Springfield "Trapdoor" Mod Request

[Gorzgorov]

I'm surprised no one has requested this as of yet. I cannot be the only one who likes early military breach-loaders?
No?

No?

Okay :ermm:

Quick note while you're still reading and not thinking "TL;DR" I'd like to add that yes, custom animations are hard, if not impossible to add. But I do not really care that much for them (if so I'd already make a request regarding fixing those awful wrong-sided bolts on all weapons), I think having the rifle available would be nice enough.

 

Quick Background:

This is a rifle with a loading system originaly devised as a way for converting old Springfield Rifled-Muskets.

They attached a hinged breachblock, a rather simple method (and cheap) by milling out the rear and removing the breach-plug.

At first the caliber (or atleast the barrel) was left unchanged. That didn't work very well (the British conversion of the Snider-Enfield fared pretty much the same in that regard)

 

So they decided to make a new caliber for the rifle, .50-70 Government. It was decent, but the army wanted something better...

So they created the .45-70 Government (which Fallout NV playes will recognize)

 

Anyhow, the rifle exists in three different versions:

 

The full-length Infantry Rifle

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Springfield_Trapdoor.jpg

 

The Cavalry Carbine*

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Springfield_Model_1879_02.jpg

 

The more rare Officer Model (private purchase, not provided by the military)**

http://www.davide-pedersoli.com/scheda-prodotto.asp/l_en/idpr_226/rifles-springfield-trapdoor-springfield-trapdoor-officer.html

 

Video which shows the loading process very nicely in the beginning:

 

Would fit rather nicely to the more revolutionary styled outfits without taking 20-30 seconds to reload in battle.

 

*Damn ugly if you ask me, if anyone's going to make more than one version, but not all three... Please take the officer model istead of this one.

**Springfield Trapdoor rifles weren't available for purchase by civilians anyway so it was still made in the Springfield Armory.

Thank you for reading this all through. There's probably more I could add, but that'd probably bore a lot of people.

 

There is one 3d model already available but I'm not convinced anyone is going to spend 50 dollars on one. Also I'm not certain the royalty rights would be enough to incorporate them in a mod.