Colonial pistol and "rifle"... why the design difference?

[WarMachine]

FYI, the Paxton website still exists at:

http://www.geocities.ws/sjpaxton/question.html

[Reaper]

let's see, a newly designed long arm version of the pistol? ok you got it :)

http://images9.fotki.com/v131/photos/4/451189/5446535/carbine4-vi.png

or this little deviation

http://images107.fotki.com/v70/photos/4/451189/5446535/carbine-vi.png

[gmd3d]

This looks great........ I only recently reviewed punisher´s 3D version of the pistol with the few of working on it again in LW....