Obscure Rogue Trader weapons and where to find (models of) them...

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Rogue Blooper

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I love some of the early Rogue Trader weapons but I try to make sure I've got the right model for the gun, and some just never seem to show up.

If you want a neurodisruptor, you have to get a Harlequin. If you want a web gun you have to get a ... Harlequin.

If you want a heavy webber you need the first edition Space Elf / Dark Elf as the only model to carry it. And that can take out 2" of Terminators with no save!

Conversion beam and disruptor cannon started popping up a bit (there's an Eldar Disruptor that looks just like the RT illustration.

But did any model ever carry a Graviton gun? That was such a cool gun. Drop D6 off your move and if it hits zero - you're pinned to the floor!

What were the rarest model guns you ever saw? What were the Slann carrying?
 
The thing about the early RT releases were that they were being sculpted before/while the rules were being written, so there was no internal consistency, hence the weird vaccum cleaner weapons of the C100 Marines etc. It was only later that weapons got more rigid in their design.

As far as the Slann went, I think they mostly were meant to have Jokaero digital weapons, albeit wrist mounted rather than the tiny ones the size of a ring, so they could be whatever you wanted.
 
The C100s were very early and experimental, and in fact if you look at the Ventolin Pirate, it is a C100 marine but with the beak pointing upwards to make the top of the helmet instead of as a beak. The Power Armour trooper also has a similar gun to the C100s but has a different helmet with a glass front. Even Space Elf and the C100s had similarities.

As soon as RT models were launched things standardised, but only a bit.

Some of the models like the space pirates (whether Bob Olley or others) often had non-standard weapons even when recognisably things like bolters.

The Slann had some weird kit. Deffo on the wrist mounted ones being Jokaero style, but others were less clear, yet they also carried recognisable scanners, as seen on Imperial models. One of the Slann had a strange rifle that could be a Graviton gun.
 
it just so happens i have been looking around for rogue trader weapons.
your best bet are .stl files if you have a resin printer or know someone who will print them for you.
i didn't find physical renditions of any of the more esoteric weapons you mention, but settled for some proxies from anvil industry which Ii think (hope) will be obvious as a hand flamer, meltagun and plasma gun.
they're winding their way through the post at present, but will hopefully make their way onto my wip thread before the month is out.
 
I think it used to be with some of the Confrontation miniature range. Citadel's armless lead period where you'd get a sprue of arms (either bare ones or the imperial guard ones I think) and the weapon sprue (or sometimes the las weapon sprue) to reconstitute your miniatures whole again! As ever back then depended on the somewhat random packing of blister packs. You could of course also buy it via Mail Order, and I suspect that is where my odd leftovers have come from. I recently picked up an almost complete one off ebay for some reason that now escapes me!
 
You don't see them that often on ebay, I think I paid about £6-7 for the one I got recently, it's missing a few weapons.

I'd also forgotten until this thread, but there were some metal Necromunda weapon sprues again nothing too exotic, but a bit of a change from Bolters: http://www.solegends.com/citcat1998/1998P261-01.htm

Still as Twisted Moon said if you have access to a printer a good number of RT era style weapons can be located online. I was looking for a Ripper Gun a while back for some Ogryns I picked up that needed weapons although I'm 90% sure some of them were recasts :(
 
^Okay, now you're making me think I might have gotten a few of the arms included with some space dwarves, of all things. I'm going to have to have a dive into the leadpile to see what's lurking beneath the surface. (I know there's some arms with the dwarves that don't really belong with them and don't properly fit.) Are they more delicate than your usual IG arm? (They certainly look that way in the picture.)
 
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