i jumped on the bandwagon, still working on the grenade launcher and hovercrafts been busy getting the alpha ready for wh40k:t.i.o.n anyway discuss just a quick half hour job, the trigger is based on old shotguns/ rifles with a large triggers that were pulled down to recock the gun, and pulled in to fire Shot at 2009-05-06
The trigger is very bad, it's an odd design to start off with and the curve is rubbish. The butt could be better, but it could look quite good if skinned well.
The butt looks upside down and the trigger is dubious; other than that, I like it. Without a skin it's hard to say, but I think it has the right sort of NF style to it.
I'll just say it requires work. But you are getting there and at first I thought that's some random thing there under the support. I didn't think THAT was a trigger. :D
can we get a story board type thing of how it will fire and reload (paint will be good enough) to get a better look?
I like the main design its very good, the trigger needs redoing but atm it looks soooo much like a nade launcher :p
the "luger" like axle you did there that sticks out a little reminds me of your robots leg axles from that video you posted before recycling are we? :p
sirsnipes, about the WH40K mod, i cant really work without a list of sounds you need, i feel unmotivated and not under pressure, i have plenty of sounds lying around, but i "cant" send any in, because i don't feel "done"
The reason why the Luger has the finger-like lever is to act as a delay mechanism, to slow down the bolt as it travels back so that that it won't shoot out of the pistol. However in this case, it does not serve that purpose, or any visibly useful purpose either other than pure aesthetics. You also seem to be confused about the purpose of a butt on a weapon, because combined with your trigger placement, handling your weapon will be very awkward and possibly painful. Look people, if you don't know how firearm mechanisms work, don't show them! Just throw over a cover and let people work out the insides for themselves. Then you solve half the problems I see with most of these designs.
Namely for one, how people misunderstand the function of the toggle action on the Luger. The toggle action is actually a delay mechanism to slow down the bolt and prevent the cartridge from being ejected until the bullet has left the barrel. Some kind of delay mechanism is usually used in more powerful blowback firearm designs to prevent one of the following from happening: premature ejection of the cartridge, or getting the bolt assembly blown out through the rear of the pistol. In most of the designs shown so far though, the toggle is shown as an extractor with no apparent explanation how it would work as such, and especially in this case, it wouldn't work as a delay mechanism anyhow. Actually, the gun as shown wouldn't work at all. What it will do is explode in your hands and your face when you try to fire it, because there seems to be no chamber to contain the explosion of the weapon upon firing.