Mossberg 500 Tactical

StealthSilver

A few months ago I made a thread showing off my P99, and thanks to everybody's crits, I've decided to scrap that project and make a new, cleaner model. So I decided to make a Mossberg 500 Tactical, and this is the result.






I plan to bake to a lowpoly model sometime next week.

Grimm_Wrecking

Looking pretty nice so far, just a few things that immediately caught my attention.

*The hand strap on the bottom of the slide looks like either thick cut rubber or aluminum and not a nylon strap.

*The action slide bar 'the bars on the back of the slide that work the load action' should be two seperate thin bars not one solid mass. (a shell has to be able to slip in between them)

*The slide itself should be plastic or rather the composite material they use for the rest of the non-metallic parts, unless the personal user changed it to fit his own wants. (maybe follows the Jakobs philosiphy?)
"Jackobs: We know that if you've got wood in your hand, you're happy." ty, borderlands

*The slide should also rise slightly higher on the sides to cradle the barrel somewhat.

*The bolt (firing bolt) should be more squared at the bottom, right now it looks completely round, and it should only be rounded at the top.

Overall though looks good :thumbup:, and has the potential to look stunning.

Here are a couple of links I dug up real quick for you that should let you see some of the less obviously shaped parts stand alone.

MB 500 Tac PDF Manual
Live Dissasembly of a MB 500

StealthSilver

Much thanks! I based it off the specific 500 that one of our military advisors owns, and he prefers the wood handle. I think I might remove the nylon strap because I'm having trouble getting it to look clothlike.

StealthSilver

I'm having trouble figuring out what the action slide bar is though.

StealthSilver

Oops double post.

bluekangaroo

not bad, the real challenge will be in how well you texture it and how you display it

Grimm_Wrecking

I'm having trouble figuring out what the action slide bar is though.

The broken down shotgun is a Remington model 870, but all shotgun components are basically the same.

The two prongs or the actual important pieces of the slide really operate a lot of the shotgun so, despite being seemingly minor, they're drastically important for a pump-action shotgun. But that pic should also give you a good under view of the slide handle itself (the wood bit).

Not a gunsmith, so I can't say the names I use are the technically correct ones, just a guy who grew up around guns.

870 Breakdown Blog--Picture Guy

StealthSilver

Ahhh, I see now. The only ref I used for that pic was a side-on view so I couldn't see the depth. :P

Rang3r1

I would double check your stock ref too. Looks really fubar to me, here are some refs:

http://www.pixagogo.com/0896214432

Also, general refs:

http://www.pixagogo.com/9727704246

StealthSilver

Fixed the stock, the slide action bar. More fixes to come.