5-7-12

More Sunjet, this time with..... perspective!






 

 I still need to polish this a whole lot, but so far I'm really diggin' the direction.

3-22-12

Almost done here:

3-21-12

More Sunjet:

3-19-12

Sunjet pistol:



I started with a quick line drawing in Illustrator, and then jumped right in.

3-17-12

Finished off Kovac's arsenal in the first half of Altered Carbon:



The Tebbit knife was done a bit differently than the other, and I might utilize the method going forward: I made a quick line drawing in Illustrator to ensure smooth, symmetrical shapes, then imported it to Photoshop to use as a guide.

Here's the whole arsenal in one image:

Next up will be a Sunjet blaster pistol!

3-12-12

Worked on the Phillips gun some more:

3-10-12

The first part of the twelve-part series that is The Month of Weapons is finished! I give you the Nemesis 10, Kovac's primary weapon in Altered Carbon:



I don't have the book in front of me, but I've read the thing so many times and am such a huge dork for techy-writing, that I remember the salient details pretty well. The Nemesis 10, or Nemex is a big-boy gun, holding 18 rounds in a double-stacked magazine and firing a big slug using a new propellant. Using the concept of a powerful propellant as a starting point, I began with the combustion chamber, located in between the trigger and the cartridge. I gave the barrel assembly lots of reenforcing to handle the powerful detonation of the round, and a muzzle brake up front to compensate for recoil. The only moving parts are located in the slide, which is sort of fudged but it's set 500 years in the future, so I'm okay with it.

Moving on to Kovacs' second weapon, the Phillips gun:



A slim, grey pistol half the size of the Nemex (making it roughly analogous to a modern compact or sub-compact), the Phillips gun uses a pair of magnetic rails to accelerate a steel dart to lethal velocities, and does so silently. The battery is located in front of the trigger guard, and the only functions are safe and fire. I'll freely admit to altering this one from the original text, as the book describes a reverse fuction on the magnets, allowing the user to pull darts out afterword, but I feel that is too unrealistic, even for 500 future-years.

3-6-12

OMG YOU GUYS EVEN MORE GUNS. Also knives and grenades:




This is also the official announcement of the Month of Weapons! My goal by the end of March is to have produced 10ish pieces of finished, industry-quality weapons concepts. The Nemex is the first of those.