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Blender 3D Incredible Models

By : Arijan Belec
Book Image

Blender 3D Incredible Models

By: Arijan Belec

Overview of this book

Blender is a massively popular and powerful 3D program, with versatile modeling abilities that make it a great way to enter the 3D modelling world. Blender 3D Incredible Models is an extensive guide for those new to hard-surface modeling with Blender, helping you understand the complete range of tools and features it offers and how to employ those efficiently to create realistic models. You’ll be led through progressively more challenging modeling projects— from an assault rifle and an army tank to a sci-fi spaceship model—giving you a glimpse of all the skills you’d need in Blender’s vast ecosystem of features and functionality, ranging from textures, rendering, and UV mapping to lighting, rigging, and beyond. Each engaging project builds upon the last until you’re equipped with everything you need to tackle your own modeling challenges, whatever they may be. By the end of this Blender book, you won’t just know how to create the models covered here, but you’ll be able to turn your own concepts and references into 3D Blender models too!
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Hard Surface Modeling
3
Part 2: Modeling an Assault Rifle
7
Part 3: Modeling a Sci-Fi Race Ship
10
Part 4: Modeling a T-72 Tank

Modeling the skirt

Let’s return to the sides of the hull and start creating some skirts. In the next few steps, we will add side armor and details:

  1. Use planes to create some simple shapes on the sides of the boxes we created before. Extrude them downward to get a shape, as shown in Figure 8.39.

Figure 8.39 – Skirt basic shapes

  1. Add thickness to the shapes that we just created on the sides with Alt + S. Adding some screws with the help of Array modifiers improves this part greatly.

Figure 8.40 – Solidification and screws

  1. Add some details, such as hinges and clamps, using tools and techniques that we have already learned.

Figure 8.41 – Skirt details

  1. Add some more planes and screws to the skirts.

Figure 8.42 – Side planes

  1. Add more shapes below the parts we created in steps 1–3 and connect them with some...