Paratrooping: the mother of all pounces

^this

Nice one

Didn't even think of that when I requested the comm, but that's a good one

B-B-B-B-B-BASE JUMPING!

really nice^^

Dick parachute... In case your dick want to escape.

lmao...

Well, there are bigger things to worry about in that chute It's a reserve parachute, though I suppose it will save your dick if you have to use it (not a happy day if you do though).

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Mag.

Haha thank for the lesson big dog :)

good job

I really LOVE this piece! You captured the motion and the atmosphere so beautifully.

Edit: wrong comment reply, my bad :-P

But since I'm here, yes, she did :D In fact, she also captured how the horizon looks at 12,000 ft very well, and the free-fall body position perfectly, it is an awesome piece :D

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Mag.

What in the world is that for a kind of gun?

12 gauge Remmington 870 with a shortened 14' barrel with a forward grip attached to the pump.

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Mag.

Right but why is the grip at the back end of the pump and angled instead of straight? Whats that rod on the lower grip doing? Something dosent look right with the upper and the biggest question why would a Paratrooper take a pumpgun on his mission in the first place? X3
(btw sorry for the pickiness im just a big gun nut^^)

That's fine,

Well, there's a couple of reasons for that. One of the variants of the 870 Remmington that we have in the arms room is the one without the buttstock, so often times people assigned the shotty will add a foregrip to the pump to compensate for the recoil. Furthermore, shotguns are a very common thing for at least one member of an Infantry squad to bring with them, as it is an extremely effective breach tool, which can be used without harming everything inside the building (unlike the wall charges and other demolitions used). There will almost always be 1 shotgun in a crew, particularly in a MOUT operation.

But, most importantly of all, when I commissioned the piece, I did not ask for exact specifications on the equipment of firearm, as I was more interested in telling a story than precision of equipment. I could have gone into great detail about how my personally assigned weapon, the M4A4 looked like astetically, how the quad rail mounted with a PEQ-15 and surefire light onto it, with precise descriptions of how to show the themb switch to it. I could have gone into great detail on the the Trijicon ACOG was mounted and appeared, and how the BIS would be mounted as a backup. However, I don't get that picky into that level of detail, I don't care to, since if I demanded of the artist for perfect correctness in each bit of equipment that I use on a regular basis and I am intimately familiar with, I'd become one of those "nightmare commissioners" who always wants to change things. For this reason, I'm happy to provide the main idea, and some visual refs, and allow folks the artistic freedom to create the image for the over all story I'd like to tell.

Ultimately, while I can identify what the fire arm is, I don't get hung up on detail-y minutia of it, as it is fiction, and I think the image Luna created tell the fiction superbly.

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Mag.

This is awesome Luna,

Thanks for bringing one of Mag's stories to life

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Mag.

step 1: Cut a hole in the box

I wonder what kind of weapon that is...resembles some of the antiquated south american 12 gauge variants used in the drug conflicts.

It is essentially that,

It is a 12 gauge variant, a Remmington 870 with a shortened 14' barrel, which we often use in CQB and as a trench clearer in the Army, with a forward grip attached to the pump.

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Mag.

AHH! I was so close. XD

I like to see there are furries/weres/artists out there who are gun-friendly and level headed in such a conversation. Thank you for not being afraid of who you are in the liberal art community. You military, btw?

Hey there,

No problem I am always amenable to discussing fire arms, whether one agrees with my position on them or not, I just would like the conversation to be rational (and if an agreement cannot be met, to agree to disagree on the point), and I find that by approaching it that way I can at the very least converse about the topic in a polite manner, which has been helpful since as far as world views go, I tend to be more on the conservative side.

And yes, I am indeed in the military And at the danger of going a bit into the depth of a side I suppress when I am in the public, this work is one of the reasons I am a part of the fandom, as it allows me to either tell a story based on ideals that I hold (the big one, to protect the helpless, as my "artist profile" pic and story tells), and it also provides an outlet, an artistic way which I can process and show emotions that I otherwise suppress, because I am expected to be this calm, stoic, stable picture of a warrior and leader professionally. The fact of the matter is, we feel things, and feel them deeply, a thing which has caused great pain to people in the profession (particularly those who've had more severe experiences than I have so far, and have become traumatized as a result).

Having these ideas represented artistically, helps keep me grounded and mentally healthy

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Mag.

cool.

Looks awesome \m/