earthling?
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How about this bad boy:
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Sci-Fi Guns
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JesseL
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conwict said:
I'd love to see a man-portable, long-range, precision, light gas gun. Maybe firing small caliber fin stabilized, discarding sabot, dart projectiles.
Picture something resembling todays .50BMG bullpup bolt guns, but with dual magazines for 20mm blanks and the separate projectiles, and a hydrogen reservoir tank.
Imagine if you could fire projectiles with a BC approaching 1.0, at velocities around 10,000 FPS
.ZeSpectre
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Read the book "Firefight 2000" in between stories they discuss the possibilities of various weapons developments. I particularly liked the ones they talked about where a railgun would be attached to a "trash masher" to make it's own "needles" from any scrap laying around.
RonE
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The ASP, made from a S&W Mod 39 with the "guttersnipe" site looks pretty stealthy.
Probably the best looking and best working sci fi weapons were the pulse rifle/grenade launcher (based on a Thompson subgun mated with a pump shotgun) and the heavy guns (based on an Mg42 chassis) that were put together for James Cameron's ALIENS (see the expanded DVD set for all the production stuff that talk about how they made them and made them work).
(And of course the flamethrowers/incinerators were 100% bad ass too.)
(And of course the flamethrowers/incinerators were 100% bad ass too.)
mrmeval
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I've never seen the Beretta kit sold in the US. I know they'd mentioned it and had it listed on their website. I would buy one if available.
"No. Wynona is Crichton's favorite pistol from FarScape. But maybe the FarScape reference was an homage to Turtledove's work."
Actually, the reference to Turtledove was the word "skelkwank", which the extraterrestrial Lizards of the WorldWar series (7 books, IIRC - got 'em on the shelf at home) use where we humans use "laser".
I caught the Farscape reference - it's just a little less common to see someone reference a sci-fi BOOK, especially one which didn't truly hit the mainstream (that is to say, one which lacked the word "Star" as the first part of the title, which is what most mainstreamers seem to think comprises all that is or possibly could be SF).
Don't get me wrong - I'd LOVE a phaser. Adjustable from stun to kill to disintegrate, hardly EVER seems to need recharging (except when the demands of the story require it, at the worst possible moment of course
), and lightweight enough to attach to a belt mount using Velcro? Where do I sign up?
MiB's 'Noisy Cricket' has a certain appeal, too - talk about concealed-carry! Although the recoil seems a little high for comfort...
Actually, the reference to Turtledove was the word "skelkwank", which the extraterrestrial Lizards of the WorldWar series (7 books, IIRC - got 'em on the shelf at home) use where we humans use "laser".
I caught the Farscape reference - it's just a little less common to see someone reference a sci-fi BOOK, especially one which didn't truly hit the mainstream (that is to say, one which lacked the word "Star" as the first part of the title, which is what most mainstreamers seem to think comprises all that is or possibly could be SF).
Don't get me wrong - I'd LOVE a phaser. Adjustable from stun to kill to disintegrate, hardly EVER seems to need recharging (except when the demands of the story require it, at the worst possible moment of course
), and lightweight enough to attach to a belt mount using Velcro? Where do I sign up?MiB's 'Noisy Cricket' has a certain appeal, too - talk about concealed-carry! Although the recoil seems a little high for comfort...
DougDubya
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Alan Fud - you got the best one.
The SHIELD needler.
The SHIELD needler.
Drizzt
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Hands of blue
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For anyone interested according to the Firefly official companion Volume one Mal's pistol is Taurus 85 covered up to hide the cylinder and extend the barrel and a different grip. But the revolver mechanism was left intact so blanks could be fired
Made in Turkey http://www.trabzonsilah.com/english/index.php check out their full auto versions on youtubegrumpycoconut
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Metalstorm anyone?
loboloco
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space bawlz...
so far you've referenced star wars, battle star galactica, firefly and serenity, even star trek (ya kinda have to in this thread) but nobody has mentioned mel brooks great space spoof "space balls" yet. so i guess it's up to me.
Does anybody know if the props the space ball guards used were calicos or m-16s with magazines removed? musta watched the movie dozens of times and still can't figure it out
so far you've referenced star wars, battle star galactica, firefly and serenity, even star trek (ya kinda have to in this thread) but nobody has mentioned mel brooks great space spoof "space balls" yet. so i guess it's up to me.
Does anybody know if the props the space ball guards used were calicos or m-16s with magazines removed? musta watched the movie dozens of times and still can't figure it out
How about the Kel-Tec PLR-16? Especially without the shroud. Then there's the Walther P99, which may have become too mainstream with its adoption as Bond's new weapon, but wouldn't require too much by way of modification to look distinctive.
Nothing's ever going to beat the coolness of the M41A Pulse Rifle, though. That props department knew what it was doing.
Nothing's ever going to beat the coolness of the M41A Pulse Rifle, though. That props department knew what it was doing.
bogie
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Whatever happened to that .45 from a few years back that had the big spike next to the magazine well to provide tactile feedback that rapid reloads were not allowed?
ilcylic
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A few Neosteads were imported, but in numbers sufficiently low as to make acquisition a Major Hollywood Production budgetary event. If it's just going to be a movie prop, it'd be way cheaper to pay some props guy to make something similar looking from scratch.
PirateRadio
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The Stormtrooper gun from Star Wars was based on the Sten submachine gun.
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