This Rogue Trader Space Marine went by Orinoco or Kendall. He’s a Bob Naismith sculpt. I can make out “GW” scratched into the tab but nothing useful as far as the date goes.




This is the guy shown on the left in the set of three.
Shown in White Dwarf #117 painted by the Studio Staff:
This guy was Dimshade and Thaw in the early days and was later shown in the catalogues as Chainsword 1, part number 070119/22. He is a Bob Naismith sculpt, and shares most of his head sculpt with Breakout Con. It looks like 1987 on the tab.
You can see him in WD93:
A 1989 Kev Adams sculpt.
The Whirlwind was first discussed in White Dwarf #117 – from the Rogue Trader era – in an article by Rick Priestly with a following article by Tony Cottrell discussing how to convert a Rhino into a Whirlwind, since there was no official model at the time.
The conversion:
The studio staff painted two which were featured in that WD:
The back page of that issue shows one in action:
In 2nd. Ed. there was an official model:
More to come.