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I was thinking last night, in one of those, 10PM brain thoughts, who designed the look of the today's lasgun? Was it shown to be the same in the RT days, or is today's Cadian Las rifle more of a current day imagining. Who drew what was first depicted as the first Lasrifle? Did it look anything like today's? Was the fluff different?
   
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Obligatory SoL link. The miniatures were the Perry Twins.

Spoiler:

The Ryza pattern was the first, RT-era one (but I don't know how official that image is).

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Guard and Squats both use the "ryza" pattern lasgun in RT for their plastics. There were a few other styles some similar to the Triplex in use through 2nd edition and necromunda.

The "Galaxy" pattern came out with the plastic catachans and cadians.

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I think the Triplex was the pattern used by all of the metal regiment models: Cadian, catachan, tallarn, mordian and valhallan.

Based on the SOL pictures, the lasguns on the original imperial guard duders were pretty poorly defined tuby things, that then evolved into the Ryza pattern for the plastics

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So I wanted to know the first artwork, I should have been clearer. Not the first model. Like where was the first lasgun depicted? Was it always this green blocky thing that shoots lasers or was it more space-agey thing like FO1/2, with a ball on the end and concentric rings?
   
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Artwork was varied. But a quick flip through my RT books show generic rifle looks similar to the pic above.

   
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The first artwork would be in the RT rulebook and RT compendium (which had the guard and dwarfs plastics box art as well as some other stuff).

It matches what's been said here.

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Try looking through these:
Subject: Who else misses the old style sci fi art..
Sources will help show where and when they were from.
You'll get back to RT from those, though.

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What about the weapon imagery that got published in WD alongside the Confrontation rules?

Pretty sure it was still the Mark Gibbons work (beautifully done illustrations) some of which went on to be used in the mentioned RT book and also the 2nd edition Battle Manual (one with all the weapons/wargear).

I think may have been WD120s or around then

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WD 130 was the first Confrontation issue (was reading it the other day).

That’s some time after Rogue Trader launched, being from October 1990

   
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OK thanks - yes I'm a couple of years out then in that case !

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The first official plastic and metal "Imperial Guardsmen" came with the Ryza pattern. However before they were Imperial Guard they were called Imperial Army in RT.....which had a hodgepodge of metal miniatures with different weapons and even armor options....so it depends on what semantics you are using.

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So this is what I was talking about, I am still asking for artwork, not models. Although, these models lasguns have the same basic "space age" end bits, so commonly associated with "space lasers.

Something like this:


   
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Earliest I could find was actually via Dakka:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/774847.page

That first image is very early, from Rogue Trader, and matches up to the Ryza pattern, that would later become one of the standard lasgun types on early models (including Eldar Guardians).
   
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Remember that some of the models existed before RT - some were generic RPG guys, others were for Judge Dread, etc.
   
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I did a quick trawl of the images in Rogue Trader. Below are some candidates for early las-weapons (in the third image, with the marines, its the funny bulbous thingy in the middle with the spike. Several of the RT marines had this thingy, and its fundamentally different to the bolter, which even then was quite well developed visually so I reckon it was to represent some other kind of energy weapon, maybe the lasgun):













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