Alternate Needle rifle

I was thinking it'd be interesting to see a needle rifle that takes more from the original Needler then from the Carbine. Specifically for the reload, I find the Halo Reach Needle Rifle shares an almost identical reload to the Halo 2/3 Covenant Carbine. I wanted the reload mechanism to have more in common with the Needler itself. Wherein the needles seem to magically erupt from the gun. I thought it'd be a fun quick little animation challenge. I used a character from another project. The modeling of the gun and the animation took an afternoon.
Models, rigs, animation, and textures by me.