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Published: 2019-10-13 12:48:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 2420; Favourites: 68; Downloads: 17
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The Peterson Ordnance System 1200, also known as the 'Shamrock' due it's inconsistent reliability, was made more as a joke weapon that looks cool but is a cumbersome piece of junk. Nevertheless as with some of my recent drawings of weapons in Alicia's Arsenal I wanted the overall designs to be on the realm of sci-fi movie prop guns that are real with attachments to make them "futuristic". With the Shamrock I wanted to evoke a gun from a 1980s sci-fi action movie.Doing this drawing was out of my element due to the overall style compared what I usually work with stuff from around the turn of the century. Which this was the first time I worked with plastic. Not to mention I wanted to scope to be bulky and looks unwieldy to use.
It's based off the Mossberg 500 Bullpup (not too much was changed since it already looks neat), a shotgun seen all the time in 1980s/90s action movies. A gun I own, which I'd also call a cheep piece of junk and never worked for me, but it is a very unique weapon overall. While it's hard to tell but the overall kit has a very cheep plastic feeling that it feels like a jeep's interior.
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"due it's inconsistent reliability, was made more as a joke weapon that looks cool but is a cumbersome piece of junk. "
Was it made by the same people, who designed XM-25?
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Nope, the XM-25 was made by H&K. The gun in the image is basically a Mossberg 500. I just choose the Mossberg due to it being a very iconic 1980s gun used in action and sci-fi movies, also I always had bad luck every time I fired the gun and thus the Shamrock was born.
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That thing looks cumbersome indeed! And that logo on the lasersight must be the most 80's logo i had seen XD
I guess the clover simbol means that using it effectively requieres a lot of luck. Not sure about the plastic texture, the lasersight looks plastic, the rest still like metal
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Thanks! The Laser is based on the Imatronic LS45 which was seen in a lot of movies, most notably on all the soldier's guns in the open future battle of Terminator 2. Thus felt it would be fun have a massive laser on the gun as well.
Recreating the font was a challenge thus I used a font that looked close to it and made it more square and added the lines. The laser and sun detail was something I thought would look cool and yes 80s thus added it 
Though the scope below it is basically a M2 infrared night sight since I liked the overall look of it, thus thought it would make for a fun combo of old bulky WW2 tech with bulky 80s tech. I hope to maybe do a drawing of full set displaying the weapon and the MASSIVE computer and battery the operator has to carry around with them. Which I like to think it would look like this 
Since the gun, next to it being bad luck and only someone with +10 luck could use without it failing and 1980s movies guns, I wanted it to be a jab at experimental military programs and advanced weapon systems like the Objective Individual Combat Weapon. Which I wanted a gun that was conceptually ahead of its time and with the current technology of the story's world. Making a 'Smart Gun' with programmable ammunition was wasn't practical for maybe another 10 or 20 years would the tech be able catch up to make it more portable.
You're right the about the plastic, as it wasn't till I did the laser sight near the very ended did I kind of learn how to draw plastic the main kit looks more like rubber. But it was still a fun learning experience.
Pretty much that is what the symbol entails
Which is attuned to how much bad luck I had with the real thing. I fired it once before I broke the inner workings of the gun, since the real trigger is in the stock thus when I went to cycle the next shell I pulled on the Forend too hard and mess it up. Had a friend who sold it to me fix it, but it never got any better. Sometime later there a problem with the magazine tube that would spit out shells like a PEZ dispenser. A few other instances of bad luck, thus thought it would make for a funny story for Alicia to have a unreliable gun as well that, 'would take more then luck to use' and a miracle to work in a firefight.
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You could fix the magazine OR make the spitting shell magazine the ACTUAL WEAPON! XD
I remember in the game Portal 2, when you go to the ancient condemned installation, the posters in the walls suggests that the Portal gun already existed, but required a massive backpack, as big as a person, in order to work. That "smart gun" made me rememeber that.
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That would be an interesting feature. Perhaps the ejecting shells are a critical hit or stun.
Kind of reminds me of an ability from a game called Agents of Mayhem where a character would just throw their gun like a grenade and it would explode.
Ah I yeah I do remember that, such a fun little feature.
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Hahahahawell, throwing it like a grenade may be a way to deal with overheating XD
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Yeah it would, hopefully you have a good supply of guns on hand.
Though on a random side note and bit of fun behind the scenes (since no one played Agents of Mayhem), Alicia's choice weapons are actually based off of Johnny Gat, a DLC character from Saints Row. Whom I really liked how he played and just all around bad ass. He's basically a wrap up of John Woo's early movies. Gat uses a Shotgun as their primary, a SMG that was fired horizontal to clear or damage enemies within a small radius, and uses pistols as their special ability.
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I remember that game, it's on my list
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Oh nice. I would call AoM a "Video Game", in that its very fun to play and control, but there's not much else beyound that.
I always like Volition's cut scenes and writing but it seems they took a back seat, still I was never bored by AoM and was a game I was glad to have played.
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Well, that can be bothersome, i want a game not an interactive movie
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That is true. The biggest things that bummed me out, was that AoM has a fun premise of GI. Joe but doesn't really follow up on it too well. Or doesn't have too much fun with it. Though that could be the fact it doesn't feel like the globe trotting adventure it could have felt rather it bound to one location on a open world map that's kind of lame. And when the world elements occur it takes a out page of Assassins Creed and sending Assassins on missions around the world doing way more cool stuff then what you're doing.
Still with that said its a blast to play, really love the 15 difficulty levels that really bring a challenge that keeps you on your toes.
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