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Dev Brown
06-25-2008, 07:00 PM
Hey guys,

Just toying around with photoshop a bit, I'm moddifing a sniper rifle a bit to my personal taste.

This is the stock version of the Steyr Arms SGG (Scharfschützengewehr) 04:
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll83/pyro114/Steyr%20mod/SSG04_neu_01.jpg

I think it can do with a better bi-pot, so I picked my favorite sniper rifle, the M40A3 and took it's bi-pot from this picture by DogFight Ink:
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll83/pyro114/Steyr%20mod/m40.jpg

After some surgery, it fitted nicely on my SSG:
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll83/pyro114/Steyr%20mod/SSG04.jpg

Next up is the scope,
I first wanted to take the Schmidt & Bender of a M40A3, but I couldn't find a good picture.
Next I tried to get a good shot of a M3A (from the M24 SWS), but that just didn't match the rifle s design.
So, finnally I found this:
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll83/pyro114/Steyr%20mod/ai_awsm.jpg
A Accuracy International Artic Warfare sniper rifle, with a scope perfect for my SSG.

Some 30 minutes later:
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll83/pyro114/Steyr%20mod/SSG04newscope.png
As you can see I kept the turrets of the old scope, because they looked better.

Now that the rifle was complete, it could use a paint job.
My first attempt at camouflage:
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll83/pyro114/Steyr%20mod/SSG04camo1.png
Slight problem was that I kinda screwed up the trigger guard and muzzle break....
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll83/pyro114/Steyr%20mod/SSG04camo2.png
Of course, I fixed that and also expanded the camo pattern a little.

Now that I edit this post, I see the scope and bipot aren't sufficently camouflaged. I'll fix that later today, when I make dessert and artic warfare versions of the rifle.

1 month later:

I got bored, so I was messing around with photobucket a bit and....well:
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll83/pyro114/Steyr%20mod/XtremeSnowCamo.png

It's more like unreal war-paint than Snow camo but I kinda like it :p

Grtz,
Dev

Anissa T
06-25-2008, 07:21 PM
Very nice. I liked the barrel. I loved firing the weapons, but sure did hate cleaning them....LOL

Dev Brown
06-29-2008, 10:47 AM
**UPDATE**

Robin K
06-29-2008, 04:42 PM
I'm with you NF! Very cool, Dev!

Dev Brown
06-29-2008, 06:08 PM
Thanks Robin!

brymstone
06-29-2008, 07:39 PM
great job mate. if you're a perfectionist, you might wanna recut the bipod. see along the spring. scope fits very nicely, btw!

colonel Mitchell
06-29-2008, 09:42 PM
(mouth wide open)*speechless*

Dev Brown
06-30-2008, 04:42 PM
Thanks cM!

I fixed the bi-pot but I haven't gotten around to uploading it yet.

Dev Brown
07-31-2008, 12:47 PM
lol, check out my new war painted sniper.