Summary
This isSaint Celestine like you’ve never seen her before: unpainted, unassembled, and standing on what looks like a pizza plate full of martyr bones.Games Workshop’slatest made-to-order offering, theKillzone Upgrade: Shrine Statue, is up for grabs for just ten days, and it’s quietly one of the coolest terrain kits we’ve seen in a long time.
You’re getting one multipart grey-plastic sprue that assembles into a fixed-pose monument of Saint Celestine mid-ascension: sword gripped in both hands, nimbus halo flaring out behind her, feet delicately balanced on a bed of martyr skulls. Her wings are spread wide, full of feathered detail, and the entire statue rises out of a circular gothic plinth ringed with candles, reliquary panels, and just enough skulls to qualify for ecclesiarchal building code.
Celestine: A Miniature That Makes Your Kill Team Game Holy
The assembly is blessedly straightforward—nineteen parts, most of them keyed, with a layout that actually cares about center of gravity. Even if you’ve never built terrain before, the build instructions walk you through six clean sub-assemblies and recommend leaving the wings off till after painting.
The detail is clean and sharp, with no purity seal text or chapter marks, so this thing drops effortlessly into any Imperial army’s kill zone—Sisters, Guard, Inquisition, even Rogue Trader void-altars if you’re feeling spicy. It’s one of those rare GW kits that lets you tell a storywithoutimmediately broadcasting what army you play.
Inside The Storyline
In theBlood and Zealmission pack, this shrine sits at the heart of Hive Fissilicus, a planet-wide artillery hive orbiting the Massif Ballistus—a moon-sized gun no one remembers how to build, only how to fire.
The statue is a holy site, a rally-point for Imperial pilgrims on Volkus and a prime target for the Goremongers of Khorne, who’d rather see it soaked in blood than prayers. Pilgrims believe the marble is quarried from Celestine’s original tomb on Ophelia VII, with fragments of her armor laced into the stone. Touching the plinth is said to grant miracles… or just rad-burns, depending on your faith and the local radiation levels.
On the table, it plays a huge role in Blood and Zeal’s missions, offering card advantage to anyone who holds it. Praise it or Blaspheme it to cycle cards. Hallow it or Defile it to mark the objective and draw again. One mission even lets Chaos operatives hack off the wings mid-match, turning the centerpiece into difficult terrain. And while it’stechnicallyfor Kill Team, you can absolutely drop this into your standard 40K board. It functions as Light Cover, Dense, or an Obstacle at your TO’s discretion, or better yet, use it as a stand-in for the old Battle Sanctum.Nobody’sstopping you.
Some More Info About The Preorder
The made-to-order window runs from June 28 to July 7, and that’s it. Orders are charged immediately, ship in up to 180 days, and once that window closes, the tooling goes back into the vault. This is not a rolling restock. It’s a one-time drop for hobbyists who missed theBlood and Zealbox and don’t want to pay double on eBay later. (Which, by the way, is exactly what happened last time—NOS sprues were floating around at $60 before this reissue, and you can bet that price will creep back up once the new orders dry up.)
Fellas, this is Saint Celestine, frozen in the moment of her first resurrection, radiating just enough energy to get her wings snapped off by a Bloodletter on Turn 3. And that’s exactly what makes this kit worth it.
Pre-orders close July 7 at 08:00 BST. After that, you’ll be at the mercy of scalpers, holy visions, or both.
So the only question left is:are you going to Praise it—or Blaspheme it?
