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Rogue Trader Space Marines

Space Marines are today the most recognisable Warhammer 40K faction, and they were certainly popular back in the Rogue Trader era as well.

Games Workshop had been testing out the general appearance of what were to be Space Marines years prior to Rogue Trader’s release in 1987 – see the C100 Imperial Marines and LE2 Imperial Space Marine releases. That aesthetic morphed into the first official Warhammer 40K Space Marines releases.

A variety of sculptors worked on the range in this period, including Bob Naismith, Aly Morrison, Jes Goodwin and Mark Copplestone. Trish Carden also made a Space Marine sculpt in this period for the Talisman Timescape board game expansion.

All of the Marines in the September 1987 and Feb 1988 releases were sculpted by Bob Naismith, where the RT101 flyer had Marines sculpted by Aly Morrison and Mark Copplestone.

Speaking of Mark Copplestone, he was busy in 1988 – that year he sculpted the Chaplains and Techmarines into being.

From ~1990 on it seems to be primarily Jes Goodwin working on the range.

Sept 1987, Feb 1988 RT01

The RT01 range of Space Marines were all sculpted by Bob Naismith. The names changed over time; the Sept. 1987 list names all became somewhat more sensible by the time the RT01 range was shown in the Astronomican in Feb 1988.

  • A Skull became Dixon
  • Leanman became Lestrade
  • Longun became Anderton
  • Quiff became Lustgarten
  • Orinoco became Kendall
  • Dedmole became Taylor
  • Dimshade became Thaw
  • Kribins became Kyle
  • Lowbroe became Reece
  • Froth became Sheer

The first RT01 list shown in White Dwarf #93 only shows A Skull, Leanman, Longun, Quiff, Orinoco, Dedmole, Dimshade, Stalker, Kribins, Lowbroe, Froth and Ex-Brother – Angst and Huron Grimm are not shown.

The RT01 range shown in the Astronomican also includes the C100 Space Marines from the pre-Rogue Trader era, with the exclusion of the captain.

Anderton / Longun
Sheer / Froth
Lestrade / Leanman
Taylor / Dedmole
Dixon / A Skull
Huron Grimm
Orinoco / Kendall
Kribins / Kyle
Lustgarten
Stalker
Reece
Ex-Brother
Thaw
Brother Angst Rogue Trader RT01 RTO1 Space Marine Citadel
Angst
Firing
Missile Launcher
Guard
Heavy Laser
Death Squad
Advancing
Marine

March 1988 RT101 Space Marines

This next wave of eighteen Space Marines were not done by Bob Naismith, instead sculpted by Mark Copplestone and Aly Morrison. Shown in WD99 as well as elsewhere. Individual model sculpting credits aren’t given in the flyers for this range, unfortunately.

Ward
West
Gorshin
Meredith
Romero
Kitt
Hamilton
Repp
Blake
Craig
Newmar
Napier
Basehart
Harris
Reeves
Crabb
Dozier
Wounded

April 1988 Space Marines

This lot were shown in White Dwarf #100 and were credited to Mark Copplestone and Aly Morrison.

RT3 Flyer Space Marines

This is the third Rogue Trader flyer.

1988 – Techmarines, 4105

Mark Copplestone sculpted the Rogue Trader Techmarines in 1988:

410501
410502
410503
410504
410505
410506
410507
410508

Related, but not 1988:

Dec 1988 – Chaplains

Design credit for the Chaplains goes to Mark Copplestone. They were shown in December 1988 in White Dwarf #108.

410601
410602
410603
410604
410605
410606
410608
410607

The below are credited to both Mark Copplestone and Alan Perry.

Rhino Marines

These guys were in the White Dwarf magazine in July 1988. Mark Copplestone sculpts.

Rogue Trader Space Marine Heavy Weapons

4106 Rogue Trader Death Eagle Space Marines

Designed by Mark Copplestone. As seen in White Dwarf 112:

Lieutenants and Captain

Mark Copplestone sculpts.

Rogue Trader Marines with Terminator Honours

RT701 Space Marine Medics

Medics!

These guys were shown in the June 1988 White Dwarf magazine, and not all the RT701 range are Space Marines – but I have only included Space Marine medics here. The numbers are from the Jun 1988 flyer.

Librarians

1988 and 1989: Terminators

While the familiar RTB09 Terminator Squad was designed by Jes Goodwin in 1989, he did an earlier Terminator sculpt in the “Exo” variant in 1988.

The RTB09 box consisted of 2 each of Marine 1, 2 and 3, a Librarian and a Captain.

Grey Knight 1
Grey Knight 2
Grey Knight 3

Strike Force

These guys were supposedly equipped with Mk 7 power armour, known as Armorum Impetor or Eagle Armour.

1988-1990 Space Marine Scouts

These guys were the Rogue Trader-era Space Marine Scouts. A markedly different aesthetic to the Jes Goodwin 2nd. Ed. Scouts, they are shown in White Dwarf 113:

Some of them are credited to Mark Copplestone, and the rest I can’t find a specific credit for but I presume Mark did the lot. Bob Naismith did one sculpt which was listed as a Scout earlier (the uncatalogued Scout as shown in WD107) but it appears to be the only one he did that ended up in the range. The aesthetic of the uncatalogued scout is markedly different to the rest of the range.

Bolter, horned shoulder pad
Shuriken catapult, bionic eye
Bolt pistol, knife #1
Laspistol, punch dagger
Bolter #1
Bolt pistol, knife #2
Bolt pistols
Bolter #2
Bolt pistol, knife #3
Bolt pistol, knife #4
Bolt pistol, knife #5
Uncatalogued

The Uncatalogued Scout is credited to Bob Naismith as per WD107.

Uncatalogued Space Marines

Unreleased Space Marines

Captains and Commanders

Space Marine Armour Variants

Jes Goodwin’s Armour Variants with extras from the Citadel Design Team:

Space Marine Vehicles – Dreadnoughts, Bikes, Jet Bikes, Tanks

Dreads, bikes and tanks!

RTB3 Devastator Box Set

This had a Space Marine Land Speeder, a Squat Mole Mortar and an Imperial Army Tarantula in it.

Limited Edition

Rogue Trader Decals

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