Mauser C96

Deise ist ein Broomhandle (bad, bad German...)

   I don't know where to start with this... Have you ever seen Star Wars? Well, did you know that Han Solo's (Harrison Ford) gun was a modified Mauser? Granted, many of the firearms used in the first three movies were based on Second World War goodies. The Mauser C96, or Broomhandle as it was sometimes nicknamed, had an integral box magazine which hadn't been used much on pistols before. It was generally fed by a stripper clip, which held ten 7.63x25mm Mauser cartridges until it became chambered in other calibers. The C96 came with a wooden carrying case which doubled as an attachable stock, and soon after a carbine version of the pistol was made with a longer barrel and a forend. An automatic variant called the "Schnellfeuer" (basically meaning "Fast Fire") was developed with a detachable box magazine and selector switch... I reckon you'd want the stock for that...

   The reason why I modeled a C96 was because someone wanted one for their environment. Well actually they didn't know which gun they wanted so I searched up some firearms relevant to her scene. Figuring out how to do the barrel was the tough, since it transitions from a smoothed barrel to the more polygonal frame. Everything else after that was quite simple, all I had to keep in mind was to keep it low poly.

Glock 22 Gen 1

Austria's Glock 22 Generation 1 in .40 S&W

   Depending on the department, the police can choose from various models of semi-automatic handguns. The most popular is the Glock 22 loaded with fifteen .40 S&W hollowpoints and the Glock 17 or 19 loaded with fifteen to seventeen 9x19mm hollowpoints. The Glock is simple, no really look at it, it's a glorified rectangle, this is a two year old's drawing of a gun come to life; just a box for a slide, a big ole mag release, and an internal hammer.
   This is actually the reason why some departments equip their officers with Glocks: it's simple. Another fancy thing about the Glock is that the magazines and slides are interchangeable (within reason). The Glock 22 magazine will fit in a Glock 27 (which looks quite nice), and if you have a .22 conversion slide and magazine for your Glock 17, you'll have an inexpensive training gun for practicing quick reloads, acquiring faster sight picture, or getting your younger ones accustomed to handguns (be cautious with the young ones though, during the colder weather the trigger safety may start to irritate them after prolonged use).
   That's also another issue some may have with Glock; the safety, or lack there of. Most firearms produced these days have a switch, lever, or button to press which prevents the firing pin from touching the primer. The Glock does not, well at least not a discernible one. The Glock instead has this wee little trigger mechanism in front of the proper trigger, this is properly called the "Safe Action Trigger", the gun will not fire unless both triggers are squeezed. Compared to the Colt which has two. But of course no safety mechanism is 100% safe, and is no better than the safety between an ethical shooter's ears.
 
   The Glock 17 was the first handgun released by Gaston Glock, it is called "17" because it was the seventeenth patent they made. The Glock was also a big deal because of the company's expertice in advanced synthetic polymers. Some television shows have erroneously stated that the polymer frame would allow the gun to pass metal detectors, despite the fact that the barrel and many of it's internals are very much metal. Because of the Glock's simple shape, many attachments have been made with it in mind, the most popular is the CornerShot, it may look like an intimidating machine gun, but it's really a Glock attached to a glorified stick... There is also various carbine kits that makes the gun look like something out of a Sci-Fi flick.


I modeled a Glock becasue I grew up with them, used them and loved them. Personally they don't compare to the 10mm S&W 1006 but that's just my opinion, and you shouldn't take the people's opinion on firearms on the internet to heart. ESPECIALLY when it comes to the Glock v.s 1911 debate.

Browning M2HB

Land, Sea, or Air; Ma Deuce is always there... sorry

   Consider this firearm the staple of any military scene in any movie, show or videogame... Put together some ARs, Berettas M9s (92FS) or 1911s, and M2s then BAM, you have yourself a "Military base".

   The original M2 was an upgraded version of the Browning Model 1921 which was the .50 caliber version of the Browning M1917. The Browning M2 HB (Heavy Barrel) machine gun is mounted on almost every vehicle from World War II to the war in Afghanistan, (if it ain't broke, don't fix it eh?) but of course it has had some modifications. The barrel is Air-Cooled (meaning that the barrel is cooled by just the air) but older versions of the MG mainly on naval vessels had a large water jacket that would hold water pumped from a tank, they did this on other machine guns back then like the Vickers, this wasn't as adaptable compared to just a regular barrel shroud. Oh and the barrel shroud is not "a shoulder thing that goes up." (*shudder*)

   Other than on various modes of transportation the M2  is used in MG nests for light fortifications or as AA guns. Before the use of the .50 BMG, most airplanes were generally fitted with machine guns that were around .308, .30-06, or 7.92mm. There is a considerable size difference between them and the fifty. The M2 was also designed to be belt fed from either side of the receiver, this allows two M2s to be fired side by side, while all the used shells are ejected out the bottom so there isn't any interference from flying brass.


   This modeled firearm is just placed on a standard M3 tripod and features the generic Spade grip. I gave it a stainless barrel shroud as opposed to the standard blued one.  I had the hardest time trying to figure how to make a low-poly barrel shroud, ended up figuring something out.

Why did I model a Browning M2HB? Why not.


-Mike

Armalite AR-10A4 (Ver.2)

ArmaLite AR-10A4

Ho-kay, so I started working on a wee bit of a better texture. I also fixed the Picatinny rails and made the front sight rail more similar to the actual A4, and removed the forward assist on the right side of the rifle.

Thats about it...

A quick render of an upgraded rifle

But then, I decided to make a special version of the rifle...
 One serendipitous thing about firearms modeling is the fact that weapon attachments are now up to the creator. The FAB Defense T-Pod is a fancy little thing starts off as a regular foregrip and with a press of a button, opens up into a bipod. A foregrip is the attachment near the front of the rifle that you hold when firing, it's the alternate to just holding the forend of a rifle or the mag well. The AR platforms actually have a nice enough mag well to hold as opposed to an AK platform, as you shouldn't hold the magazine when firing.
    On the other end of the rifle is basically an extended recoil butt pad with an adjustable monopod, these are generally used for rear support on precision rifles. Finally, up on the top of the rifle is a good ole Bushnell scope, and below that is the proper ArmaLite scope mount.

And FYI, 'AR' does NOT stand for 'Assault Rifle', it stands for "ArmaLite Rifle" as in the rifle that was made by ArmaLite. 'SVD' stands for "Snayperskaya Vintovka Dragunova" meaning 'Dragunov's Sniper Rifle' but that's a little irrelevant right now...



-Mike