ZDoom

I'm back from the proverbial dead (fried HDD, briefly homeless, etc.,), and I'm trying to get back into the weapon design game/re-establish my forum presence.

So, umm, images:

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#68 Zarathustra PN19 Heavy Machine Gun, #66 Ayanami Avenger Automatic Rifle, #67 Ayanami MP, #72 Serrano Model 12 Revolver, #73 M14A3 Designated Marksman Rifle

#74 Zarathustra PMR26 Marksman Rifle, #75 Standish GP-4 Top-Loading Grenade Launcher, scrapped skeletonized Ayanami-S design (#76)

#63 Marduk Model 11 Lever-Action Rifle/Shotgun, #64 Ayanami-DSK Neostead-type Shotgun, #65 Will of the God-Ender Atlas, #66 Ayanami Avenger, #67 Ayanami MP, scrapped turret weapon, #68 Zarathustra PN19, censored obscene gun, Zarathustra RP22 Assault Rifle, Zarathustra PPM99 Submachine Gun

Nishimura Seven Battle Rifle (The Trooper), #17 Legend Armory "Trinity" Triple-Barrelled 8-Gauge Shotgun, #18 Jotun M19 Submachine Gun, #19 Marco Automatic Rifle System "B" Model of 2016, Lupina Model 902 Pocket Double Rifle, Colt M1911A1/Legend Armory Model 65 Semi-Automatic Pistol (Helsturm), Perseus Arms P-236 Plasma Pistol (Project Operation Unthinkable), Evangelion Unit 01, Hrunting Greatsword, unnamed man-portable railgun weapon, Sans-44 Crux/Lomar-type Rocket Launcher, Evangelion Mask Helmet

Boombox (my friend drew it), #6 Ayanami-S Carbine, Armalite AR-18 Assault Rifle, Skull (also my friend), skeletonized Ayanami-S Carbine, front-view Ayanami-S, High-Class Skull, #6 Ayanami-S, #76 Skeletonized Ayanami-S Carbine (complete)

Ayanami Super Rifle - Second Revision, ASR 24-round box magazine, ASR 44- or 80-round drum magazine

Colt/Armalite M16 Assault Rifle, Chaos Canister Launcher Rifle, random bong

Unnamed Zarathustra rifle, incomplete revolver, #77 Ayanami Defensor Micro-S2-Cylinder Energy Beam Revolver

EDIT - 4 September 2017:

Levels for Nukage (note lack of ceiling heights and sector light)

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E1M1. Nothing too fancy here apart from a secret .600 DHC Lucky Joe revolver and a Full Auto weapon mod.

E1M2. You can find a Ripper mod (does exactly what it says) and a Firefly mod (from Destiny - headshots cause targets to explode), as well as the VSK7 Nightshade shotgun (from The Trooper) and the Sarukov DPMS-V Missile Launcher (from Project Operation Unthinkable). In addition, you might find the Trinity Coachcannon (POU), a Blink Drive (many, many sources - allows hyperfast instant movement, akin to teleportation), or that Gesicht Shadow, who drops a Thunic Eraser upon death (Thunic Set, equivalent to the SSG).

E1M3. Neat things here include the D80 Service Pistol (POU and R&D), the K-JACK (a homing photon torpedo launcher), the Templar (a beat-up, enchanted lever-action shotgun), the Gehiron AM10 Scimitar (R&D), and the exotic Sidewinder shotgun. Also of note - Flip Cock mod (for the Templar - it's 1991 pretending to be 1997 again!) and Nanocytes (haven't figured out what that does, or don't remember).

E1M4. Here you may find a Gesicht Frontliner (drops Thunic Subjugator) and some Minigunners (drops Gehiron Minigun), as well as the Lightning Saw and a Grenade Launcher weapon mod. Also of note here is the secret Pinky Demon (secret, out-of-universe enemy placements are a thing in Nukage - expect some familiar opponents in secret cubicles and such).

Weapons for Nukage and Research & Destroy:

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Upper left - Thunic Subjugator (automatic directed energy weapon) and Blaster (semi-auto energy pistol), Gesicht Frontliner, Egghead armor suit, Darkling Eviscerator (yay, nightmare creatures!). Bottom left - Insurgency Light Rifle (POU) and Sidewinder shotgun. Right side, top to bottom - Legend Armory Model 15, LAM15C, Legend Armory Model 17, Post-apocalyptic LAM17, unknown breech-loader pistol, Post-apocalyptic LAM15 and LAM15C, Salvo MR4 marksman rifle.

Francis MG9, Reptilian Commander A, Reptilian Grunt A, Reptilian Skirmisher A, Gesicht Vector Gunner, Infinite Vector (Thunic Set, heavy automatic directed energy weapon).

Close-up of Infinite Vector.

New weapon concepts:

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Lemniscate Series, Model C - man-portable, selective-fire, automatic railgun. Has a 150-round drum mag or 45-round box mag and a six-stage fire selector (Off, On, Safe, Fire, Automatic, Burst). Also note the weird P90 thing in the lower right corner.

Initial Lemniscate-C sketch, note 45-round box magazine

I'll post more as I sketch more things.

WOOOOOOW. Really nice drawings.

I wish i could make strasight lines like that without a ruler.

Also, i always wonder if the secret service or anybody peeps their eyes on forums like ours for ideas and projects. I mean, they did that to the GURPS RPG, hahahaha.

More sketches!

Levels for Nukage (note lack of ceiling heights and sector light)

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E1M1. Nothing too fancy here apart from a secret .600 DHC Lucky Joe revolver and a Full Auto weapon mod.

E1M2. You can find a Ripper mod (does exactly what it says) and a Firefly mod (from Destiny - headshots cause targets to explode), as well as the VSK7 Nightshade shotgun (from The Trooper) and the Sarukov DPMS-V Missile Launcher (from Project Operation Unthinkable). In addition, you might find the Trinity Coachcannon (POU), a Blink Drive (many, many sources - allows hyperfast instant movement, akin to teleportation), or that Gesicht Shadow, who drops a Thunic Eraser upon death (Thunic Set, equivalent to the SSG).

E1M3. Neat things here include the D80 Service Pistol (POU and R&D), the K-JACK (a homing photon torpedo launcher), the Templar (a beat-up, enchanted lever-action shotgun), the Gehiron AM10 Scimitar (R&D), and the exotic Sidewinder shotgun. Also of note - Flip Cock mod (for the Templar - it's 1991 pretending to be 1997 again!) and Nanocytes (haven't figured out what that does, or don't remember).

E1M4. Here you may find a Gesicht Frontliner (drops Thunic Subjugator) and some Minigunners (drops Gehiron Minigun), as well as the Lightning Saw and a Grenade Launcher weapon mod. Also of note here is the secret Pinky Demon (secret, out-of-universe enemy placements are a thing in Nukage - expect some familiar opponents in secret cubicles and such).

Weapons for Nukage and Research & Destroy:

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Upper left - Thunic Subjugator (automatic directed energy weapon) and Blaster (semi-auto energy pistol), Gesicht Frontliner, Egghead armor suit, Darkling Eviscerator (yay, nightmare creatures!). Bottom left - Insurgency Light Rifle (POU) and Sidewinder shotgun. Right side, top to bottom - Legend Armory Model 15, LAM15C, Legend Armory Model 17, Post-apocalyptic LAM17, unknown breech-loader pistol, Post-apocalyptic LAM15 and LAM15C, Salvo MR4 marksman rifle.

Francis MG9, Reptilian Commander A, Reptilian Grunt A, Reptilian Skirmisher A, Gesicht Vector Gunner, Infinite Vector (Thunic Set, heavy automatic directed energy weapon).

Close-up of Infinite Vector.

New weapon concepts:

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Lemniscate Series, Model C - man-portable, selective-fire, automatic railgun. Has a 150-round drum mag or 45-round box mag and a six-stage fire selector (Off, On, Safe, Fire, Automatic, Burst). Also note the weird P90 thing in the lower right corner.

Initial Lemniscate-C sketch, note 45-round box magazine

Wow, it's really been nearly four years since the last time I posted anything in this thread? A shame - here's a few doodles!

Weapons:

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Origin sketches for some newer Ayanami rifles, as well as some other nonsense, like the two blocky-ass pistols in the corner - from top (ignoring the crappy revolvers): Forze T3 "Block" PDW, Forze T3C "Miniblock" Pistol (both 6.66x28mm MARS K), Ayanami Heavy Carbine prototype (9.66x50mm Super Magnum, a shortened version of the 9.66x60mm MARS C cartridge using S-MAG propellant), bullpup Thompson Submachine Gun concept, Ayanami Light Carbine Mk. 4 (.30 Carbine), Ayanami Scout Carbine Mk. 1 (9.66x50mm Super Magnum), unnamed Ayanami revolver prototype (.44 Magnum)

Larger sketches for a couple of the new Ayanami rifles, as well as derivatives - pictured, from top, Ayanami Light Carbine Mk. 5 (.30 Carbine, though the magazine is too big) and a full-furniture variant Mk. 5A, Ayanami Scout Carbine Mk. 1A (9.66x50mm Super Magnum), full-furniture variant Mk. 1B along with a retro/Ayanami-S-style Mk. 1B variant, Ayanami-S Carbine reworked to fire .30 Carbine rounds, and a cute Lil' Buggo Devil for Codename: Newtape (official title: Liminal or something derived from that word)

Larkspur II select-fire pistol (good ol' 9mm Parabellum), maniacal Larkspur II/revolver combination weapon (9mm/.357 Magnum), Marco Arms Phaser Mk. 1 prototype (huge-ass power cable), unfinished Ayanami Scout Carbine Mk. 5C sketch (9.66x50mm Super Magnum)

Makeshift .30 Carbine short-barreled rifle

Shitty dream guns - Shitty Dream Revolver #2 (.22 Long Rifle/.17 Hornet? Not that this revolver is actually capable of firing; the barrel goes all the way to the rear of the gun frame, never connecting with either set of chambers), Shitty Taurus Judge-thing (.410 Shells - the shells themselves were smaller, but it was intended to be .410. The only design of the three that is a functional firearm), Shitty Dream Revolver #1 (a REALLY shitty, non-functional pre-swingout-cylinder type)

People (oh, wow, that's a first for me):

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First attempts at creating a cartoonish style base - from left, TheRailgunner and TheRailgunner's esteemed roommate

Minor improvements - also tried, and failed, to recreate my IRL facial hair

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I got lost looking at text from AI-generated album covers and the like, and felt inspired to write down the machines' attempts to approximate text characters (for those who aren't aware; because machine-learning algorithms don't really understand context, they generally produce things that ALMOST resemble normal scenes, objects, and text, but not...quite normal, leading to very uncanny-valley-esque images). Could be useful for making alien, fantasy, or supernatural languages, if one is so inclined. I've tentatively named them "sliplangs" (basically, imagine the places that Slipgates lead to, then imagine those as language or text.)

I've got more sketches somewhere, but I'll have to find them and scan them first. Unfortunately, Doom Builder wouldn't play fair with my Nukage demos, so I don't have a properly-textured version of the mapset anymore (it basically forgets the custom textures I made for it even exist, and thus wipes the information entirely, leaving me with nothing but untextured maps; as a number of those textures were custom-made for specific sections of the map and must be aligned precisely - and manually - I'd have to do it all over again and hope DB doesn't just "forget" again).

Hey, I'm still not dead!

Anyway, this:

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(sorry about the lower sketch being practically invisible)

The Marco Inline Six (holy shit, that abbreviates to "MI6") is a ergonomic reorientation of the conventional rifle layout, placing the center of the stock, the trigger, and barrel axis in a straight line. The advantage here is that it places all of the recoil-relevant parts of the weapon on the same axis, dead-center of the rifle itself (on the vertical axis, anyway). The disadvantages to this design are that because this is accomplished by placing the entirety of the weapon's action in front of the trigger, as opposed to above it, this makes the rifle longer than most as well as making it exceptionally front-heavy. In addition, I'm beginning to wonder whether putting all of these parts in line with each other actually REDUCES recoil and muzzle climb, or just makes it unpredictable (almost all rifles climb upward when fired, including ones with inline stocks such as, well, basically any military rifle or civilian equivalent; placing the recoil axis in the weapon's vertical center might actually make muzzle climb unpredictable/cause it to climb in any random-ass direction as opposed to the more predictable upward climb most rifles have).

Apart from that, the Six has an ambidextrous charging handle, four-setting fire selector, and way too many magazine releases (it does, in fact, have both AR-15 and AR-18 style mag releases).

Finally, any serious mechanical failure will almost certainly result in the chaotic disassembly of the trigger finger, if not the whole hand, as the bolt is housed directly in front of the trigger. Pre-preorder yours TODAY! Just $[REDACTED].99!