I'm a relative novice looking to build up my modeling skills by making some firearms. I decided to start with a Desert Eagle because A: I thought a handgun would be relatively simple to start with while still maintaining some interesting forms to work on, and B: the more recent Desert Eagle models have a picatinny rail…
Depends on your reference image, it'll likely always have perspective distortion, and not line up 100% correctly. Best thing for you to do is look up picatinny rail dimesions, keep accurate to that, and the rest should fall in place, since you can model other details relative to that. Another quick tip is to model the…
The name of the bullet tells you the caliber, and sometimes the exact millimeter dimensions. Finding the exact barrel length of a gun is easy. Get serious, this is war. Some jackass out there is going to make a more accurate weapon model why you are making excuses. 1911 takes a : and 4-5 inches is common barrel lengths.
"It did occur to me to try modeling off of the bullet, but then, I'm not quite sure how exactly it fits into the barrel with regards to scale. Not exactly common to find a photo of a round chambered into the barrel where you can still see both the barrel and bullet." Dedicated technical sites or user forums usually swap…
The picatinny rail dimensions can be relied upon. You can also usually find dimensions on the ammunition, barrel, slide length, total length, total height. Then you can model in some placeholder boxes to hold those dimensions for you. That should help place any refs you can use. "The gun measures 10.75” in length with a 6”…
Yeah, I've gathered a handful of different references. In particular I've found a few different photos of the .44 barrel on and off the gun. I tried taking a handful of them into Fspy to try and correct for focal length so that I could at least align my picatinny rail knowing it's accurate in size. But even after using a…