Minimalistic Cube-ish Weapons

[Error]

I've been trying to come up with weapons made out of cubes... I can't seem to come up with anything. The original test gun model I made looks like so:



After scrambling my brains, I came up with this:



...though I'm not entirely happy with that either.

I was wondering if anyone here would be willing to share some thoughts, maybe take a stab at making a model for this project... The idea is that everything is made from cubes or rectangular objects.

[ceriux]

which guns, if i want to to attempt?
( kinda think it would be a good style for a game.)

[Error]

In short (don't wanna give tooooooo much away):

Minimalistic
Cube based world (not minecraft)
Big guns
Random Arenas

[qbism]

hmmm... either just a big long box for the weap that relies on the texture, or warp the cubes a bit to get closer to shape?

[ceriux]

boxcannon?

i think it would be cool , maybe make the box not fly far but roll far and do good damage. maybe add some stick handles on the side for your guy lol

[Error]

ok, all weapons and everything are cube based. Not warping. I don't want to have anything really looking like triangles or any other shapes. Just cubes. I'm not too worried about view-weapons currently.

[leileilol]

wouldn't it look cubier and better flat faceted rather than smooth shaded? split cube edges for that cubey sharpness

[Ghost_Fang]

Hmm, I'll give it a go.

How about a chaingun?

Using only cubes and rectangles, and rotating 90 or 45 degrees only. Hows this?

[Error]

that looks amazing. any chance I could get a .mdl of that?

[Ghost_Fang]

that looks amazing. any chance I could get a .mdl of that?

Thanks and of course, but its not UV mapped or textured. I just did a quick smart projection of the UV in blender and a gray texture so it would export as a .mdl.
If you want the .blend file or a .3ds or .obj your welcome to that as well in case you want to UV and texture it yourself.

Chaingun.mdl

[Error]

thanks it looks good. That's going to make a nice weapon.

[ceriux]

how about this?

[gnounc]

[Chip]

4 more and we have a full pack!

[Error]

I'll take em both! Good work!