Real guns that could be steampunk, space age or other fantastical guns

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Carl N. Brown said:
I wanted a Whitney Wolverine when they first came out, and saw it was perfect as a space gun prop.
To my amazement I am not finding the Whitney Wolverine listed at the Internet Movie Firearms Database.
What is the matter with Hollywood? Astra 400 in Firefly. CZ52 in Battlestar Galactica.
The coolest space gun ever, Whitney Wolverine, in .... nada?
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The Wolverine seemed like it belonged to the Buck Rogers or the Flash Gordon serials of the late 1930s. If only the Wolverine was created 20 years earlier than it was, it could have been a star. :D
 
Carl N. Brown said:
OK. I don't have a picture, but at one point I did fill in the milled out panels on my C96 with a gold magic marker which with a little brown shoe polish buffed up looking like brass inserts. (That's a 25 yd target I shot in a black powder cartridge match. brag brag)
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And this is My Space Gun, Charter Arms Explorer II pistol based off the ArmaLite AR-7 rifle.
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That's a long eye relief pistol scope. (I notice someone else had a similar idea.)
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the gun pictured at the top served Han Solo well.
 
WestKentucky said:
View attachment 948740 I feel like the rhino fits. Especially the 4-6 inch guns with the milled teardrops in the shroud. Add in the rainbow anodized configuration and you have something that not only has a steampunk look from a design stance, but a futuristic energy weapon look as well.

Image borrowed from facebook where it was likely borrowed from somewhere else.
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Similiar to a Gunblade from Final Fantasy.
 
This was both Steampunk and a total P.O.S. at the same time. It's the infamous USFA ZIP pistol.

The owner of the only company in the US that was arguably making a better Single Action Army revolver than Colt--literally destroyed his business by focusing all the company's resources on this abomination

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Waveski said:
For some reason my brain automatically associates phrases with familiar tunes.
Now I am stuck on "steampunk keyboard" to the tune of Cat Scratch Fever.
Thanks a lot!
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I immediately thought "how would the Victorian-era band employ a steam-powered keyboard player?"
And then "isn't that just an organ?"

Anyway, that's essentially what steampunk is. Fiction based around the Victorian and industrial era, possibly when electricity became widespread or internal combustion engines available, but with steam power more prevalent.
Look at 'Popular Mechanics' of the time. Steam-powered cars, airships, and weapons- or vehicles of war. Fiction in the vein of HG Wells and Jules Verne. And there you are.

So a lot of late revolvers, early autos, and the beginnings of Art Deco design. It's the future according to pre-WW1 ideas.
 
NIGHTLORD40K said:
Even more steampunk than the Luger was its progenitor, the Borchardt-
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Oh, yeah.
Making up for untested, awkward designs with careful craftsmanship is one end of Steampunk indeed.
Conversely, we have the Vickers:
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Brass, cranks, levers, water- and steam-cooling, and full-auto operation controlled by clockwork.
The definition of utilitarian steampunk weaponry.
 
jmr40 post #28 "I always thought the LeMat Civil war revolver ranked up there."

Mercenary Jayne Cobb's gun on the sci-fi series "Firefly" was a dressed up LeMat. (see 23tony post #19 on another "Firefly" retro space gun)

Zoe Washburn on "Firefly" used a Mare's Leg 1892 "pistol" made for the western TV show "Briscoe County" copied from Josh Randall's Mare's Leg in "Wanted: Dead or Alive"; Dixie Gun Works has advertised repros of about three different movie/TV versions of the Mare's Leg.

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Firefly
 
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