Doing this gave me some artistic freedom too, since the reference pictures I could scavenge were far from all-encompassing and I prefer to tweak my creations according to the things I can recycle. For this reason, I decided to base my prop directly from the concept art which the standard in-game Dahl assault rifle was from. Borderlands, while proudly baring its loose and comic book-esque style, still has to dumb-down certain parts of their designs for them to fit into a restrictive game engine. Often concept art doesn't make it into the games or films they are designed for.
