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Friday, 14 February 2025

Rogue Trader - RT01 Space Marines - Flesh Tearers Part 6

Greetings, I've not posted for a while as I just haven't had the time however I am still getting in one hour a night painting so miniatures are getting finished slowly, in between all my other Oldhammer and D&D miniature projects I managed to finish another batch of nine Flesh Tearer Imperial Space Marines, this time focussing mainly on specialists. Let's have a look.

My latest batch of Space Marines

First up we have the first Space Marine Medic, Kribbins (bit of an odd name, maybe there were a few stoners at the GW studio😉), advertised in White Dwarf 93 September 1987 and credited to Bob Naismith. The medic carries a Carnifex bolt gun to grant the mercy of a quick death to fallen comrades, during the build I had to remove the backpack mounting knob to add the later Medic Marine biker Narthecium backpack as it just didn't sit right (thanks for the advice there Curis). This miniature belongs in my Medics and Casualties project but that is going slow so I dropped him in here, keeping on theme with that project I gave Kribbins teal coloured space latex gloves and free handed the conical flask badge and other icons.

There are loads of illustrations based on him in era Rogue Trader material, (also pictured as Medic Kildare after the 1960's TV doctor drama).

Space Marine Medic Kribbins - front

Space Marine Medic Kribbins - side

Space Marine Medic Kribbins - back

Space Marine Medic Kribbins - side

Space Marine Medic Kribbins - front

Note that the Space Marine medic backpack has the Integrated Squat Medic backpack with the Marine power exhaust stuck on the top and maybe a bit of a sculpt tidy up, see below.

Next we have Brother Martins heavily armed with a Hand Flamer and a Plasma Gun, this miniature is one of the later 1988 Space Marines advertised in White Dwarf 100 designed by Mark Copplestone and Aly Morrison, he is quite chunky which makes me think it's a Mark Sculpt, initially named as number 6 before getting a proper name in the RT3 Flyer. Checkout the huge skull on his shoulder pad reminiscent of the black and white marine illustrations in the Rogue trader book. The plasma gun seems to integrate into his armour in places and I had a go at painting the plasma coil a glowing green it compliment the red of his power armour. I have a photo of a variant of this marine with a studded shoulder pad but the image is rough (see below).

Space Marine Brother Martins - front

Space Marine Brother Martins - side

Space Marine Brother Martins - back

Space Marine Brother Martins - side

Seen in the wilds a Brother Martins variant?

Staying with the specialist theme we have Brother Leach armed with a Plasma Gun, another White Dwarf 100 Marine this time number 1 and again got a name in the RT3 Flyer, I love the chain bracelet with skull and rams skull on his shoulder pad with the surrounding studs, it goes to show the nonuniformity of the Rogue Trader era with female warriors and early librarians both sporting ram skulls on their shoulder pads, before W40k lore was fleshed out.

Space Marine Brother Leach - front

Space Marine Brother Leach - side

Space Marine Brother Leach - back

Space Marine Brother Leach - side

Next we have Brother Roberts armed with a Bolt Pistol in a really nice dynamic pose, he also first appeared in White Dwarf 100 as number 13 and again got a name in the RT3 flyer, I always thought this was a variant of Brother Repp but now placing them side by side I am not so sure, maybe a bit of him. Check out the sculpted bandaged hand and battle damage, there's a lot of little details in this miniature that can be missed if you don't look carefully and once mounted the backpack covers some of the damage.

Space Marine Brother Roberts - front

Space Marine Brother Roberts - side

Space Marine Brother Roberts - back

Space Marine Brother Roberts - side

Moving on we have Brother Stalker armed with a Bolter and a Bolt Pistol, he is one of he first Rogue Trader marine releases back in White Dwarf 93. Stalker is in one of those classic RT era poses where he is running forward leaning over making him a tricky paint and photograph. I feel he has a lot of similarities to Brother Dedmole with those smaller armour pieces and helmet, you can read my thoughts on this in the Brother Dedmole post linked.

Space Marine Brother Stalker - front

Space Marine Brother Stalker - side

Space Marine Brother Stalker - back

Space Marine Brother Stalker - side

Here we have advertised in 1988 White Dwarf 99, Captain Newmar armed Bolt Pistol, it really looks like he is a veteran of many battles with his bionic arm with brutal blade attached and his head held together with metal plates. I've painted this miniature so many times over the years, my last version was blue skinned!!

Space Marine Captain Newmar - front

Space Marine Captain Newmar - side

Space Marine Captain Newmar - back

Space Marine Captain Newmar - side

Appearing in White Dwarf 100 (number16), this one always raises an eyebrow with the more modern W40k crowd, Brother Fielding and his Shuriken Catapult, the sculpting aid version of the catapult was certainly used here, I had a go at a shuriken weapon badge on his shoulder pad and the gems on the catapult didn't turn at out great, a nice little detail is the Eldar shuriken cartridge pouch on his side.

Space Marine Brother Fielding - front

Space Marine Brother Fielding - side

Space Marine Brother Fielding - back

Space Marine Brother Fielding - side

Another 1988 White Dwarf 99 Space Marine, Brother Gorshin armed with a Needle Gun (or Needler), I can't really say much about this one, I mentioned the Batman reference in my first post other than I really enjoyed painting it. I hear modern Space Marines are being equipped with sniper weapons again.

Space Marine Brother Gorshin - front

Space Marine Brother Gorshin - side

Space Marine Brother Gorshin - back

Space Marine Brother Gorshin - side

Lastly we have the First Space Marine Scout miniature (White Dwarf 107 1988 Nov) designed by Bob Naismith, what can I say about this miniature other than it's Snake Plissken from Escape from New York, from the eye patch, wrist device, the biker boots and being festooned with exotic weapons, once you have seen it you can't unsee it. An interesting detail is the pistol on his back that appears to have a chain blade attachment. I suspect this was a drawer 101 miniature as by August 1989 the look of Space Marine Scouts had completely changed in line with the release of 1990 Advanced Space Crusade and associated artwork.

Space Marine Scout - front

Space Marine Scout - side

Space Marine Scout - back

Space Marine Scout - side

If you want to read previous posts on this project follow the links below:

Flesh Tearers part 1
Flesh Tearers part 2

Flesh Tearers part 3

Flesh Tearers part 4

Flesh Tearers part 5

Flesh Tearer Medic Marine

Flesh Tearer Jet Bike

thanks for stopping by.

Monday, 25 March 2024

Rogue Trader - RT01 Space Marines - Flesh Tearers Part 5

Hello, it feels like I haven't post ages so I had to pull my finger out and get this one finished, my Flesh Tearers Space Marines project was back on the workbench while being constantly interrupted by Oldhammer Citadel C-Series miniatures I am knocking out for our D&D games.

Here's my latest batch of 7 Space Marines.

My latest batch of Flesh Tearer Space Marines

First up we have Brother Sawyer who first appeared in the White Dwarf 100 advert (April 1988) designed by Mark Copplestone and Aly Morrison, in my opinion he is the archetypal Space Marine whose pose is based on the cover of the Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader rulebook, people still debate the weapon type used by the cover art marine today however the later advert lists him as armed with PowerFist and Hand Flamer, I think it fits. A plastic banner pole from the later backpack sprue when metal backpacks were being phased out was pinned into place for his Flesh Tearer banner.

Space Marine Brother Sawyer - front

Space Marine Brother Sawyer - side

Space Marine Brother Sawyer - back

Next we have Sgt. Burgess armed with Bolt Pistol again from the White Dwarf 100 advert where he is painted as a Mantis Warrior looking splendid in the green power armour.

Space Marine Sgt. Burgess - front

Space Marine Sgt. Burgess - side

Space Marine Sgt. Burgess - back

Next a decided my chapter needed a Chaplin 410602 from White Dwarf 108, really enjoyed this one, nice cyclops skull on the banner pole.

Space Marine Chaplain 410602 - front

Space Marine Chaplain 410602 - back

As usual I tend to paint every part of a miniature only to then cover up lovely detail with a backpack :D

The back before being covered up by backpack

I followed with a Space Marine bodyguard in a nice guard/at ease pose from the RT105 Imperial Commander set, for some reason I have loads of these so I can imagine the are loads of Commanders out there without a bodyguard, I really must revisit this set.

Space Marine bodyguard - front

Space Marine bodyguard - back

Next I did a Death Eagle marine 410612 from White Dwarf 123 March 1990 in Flesh Tearer colours, another Mark Copplestone sculpt, I wasn't going to do the white and purple colour scheme of the original advert, there's been a lot of speculation on the history of these marines over the years, I am sure I remember them getting an official story in the noughties.

Death Eagle Space Marine 410612 - front

Death Eagle Space Marine 410612 - top

Death Eagle Space Marine 410612 - back

Here we have Brother West with Bolter and Combat blade from White Dwarf 99 advert (March 1988), he is in a good dynamic pose and I love this combat blade much better than the RTB01 chain blade.

Space Marine Brother West - front

Space Marine Brother West - back

And the last Flesh Tearer in this post is a RTB01 Plastic Space Marine, this one was a fun project in itself as I did some extra modelling using Troll Soup OOP Rogue Trader style metal parts, a chainsword, bolt gun and backpack with two mars_forges 3d printed decals, one the chapter icon which I have been using on others where possible and a terminator honours icon, I also built the neck up a bit. I tried to do this RTB01 proud giving him a more detailed paint job as these old plastic lacked all the lovely lines that the metal marines had.

RTB01 Space Marine conversion - front

RTB01 Space Marine conversion - back

RTB01 Space Marine conversion - side

Lastly we have a Female Astronaut in power armour a one off fan sculpt from based on the C100 Imperial Space Marines, this was a fun miniature to paint, the backpack was a dream to paint.