3D Steampunk Gun adding Steampunk Aesthetics: CINEMA 4D

The first thing I did to make the gun more steampunk, was to add a brass texture to part of the stock.

Next I added some coils at the end of the stock, I did this by first making a helix and making it it the right size, then I added a circle to represent the ending shape of the coil. After that I used the Sweep tool, I made the helix and circle a child of the Sweep and this gave it the coil effect. The next bit a added was the copper tubing, this was made similar to the coils, except I made a spline instead of using a helix, so that I could add more precision to what the tubing looked like and to be able to make the tubing look slightly baggy. I then used a filleted tube to help make it look like the tubing was feeding into the gun.

I then added, a dial, some cogs and a few pipes. For the dial I started with a cylinder and made it quite thin, I used the knife tool in loop mode and extrude tool to make the outside part of the dial. For the centre texture I found a picture of a steam dial on Google and then used Photoshop to cut out the centre graphic, then adding to the middle bit of the dial as a texture. For the cogs I just used the cog shape and then the NURBS extrude tool. The pipes are just different sized tubes. Following this I made a grip for the barrel, just a tube again and I used an old leather texture. One of the last things I did was make a screw and copy it into a few different positions to add some extra detail to the gun.

If you look at my hand drawn pictures for the gun design, I was going to add a different pattern to each barrel to represent which type of bullet came out of that barrel, in the end I did not add any patterns to the barrels as I was finding it hard to think of a way that I could add them.

Here are some final renders that I took of the gun. It is called the ‘Triple Trouble Boom-Stick’

3/4 Front

Side

Birdseye

3/4 Back

No texture Side

No texture 3/4 Front

Starting 3D Steampunk Gun: Cinema 4D

Firstly I made the stock and the barrels, I made the stock by starting with a square and made it a similar size to a reference image of a shotgun I found, I used the knife tool to make several cuts down the square, I then used the point selection tool so that I could drag each separate point to shape the stock right. To make the barrel I just used the tube tool and sized it correctly, then I copied and pasted them for the other two barrels.

After that I made the trigger guard and trigger I made them using the polygon tool, creating points and then bridging the points together.

I then added a subdivision surface to the stock to make it more rounded and make it look much more stock like.

Now I had the base model for my Steampunk gun before adding steampunk aesthetics, I quickly added some textures to give it a normal shotgun feel and look.

Front

Side

Top

Steampunk Gun: Colour Scheme Ideas

For the colour scheme of the gun, I want to use quite bright metal textures and colours like brass, copper and silver. I would also like to use some wood and leather textures in places.

Brass

Copper

Silver

Wood

Worn Leather

My Steampunk Gun Design

Here are some pictures of my design for a steampunk gun. It is a triple-barreled shotgun, each barrel shoots a different type of bullet.

• Incendiary
• Acid
• Electric
  It will be called the ‘Triple Trouble Boom-stick ‘

3rd Barrel

Gun Scope: Cinema 4D

Here is a scope that I made using Cinema 4D. I mainly used the loop selection tool, extrude, and scale tool to make it. I started with a cylinder. For the other two parts I started with an oil tank shape.

Birdseye

Side

Front

Modded gun using PS

The starting picture that I used for the base of the gun.

My gun halfway through modification, I added scratched metal and a rust texture using the layer mask tool. I put on some caution tape and a red dot sight.

The finished modded gun, The “stabby stabby duck duck gun”.

Steampunk Research: Common Materials found in Steampunk works

Here are some different materials that you are likely to find in Steampunk works:

Cogs

Pipes

Metal Tubes, Wires + Rods

Dials

Nuts and Bolts

Hooks

Copper, Brass, iron + steel

Steampunk Research: Steampunk weapons from video games

Here are some weapons with a steampunk aesthetic to them from various games. I have written more information in the description of some of the pictures.

Winter’s Fury: Black Ops

31-79 JGb215: Black Ops

Monkey Bomb: Black Ops 2

Jet Gun: Black Ops 2

Acid Gat: Black Ops 2

The Claw: Thief

Plasma Pistol: Fallout 3

Gauss Rifle: Fallout 3

Industrial Hand: Fallout New Vegas

Oh, Baby!: Fallout New Vegas

Concept: Fallout

Concept: Fallout

Steampunk Research: Steampunk weapons that were used in real-life

Here a a few steampunk looking guns that were actually used in real-life situations.

The key gun was first used by jailers in the 16th century, in case of trouble when opening a cell door.

The hand mortar a firearm used in the late 17th and 18th century to fire fused grenades. At least one version of the hand mortar was probably invented by John Tinker in 1681.

The Apache revolver is a handgun which incorporates a knuckle duster for the grip and a dual-edged knife made notorious by the French underworld figures of the early 1900s known as Les Apaches. The design dates from the 1860s, and is attributed to Louis Dolne. The gun was manufactured until the end of the 1800s.

Steampunk Research: What is SteamPunk?

The definition for Steampunk is: a genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology.

Steampunk is often found to be set in an alternative history of the 19th century’s British Victorian era or American “Wild West”, in a post-apocalyptic future during which steam power has regained mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power.

Steam Engine

The Difference Engine

Steampunk is used in many industries including fashion, TV and films, video games, literature, music and art and design. An example of steampunk in literature is the novel ‘The Difference Engine’ (1990) which  is an alternate history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is widely regarded as a book that helped establish the genre conventions of steampunk. Some videos games that have a steampunk setting include Dishonored, Bioshock Infinite and Thief.

Thief

Dishonored

Bioshock Infinite