In his renderings, light sabers were a single colour, and were carried by storm troopers and other non-Jedi/Sith characters, before Lucas fully developed the mythology and made them a Jedi weapon.

One of the most common reasons for new or updated paintings was the change of the “pirate ship” (a.k.a. the Millennium Falcon) from Colin Cantwell’s original design (that would become the Blockade Runner).

In the case of the pirate ship in Docking Bay 94, where so much re-painting was required to replace the ship, I asked Ralph why he didn’t just create a new