Imperial Space Marine

30 years ago, the Imperial Space Marine made his entrance to the universe of the 1980s (the grim darkness of the far future was yet but a distant dream). This very first Space Marine was the second in a series of limited editions (the fabled LE2) from a nascent Citadel Miniatures. (The Imperial Space Marine was, in fact, preceded by the very first Space Ork.) Further Space Marine miniatures followed sporadically over the next couple of years, before the release of Rogue Trader and the first plastic Space Marines placed the Adeptus Astartes firmly at the centre of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.