Comedy Club

Made a comedy club type building, trying out different things.

Comic Book Fun

Okay, the bamboo isn't just randomly exploding, it's filled with black powder,
just a little trick our hero has.

Howdy, recently I've been researching and drawing up concepts for a new side project; this idea I've had for a long time but my artistic skill at that time was not good enough. But now I've been practicing, I've been studying, and now I've got minor improvement! BOO YEAH!

Mercury Man attacks!

I've mainly been penciling out basic forms on paper and then taking a picture of it with my phone (Huzzah for technology), using a fancy little app called Autodesk Sketchbook, the older one that only gave you ten layers and no Blending capabilities, I made do with what I had and inked and colored in all the scribbles .

Red Jackal, Fire-powered agent of the East

Someone's chucking fireballs?
Do you call the fire department?
Nope, call a Panda...

Smith and Wesson Animatic

   
     An animatic of a Smith and Wesson Model 19 unloading the spent casings and then loading fresh ones. This was made for an instructor for the Canadian Firearms Safety Course to show his students how to unload a Double Action revolver, hence the yellow arrows showing movement.

     The video encoder on Blogger doesn't appear to show the full quality of the animation.

Smith & Wesson Model 19

Smith and Wesson Model 19

   So it's been awhile since the last firearm was posted, mainly because I can only do modeling on my days off, but anyhoo, here's a new gun.

     The Smith and Wesson Model 19 is a K-frame, six shot revolver in .38 Special or .357 Mag. 

     All firearms are the product of someone having one thing, and then upgrading it. For this fancy six-shot revolver, police agencies needed a more powerful round than their .38 Special cartridges. So as with any ammunition, a guy played with some of the measurements and ended up with a round with a little more "Oomph". The .357 (Three Fifty-seven) Magnum round was essentially the same as the .38 Special round except for the case which was .125 inches longer, that doesn't sound like much but that meant more powder, and more powder pushes the lead little farther and harder.

     With this new round, it was necessary to have a gun that could accommodate it, since it was mainly going to be used by the police, they wanted the design to be a "peace officer's dream" sidearm, it would have a four inch heavy barrel K-frame with a shrouded barrel like most N-Frame revolvers (helps with the recoil, revolver barrels like to move up after firing since all its control was at the back of the gun, compared to most semi-autos where the control is more centered). 

Smith and Wesson have their own labels for the size of revolver frames they make, the smallest would be "I-Frame" which were mainly .22 LR. 

Onto the "J-Frame" which was just as small but had bigger calibers, "K" and "L-Frame" were generally medium sized revolvers.

"L-Frame" is large... yup...

"N-Frame" is larger (Think of Dirty Harry's S&W Model 29 which at the time of that movie was "the most powerful revolver" in the world). 

Then there's the "X-Frame" for the modern Smith and Wesson Model 500, the now most powerful production revolver in the world, and I got to use one before Schwarzenegger so I may be a little biased on how great it is.

 There's also the "Z-Frame" for their fancy S&W Governor, a revolver that eats .45 Colt, .45 ACP, and .410 shotgun shells. Much like the Taurus Judge.

-Mike

Colt M1873

 

     The Colt M1873, or Colt Single Action Army, or Colt .45, or Peacemaker, or Colt SAA, or "The Gun That Won the West"... was a Single Action revolver. Single Action meaning that the revolver will only fire when the hammer is pulled back manually by thumb.

     Now the main reason I made this was because someone asked me to make a Single Action Revolver, and then animate the method of reloading, the whole opening of the Loading Gate, pushing the Ejector Rod, and having a shell fall out.

     I decided to try out some hard surface modeling, I watched a few tutorial videos on general hard surface modeling and thought I'd try it out and incorporate some of the techniques into this model... luckily it looks kinda cool; it has that extra 'oomph'. The overall model is missing screws and the catches on the cylinder, and the texture on the revolver is just a shiny kind of blinn...


     Haven't been doing much modeling, mainly because I've been working.