This metal Rogue Trader Mercenary went by “Worldburner” in the catalogues of the time. He’s a Bob Naismith sculpt.
The flash on this guy is a little non-Citadel looking – perhaps a recast, but you never know. The detail isn’t too muddy.
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Catachan Luke
This metal Rogue Trader-era Mercenary went by Catachan Luke, and was a Bob Naismith sculpt.
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Space Dwarf, aka Irn-Bonce the Squat
This metal Rogue Trader era Mercenary miniature went by “Irn-Bonce The Squat”. He was also seen in the first Rogue Trader released models as “Space Dwarf”.
The front of the tab reads “SQUAT” and the back looks to be “G.W. 1985”. Bob Naismith has stated that he didn’t sculpt him, and since the page is credited to Bob and the Perry Twins I’m going to mark this down as sculpted by Michael and Alan Perry.
He can be seen in White Dwarf #95:
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Painted in March 2026.
- Green: Scale75 Art Sap Green and Spring Green, highlighted by mixing in Primary Yellow, shaded with Green Grey
- Blue: Scale75 Art Sky Blue, Neon Blue and Prussian Blue mixed with Scale75 Artist White Ink
- Red: Scale75 Art Primary Red, highlighted with Naples Yellow and Primary Yellow.
- Grey for vials: Scale75 Art Pearl Grey, mixed with white ink
- Black: Scale75 Artist Black Ink
- Copper: Scale75 Decayed Metal, then Pure Copper, highlighted with Amber Alchemy
- Silver: Scale75 Black Metal, Thrash Metal and Speed Metal
- Pale brown leather pouches: Scale75 Art Buff
Compared to a modern descendant:
The new mini makes for not a bad Squat Dread for Rogue Trader.
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Sir Gigal de Appliance
This metal miniature sculpted in 1985 goes by Sir Gigal de Appliance in the 1987 Citadel Spring Journal in the CH2 Chaos Warrior section.
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Chaos Warriors
These are the Warhammer Fantasy Battle Chaos Warriors I have collected.
- Chaos Warrior (Plastic) ? ?
- Sir Gigal de Appliance ? 85
- Slambo JG 85
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Warhammer Fantasy
I’m not a WHFB player but it’s hard to argue against some of these sculpts being iconic and it’s hard to resist picking them up for nostalgia reasons.
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Inquisitor Augustus Hargen
This Rogue Trader era Warhammer 40K miniature is from the RT7 Mercenaries range. He went by Inquisitor Augustus Hargen and is a Bob Naismith sculpt.
Sadly there’s no info on the tab so I can’t give a sculpting year. His bolter is not normally detached – someone has repositioned it prior to it coming into my possession.
This mini is a resculpt of Sir Gigal de Appliance:
Combined with the JD14 Traitor General, which is a mini I do not yet have.
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Hacker Harris
This metal Rogue Trader-era Mercenary was a sculpt by Bob Naismith in 1987.
“TROOPER” on the front of the tab and 1987 on the rear.
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Sarge Rockhard
This Rogue Trader Mercenary was in the catalogues as “Sarge” Rockhard, and was sculpted by Bob Naismith.
Some of the artwork in the Rogue Trader rulebook looks a bit like him – though also a bit like Plundering Pete:
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