This limited edition Citadel miniature was a 1985 sculpt and went by “Trooper in Power Armour” according to the blister.
He has “PA TROOPER” on the front of the tab and GW 1985 on the back. The two letters on his upper backpack are P and A as well.
I’m confident it was sculpted by Bob Naismith but so far I haven’t found a catalogue entry to confirm that.
The modern Thallax Cohort miniatures were apparently based on this guy’s sculpt.
LE2 was apparently the first Space Marine sculpted in 1984, according to the 1997 catalogue! Neville has pointed out to me that LE1 was a May 1985 release, however, and it doesn’t make much sense that LE2 would have been released well before then, so I’m marking it as a 1985 sculpt.
He turns up in the 1991 Blue catalogue as Bolter 5, part number 070121/42 which is right amongst the C100 marines as far as part numbers go. He’s a Bob Naismith sculpt.
White Dwarf 93 has an entire squad of just him:
The Rogue Trader rulebook had this fellow in the Combat section who looks like him (but also the Imperial Marine Advancing):
Someone looking a lot like him appears in this Kevin Walker piece shown in White Dwarf #126:
A 360 degree view:
The USA blister for him looked like this – thankyou to the gentleman who provided these pics and doesn’t want to be credited!
I have had three or four attempts to paint this model since finding it and couldn’t get it done to my satisfaction painting it the way I usually do, so I tried something different. I had used an oil wash for the modern Terminator I painted with the “Saturnine” Terminator, and tried that approach for LE2:
Something about the visual busy-ness of the gun design made it a challenge to paint – in the end I picked out two accent colours on top of the silver and then washed the lot.
Paints used:
The Rogue Trader rulebook gives a breakdown of the armour type:
These are the limited editions from approximately the Rogue Trader period and those which were related to it, e.g. LE2 and LE10.
This is one of the eight original Space Marines from the C100 Space Marine Mega Shock Squad, as shown in 1986. In the 1991 catalogues he was shown as Bolter 7, part number 070121/45.
He’s a Bob Naismith sculpt. As he arrived to me:
This guy was one of the eight C100 Imperial Marines, pre-dating Rogue Trader by a couple of years. He was shown in later catalogues as Las Cannon 1, part number 070121/43.
This metal Pre-Rogue-Trader proto-Space Marine was the Imperial Marine Guard, later shown as Bolter 4 070121/41 in the catalogues.
He’s a Bob Naismith sculpt.
This metal miniature was the Captain in the 8-man C100 set, which pre-dates Rogue Trader. He’s later shown as Bionic Eye and Power Glove, part number 070121/40.
He appears in this Kevin Walker piece shown in White Dwarf #126:
First attempt at painting him, not finished yet so no photos:
Colours used:
Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black
Base coat: Scale75 Artist Cobalt, shaded with Prussian Blue, highlighted with Primary Blue
Red: Kimera Toulidine Red (PR3)
Black: Scale75 Art Black
Skin: Kimera Diarylide Yellow mixed with Scale75 Art White as the base coat. Then Vanilla White mixed with Art White, with an attempt at shading with Targor Rageshade.
Silver: Scale75 Black Metal
Gold: Scale75 Necro Gold, washed with Targor Rageshade, then Elven Gold, then Citrine Alchemy
This guy was one of eight in the pre-Rogue Trader Imperial Marine Shock Squad set, and was Marine Advancing. He was shown in later catalogues as Bolter 2, part number 070121/39.
He’s a Bob Naismith sculpt.
This guy is one of the original C100 Space Marines released as a squad. He appears in the later 1991 catalogue as Bolt Pistol and Chainsword 070121/38.
He’s a Bob Naismith sculpt, like the other C100 Marines.
This guy was one of the eight in the C100 set, pre-dating Rogue Trader’s release by a couple of years. He’s shown as Missile Launcher then, and in later catalogues as Las Cannon 2 – part number 070121/37.
It looks like him in the background in this Kevin Walker piece shown in White Dwarf #126:
