Week 4- Gun design Homework

The title says it all. For homework we had to design a futuristic, mechanical projectile firing weapon.
As with all design projects a mood board was required:

Some are real weapons most are from games or concepts which other artists have come up with. With these in tow I was able to get sketching my own ideas down into my sketch pad.

These are the above aforementioned with ideas ranging from quadruple-barreled shotguns to high powered single shot railgun pistols (naturally I also included some doodles of vaguely gun shaped things).

Looking at these sketches I found myself quite partial to the idea of a futuristic break-action quadruple-barreled shotgun. A gun that perhaps one could use to defend your space freighter of boarders and invaders. 

I think I can honestly say that I am most proud of the "space shotgun shell" in the lower left hand corner
(Note slightly boss-eyed top right-hand barrel in the gun's front view...whoops).

  

The finished thing (done in Photoshop if you couldn't guess). I took aspects of some of my other weapons and combined them with the quad-barrel shotty-blam to make a big, hefty, probably-hard-to-hold but powerfully frightening hand cannon of a shotgun.