40 Years of Warhammer: Miniature Retrospective – Warhammer Giant

The plastic Warhammer Giant kit was truly a giant for the time. This Gargant helped to shape the future of Warhammer.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Warhammer and Games Workshop is taking some time to look back at miniatures that had a big impact on their work. Today it’s the iconic Warhammer Giant who’s under the spotlight. This kit was a game changer and it’s thunderous impacts can still be seen today. With a history that stretches from the Old World to the Mortal Realms, today we celebrate the Warhammer Giant!

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“This mountain of muscle is everything you expect a giant to be: huge, brutal, and probably not that bright. At the time of its release, it was one of the largest plastic miniatures ever produced by Games Workshop and liberated Warhammer fans from the process of drilling and pinning heavyweight pieces – an essential task with previous giants cast in metal.”

Warhammer Giant

While this kit is now known as the Mancrusher Gargant, when it was first released, it replaced the old metal giants — and towered above them! This kit stool head and shoulders above just about every other kit in the range and could easily lock eyes with even the Dragons of the Old World. But it wasn’t just the size of the Giant kit that was impressive.

The sheer variety in the kit was one of the best parts about this kit. Even today, it comes with some awesome bits and allows you to really customize your own Giant — and that’s before you introduce greenstuff or kit-bashing.

The various arms, poses, and doodads really set this kit apart from the previous version. While the Giant isn’t quite the biggest model on the block these days, you can still see it’s impact on the model range. The Ogres of the Ogre Kingdoms certainly learned a thing or two from this model. And the more modern Mega-Gargants took everything about this kit and amped it up to 11! But they won’t be here if they weren’t standing on the shoulders of this Giant!

So bust out the kegger and pour one out for the Warhammer Giant! This kit is still in service and looks to be around for years to come.

The Warhammer Giant. He’s kind of a big deal.

Author: Adam Harrison

Writer, Editor, Texas Native, and now Tex-Pat, Adam covers all things Tabletop Gaming. Which includes Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, D&D, Board Games and everything else that involves dice, boards, cards and a table. A hobbyist, player, and collector of miniatures and games, Adam's current obsession are his Death and Chaos Armies for Age of Sigmar, his Blood Angels and Tyranids for 40k, an expanding collection of Marvel: Crisis Protocol minis, and his ever growing Arkham Horror: The Card Game Collection.