier production run than the current soft-grip model, giving it a period character that the modern version does not have. It measures distances exactly as well now as it did the day it was made.

Collectible Value

Games Workshop hobby tools occupy a modest but real niche in the collector market. They are branded, they are periodically redesigned, and they are almost never kept in collectible condition - a tape measure lives in a hobby bag, gets dropped, gets loaned out, and eventually disappears. Superseded versions therefore become quietly hard to find in usable shape.

For collectors documenting Games Workshop's product history, tools and accessories are the category most frequently missing, precisely because nobody thought to preserve them. The hard-case tape represents a design generation that has now been fully replaced at retail.

For players, the appeal is more direct: an official tape at a fraction of current retail, functionally identical to the new version for every purpose that matters at the table, with better branding than the current model in the view of a good many hobbyists.

Order Now

Official Games Workshop kit at a secondhand price - and a version no longer in production. Add it to your cart today. Please review the listing photographs for case condition and check the blade specifications in the listing details before ordering. Shipped promptly from Hammer of War in Tacoma, Washington, and light enough to combine with anything else in your order.