{"product_id":"games-workshop-tape-measure-official-citadel-wargaming-accessory-earlier-hard-case-version","title":"Games Workshop Tape Measure - Official Citadel Wargaming Accessory (Earlier Hard-Case Version)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eProduct Overview\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem:\u003c\/strong\u003e Official Games Workshop tape measure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrand:\u003c\/strong\u003e Games Workshop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCase:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hard black plastic, contoured profile\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBranding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Games Workshop wordmark and Imperial Aquila printed on the case face\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBlade:\u003c\/strong\u003e Retractable steel blade with belt clip\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarkings:\u003c\/strong\u003e Imperial and metric\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVersion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Earlier hard-case production, predating the current soft-rubber model\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCompatible With:\u003c\/strong\u003e Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, Warhammer Fantasy, Middle-earth, and all Specialist Games\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eDescription\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCollectible Value\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eGames 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eOrder Now\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eOfficial 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Games Workshop","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":59832184668446,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/5462\/1726\/files\/20250820-00080.jpg?v=1787537124","url":"https:\/\/www.hammerofwar.us\/uk\/products\/games-workshop-tape-measure-official-citadel-wargaming-accessory-earlier-hard-case-version","provider":"Hammer of War","version":"1.0","type":"link"}