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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 iron sights and detailing the barrel

Next, we are going to add more details to the barrel, and we will create an iron sight. In this section, it is not very important to follow the steps too closely because many of the details are improvised and not necessarily realistic:

  1. Connect the two barrels with a smooth shape. Do this by filling some of the edges with F and making them smoother with some loop cuts, bevels, or LoopTools.

Figure 3.62 – Connecting the barrels

  1. Push the shape forward to create a small gap between the receiver and the barrels. In that gap, we extrude two circles to connect the shapes.

Figure 3.63 – The beginning of the barrels

  1. Add some shapes to create the iron sight mount. This is the part that holds the iron sight in place, and it looks different on the many variations of the FN SCAR, so feel free to get creative here as well.

Figure 3.64 ...