Looking back through the White Dwarves to see when it was released, so far back to 196 and it’s shown as an extant model at that point.
The original Predator from Rogue Trader was shown with a 2nd. Ed. datafax in WD167.
WD193 has the RT Predator on the back cover.
Stripped:
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