Nice choice of firearm there.

I've always liked the L-39. admittedly I didn't have deal with its recoil or carry it through knee-deep snow, but it had certain charm to it.

Good preview.

I have hopes for the final color. Part of that is the fact that I am so familiar with drawing Rosemary that it usually makes it much easier to do pieces with her in them.

Good on you.

I'm sure that one of those could take out a Tanker Bug with the right ammo.

for modern warfare i don't know if it would still be anti-tank but in any generation I'm guessing its anti-shoulder properties can't not be taken lightly.

Eeyup!!

And has a supporting part in the John Ringo novel Through The Looking Glass. Never seen one myself, except in pictures.

I hope you will also do the Soltrum S-200 at one point.

Well I was considering a S18-1100 20mm.

Well, yeah that one I meant, the S-200 was the predecessor of the Mg34

I might but I got a lot of things on my plate.

No problem, it was just a suggestion.

Just so beautifully done and so full of detail! <:D

for some reason remembering how small rosemary is, I thought the gun would be longer.

Oh wait I go back and read the last line again :P

This article made me go research the Robocop Movie. The big anti-tank rifle that they used to take out Ed the Droid was an older model M82
fitted with plastic and called a Cobra Assault Cannon. The Lahti L-39 might work well for a larger morphic creature. say Horse, Lion, Tiger, or some such larger framed animal. The Finns called it their Elephant Gun. Imagine a Morphic Elephant using this gun, single handedly.

You could call it RoboGOP and have him shoot an army of Donkey Democrats!

I can only babble incomprehensibly at this thing.

And then I read the description and SWEET BABY JEEBUS IT CAME IN A FULL-AUTO VARIANT.

I think the only things left are a shoulder-fired Rheinmetall L55 or a GAU-8/A with chainsaw grips.

And on top of that! Apparently all these characters are running around in your head. What's Rosemary's reaction to periodically finding herself heaving around these monstrosities, apparently in squeaky shiny boots and no pants in this instance?

And yet at the same time I would honestly love to see a version of this pairing right at the moment of firing, with the shell maybe a barrel length past the muzzle and the huge flash and shockwave in full effect.

And on top of that! Apparently all these characters are running around in your head. What's Rosemary's reaction to periodically finding herself heaving around these monstrosities, apparently in squeaky shiny boots and no pants in this instance?

Well these are all done as professional modeling/ pinup shoots for various companies or publications so for her its just another day at the office. Also she does enjoy shooting.

Ah, so it's not so much their consciousness resolving, and suddenly realizing 'Why the heck am I dressed like this and why am I riding a cannon like a mechanical bull?'

Yep!

A great firearm, and an excellent piece of history.


I have always been Impressed with the history you include with your illustrations, thank you

And it'll still kill light armored stuff. And most helicopters. And troops, trauma plate, ceramic plate, Dragonscale be damned.

Yeah apparently the Finns found them handy from breaking and destroying all kinds of things with red stars painted on them. In much the same way an anti-material rifle can make a modern day soldiers life really miserable.

20 mike-mike is wonderful for ruining things.

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My twisted brain is imagining some poor soldier. Goes over, picks up the coffee pot. Pours himself a cup-*BANG* coffee pot gone. Siiiighs. Lifts mug to drin-*BANG*mug shatters. "Goddamn it." Reaches for a box of ce-BANG cheerios everywhere "GODDAMN IT!"

Good for soft targets - Priuses, for example.

Having read about the "crunch gun" in the SF tabletop RPG Traveller, I just smiled when I saw the gun and its description.

What made me pause was Rosemary's pose. Not the outfit (although bicep-long gloves, thigh-high boots, and what looks to be just a leather bra is eye-catching enough) but seeing her on all fours over the back end of that weapon. It's almost like she intends to lay down on top of it.

She will love it and hug it and pet it and cuddle it and call it George.

Or fire it and go flying away from the recoil. ("Look! That witch isn't riding a broomstick, she's riding a rapid-fire cannon!")

Yeah. I read that and... Full auto variant. WAT.

I still wanna poke Petina and plant the idea in her head, though.

Rosemary in fire-engine red outfit, going completely 'Screw Gravity' and hip-firing a GAU-8 with chainsaw grips, with the volkswagen-size ammo drum as a backpack, in complete Heavy Veapons Guy insane-mode.

Because it's about the only thing left for her now.

And would that be a bad thing?

Only if she's uncomfortable.

True, so true.

I was checking from my phone, and the thumbnail made me think 'wait, why do we have a pony with a tripod rifle..?' I mean, with Rosemary kneeling like that, her hair and tail....

I actually paid $15 a shot to fire one of these at Knob Creek one year. The sensation was sort of like when your truck rolls backwards and you try and stop it by bracing your shoulder against the tailgate at 30 MPH.

So you're saying the recoil was, um, stout?

indeed!

And to think: You USED to be able to pick these things up mail order! Ah, for the good old days...

With the ammo clip upside...it has the iron sights on the side? Interesting, never seen that design before.

Just wounder how much shots you can "take" before your shoulder needs a timeout.

With the ammo clip upside...it has the iron sights on the side? Interesting, never seen that design before.

Well there were several machine guns and even a couple submachine guns that used the magazine on top and sights on the side. The Bren gun jumps to mind as an example.

Just wounder how much shots you can "take" before your shoulder needs a timeout.

Well this might give you some idea of what it is like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvsfT1_W6TE

That's the second biggest gun I have ever seen!

MMM AT rifles here is a more modern one http://www.anzioironworks.com/MAG-F.....20MM-RIFLE.htm