>>544857
>that gif.
>the barrel.
>Just pumping endlessly.
>In and out, in and out.
>Boom.
<Boom.
Boom.
>Penetrating whatever is unlucky enough to be downrange with .50 calibres of hot and heavy, supersonic, lead.
>MFW.
>>544848
>Anyone else here like designing fictional weapons and worldbuilding?
You could say that.
As has been pointed out already there are a few problems with that design, basically that everything behind the circular well of the magazine is unnecessary and could only serve to make the weapon more cumbersome and a bitch to handle. What sort of setting were you thinking of when you built that model? What can you tell us about the people who designed it (in the universe it came from)? What role did they have in mind for this weapon? What sort of budget and tech do they have to work with? What sort of political and social ideologies are in play in this setting? Sorry to hit you with a wall of questions there, but even those little incidental details can have a big effect on how a weapon would be built and look - if you want an obvious and easy example there's a reason that the AK47 was made to be window licking simple and primarily out of wood and stamped steel. Without the further setting details there are a few pointers I'd give for that design though.
>If you're keeping the top loading, P90 style, magazine then cut basically everything behind the mag and redesign it as a very short, pseudo-bullpup smg rather than a full blown rifle.
>The pistol grip could be moved forwards, even to the point of having it integrated with the bump just behind the barrel on the underside of the weapon, it'd look odd - but that's not rare in /v/ guns.
>have the housing come over the top of the magazine (causing you to load it in sideways rather than from the top) and move the rails and carry handle, if you're keeping it, onto that part of the weapon.
>I'm not married to this idea, but after you've moved the shoulder-rest to the end of the magazine have the metal/polymer as a flat surface with a thick, compressible, rubber cap over the top of it to help absorb at least some of the recoil.
>As this is a first draft of the design it'd be a good idea to work out where things like the ejection port, fire selector/safety, etc would go
>How would you deconstruct the rifle to clean it? What sort of mechanism holds it together when you don't want the housing to come apart (when you're firing it for example)?