My MA5K

crackhead09 · Jan 23, 2024

Hey all, I’ll try to actually create a thread that I update. So this project started because someone wanted to do a commission and they couldn’t afford it. But I got a bit too interested in it myself and now I decided to take a crack at it just for fun!

My goals with the project is to make it fully functional and by that I mean…

-working bolt and charging handle!
-working mag release!
-a squeezable trigger!
-working flashlight!
-clicking selector switch!
-adjustable stock!
-hinged dust cover
-adjustable iron sights!

The whole idea is to have things that WORK. So here’s some of the 3D modeling progress. I apologize for the quality as I didn’t intend to post progress of my work.

I first mocked it up by using the MA40 (infinite), the grip from the Hydra, and the carry handle from the BR75. Just to get a picture in my head of how I want it to look like.

I shortened the MA40 by a good chunk and altered the barrel to be loosely based off the SMG.

crackhead09 · Jan 25, 2024

So did some more messing around and basically went down this hole of trying to get the scale right. So as we all know the guns in the halo games have wonky scale. The first sign that something was off with my scaling was when the magazine looked like it could hold .50 BMG rounds. So after a long arduous journey of doing some math I think I finally have it scaled right.

Now just because the bullets fit in the mag that shouldn’t be the go to to knowing whether or not something is “to scale” from the game model. But I imagine we will see once it’s all printed out.