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So I got several sprues of Rogue Trader Space Marines. However, four of the sprues (2 Marines per sprue) had just a stock Bolter, handle and all, not held by any hand or arm piece. Is there a nice clean way of converting those Bolters onto a fist or some not-awkward way of having the Marines actually hold them? (Otherwise I'll totally glue them onto a leg and make some kind of belt out of green stuff to show that the Marines have Bolters, but I prefer my Marines to be holding their best weapons.)

You trim off the pistol grip and attach to an appropriate fist.

They're just an extra, some model them hanging from the belt or attached to the back of a powerfist. Or you could put them on a vehicle. Or you could put a strap on and have it over the shoulder of a marine who is armed with a bolt pistol.

Removing the pistol grip and gluing them to a fist is the way to go. (You often have to file the thumb down to get a nice fit.)

Glad to see someone get hands on the old beakies. 60 make up the core of my force from way back when, but I still have a dozen or so on sprues for when I need to tap into The Olde.

Check this out: modeling tip from 1988.

The brand new battle bike with sidecar: the "Vincent Black Shadow Combo " bike, was Brand spankin'-with-an-eagle-shaped-paddle new. It came with ONE PAIR OF LEGS and ONE ARM, and you had to use your Beakie Sprue Guys as crew.

But that's OK since it only cost 2 1/2 pounds.
Attack bike now is what, $25? Prob more.

I saw this ad when I found online Book of the Astronomican, I think the first 40K supplement book. Back when Marines still only had a Toughness of 3! (I guess they hadn't implanted the Tuffbastardula Gland yet).

But this finally explained to me why all the original Beakies are crouching with constipation; they were sculpted in saddle pose!

Yup, original RTB standing crouch pose was designed so that they could fit onto bikes/jetbikes (bulloch mk1).