So I was poking around the local comic book store, and saw a series of 'how to draw manga books' which started with how to draw in general, more specific manga characters, body poses, faces, etc, then moved on to cloths and uniforms and then...HOW TO DRAW GUNS! and another for cars/motorcylces then another for tanks/ships/planes etc.
The store owner pointed out two more different series, but they were in japanese, and those series also had how to draw guns volumes.
Anyways, the idea of some guy drawing these pictures from photos from shooters bible, handguns of the world, or some other source...and then aspiring animators and (according to the jacket, books used by some names I don't know but I take to be currently working animators) refrencing this book, and then some fanboy kid drawing based on the movie he saw, the guns depicted are 4th and 5th hand.
What I saw and didn't saw made a lot of sense with how animie guns are portrayed. Lots of top break revolvers in the english language book, maybe that is why so many 'anime special custom' firing some ubercartridge is using this old fasioned and weaker design. They had pictures of swing out and break open revolvers being opened, but no pictures of slides bieng racked to chamber rounds or as a semiauto fired. I have noted that even in anime movies with highly detailed guns, the slide never moves when fired, and certain 'anime special custom' guns have doodadds where they would restrict slide movment.
Another feature that stood out to me is the careful depiction of the stamped manufactures name trademark symbol, caliber, etc etc, that you find on the side of the barrel, receiver, of slide of pretty much every gun of the last century. Yet this is the very stuff I often look past when looking at a real gun, while in animie movies it is often prominently displayed. It is quite possible that thanks to line models like these, the artists don't realize that unless you are a few feet away you probably won't see this writing, it's a lot less noticable than say, numbers on the keys of a phone or a keyboard.
For the most part the info was light, but relatively accurate. However, there were a lot of opinions passed off as facts, and some downright false info.
Colt Python, the rolls royce of guns, even budget strapped departments went out of their way to procure this gun(????) even though in the 70s the quality went down and never recovered.
Many police used to use the 357(not 38???) special revolver, but it was found lacking in persuit (for shooting cars????) so they developed the .357 magnum, which is more powerful, and then the 44 magnum, which is even more powerful, and used by hunters, sometimes for deer but usually for bear or something even bigger!(???)
The 357 magnum was designed to be used in the N frame revolver, but it can be used in this K frame revolver 'in a pinch'(??)
Made K frame sound like a death trap in the L frame section.
Smith and Wesson have 'flip up rear sights' with an arrow pointing at the screw for elevation ajdustment. (???)Now, the right left adjustment control, fronm the other side, may look a bit like the sight can flip up and down in line drawings, watch for that feature in future anime movies.
Colt detective special was reserved for police, very few were in civilian hands(????)
They noted that the Smith and Wesson model 40 had a grip saftey, which to my knowledge, is the ONLY firearm with a saftey, but the way they present it, it isn't an unusual feature. Maybe that's why we always hear about revolvers with safteys.
At the end of the revolver section they talked about 'saturday night specials' and the danger of them. One picture where they just had a sillouette looked a heck of a lot like a H&R el cheapo revolver, the picture was pointing out how the hammer blocked the sights...even though as you use the double action trigger the sights become exposed and there is always thumb cocking.
It's unsafe to use a saturday night special close to your eye, it may explode, hip shooting is acceptable because the ranges are close and if the gun blows up, no big deal. Apparently they are trying to come up with some justification for what was once an honest shooting technique but now mostly when you see a guy hipfiring a snubbie, he is doing it from ignorance, not some wise descision to protect his eyes.
the barrel of saturday night specials are 1mm thick(?) and may explode, plus the rifling is poorly cut, which makes them inaccurate (as opposed to the short barrel and poor sights????) also, the cylinder is 1mm thick (?) with a picture of an open cylnder, and a 45(?)special in it, and the comment 'would you trust firing a 44 special in such a gun like the charter arms bulldog? It may blow up!' Now apparently they are talking about the chamber/cylinder wall thickness not the diameter of the actual cylnder, but still!
The store owner pointed out two more different series, but they were in japanese, and those series also had how to draw guns volumes.
Anyways, the idea of some guy drawing these pictures from photos from shooters bible, handguns of the world, or some other source...and then aspiring animators and (according to the jacket, books used by some names I don't know but I take to be currently working animators) refrencing this book, and then some fanboy kid drawing based on the movie he saw, the guns depicted are 4th and 5th hand.
What I saw and didn't saw made a lot of sense with how animie guns are portrayed. Lots of top break revolvers in the english language book, maybe that is why so many 'anime special custom' firing some ubercartridge is using this old fasioned and weaker design. They had pictures of swing out and break open revolvers being opened, but no pictures of slides bieng racked to chamber rounds or as a semiauto fired. I have noted that even in anime movies with highly detailed guns, the slide never moves when fired, and certain 'anime special custom' guns have doodadds where they would restrict slide movment.
Another feature that stood out to me is the careful depiction of the stamped manufactures name trademark symbol, caliber, etc etc, that you find on the side of the barrel, receiver, of slide of pretty much every gun of the last century. Yet this is the very stuff I often look past when looking at a real gun, while in animie movies it is often prominently displayed. It is quite possible that thanks to line models like these, the artists don't realize that unless you are a few feet away you probably won't see this writing, it's a lot less noticable than say, numbers on the keys of a phone or a keyboard.
For the most part the info was light, but relatively accurate. However, there were a lot of opinions passed off as facts, and some downright false info.
Colt Python, the rolls royce of guns, even budget strapped departments went out of their way to procure this gun(????) even though in the 70s the quality went down and never recovered.
Many police used to use the 357(not 38???) special revolver, but it was found lacking in persuit (for shooting cars????) so they developed the .357 magnum, which is more powerful, and then the 44 magnum, which is even more powerful, and used by hunters, sometimes for deer but usually for bear or something even bigger!(???)
The 357 magnum was designed to be used in the N frame revolver, but it can be used in this K frame revolver 'in a pinch'(??)
Made K frame sound like a death trap in the L frame section.
Smith and Wesson have 'flip up rear sights' with an arrow pointing at the screw for elevation ajdustment. (???)Now, the right left adjustment control, fronm the other side, may look a bit like the sight can flip up and down in line drawings, watch for that feature in future anime movies.
Colt detective special was reserved for police, very few were in civilian hands(????)
They noted that the Smith and Wesson model 40 had a grip saftey, which to my knowledge, is the ONLY firearm with a saftey, but the way they present it, it isn't an unusual feature. Maybe that's why we always hear about revolvers with safteys.
At the end of the revolver section they talked about 'saturday night specials' and the danger of them. One picture where they just had a sillouette looked a heck of a lot like a H&R el cheapo revolver, the picture was pointing out how the hammer blocked the sights...even though as you use the double action trigger the sights become exposed and there is always thumb cocking.
It's unsafe to use a saturday night special close to your eye, it may explode, hip shooting is acceptable because the ranges are close and if the gun blows up, no big deal. Apparently they are trying to come up with some justification for what was once an honest shooting technique but now mostly when you see a guy hipfiring a snubbie, he is doing it from ignorance, not some wise descision to protect his eyes.
the barrel of saturday night specials are 1mm thick(?) and may explode, plus the rifling is poorly cut, which makes them inaccurate (as opposed to the short barrel and poor sights????) also, the cylinder is 1mm thick (?) with a picture of an open cylnder, and a 45(?)special in it, and the comment 'would you trust firing a 44 special in such a gun like the charter arms bulldog? It may blow up!' Now apparently they are talking about the chamber/cylinder wall thickness not the diameter of the actual cylnder, but still!
