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Post by Screwface Romeo on Jan 28, 2014 5:22:59 GMT
Uprising is a gritty, realistic, dark and violent Sci-Fi universe. So, of course, it needs awesome guns. Right? Right. Well, unfortunately, it also needs to be made into a TV show, which means we need to simulate tech we don't have, with tech we do. These are the guts of a Ruger 10/22, your new best friend. Thanks to its small size, light weight, and modularity, the 10/22 is a gun that's really easy to put inside other guns. Well, plastic shells designed to look like other guns. ^See that? That's actually a 10/22. So's that^ So, why all this 10/22 fapping? Well, because the 10/22 is admirably suited (as I think I've just demonstrated) to creating prop guns. It's cheap. It's dirt common. It shoots .22lr, which, in addition to being both cheap and dirt common, produces a sharp crack and a small muzzle flash, perfect for simulating the kind of railgun that serves as Uprising's main weapon system. And it's easy to build prop housings around. So keep in mind, when you're designing guns for Uprising: if we're going to use it, it has to be able to be replicated fairly easily using an existing firearm, preferably a .22 or a 9mm. Metal and plastic housings for 10/22s are preferable for rifles, so try and make sure your design can fit one of these things into it. I have a rule: never use CGI when you can do it with models or pyrotechnics. While some CGI muzzle flashes will be unavoidable, we'd much prefer to be using .22 or 9mm blanks.
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Post by pragmaticpolymath on Jan 28, 2014 20:47:11 GMT
I think you should break down the different types of firearms more thoroughly for builders/designers, so they don't get confused about them. Otherwise, solid article
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Post by Screwface Romeo on Jan 28, 2014 21:03:21 GMT
Yeah, that's in the works. I just finished drawing the 10/22 innards, and felt the need to throw them up somewhere
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Post by electriclimefloppy on Jan 31, 2014 19:35:34 GMT
One question: but that small thing can fire a rail gun? I mean, rail gun are powerful enough to melt the gun and to ignite the air around them. How do it shoot?
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Post by Screwface Romeo on Jan 31, 2014 20:18:41 GMT
That's just a normal .22 rifle. It would be shooting blanks.
In the context of Uprising, the only thing that hinders the creation of infantry-sized railguns is the power supply. In Uprising, the power supply problem has been solved. Railguns of the type you're discussing are current generation experimental naval railguns, which accelerate a very large projectile to over Mach 7. Infantry railguns in Uprising accelerate a much smaller projectile at much lower speeds, which reduces stress on the material to around the levels of a contemporary firearm. Coupled with advanced alloys used in the construction of the rails, this makes them quite durable. For weapons where a high rate of fire, and a long sustained fire rate are necessary, coilguns are prefered, as they generate far less heat.
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