I fancied a nostalgic trip through the pages of my first ever copy of White Dwarf, and who better to enlist for assistance on this journey than Josh from The Crown of Command Podcast. 

The Crown of Command is a popular podcast dedicated to the games produced by Games Workshop during the 1990’s, and Josh himself is a former 'Eavy Metal painter. 

battle reports of all your favourite games (from Epic Space Marine to Man O War), interviews with cool and interesting people, painting tutorials, and readthroughs of classic Citadel Miniatures catalogues. 

In this episode of the Tabletop Miniature Hobby Podcast, we're taking a wander through White Dwarf issue 166, from October 1993. The magazine cost £2.25 and came with a free plastic Space Marine. This was to celebrate and promote the release of the brand new Warhammer 40,000 2nd edition. 

There's a lot of classic material in the pages of this magazine, and you can view the entire thing in glorious PDF-form right here. There's one of those prize winner features with some smug kid sitting in £500,000s worth of boxed sets, a load of John Blanche sketches, and some 25% money off tokens for Games Workshop in Shrewsbury.

On top of that, we muse over what happened to Space Marine legions like the Whitescars, Silver Skulls, Iron Hands, and Mentor Legion, as well as what exactly was on that Snotling's plans in the catalogue pages.

Big thanks to Josh for spending some time with us, and be sure to check out The Crown of Command Podcast. Please also take a moment to subscribe to this show on your listening app of choice – that way you’ll never miss a future episode!