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Cobra O13 by HissHissFangFang
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12-01-2021, 01:55 AM
Siegie
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Oct 2021
Location: Phoenix
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jlw515
HHFF,
The greebles on the Cobra’s arms are two bullets and a garrote. For the bullets, I trimmed off two bullets from a Roadblock vest, and for the garrote, I made a simple resin cast from a Cobra Bazooka Trooper web gear.
One thing I would like to do with a custom Cobra is to make a removeable gun from the web gear. I have those books with the original design sketches, and if memory serves me correct, the weapon is not an actual (real-world) pistol. It's some other kind of made-up pistol. So, I should be able to take a Star Wars pistol and trim it down to fit a tab holster device.
Jason
Personal theory on Cobra Trooper pistol -
So that web gear isn’t designed to hold a bunch of equipment, or act as load-bearing like the Officer’s H harness is. The way it hooks to the belt in front, and swoops to one side in back, that’s a big complicated holster to stabilize his weird long and unwieldy gun.
Similarly, the holster is on his dominant side, so he isn’t supposed to pull it out fast like a handgun, it’s tucked out of the way for specialty use later.
Likewise, with the bullets on his arm - Who the heck carries two bullets, strapped to their bicep? Those are designed to keep them safe and out of the way, for a special circumstance.
Last, see the cap at the end of the pistol, which is designed to unscrew? That’s not how a normal gun works.
Now, here’s some photos of dart guns, and the carrying cases for tranquilizer darts. You unscrew the back to load the dart.
The original story pattern for the Cobra Trooper was kidnapping scientists, and bringing them back to Cobra for their secrets. The garrote is used to neutralize guards silently, a tranquilizer dart knocks out targets you want to transport alive.
I think the Cobra Trooper greebles arm him to break into guarded facilities and kidnap scientists.
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