OG Space Marine (Back on track)

[Sonny!]

Well kind of. I keep wanting to do other projects.
I know you guys can relate.
Come on 70-Seventy? RT era Space Marines. What was I thinking?
I so want the Legiones Astartes: Combat Force. I so need two boxes of Primaris Assault Terminators, or I can just buy the new crux terminatus box. Best thing is they are Primaris size and poses.
Well enough drooling.
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[HerbertTarkel]

Is this a RT era marine? He seems tiny? But nice work.

[Rick]

Is this a RT era marine? He seems tiny? But nice work.

No, 3rd edition. 2nd edition's had different guns and a more static look, 3rd was a bit more poseable and had more variation on the greaves and chestplate details.

[HerbertTarkel]

No, 3rd edition. 2nd edition's had different guns and a more static look, 3rd was a bit more poseable and had more variation on the greaves and chestplate details.

Thanks - I started in 2nd, they were VERY static. This didn’t feel 2nd, or RT (hunched over?).

I have a mountain of Primaris new edition to work on now. Wow, have things … changed …

[Daeothar]

Torso (Blood Angels Death Company), combat knife and backpack are 2nd ed, as is the metal shoulderpad with skull motif. The arms, plastic Chaos shoulderpad, pistol holster and bolter are 3rd edition.

And the paintjob is proper grimdark...

+++EDIT+++ correction: the arms are also 2nd ed

[Dice Roller]

That is NOT an OG Space Marine.
This is an OG Space Marine:

[Daeothar]

While I agree from my own perspective, I would like to argue that the OG moniker can be applied by people to different eras, simply because that's when they got into the hobby.

So when Sonny!'s first steps in the hobby were made during 3rd ed, that's the OG era for him, even though RT was for me (and obviously you )...

[Rick]

Quite true, although I should, for the sake of pedantry, point out that Space Marines predate GW by a consideerable time (which they found out to their cost) so 'OG Space Marine' could refer to the Citadel Spacefarer's range of marines (which I got into way before 40K) or even earlier! 

[Daeothar]

Was that the laserburn era?

[Rick]

Was that the laserburn era?

Yes although I'm not sure which came first, Spacefarers or Laserburn, although Spacefarers was 25mm whilst Laserburn was 15mm, of course. Bryan Ansell (with Tony Ackland and Richard Halliwell) wrote Laserburn (published by TTG) whilst Spacefarers was published by a fledgling Games Workshop - funny how things work out, innit?