Blender 3D Incredible Machines

Chapter 2. Sci-Fi Pistol - Adding Details

In this chapter, we'll cover some additional topics as we work on our pistol. These include the following:

• Scaling along face normals
• The Shrinkwrap modifier
• Cutting shapes into curved surfaces
• The knife project tool
• The inset tool
• Proportional editing
• Pivot points for rotation
• Scaling along individual origins
• Creating pipes with torus objects
• The Array modifier

Finishing the handgrip

Right now, our handgrip (or handle) looks fairly plain. Let's work on this for a while, and see if we can get a better look at it.

The first thing we'll do is select the large face at the side of the handgrip:

We'll duplicate this by pressing ...