And I'm sort of clueless how to do a muzzle brake, this thing here,
I think I would add some edges vertically on it and then extrude those faces inwards and then delete faces and merge verts...??
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How to model a muzzle brake?
And I'm sort of clueless how to do a muzzle brake, this thing here,
I think I would add some edges vertically on it and then extrude those faces inwards and then delete faces and merge verts...??
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STEP 1
create a cylinder with 20 divisions and extrude out the basic shape / volume...
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Add edge loops for the ribs and extrude the faces inside the main ribs around the vent areas inward.
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snap the vertices at the end back to the outer edge of the muzzle...and merge them
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extrude the other ridges at the back of the muzzle break inwards...
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add edge loops to tighten up the edges. Note that I extruded the main ribs (the horizontal ones around where the holes are) so that I got 4 side faces. I merged the rear verts back and deleted the extra edges similar to what we did to the front verts.
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using split polygon tool cut in where the vent will be. (turn off split at edges only).
You can also see I extruded the front edge out a small amount, then extruded in to the size of the bullet, the extruded back into the barrel.
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I deleted the faces on the outside of the barrel where the vent is.
Then using cut faces tool (with just the inner faces of the barrel selected) I added edges to match the front and back edges of the vent.
Then deleted the inner faces.
Then using bridge, fill hole, and split polygon I connected the outer hole edges to the inner hole edges.
finally, I added some edge loops to tighten thing up a bit.
NOTE. I only had to do this for the right side. When I had it all tweaked I just selected the inner and outer faces for the vent area and duplicated them and then just rotated them 90 degree for the top, left, and bottom. Then combined everything and merged the verts to close up the surface.
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