I've been bouncing from project to project, and I decided to go back to this one an implement most of the suggestions I received. I'm keeping the add-on - the design was, after all, inspired by the Type-2 phaser for the original series of Star Trek.
I'm currently getting back into some enviroment work and after seeing some the great work being done on Star wars 1313 i wanted to have a stab at creating one of their scenes in Unreal. Original concept: First interation: Current: