Future Guns and Weapon Concepts

Our task for this week was to produce some weapon concepts for a game, we had some ground rules that the gun had to fire projectiles, so that ruled lasers and plasma out of the mix, it had to be one or two handed and futuristic. I begun by researching weapons that are used by the armed forces around the world and created a mood board showing them as well as different future weapon concepts.

Call of Future: Warfare with guns...

After creating the mood board I moved onto creating some rough concepts for some guns that I wanted to create, this started with making a variant of pistol which had an in built blade and two firing chambers. I thought this would be an interesting concept as it seemed unique in that I hadn't seen it around when doing research. 

Double the barrels, double the firing action!

I then started working on some two handed concepts, a small compact weapon such as the MP5 is commonly used by the british SAS and armed police for its durability and weight, I decided to work an idea around making it as compact and easy to use as possible and came up with a bullpup submachine gun concept with a quick release high capacity magazine. 

But wait, there's more

For my third and final concept I wanted to create some heavy weaponry, this lead me to three choices, a large machine gun, a rocket launcher or a sniper rifle. I decided to choose the latter as I thought it would work best for what I wanted to do. I stated making a concept to do an electric powered weapon that would increase the speed of the bullet, after doing a little research I discovered rail guns, weapons that use powerful electro magnets that fired huge rods of metal at supersonic speeds. I decided to make that into a smaller handheld gun and here is is below

Without Colour!

With Colour!

For the final concept I decided to stick with Navy camo as is was the Navy developing the rail gun technology, I stuck with the bullpup design to improve accuracy and increase the velocity of the metal rod. The ammunition would be fed into the top where the bolt is and fired one object at a time.

~ Ryan :)