Oh. My. Fucking...
I love this a LOTTTT.

o.o I think that's the best first comment on a site I've ever had.

haha. cool. o.o

It's just I have an extreme love for weaponry, especially rifles, and the way this is designed, I saw it and went ":O"

If you have a love for weaponry and rifles I promise you will love me when I start uploading more. It's pretty much all I make, other than the rare ship or dress >.>

*+Watch*

Haha thank you

If you often design stuff like that, you'll be seeing much much much more of me.

I'm not 'always' that inventive. But I tend to be more inventive than most due to my steampunk nature.

o___o
Steam punks are effing cool.

This may be the start of a beautiful friendship...

xD You amuse me sir

In a positive or negative way.......? >.>

Positive xD

Good! :D

I'm gonna add you to IM, if that's alright with you.

is that supposed to be a texture map in the top version? or a specular map? or syran wrap?

You are using words I do not know o.o
Other than syran wrap xD

I detailed the top one on the same layer with burn/dodge and some mild touch-ups with color.

so YOU'RE the one responsible for the top version
christ.
next time i recommend thinking about what you're doing.

I'm responsible for both versions?
I'm so lost right now o.o

This is a... Weird magazine-kinda mechanism. I don't understand what I'm looking at.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/484927.....7623752520787/
Read the story-like description and if you still have questions I'll try to answer as best I can.

(I meant to say, by the way, this is really well-done... Just saying.)

Well, it's not a topic of confusion so much as a critique kinda thing in this instance... Why is there no cylinder for the bullets? They're exposed to the open air for some reason. The risk of simultaneous discharge of multiple (or all) bullets is bad enough when you're doing it with rifle rounds in a cylinder, but rifle rounds and no cylinder and just having them right next to each other seems like trouble.

Hmm... never thought of it that way... the original concept I had was to do a steampunk time line of how an inventor took a normal revolver, and eventually converted it to a fully automatic rifle, this instance here is about halfway through that. From the open cylinder the next step is to put the rounds on a belt that would be fed via the same system that rotates this open cylinder.
I saw no less danger than is present when toting around a belt of rounds.

In this situation there's no cylinder because one could not be salvaged. As you can see it is created out of salvaged parts. The story, which I shall include in a few days after finishing the edits on the first two rifle designs, explains that better.

Yeah, there's not much more danger on paper, but when you fire a rifle round in a revolver setup, the other bullets are exposed to an immense amount of sudden heat and the like, and they have a tendency to, for all intents and purposes, spontaneously combust. Having a cylinder would help a little, but it's generally not a good idea to have a revolver rifle. There's a reason they don't do them. (Colt did a revolving rifle during the Civil War period, but it fell prey to this problem.)

It does look salvaged, though. The wooden furniture reminds me of a Kalashnikov, actually, that kinda helps with that idea.

Well it's built mostly out of parts from the AK and SVD soooooooo >.>
And hmmmm THEORY CRAFTING!! Heat shield fins on either side of the bolt? They'd retract along with it so the new round can cycle. Help or no?
And trust me, this is improved from the first version where it was 100% open ;)

I never knew that's why they failed though, thank you for teaching me ^.^ I always just thought they got replaced by the tube mag really fast.

Well, having insulatory fins would work for a few rounds, but they'd heat up and require cooling time or replacement, one or the other. It also depends on how far the bullets are spaced from one another. Just throwing that out there.

Hmm... Fins on the rotation mech in between each round then?
Maybe add heatsink-like fins to the bolt itself as well?

Yeah, that'd be like a cylinder skeleton, kinda. You'd want the fins to be lined with wood or something, I bet, too. Something to block as much heat as possible.

You'd still want to keep your rate of fire down, though. Lots of cooling between shots.

Ooo hadn't thought of wood... This sounds awesome o.o
And RoF... if the "cylinder" was big enough to hold say 10 or 12 rounds but only held half that would that keep the rounds spaced far enough apart to not worry about RoF?

If it could hold ten rounds, but held maybe six, and the space between each round was filled mostly with a block of wood encased in a thin layer of metal (to prevent it from charring), then you'd have a rather large and heavy cylinder but it'd be able to work OK.

It wouldn't weigh any more than if it held 10 rounds actually. Remember there isn't an actual cylinder, so the weight of a 10 round and a 2 round open cylinder would be the same.
And those "Wooden Rounds" essentially would act as the heat shields. And I'm guessing but I think the wood would weigh less than the powder. But I could be very wrong.

It wouldn't weigh any more than if it had 10 rounds, but a 10-round cylinder is a big cylinder in the first place, you know what I'm saying?

The wood would weigh less than the bullets, most likely. Because it would take up a little less space axially, it's already thinner and stuff, and it is lighter. The only thing making it heavier is the metal casing, and bullets have those too.

But with the open cylinder the only part of it that's going to add weight are the two metal bands that hold the round to the central rod. That's all that is. Adding 4 more bands isn't going to effect the weight much. A solid 10 round cylinder would be heavy, but idk that you'd even notice the difference with this.

I wasn't talking about having a solid cylinder... Uh... That'd be very, very heavy. I was just referring to the weight of the rifle rounds and the stuff needed to hold them in place and the wooden pieces between them, plus the presumably wider axle for them to rotate around.

Hmmmmm yea I can see where you're comin from. It shouldn't be too bad considering it's this or die in that setting, but in current times it'd be way too bulky...
And btw, I have the older versions up now if you curious as to how it used to look.

Second thought, of course it reminds me of a Kalashnikov... *Facepalm*

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