Rogue Trader - RT01 Space Marines - Flesh Tearers Part 7

Hello! I'm back with another Oldhammer Space Marine post, I am still managing to keep this Flesh Tearer project ticking over in between all the other paint jobs I have going on. My Flesh Tearers are starting to look like a proper Rogue Trader era chapter now with 60+ marines finished now, I have plenty of tactical marines and a growing number of support but I had to start addressing the lack of assault marines, here's my latest work and mumblings.

Assault Marines with jump packs

Space Marines

We'll start with the Assault Squad Marines, all of these came in the late 1980's Assault Squad clamshell blister which contained:

1 x Brother Kitt

1 x Captain Crabb

4 x Captain Romero

3 x Brother Dimshade

1 x Capt. Huron Grimm

10 x metal standard backpacks

These clamshell blisters were aligned to the new space marine army list at the time, where acquiring 8 marines with chainswords from standard blister packs to meet the list requirements would of been a challenge.

If you have never seen a clamshell blister they looked like this:

(not mine, image off eBay)

There were a couple of Space Marine armies that featured this assault squad in White Dwarf magazines (I can't remember all), although in this image the painters have slipped Brother Basehart in their squad and later plastic backpacks which never appeared in any of my clamshells.

White Dwarf 142 Ultramarine Assault Squad

I purchased 3 of these sets back in the day and as a result have a lot of duplicate marines, not sure if I have the appetite to recreate the squad as packaged. For the first 4 assault Marines I have added a Rogue Trader era Jump Pack (the cool one).

First up we have Space Marine Brother Kitt armed with a Power Axe and Bolter, featured in the 1988 White Dwarf 99 advert and design attributed to Aly Morrison and Mark Copplestone.

As usual I added a 3d printed Flesh Tear icon to the shoulder pad.  I love this design of Power Axe it really feels like a sci-fi polearm or halberd rather than an axe, inspired by chaosthug I had a go at electrical energy on the axe, still working on the technique, each attempt gets better.

   

Space Marine Brother Kitt - front

Space Marine Brother Kitt - back

Next we have Space Marine Captain Romero armed with Chainsword and Bolter (1988 White Dwarf 99).  This marine has loads of character and really looks like a grizzled veteran with his bionic eye and tough features, the giant skull on his shoulder pad. I painted in a gauge and some graffiti on his chainsword . 

Space Marine Captain Romero - front

Space Marine Captain Romero - side

Space Marine Captain Romero - back

Next we have Space Marine Captain Crabb armed with Bolt Pistol and Hand Flamer (1988 White Dwarf 99), One of my all time favourite Space Marine miniatures, I think its the dynamic pose and the nicely sculpted imperial eagle of the shoulder pad that does it for me, I have painted this miniature loads of times, I recall as Crimson Fists, Mentors and Iron Hands, the latter one is still lying around in a box in my loft. 

Space Marine Captain Crabb - front

Space Marine Captain Crabb - side

Space Marine Captain Crabb - back

Following on we have Space Marine Capt. Huron Grimm armed with Chainsword and Bolter design by Bob Naismith and released in 1987, Capt. Huron appears to have the same head as RT502 Mercenaries Hacker Harris, Bob's done one of his head swaps and added the goatie beard, I had some fun with this one as the chainsword reminded me of an 80's electric carving knife and received a paint job to reflect this, I hope this was in bob's mind when he sculpted it.

1980's electric carving knife 

Space Marine Capt. Huron Grimm - front

Space Marine Capt. Huron Grimm - side

Space Marine Capt. Huron Grimm - back

Moving on from the start of my assault marine squad we have a Space Marine Officer, advertised in White Dwarf 120 (December 1989) as Space Marine Officers 070145/3 - Lieutenant with Power Sword and Bolt Pistol although its clearly a Bolter. Mark Copplestone has nicely sculpted on rank markings, terminator honours and detail on the power sword, this miniature fits in with the space marine look and feel of the 1989 Space Marine paint set where personal heraldry, ranking markings and bespoke weaponry came to the fore. I finished him off with a metal backpack with banner pole.

Space Marine Lieutenant - front

Space Marine Lieutenant - side

Space Marine Lieutenant - side

Space Marine Lieutenant - back

Next up we have Space Marine Brother Basehart armed with Power Axe and Bolt Pistol (White Dwarf 99 1988), a different feel to this sculpt compared to Brother Kitt, this marine feels much more barbaric with all his scars, the fur draped over his shoulder pad and a tassel nailed to his shoulder pad, he would make a nice White Scar marine. The Power Axe looks like it may have be cannibalised for the Space Ork command group or the other way round, who knows!!!

Space Marine Brother Basehart - front

Space Marine Brother Basehart - back

Time for a heavy hitter, Space Marine Brother Angst carrying a Multi-Melta, 1988 sculpted by Bob Naismith, interesting big gauntlets on this guy and the unwieldy forward hand grip on the multi-melta, not much more to say really.

Space Marine Brother Angst - front

Space Marine Brother Angst - side

Space Marine Brother Angst - back

And lastly we have Space Marine Librarians 070145/2 - Librarian with Force Sword and Book, again advertised in White Dwarf 120 (December 1989), a interesting sculpt, he has the Librarian icon on his shoulder pad (not to be confused with the female Warriors icon) and a scroll with arcane scripts on the other, a demonic looking belt buckle, force sword, scrolls, a book and purity seals,  not sure what is going on with his enlarged forehead, all that psychic power ready to burst out?  I have seen people paint this like a metal augmentation but I went with flesh as he has service studs embedded in his head.  

I used the metal backpack with dual banner pole, initially I added fuse wire coming off the banner poles and painted it like psychic lightening but it looked a bit rubbish. I finally went and added some blue holographic glitter for a psychic energy effect, it looks a lot better in person as true effect of the glitter can be seen making it look very otherworldly. I will see how the glitter holds in the long run and if it drops I'll have rethink.

I also add that the librarian and the officer came with the grey plastic 3x backpack and 1x banner sprue which I stay away from the backpacks as I feel never really fit well or looked good, I find the banner pole excellent though.

Space Marine Librarian - front

Space Marine Librarian - side

Space Marine Librarian - side

Space Marine Librarian - back

The back of the Librarian before the backpack went on

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 Tearers Part 6

Flesh Tearer Medic Marine

Flesh Tearer Jet Bike

Terminators

Thanks for dropping in, I think I may finish off a fantasy draft for the next post, stay tuned.

cheers

J

Rogue Trader - The First Terminator Marine and Fan Sculpt Tribute

Hello! Today’s short post features a real Oldhammer gem, the first Imperial Space Marine clad in Terminator Armour, designed by Jes Goodwin and released in December 1988. It originally appeared in White Dwarf 108 on catalogue page 28, coded as 410609 with the rules following in White Dwarf 109 and 112.

This miniature has been sitting on my painting desk, prepped but untouched, for at least two years. The gathering dust was starting to bug me, so I finally decided to tackle it. I wanted it to tie in with my Flesh Tearers project, so I used my red scheme without the black helm and pauldrons to represent a First Company veteran or something like that.

It was a fun miniature to paint, with lots of line work to bring it to life. I’m pleased with the results, and I’ve decided to complement this little mini-project with a fan sculpt tribute based on Jes Goodwin’s original concept artwork, a beautiful miniature to paint but the most exciting thing was it's weight, it really reminded me of the good old days where you could break a toe if you dropped the miniature.

Not made my mind up on banners yet, they may come in the future.

Fan sculpt terminator along side the first Terminator marine

First up the original 1988 Citadel Miniatures Terminator Marine.

White Dwarf 109 page 32 Terminator Marine art

First Terminator Marine - front

First Terminator Marine - back

Next up the Terminator Marine fan sculpt, see how faithful this miniature is to the original concept art.

Jes Goodwin's Terminator Concept Art

Fan sculpt Terminator Marine - front

First Terminator Marine - back

Terminators Rogue Trader style

This Terminator armour design made a comeback in the Horus Heresy with the Saturnine Terminators, where the resemblance to the original source is clearly visible.

Horus Heresy Saturnine Terminator

A couple of notable images of painted Terminator Marines that appeared in various Games Workshop publications, the painters creativity is out of this world!

More Imperial Space Marines to come in the near future.

Thanks for dropping in,

J

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

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

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.

J