Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-38854975-20190905144044/@comment-36926079-20190919000113

Seenalready wrote: So I'm working on a that Gunblade idea and here's what I have so far. The weapon is based on the, with the gun parts coming from Weiss's, not the one from Rwby but from an FFVII spinoff, lever-action swords.

So my idea is to curve and widen the blade by like 4 or 5 cm, so its able to withstand the impacts this thing will receive, convert the gold part into a barrel. For the handle I plan on having the trigger system be lever-action, so I need to make the handguard into the trigger, so that shouldn't be a problem. For ammo storage, I'll make it so you just load ammo directly into the handle so lengthen that a bit so it can hold four shots.

The reason I'm not going for a cylinder system is that while you have more ammo to work with, you're wide open when reloading even with a speed loader, while the system I have in place, you can reload at any point in a fight even midway through a barrage of strikes.

As for the ammo itself, I don't plan on them having an actual projectile, instead being used to increase the power of strikes with the main type being gravity.

Besides the ammo storage and handle, I don't see many problems but that why I'm posting this here. Curving the blade would be a little counter-intuitive. Historically, curved blades are better for quick drawing and cutting. If you wanted a Khanda to be curved, it would lose its role as a thrusting weapon. If you want a curved sword, there are many types, such as sabers, katanas, scimitars, nodachis, etc.

If you were referring to how the Khanda widens and gains mass towards the tip, then that's fine.

If you are mainly using the projectiles for recoil and are worried about being left open, you could use a magazine or dust cylinders. The former would be allow you to reload quickly, while the latter would let you change between types of dust easily and prevent storage issues or awkwardness with the handle.

Either way, reloading one by one is actually worse than using a speed loader, as it actually takes longer and is harder to do. You could not possibly reload in the middle of strikes.