Tyranids Collectors Guide

I try to pick up all the GW collectors guides, though there's this nagging feeling at the back of my head that I'm being sold a somewhat inaccurate catalogue in numerous £5 chunks. One reason is to try and work out exactly what is available still, given the implosion of the GW archive service (on the assumption that the collectors guides provide the definitive statement of archived model availability); the other is, well let's admit it, to look at the well painted models. OK, I tell myself, it's a reference.

Anyhow, looking at this latest CG, I was struck by the fact that several models I thought out of print were allegedly still available. In particular, a couple of genestealer hybrids, a couple of magi and for that matter the enthroned patriarch. There's another patriarch, for good measure, in the HQ section. So, let's go to the classic/collectors section, subsection Tyranids, of the GW website and see if any of the above are listed. Nope. For that matter the antediluvian "Classic Tyranid Warrior", £8, isn't there (though a different £10.50 one, not listed in the guide, is). The Hormagaunts aren't there either, though you can order the parts separately (but the bodies aren't listed in the guide). And so on.

OK, they're not listed. Type in the model numbers, handily provided in the catalogue. Not there either. Of course, this could be an issue with the notoriously ill-maintained ASP site that passes for the GW UK online store, or it could be the case that the store runs somewhat behind the collectors guides. Anyhow, it looks like a case of going back to eBay.