Nerf Progress

So, after redoing all of the casing and the slide because my image was warped and my lines wound up not being straight, I have reached this point. It's still very rough, but at last it's starting to look like something. Curving all the edges and corners is going to be a tedious nightmare. I'll also be glad when I have the grip and the trigger started, since right now it looks a bit like someone tried to cross breed a butcher's knife with a revolver and failed. Miserably. It does feel good to have gotten this far though, and I hope the rest of the basic shapes go as smoothly.

A quick screenshot of my reference image with my rectangle guides. Those have been a great help breaking this thing down into more manageable sections. The fun part has been trying to get them as close as possible to the right spots so I can use them to keep my outlines straight. I've had to take a few liberties with the overall shapes due to my picture being just a tiny bit warped, but I'm doing my best to get it accurate.

Next up is making the basic shapes for the rest of the gun, and then I'll start going back into each part and doing the details. Rounding corners/edges, adding holes and screws, finishing the text (which I have started), and trimming out the last bits of the barrel that shouldn't be there (once I'm sure I don't need them anymore).

Reverse Engineered Nerf Progress

A slow start. Having some issues making the shapes I need for the barrel, but here's what I've got so far.

Reverse Engineered Object

After a week or more debating what to do for this project, I consulted with Megan and settled on doing a Nerf gun of my own. I've been wanting the Maverick for a year or better, and the last time I tried to find it, everything said it had been discontinued. Much to my surprise and great fortune, I found it on Amazon a few days ago. This project at last gave me an excuse to get it.

I also got my calipers in the mail with it, so I can start measuring the various parts and figure out how to recreate them in Rhino. Of course, that's only provided my roommate doesn't steal it!

3D Head

So I've started playing around with the 3D head scan. I'm trying to decide how many slices I want to do and which direction to have them going in. The final 3D head will be assembled in cardboard. Cheap, easy to get my hands on. I really wanted to try making one with felt, but I didn't want to deal with a ton of felt pieces everywhere that I'd have to keep track of. Layering something that thin to make a decent size head would have been a test of patience I'm not sure I could handle.

After trying the different layering methods, I think this is the one I'm going to go with. I love how much it reminds me of a topographical map.