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Miniature painting has moved far beyond choosing one brand and buying every colour it makes. Modern painters can choose between traditional acrylics, high-coverage base colours, transparent speed-paint systems, washes, metallics, technical effects, airbrush paints and complete sets — and Merlin's Miniatures carries several of the major ranges in one catalogue.

Chaos Space Marines are one of the best Warhammer 40,000 factions to collect through the pre-owned market because older miniatures do not simply look like outdated versions of current kits — many represent completely different sculpting styles, armour interpretations, legion identities and periods of Games Workshop history.

Few Warhammer 40,000 factions reward second-hand collecting as much as the Imperial Guard. Across decades of releases, the army has represented entire regiments with radically different uniforms, equipment, sculpting styles and identities — many of which are now far easier to explore through the pre-owned market than through the current range.

Space Marines are not only the most recognisable army in Warhammer 40,000 — they are also one of the richest areas of the entire hobby for collectors hunting older miniatures, discontinued sculpts, chapter-specific models, metal figures, vehicles, Dreadnoughts and pre-owned army components.

There are pre-owned Warhammer collections, and then there are collections large enough to become miniature archives in their own right. Merlin's Miniatures' pre-owned Astra Militarum catalogue belongs firmly in the second category.