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A couple of months ago, to celebrate the milestone of 1000 followers on Instagram I did a giveaway, in which the winner could decide on what gun I would design and guide me through the process as my art lead.

Jarvis W. Carson won, and challenged me to design a futuristic, caseless pistol that wouldn’t use conventional magazines (but wouldn’t be MetalStorm either). On top of that, it needed to have a holster stock. His intention was an all in one compact piece, something you could wear on your hip with a clip or have in a backpack. It should be safe when holstered but in a pinch easily deployed with a stock for close to rifle accuracy.

I gave him three thumbnails to choose from, and after a couple iterations we landed on an under folding stock design. It’s super quick to deploy by simply yanking the front grip down.

The real challenge was coming up with a reasonably believable firing mechanism. This pistol uses a disc magazine, in which the rounds are pointing outwards. After inserting the mag you’ve got to give the handles a spin to charge the spring. After every shot, the mag will rotate one click and the barrel will move up or down to line up with the barrel, hence its nickname ‘The Oscillator’. Of course, having two barrels would be way easier but where’s the fun in that?

Jarvis, I hope you had as much fun with it as I did! Thanks for your support, man!

Description
A couple of months ago, to celebrate the milestone of 1000 followers on Instagram I did a giveaway, in which the winner could decide on what gun I would design and guide me through the process as my art lead.

Jarvis W. Carson won, and challenged me to design a futuristic, caseless pistol that wouldn’t use conventional magazines (but wouldn’t be MetalStorm either). On top of that, it needed to have a holster stock. His intention was an all in one compact piece, something you could wear on your hip with a clip or have in a backpack. It should be safe when holstered but in a pinch easily deployed with a stock for close to rifle accuracy.

I gave him three thumbnails to choose from, and after a couple iterations we landed on an under folding stock design. It’s super quick to deploy by simply yanking the front grip down.

The real challenge was coming up with a reasonably believable firing mechanism. This pistol uses a disc magazine, in which the rounds are pointing outwards. After inserting the mag you’ve got to give the handles a spin to charge the spring. After every shot, the mag will rotate one click and the barrel will move up or down to line up with the barrel, hence its nickname ‘The Oscillator’. Of course, having two barrels would be way easier but where’s the fun in that?

Jarvis, I hope you had as much fun with it as I did! Thanks for your support, man!