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Published: 2013-09-02 21:22:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 23119; Favourites: 286; Downloads: 202
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The weapon will be updated with its progresshere is a video of the working mechanism
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This model will have a live progress and of course critics comments and suggestions are welcome.
Name: BX85 "Head Skewer" Repeating Crossbow
Characteristics:
Arrow Speed: ~440 km/h ~400 fps
Draw force: ~110 kg ~ 240 lb
Magazine size 7+1 Fletched Steel bolts
Operation: Lever action
The crossbow is conceived for jungle operations where stealth is required. This is a special crossbow with a sideway magazine, the weapon uses principles from shotguns and harmonica guns. The lever mechanism cocks the crossbow and load a new bolt from the magazine up to the platform, it also serves as a strength multiplier due to its large movement. The system allows to shoot one arrow almost every 1 ~ 2 seconds.
The complete reloading requires cocking and load the platform with one arrow, then inserting a magazine on the right side of the crossbow in order to tense the spring system and index the bolts.
Design and concept:
The crossbow has been designed after real self cocking crossbows with levers, the mechanism in itself is original but inspired by those crossbows. In the first iterations it was very simple the lever only had 2 arms, while now it have 4 the change was due to the requirement of a way too large movement for cocking the weapon and it made the cocking longer than what it is now. The weapon was designed around the mechanism. The other idea behind the design was about keeping the fletching of the bolts intact which very few designs are able to keep it without any kind of mechanical constraints. Aesthetically wise the fact that bolts are all visible adds a bit on the design like on the crossbows who have some integrated quiver for quick reload except that in this case when you cock the weapon you are ready to fire the next bolt.
The weapon is intended to be used in the mod ballistic weapons made by Runestorm as an unofficial community weapon.
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So, I know how old this is, but I actually have recently created a character that is in need of a self loading cross bow that specifically is modified to hold 8 bolts. 1 cocked and the other 7 in wait.
with your permission and of course with credit given, can I use this as a reference when designing his weapon?
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yeah you can, I don't come here that often, but thanks for the appreciation
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Sure, if I could make that thing real ..., but I don't have materials for it
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This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen,awesome work!<3
Maybe you can have an arrow that releases smoke after firing
And maybe one that had a head like a matchstick and you can light it and shoot it :3
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The weapon can allow a lot of things, but the arrows unfortunately can't be lighted up from the launch platform due to their size, if they were longer that would work but longer arrows would prevent the weapon to have more than one shot. the weapon would require a different conception.
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Hmm...okay.
What about the smoke one?I was thinking maybe there could be something like a small gas chamber in an arrow that releases the smoke upon firing...or something like that.
Kind of sounds like some sort of Batman reference xD
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Smoke or any sort of tipping can work with it with more or less changes.
I had the idea of an incendiary / flare crossbow but it used a different system and is only conceptual
It was conceived with a gas bottle (butane; propane or probably some other fuel) for the recocking and also to make a sort of makeshift flamethrower.
The bolts was from a multi-shot system using a different design than this one, the recocking was made with the gas bottle. the gas bottle can ignite bolts but also serve as a tiny flamethrower covering long range and short range.
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I'm kind of imagining a molotov bottle when you say there's a gas bottle xD
But yeah I suppose this whole fire business is more conceptual after all...and it sounds like a lot of work in order to get the fire part done.Especially the thing about the flamethrower.
But I was thinking more of something attached to the head of each arrow,and upon firing and it hits something,then something gets on fire or smoke is released.Like a very small flammable thing on the arrow.
The tiny flamethrower...is awesome ^^
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Looks very cool, the only thing that bugs me is the large cocking mechanism that would (at least the mechanical / realistic way) prevent use of it while lying down or shooting over a ledge.
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I think I will study the problem as yeah it's not conceived to be used in prone position, but other crossbows have the same flaw aside of those using a crank, but in an other hand the crank is slow, there is also the pump but they are very weak, and very strong ones will require both hands on the pump mechanism and the use of your chest so it will end up having the same flaw as mine here.
Shooting over a ledge doesn't cause any problem as the mechanism isn't supposed to interfere even if it require a large movement, but I don't think of any real crossbow without any problem in there aside of some other self cocking methods and the crank, because putting the foot in the cocking stirrup and lifting the string up might require sufficient space to do so.
Most video games shows a wrong reload where the guy can pretty much use one hand to cock it up or even more funky cocking it while using the bolt to do so...
Though I should try to find a way to address these problems as yeah it's more intended to be a military crossbow than just an hunting crossbow
And as you can see it's pretty hard to conceive the perfect crossbow that will pretty much match a rifle aside of the pure stealth benefit
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I see. Well I was just talking about realism anyways, ingame the animation won't care for where you are.
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Sure, but you addressed some valid points, and my goal was to offer a somewhat plausible and potentially "realistic" design.
I also want something pretty that people appreciate as well. I'm also providing updates to the deviation until it's finished
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Pretty damn cool.
What will the arrows do? Explode? EMP? Napalm?
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I plan to make variants of it with other kind of arrows and potentially a number of shots depending on the power of the crossbow and their usefulness.
For now this one will pin people against walls and be a lethal stealth sniper weapon.
But you can expect variants with other bow designs with the ammo you have suggested.
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If you have any other ideas just submit them
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The crossbow is available on LDG servers in beta state
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