SIG-Sauer P230

     The Swiss made SIG-Sauer P230 is a compact pistol usually utilizing the .380 ACP round. Capable in firing SA (Single Action) and DA (Double Action). Production stopped in 1996, replaced with the P232. The P230 has no real safety, the but does has a "de-cocking" lever, and has the ability to be left on a half-cock (a feature in most DA pistols).

     That's about it actually...

     What, Were you expecting some long write-up about this firearm? Then uhh, it was originally chambered for .32 ACP but then that was dropped, probably because the police using it wanted to do more than tickle the bad guys... Um, it was used twice in one of my favorite T.V. shows called "The Unit".


     There...

Ruger 10/22

Ruger 10/22
Satin Black Barrel and American Walnut Stock

     What can I say about the loveable Ruger 10/22 (Ten Twenty-Two)? A versatile, semi-automatic rifle that popped up in the mid 60's. Many, many, many shooters have either used one, has one, or grown up with one. This rifle is great for shooters of all ages and skill. New shooters will experience a quality semi-automatic rifle with negligible recoil, and older shooters can fire and cheap, multiple rounds downrange.

Ruger 10/22
 Simmons 22 Mag Compact Rifle Scope
Stainless Steel Barrel and Black Synthetic Stock

     One hindrance the rifle has is the bolt release; The factory bolt release's internals has a wee bit of a lip or hook, because of this, releasing the bolt can get quite hard to do. One would have to pull the bolt back and forth and finagle the small blade at the base of the bolt release. Most shooters can and will file that hook away. This Auto Bolt Release results in a nicer and quicker reload. However, smacking the receiver or dropping the rifle can cause the bolt to close if it was originally open. If a loaded magazine was already inserted that would mean that the rifle is now "hot" and you've just done a dangerous thing...

     I made this awhile ago but just fixed up the texturing and overall model recently, the original textures were not good (at all). Immediately when I turned 18 (July 26) I got my firearms license. The following Christmas I received a Ruger 10/22 with some sort of forest floor coloured synthetic stock.

My Ruger

     Another one of my favourite shooters: 22plinkster, does a variety of trick shots mainly using .22LR rifles and pistols. He's split cards, cut floss, shot though a hole in a CD (while it was spinning), shot an eraser off a pencil, and skipped bullets off of water and hit a balloon.

                         

Kel Tec Sub 2000

Thanks to Canadian gun laws, this has a 470mm long barrel...

     The Sub 2000 is a rifle that fires 9x19mm or .40 S&W. That's right, a rifle that uses pistol rounds. All the while the same company makes the PLR-16... which is a .223 caliber pistol... Yep, the same caliber fired by civilian AR-15s.
     Kel Tec CNC Industries made this rifle to accept Glock, Beretta, SIG, and S&W Magazines depending on caliber. The 4 pound (empty) rifle is mainly made of a synthetic material called Zytel, while the more important components are made of a high quality steel. The predecessor of the Sub 2000 was the SUB-9 which was released around 1997 but was made of aluminium and was more expensive to make. Other competitor pistol caliber rifles are the Hi-Point 995 carbine, a 9mm rifle that weighs around 6.6 pounds, which is about the weight of an AK system, and is quite large, and the Beretta Cx4 Storm, which is a pound lighter than the Hi-Point, and can be ambidextrous for the left hand shooters. The biggest detail about the rifle was what happened when you push down the trigger-guard. That's right, it folds in half!

     This rifle works great for hikers and backpackers, the rifle itself is light and compact, the long barrel and large sights provide good accuracy, and the pistol ammunition is generally lighter than carrying a shotgun or larger caliber rifle for protection in the woods. A while back, my dad took me to a gun store that had one of these, boy are they small. It may have been just the one available at the moment, but folding the rifle requires a small amount of care, the front sight connects to a catch located in the butt plate, and you have to make sure it goes in for it to be secured.

 I modelled this rifle mainly because it was featured on a video of my favourite YouTube shooter: Hickok45. This rifle was easy to model, but hard to texture. The frame and fore end took the longest time to texture while the front sight took the longest to model. The texture of the magazine release features the Beretta grip, because of this, I specifically modelled a Beretta brand Magazine, as opposed to just importing a previously made Glock magazine from the Glock 22.

M67 Grenade Crate

Grenades are addressed "To Whom it May Concern"

 The M67 High Explosion Fragmentation Hand Grenade (or "grenade" for short,) is  wee ball of composition B explosive fun. It replaced the M26 (Lemon) and the less reliable Mk II Pineapple grenades in the US Military.
  I don't know much about the M67, it's not really my forte. It's not like us Canadians can go buy these to take to the range and chuck them about. Well we probably could get some blue training ones or those chunks of metal you find at military "surplus" store.

    I actually modelled this for a completely different thing, see for one of my classes, some lighting thing, we were given a scene and was told to add Mental Ray lighting and model one extra fruit. Now Pomegranate in French is "Grenade" (pronounced differently but still...) and the Mk II grenade was called nicknamed "Pineapple", while the M26 was called "Lemon". You can hopefully see where I'm going with this. So I modelled the M67, even though it's nicknamed "baseball" I still thought it'd be ironic or something. After modelling and texturing the grenade, I figured the humour would be lost when the instructor marks the assignment so in the end, I quickly modelled a pear and plopped in in.

Enviroment Reel 2013

     Here is my Reel that I made at the Visual College of Art and Design (VCAD), if you've seen the previous posts regarding the Reel, then you should know what it's about. But here's a refresher;

     The first scene is some sort of warehouse that currently houses a Militia or rag-tag group of individuals who have stockpiled many surplus and sporting firearms.

     The second scene is a militaristic bunker run by some mercenary or privateer group. Since they are better funded, they can afford better gear.


     I'm still planning on fixing up both scenes and continue working on another scene that's more "verdant"...



Here on Vimeo

 http://vimeo.com/70193244

Here on YouTube too

http://youtu.be/GIdykIOUMEQ

Cheers

Mike