This Rogue Trader Space Marine was Capt. Huron Grimm initially, and seen as Chainsword 2, part number 070119/36 in the 1991 catalogue. He’s a Bob Naismith sculpt from 1987.
Marked as GW 87 on the back – nothing on the front on this guy.
Archives: Miniatures
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Marine Medic Kribins / Marine Medic Kyle
This guy was down as Marine Medic Kribins early on, then Marine Medic Kyle, and in the 1991 catalogue he’s Medic with Carnifex 070133/68. He’s a Bob Naismith sculpt.
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Brother Marine Quiff / Lustgarten
This chap was called Brother Quiff or Brother Lustgarten, depending on which flyer/catalogue you’re looking at. He was Bolter 12, part number 070106/7 in the 1991 catalogue. He’s a Bob Naismith sculpt.
It looks as though there may have been something on the tab, but it’s gone now.
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Brother Stalker
This Rogue Trader Space Marine went by Brother Stalker and was a Bob Naismith sculpt.
He has an unusual set of proportions in his beaky helm – making him look more mouse-y than most!
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Brother Anderton / Longun
The heavy bolters were a little bit smaller way back when…
Later shown as Space Marine armed with Heavy Bolter, part number 070121/48.
Painted but not based in Feb 2022:
I tried my version of speed painting on this guy… which means about 2 days worth of painting effort.
Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
Base Coat: Scale75 Artist Cobalt blue, building to a blend of Cobalt and Primary Blue. Shade of Scale75 Instant Fairy Blood and Scale75 Shadow Black
Edge highlights: Scale75 Primary Blue
Recesses: Scale75 Instant Fairy Blood, darker areas Instant Shadow Black
Silver: Scale75 Heavy Metal building to Speed Metal on the edges, shade a glaze of Scale75 Artist Black
Red: Scale75 Artist Crimson building to Primary Red, shade of Scale75 Fairy Blood and Scale75 Shadow Black
Green: Scale75 Artist White followed by Scale75 Fluoro Green, shade of Scale75 Instant Basilisk Green
Decals from the Forge World Ultramarines sheet
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Brother A Skull / Dixon
This Rogue Trader Space Marine is shown as Brother A Skull originally and Brother Dixon later on. In the 1991 catalogue he’s shown as part number 070121/49. He’s a Bob Naismith sculpt and there was nothing useful on the tab, unfortunately.
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RT01 Space Marines
The RT01 range of Space Marines were all sculpted by Bob Naismith.
The RT01 minis shown in the Astronomican also includes the C100 Space Marines from the pre-Rogue Trader era, with the exclusion of the captain.
- Brother A Skull / Dixon BN 87?
- Brother Sheer BN? 88
- Brother Anderton / Longun BN 87
- Brother Froth BN 87
- Brother Lestrade / Leanman BN 87
- Brother Taylor / Dedmole BN 87?
- Capt. Huron Grimm BN 87
- Communication Officer Orinoco / Kendall BN 87?
- Marine Medic Kribins / Marine Medic Kyle BN 87
- Brother Marine Quiff / Lustgarten BN 87?
- Brother Stalker BN 87?
- Officer with Power Sword Captain Lowbroe / Reece BN 87
- ExBrother Marine BN 87?
- Assault Marine With Chainsword Brother Dimshade/Thaw BN 87
- Brother Angst BN 87?
The first RT01 list shown in White Dwarf #93 only shows A Skull, Leanman, Longun, Quiff, Orinoco, Dedmole, Dimshade, Stalker, Kribins, Lowbroe, Froth and Ex-Brother – Angst and Huron Grimm are not shown.
The names changed over time; the Sept. 1987 list names all became somewhat more sensible by the time the RT01 range was shown in the Astronomican in Feb 1988.
- A Skull became Dixon
- Leanman became Lestrade
- Longun became Anderton
- Quiff became Lustgarten
- Orinoco became Kendall
- Dedmole became Taylor
- Dimshade became Thaw
- Kribins became Kyle
- Lowbroe became Reece
- Froth became Sheer
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Space Marines (Rogue Trader)
Space Marines are today the most recognisable Warhammer 40K faction, and they were certainly popular back in the Rogue Trader era as well.
Games Workshop had been testing out the general appearance of what were to be Space Marines years prior to Rogue Trader’s release in 1987 – see the C100 Imperial Marines and LE2 Imperial Space Marine releases. That aesthetic morphed into the first official Warhammer 40K Space Marines releases.
A variety of sculptors worked on the range in this period, including Bob Naismith, Aly Morrison, Jes Goodwin and Mark Copplestone. Trish Carden also made a Space Marine sculpt in this period for the Talisman Timescape board game expansion.
All of the Marines in the September 1987 and Feb 1988 releases were sculpted by Bob Naismith, where the RT101 flyer had Marines sculpted by Aly Morrison and Mark Copplestone. Speaking of Mark Copplestone, he was busy in 1988 – that year he sculpted the Chaplains and Techmarines into being.
From ~1990 on it seems to be primarily Jes Goodwin working on the range.
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Iron Claw Psyker 2
This is a miniature I can’t find in the catalogues. It’s a Bob Olley Iron Claw psyker. It has 1989 on the back of the tab.
White Dwarf #116 (August 1989) has a conversion of him:
White Dwarf #116 (Aug 1989) There’s another angle of the same conversion in White Dwarf #124:
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Iron Claw Psyker 1
This Bob Olley sculpt was an Iron Claw psyker, though I am having trouble finding him in the catalogues.
