Rogue Trader - RT01 Space Marines - Flesh Tearers Part 8

Hello, back by popular demand!

I'm back working on my Flesh Tearers Space Marine chapter, and progress is going well. This is such a rewarding project, taking me right back to my teenage years, hanging out with my mates in a dimly lit room, chatting nonsense around a table while painting RT01 Marines with enamels, I shall not mention the smell :D

I'm not far off finishing all the RT01 miniatures, and once they're done, I'll be putting more time into painting the other Marines from that era.

Of course, I keep getting distracted by other projects! I've recently finished 17 Oldhammer C Series C15 Orcs (I'll post these up when I find the time), along with a load of D&D miniatures and various other fun little projects.

Latest Flesh Tearer Space Marine

First up, we have Brother Craig reloading his bolter. You can clearly see the bolts in the magazine, which look remarkably like bullets!
Craig appeared in a White Dwarf 99 (Mar 1988) advert and is credited to sculptors Aly Morrison and Mark Copplestone. I'm not sure which of the two sculpted him, although I could take a guess.
Craig is a really popular miniature and will set you back quite a few quid these days. This might have something to do with his appearance in a fantastic illustration by Russ Nicholson, showing Craig hiding alongside his camouflaged Space Wolf squad as they prepare to ambush an Ork Warbuggy.
The image below is from page 139 of the 1989 Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, although I'm sure it appeared somewhere else first. Interestingly, Craig is holding a scanner or binoculars in the illustration rather than the bolter magazine we see on the miniature.

RT01 Space Marine Brother Craig - front

RT01 Space Marine Brother Craig - back

RT01 Space Marine Brother Craig - side

RT01 Space Marine Brother Craig - side

Russ Nicholson's Brother Craig illustration

Following on, we have Brother Matthews, armed with a power sword and bolt pistol. He has a proper techno-barbarian look about him, with his fantasy-style sword, hooded robes and big beard. He'd make an excellent candidate for a Space Wolf, Dark Angel or even an Inquisitor.

The miniature first appeared as No. 4 in White Dwarf 100 (Apr 1988), and was given the name Brother Matthews on the RT3 Flyer from the same month. The sculptors are listed as Aly Morrison and Mark Copplestone.

I believe this may be the first distinct Space Marine Chaplain miniature produced, as he has the Chaplain's icon sculpted onto his shoulder, matching the symbol depicted on page 169 of the Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader rulebook. We wouldn't see any more Chaplain miniatures until White Dwarf 108 (Dec 1988).

Space Marine Chaplain with Icon

RT01 Space Marine Brother Matthews - front

RT01 Space Marine Brother Matthews - back

RT01 Space Marine Brother Matthews - side

Brother Matthew's eyes was a difficult task

Next up, we have Brother Dimshade, originally listed as an Assault Marine with Chainsword in White Dwarf 93 (Sept 1987), before being given the name Brother Thaw on the RT1 Flyer (Feb 1988).
This is another great example of Bob Naismith's chop-shop style, with the Marine sharing the same body as Captain Huron Grimm and the head of RT7/RT502 Mercenaries Breakout Con.
I've added some funky KiL graffiti to his chainsword, along with a Rogue Trader-era jump pack, which I find an absolute joy to paint. This brings my jump-packed Assault Marines up to a five-man squad!
There's an illustration on page 255 of the Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader rulebook that appears to depict Dimshade. The miniature shown in the White Dwarf 93 advert also seems to match the camouflage scheme in the illustration, which is a nice little detail connecting the two.

RT01 Space Marine Brother Dimshade - front

RT01 Space Marine Brother Dimshade - back

RT01 Space Marine Brother Dimshade - side

RT01 Space Marine Brother Dimshade - top

RT01 Space Marine Brother Dimshade/Captain Huron Grimm comparison

Next up, we have Brother Morris, wielding a multi-melta one-handed and a bolt pistol in the other. He's festooned with skulls, including skull studs on his pauldron. What's not to love? A true Angel of Death! The pauldron adjoining the multi-melta may have some sort of heavy weapon support rail.
He was released as No. 9 in White Dwarf 100 (Apr 1988), where he appeared painted as a Legion of the Damned Marine. He was also given his name on the RT3 Flyer from the same month.

RT01 Space Marine Brother Morris - front

RT01 Space Marine Brother Morris - back

RT01 Space Marine Brother Morris - side

RT01 Space Marine Brother Morris - side

Next up, we have another Space Marine from White Dwarf 100 (Apr 1988), listed as No. 11 and later named Brother Byrne. Armed with a plasma gun and bolt pistol, he sports a big, nasty scar across his head. He's a pretty straightforward miniature, really, but a classic all the same.

He's also the third and final plasma gunner from the RT01 range that I've painted.

RT01 Space Marine Brother Byrne - front

T01 Space Marine Brother Byrne - back

Going back to White Dwarf 80 (August 1986), we have one of my all-time favourites, C100 Imperial Space Marines Marine Firing. Sculpted by Bob Naismith, like all the C100's he eventually found his way into the RT01 range.
Like all the C100 Marines, he has a backpack sculpted as part of the miniature. He's firing one of those odd looking laser rifles, complete with a combat blade, lamp, sight and plenty of cabling. When the LE2 Marine was later reimagined, this weapon was given the name Disruptor Gun.

C100/RT01 Imperial Space Marine - Marine Firing - front

C100/RT01 Imperial Space Marine - Marine Firing - back

C100/RT01 Imperial Space Marine - Marine Firing - side

C100/RT01 Imperial Space Marine - Marine Firing - side

And finally, we have another one from the C100 Imperial Space Marines, aptly named ‘Marine’. He shares the same story and equipment as the ‘Marine Firing’ miniature.
I've added some devotional KiL KiL graffiti to finish him off!

C100/RT01 Imperial Space Marine - Marine - front

C100/RT01 Imperial Space Marine - Marine - back

C100/RT01 Imperial Space Marine - Marine - side

C100/RT01 Imperial Space Marine - Marine - side

Previous project posts 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 Tearers part 7

Flesh Tearer Medic Marine

Flesh Tearer Field Police

Flesh Tearer Jet Bike

Terminators

Thanks for stopping by, keep prompting me for a new post if I go quiet ;)
J

Rogue Trader - RT01 Space Marines - Flesh Tearers Part 2

Hello! welcome back, in todays Oldhammer post I've gone back to my slow burning Flesh Tearers project which I aim to build the chapter totally out of Rogue Trader era miniatures, you might remember my first post here. The first post featured some of the more pretty Space Marines armed with more exotic close combat weaponry but if I am to ever game with these guys I would have a serious lack of standard Bolter armed marines so with this in mind I went diving into my loft to dig some out and am strictly now painting marines with standard bolters until I have a good number.  

Not the greatest photos the winter daylight is tough here in the UK but I had a go anyway.

Another 6 Flesh Tearer Space Marines finished

First up we have Brother Sheer, a nice standard bolter marine and check out the greaves pattern it's the one thing I love most about the Rogue Trader era marines that ther doesn't seem to be a standard sculpt everyone is in artificer armour, the miniature is a variant of Brother Froth who was in the first wave of RT01 marines, did Brother Froth cause mould issues? maybe, it appears an addition gun light and slightly wider pauldron was added to fill a void I think this was this due to original tearing moulds post casting? not simply Citadel Miniatures appetite for more miniatures. During prepping I added a 3D printed chapter icon decal from Mars_Forges on ebay which I really like the curved print sits quite well on RT marines. Painting I added some checkers and battle damage to my tried and tested Flesh Tearers colour scheme.

Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Sheers - side

Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Sheers - front

Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Sheers - back

Brother Sheer vs Brother Froth comparison

2021 Brother Sheer vs 1988 Brother Froth paint jobs, Froth was soon stripped after

Brother Sheer and Brother Froth - front

Brother Sheer and Brother froth - side

Next we have Brother McCarthy or just Marine No 8 in the White Dwarf 100 advert, this marine is really dynamically posed, is he wearing a breathing mask and visor or has he just taken the back/top of his helmet off you decide.  He is also carrying a pair of severed heads, one human and one eldar, victims of his latest venture. I added the new Necron paint to his visor Tesseract Glow which produced a nice effect which I don't think is reflected in the photos.

Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother McCarthy - front

Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother McCarthy - side

Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother McCarthy - back

Brother McCarthy Work in Progress, eyes look better here

Brother McCarthy appears in this Epic 40k artwork

Following on we have Brother Hamilton, advancing forward with his bolter poised for action, he has those cool little air intakes sculpted onto the back on his greaves, it details like these that make RT marines the ones for me.

Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Hamilton - side

Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Hamilton - back

Next we have Space Marine Brother Reeves, a great firing pose with his helmet stowed on his armour, bolter fitted with a sight or light.

Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Reeves - side

Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Reeves - back

Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Reeves - front

Stepping away from the RT01 Space Marines and to add some more variety I fished out the 1988 Talisman Timescape Marine, a great sculpt by Trish Morrison (Carden) but an awful casting and have not seen a good example and I have owned 3 of these over the years, plenty of green stuff was required on the studless pauldron, like a lot of miniatures of this era their are some really nice details which I painted in on the back only to be obscured by backpack, on the original advert the marine had no backpack but the game counter below did.  A little tip with this one dry fit the backpack first, I super glued it on only to find a 3mm gap which looked odd and really bugged me so off it came ruining the paint job, I had to then file the pack mount down, repaint and was done.

Talisman Marine game counter

Talisman Space Marine - side

Talisman Space Marine - back

Next up is Death Squad a 1986 C100 Space Marine, sculpted by Bob Naismith, armed with a Judge Dredd weapon which were later used on the C100's and terrifying chainsword like the innards of a garbage grinder unit, the C100's with all their little quirky computers, vents and the gorgeous backpacks still make these a joy to paint. Not long after Rogue Trader was released the C100 marines were absorbed into the RT01 range.

C100 Space Marine Death Squad - front

C100 Space Marine Death Squad - back

Next we have the Captain another 1986 C100 Space Marine and again sculpted by Bob Naismith, he has the classic marine commander look with his bionic eye, festooned in imperial skulls, eagle and armed with a power glove and the mysterious weapon from cover of the Warhammer 40,000 Rogue trader rulebook which fans have speculated for years on its name and purpose.

I think he got a bit of a refresh with Brother Sawyer in 1988 here it states Brother Sawyer is armed with a PowerFist and Hand Flamer although not the hand flamer of others or depicted in the rule book, Captain Crabb carries a proper one.

C100 Space Marine Captain - front

C100 Space Marine Captain - back

Finally another miniature I recently completed is a lesser known miniature from around November 1990 a helmetless variant of the Jes Goodwin sculpted RTB15 Space Marine Strike Force miniatures, since I first purchased this miniature at GW Brum I have revisited this miniature every 10 years until finally finishing it now, what gave me the final push on the miniature was Curis's post here last year and I was bloody hell I have this guy and keep abandoning him.  So I again found him battered, bruised with plenty of lead on display and thought now I know you are a bit special I'll give you justice. 

He was assembled and hair sculpted with fine milliput back in the day, he was going to be a new chapter marine and had a coat of elf grey unused aircraft decals but resembled a Space Wolf so I went back to that. I designed my own pattern bolter for maximum close assault, named by @Leaky_cheese on Twitter as the Fulfordius pattern :D

Helmetless Strike Force Space Marine - front

Helmetless Strike Force Space Marine - side

Helmetless Strike Force Space Marine - back

Helmetless Strike Force Space Marine - side

Helmetless Strike Force Space Marine - side

Helmetless Strike Force Space Marine - front

Thanks again for dropping by, plenty more coming soon

J