One of the future projects we have looked at undertaking at Digital Raven, is a reboot of our first collective project which was a Star Craft video. Several months ago I set out to re-image the relatively short script, and tweak it into a series of web shorts.
Based on the fact that we are not focusing on Space Marines in full armor I had to come up with a weapon that would fit into normal unassisted human hands. Using the Impaler as the base model and looking at some of my favorite “futuristic” looking guns I came up with the N15 Enforcer.
First let’s look at the C-14 Impaler, designed to be wielded by 9 foot tall power suits.. needless to say, I needed to come up with something that fit this style, but was smaller.
So step one was to look at guns in a simplified form… in this case as silhouettes. I also dragged in a P90 and a KRISS, as they are two of my more favored futuristic weapons.
Based on those I came up with this outline of the N-15 Enforcer…
Here is the Enforcer with all the detail lines added. 
In a lot of way the detailed line version is a pretty good guide, for a prop maker, to get a handle of how to put it together. But often times it is a lot better to get the entire idea, coloration and details down before passing it on here is the value study of the Enforcer.
Here is the values color shifted a bit and a lot more the edging detail worked in.. 
Here is the final gun design with textures added.
Enjoy!
-TheGrav
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