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Published: 2017-06-03 02:45:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 381; Favourites: 10; Downloads: 0
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Description part of the 'airforess' universe. for more gritty dudes go here unussolum.deviantart.com/
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a RAPID light gunner wielding his most fearsome weapon his chiselled jaw ULSAP CR 'giga' LMG.

support gunners have a tendency to attract atencion, because of that they need to be more heavily armoured, especially against grenade shrapnel. the shoulder plate has a rubber pad that helps mitigate recoil and makes it generally more confortable to shoot for long periods of time.

flechettes generate less noise ase they fly, this makes them bad at supression. because of that, some gunners choose to carry the extra weight of FMJ's. ULSAP's use a conventional barrel and thus are perfectly capable of firing both bullet and flechette ammo. mags are marked with green stripes or colour patches to indicate when they are loaded with flechettes.

because of the flatter trajectory of the dart projectiles soldiers sometimes forget to aim properly when switching ammo over long ranges. despite the researchers best efforts they could not engineer a solution. guess training will have to do.

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a pretty radical experiment, this time I did some crosshatching, well, one specific style of it. it looked rather bad coloured.
meh, I'm not that enthusiastic about it, but I admit it has it's merits.
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Comments: 11

SirRinge [2017-06-04 00:32:44 +0000 UTC]

Damn, that's awesome It's rare to see guys with double drums visible, it looks super cool!

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Pachumaster In reply to SirRinge [2017-06-04 04:15:34 +0000 UTC]

10Q

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jailgurdnegative [2017-06-03 09:38:42 +0000 UTC]

haha awesome technical details on the description.

As for the hatching, i Like it. Its quite difficult to pull off.

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Pachumaster In reply to jailgurdnegative [2017-06-03 13:44:18 +0000 UTC]

I made a few mistakes here and there.
 you did a much better job at it

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jailgurdnegative In reply to Pachumaster [2017-06-03 22:37:51 +0000 UTC]

its a hassle to make. in my experience, i tend to overdo it. shading is so fun but its so easy to put too much lines. 

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Pachumaster In reply to jailgurdnegative [2017-06-04 04:15:02 +0000 UTC]

yeah, I think I did so here, heh. next time I'll do better.

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Samuelhelps [2017-06-03 06:16:17 +0000 UTC]

Hey look, something expendable. 

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Pachumaster In reply to Samuelhelps [2017-06-03 13:38:44 +0000 UTC]

nooo! so many years of training!

or rather

so much money on weapons & armour.

in-universe these are actually meant to be a sort of elite infantry, like the marines, but not quite like the navy seals.
they're all voluntaries and so far they fought only conscripts.

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Samuelhelps In reply to Pachumaster [2017-06-03 16:05:10 +0000 UTC]

Now in my defense, you wouldn't think something with ''Light'' in the name would be elite.

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Pachumaster In reply to Samuelhelps [2017-06-03 16:47:08 +0000 UTC]

the 'light gunner' come from 'light machinegun' light machineguns are called that because they are lighter than the machineguns mounted on vehicles (which are 'machineguns' or 'heavy machineguns' depending on the size of the bullets) normally, big bullets need bigger (and thus, heavier) guns to shoot them. hopefully that clears it up.

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Samuelhelps In reply to Pachumaster [2017-06-03 17:08:17 +0000 UTC]

It does, your logic is more clear now.

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