New Canon Stormtrooper Rifle?

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-04-22 04:56pm

New Stormie rifle?

Anyone want to crack on what the model is based on?

Post by **Beowulf** » 2003-04-22 04:59pm

Wow... Could you get a better pic? One with more color?

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-04-22 05:00pm

Nope. Its from Bob Brown's site.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2003-04-22 05:04pm

It's kinda hard to tell anything beyond the general outline of the rifle, and since that was added to in the prop making stage, it's kinda impossible to figure out what it's based off of.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-04-22 05:09pm

Found it.

http://www.partsofsw.com/hvyblas.htm

It's a heavy blaster rifle.

In reality, it's based on the MG-15. An aircraft machine gun that was later modified and put into service by ground troops.

Interesting site that sadly hasn't been updated since 2000:
http://www.partsofsw.com/Main.htm

Post by **Beowulf** » 2003-04-22 05:15pm

Why does it have 2 scopes on it? You can't even use either one of them, because the sight line is identical...

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-04-22 06:29pm

Beowulf wrote:Why does it have 2 scopes on it? You can't even use either one of them, because the sight line is identical...

Because they're probably not conventional scopes, more likely a FLIR or laser sight linked into the troopers helmet. The back one may be a backup display should the data link break that feeds from the front one.

Icehawk · Post by **Icehawk** » 2003-04-22 11:47pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Found it.

http://www.partsofsw.com/hvyblas.htm

It's a heavy blaster rifle.

In reality, it's based on the MG-15. An aircraft machine gun that was later modified and put into service by ground troops.

Interesting site that sadly hasn't been updated since 2000:
http://www.partsofsw.com/Main.htm

Funny how they lable it as a heavy blaster rifle but at the bottom of the page they say it hasnt been given an official name as to what it is by any lucasfilm source. Does this mean its still open to interpretation? If it is, since it still looks more like a real gun then the other props, I say we could use it as a canon source for Imperial issue slug throwers which untill now have only been mentioned in EU material.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2003-04-23 02:31am

Icehawk wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Found it.

http://www.partsofsw.com/hvyblas.htm

It's a heavy blaster rifle.

In reality, it's based on the MG-15. An aircraft machine gun that was later modified and put into service by ground troops.

Interesting site that sadly hasn't been updated since 2000:
http://www.partsofsw.com/Main.htm

Funny how they lable it as a heavy blaster rifle but at the bottom of the page they say it hasnt been given an official name as to what it is by any lucasfilm source. Does this mean its still open to interpretation? If it is, since it still looks more like a real gun then the other props, I say we could use it as a canon source for Imperial issue slug throwers which untill now have only been mentioned in EU material.

Repeater rifle?

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-04-23 06:06am

Given that we have never seen canon slug throwers, it'd be quite safe to say it was a blaster, since there's already one gun that looks like that that fires blaster bolts (Chewie's gun in the detention block).

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-04-23 06:25am

Actually, we have seen canon slugthrowers. The Tusken Raiders used them in TPM to snipe at the podracers; they were remarkably accurate, too.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-04-23 06:38am

Crayz9000 wrote:Actually, we have seen canon slugthrowers. The Tusken Raiders used them in TPM to snipe at the podracers; they were remarkably accurate, too.

Gah I mean used by stormtroopers

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-04-23 06:48am

Vympel wrote:Given that we have never seen canon slug throwers, it'd be quite safe to say it was a blaster, since there's already one gun that looks like that that fires blaster bolts (Chewie's gun in the detention block).

Similar but not exactly.

The one Chewie uses in the detention block is a BlasTech DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle, which was a virtually unmodified MG-34:
http://www.partsofsw.com/dlt19.htm

The DLT-19 was also seen carried by Stormtroopers and Sandtroopers.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-04-24 04:24pm

....so....no slug throwers....aww....

Silver · Post by **Silver** » 2003-04-26 05:38am

Eh, just looking at the gun makes me think it looks a little fragile for a squad automatic weapon or the equivalent... I'm actually inclined to say it's more of a sniper rifle type?

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-04-26 06:10pm

Silver wrote:Eh, just looking at the gun makes me think it looks a little fragile for a squad automatic weapon or the equivalent... I'm actually inclined to say it's more of a sniper rifle type?

Battle rifle.

Think ol M1 Garand or M14