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Published: 2012-01-26 06:40:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 74726; Favourites: 2155; Downloads: 2248
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A try at perspective design. Very simple modern-ish revolver, .357, six-shot.And to those of you who caught the Cantor set... you math nerd, you.
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Form follows function :] And yes, I wouldn't want to be the replicant caught on the wrong side of this weapon.
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Reminds me of the Diamond .357 from Deus Ex HR , except that the cylinder doesn't flip out like a cap gun xD
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I'm wondering where the rear sight on this revolver is.
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Good clean design, nice example of engineering
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Very Japanese-looking concept art, it looks great. You're so talented, even though for the most part regular guns bore me. I prefer advanced sci-fi guns (railguns, Gauss rifles, directed energy weapons, plasma guns, caseless ammunition, etc.) But this revolver is still pretty nice.
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Thanks 
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I try to myself (stay withing real-world physics,) but I don't always succeed.
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Weapons design has some pretty advanced physics; it's generally okay to stray a bit
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Well I'm rather lucky since my roommate knows a ton about physics and stuff like that, and we can spend hours talking about weapon physics and all that good stuff. That said he doesn't know everything, so I'm looking to find a physics professor at my community college to correspond with through email about creating scientifically-plausible sci-fi guns that are still awesome.
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Try an engineering professor. They're better at practical applications of physical concepts; you're bound to be drowned in esoteric information with pure physicists.
I'm not too bad at physics myself. Shoot me questions if you want.
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Oh, I see. Well anyways my current most pressing question is about my OC's weapon of choice, which in my universe is called a pulse rifle. Pulse rifles (mine, anyways) fire glowing blue projectiles that travel at subsonic speeds and explode on impact to deliver a powerful and lethal electrical charge to the target...well, lethal at the highest power setting, lower settings merely incapacitate like a taser. Currently the projectile takes the form of a clear glass or plastic vial filled with gas or other material that becomes ionized and glows blue (different compositions could be made to glow different colors, as in a neon sign,) and when the vial breaks on impact scatters outwards to deliver the electrical shock. The downside of this weapon is it would not be very lethal and would also be stopped by most armor. Any suggestions to make it better?
Some of the requirements of the gun are the following:
* It needs to fire glowing blue shots
* The shots need to deliver a lethal electrical charge
* The shots need to travel slower than the speed of sound
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Do the bullets need to glow? I understand tracers, but the tactical benefit of glowing bullets defeats me (
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Yes the bullets DO need to glow because in the setting of my fictional universe, there is a treaty that requires all warring sides to use glowing, visible rounds in order to keep civilians away from the warzone and also to even up the fight. Don't ask, I did it because glowing shots just look cooler, and seeing as most people in this setting use EPWs (energy-projectile weapons) that fire glowing shots anyways, it makes sense. And the pulse rifle is also an EPW so its shots definitely need to glow. I wanted the shots to be vials of plasma but I then found out plasma can't be blue...it can be blue-white, but not blue. This is due to blackbody radiation, and if I wanted blue or green plasma I would need to add another material to the mix that emits blue or green spectral lines. However, plasma is more destructive and lethal than just glowing, ionized, non-superheated gas. I really dunno wtf to do.
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Yeah, I don't think anything with spectral lines in the blue frequencies are worth flinging at the enemy. There is something called Cherenkov radiation - supersonic shock waves for particles - in high energy physics, in which a particle traveling in a medium emits a blue light when its velocity exceeds the effective speed of light in that medium. But that probably doesn't help much unless the weapon directly emits high-energy particles (which, in either case, is simply not possible at a man-portable scale).
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Well my earlier idea, which I'm thinking of coming back to (and sorry for the late-ass reply,) is that the shots glow with energy because they are electrically-charged. Corona discharge in the air around the shots is what causes them to glow blue, since air already glows a blueish color when ionized. A thought is that the shots are covered in a material (possibly a fictional compound that hasn't been synthesized yet) that gets energized by the corona discharge and forms a blue, partially-ionized gas that delivers and electrical charge and increases the shot's penetrative power.
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Hmm. But wouldn't such a material be... you know, unsafe for use in a weapons system? Any cookoff inside the weapon would be disastrous for the shooter.
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Haeth has a point, that cylinder is a bit to short for 357
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I love the gun dude, but I do have one observation/nit-pick. The Cylnder appears to be a few millimeters too short for a .357 Mag Cartridge. As it stands, it deffinately looks like it can hold a .38 special but my observation may be by slightly askew *I'm basing it off of the reletive size of the Cylnder when compaired to the trigger guard, on my Dad's .357 the Cylnder is slightly longer but your piscture appears to be the same size. lol so it may just be bias and difference in gun design*. Other than that, the gun is awesome and looks great!
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It's very possible. The design's based on a sketch which was done quickly without (as is my usual strategy) consulting any photo resources.
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Awesome ... we're having a contest over at the Fictional Firearms group and you're invited! Fave!
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Ooh, I'll check it out. Thanks for letting me know! (And I might as well submit this gun to the gallery while I'm at it.)
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Very clean and efficient design. Nothing unnecessary to compromise the functionality both in and out of the gun's mechanical aesthetics.
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Thanks! The design was also deliberately left clean to make the perspective-drawing simple
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Sick design! If they existed (and were legal in the UK) I'd be buying one 
One possible improvement would be to integrate a picatinny rail in to the frame above the cylinder.
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Above the barrel would be more like it. Since the cylinder swings upwards, the rail would get in the way of reloading
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I'd have noticed that if I'd been paying attention 
Still looks cool as #### though 
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That's very true. Also, you might notice that the rear sights are fixed and not adjustable. Not very suited to precision shooting
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DOWANT. DOWANT. DOWANT. DOWANT. DOWANT. DOWANT. DOWANT. DOWANT.
This. Looks. Amazing.
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Why thank you
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I love the weapon design in general. And a top break looks like it would be more interesting than the classic swing. I assume the hammer slides directly back in order to somehow strike the bottom cylinder. Also, aligning the barrel low so that it is more in-line with arm of the shooter looks like a logical way to improve accuracy and negate weapon a little weapon recoil when firing.
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Yeah, traditional revolver designs are too minimalist (and hence boring). And yes, I'm rather fond of the bottom-cylinder system.
To be honest, I have no idea how the hammer works in this gun... assume futuristic mechanical engineering magic.
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Spring loaded ejector? This is seriously some hot stuff man, I've really been looking forward to your new stuff. Keep it up, this definitely made my day!
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