Thank you everyone for the support, it means a lot!
Unfortunately I haven't had time to do everything (been stripping wallpaper in my house) so I can't release it today. There's a few things I'm not happy with which I want to improve so it'll probably be Wednesday before I upload it. Animation is pretty much all done but the flamin' shell casing keeps coming up in random places so I need to fix it. I also need to make a low poly version for VWEAP, pickup etc. Anyway, here's a video showing the reload and putaway animations (using Airmod, and for some reason the lightmaps don't affect the model, hmmm)