I've started work on a small side project, re-creating Virginia state in Fallout 4. I doubt I'll see much progress, but I'd like to get started by doing some concept see if anything lands, in such, I remade a historical weapon seen during the Civil war in Virginia.

The "William Gun" is a mounted Rifled Canon which you've likely seen something similar in Red Dead or the such. Fun fact: only 40 of these were ever created!

Now, while the time passed for these to be in action in the cold war, a few of them were held in functioning order in the Virginia's Civil War Museum. Of course guarded and behind protective glass...

Now, I've never held them in the real world only knowing they're a 1-lb canon (meaning they could fire a 1lb bolt not that the gun is that light...) so I'd assume they're heavy being a mounted canon and all, so this would be a two handed rifle, being held at the waist.

An extremely accurate weapon this could be, while its effective range is about 800 meters (while mounted) its full range is 2000 meters, which is quite impressive! However to take account for it being handheld, both the recoil AND accuracy would be drastically lower!

Also you may have noticed it has a stock and shorter barrel now. Well- with the only functioning (non-mounted) one working now being in the hands of a wastelander, you'd think they'd do their best making it easier to use, removing the elongated barrel they make it easier to transport, use in close quarters, and lowers it weight drastically at the cost of range and accuracy. The stock helps deal with the excessively high amount of recoil this gun would generate while making it seem more like a real weapon!

While I didn't draw to many modifications in this drawing, there will be a few for it!

Paints (V1):
-Cared For
-Minute's Mural
-Brotherhood's Iron
-Transcontinental