Hey Polycouont, Not exactly new to the community but its been a few years, So I decided to create an new account for anyone that cares to know.
So i was inspired a couple of months ago to create a Star wars blaster. My goal was to follow the prop building approaches used in the original trilogy (IV, V, VI). This was essentially accomplished using old WWI and WWII weapons and modifying them. which to me the result looked pretty well grounded in the end.
This is my first attempt at concepting a weapon, so i wanted to start off with something that didn't require me to over think. I wanted to retain most of the original features of the base weapon and tack on some star wars elements that I found shared across different models for authenticity.
In this case I based it off of a WWII German Flare gun
Here are a couple of shots for now. I can put up a few more later if need be.
I,m feeling a bit stuck, My hangup is mostly on all the invented shapes and making things interesting enough to call it good. I'm open to critiques and some direction.