Most my hard surface friends design scifi stuff and I get it shit's cool but I'm more into cowboys, 1800's and such. Been playing HUNT SHOWDOWN more hours than I feel comfortable saying publicly and at this point I felt like I HAD TO desing a rifle that could fit in the game. And of course, it has to be CLASSIC long ammo/bolt action. No other way around. So for the Geratta (I heard someone saying "esagerata" in italian but I just heard gerata, so I took it for me, and it kinda fits the gun also so we're winning!) I wanted the size of the Lebel with the sexy shapes of the late finnish Mosin Nagant variants. The Geratta is the end product of a series of designs I've been doing, mostly skins of guns that appears in HUNT SHOWDOWN. For the last one I wanted to make my own weapon and for this task I researched the topic deeply during three weeks. If you go to Forgotten weapons half of every video views are mine, forreal. Decided also to go with Marksman since I was playing Lebel Marksman a lot, and it's pretty dope. Marksman is king.
I also designed skins for it! Inspired by afghans jezails, a gun I looked a lot while designing this one. Afghans were great snipers and this skins are my tribute to this part of story.
90% of the model was made using ConjureSDF as I wanted to challenge myself and really learn the addon, I highly recommend it!!
PD: I KNOW THE BOLT IS QUITE UNCOMFORTABLE, but the "people who designed this rifle in the 1890's" didn't noticed this fact until way later.