So I decided, post-con, that I need a helmet and an SMG. SMG seemed pretty straightforward, so I'll see if I can do a nice one with a number of layers of foam and good beveling. I grabbed a blueprint off of google images, and looked at reference images so I could scale it properly.
It involves a lot of zooming my Preview of the blueprint in and out on my laptop, before flipping it screen up and using it as a quick tracing screen. Then I took a number of handle tracings, until I found one nicely sized to my hand that also looked about right, noted the level of zoom, then traced out the entire SMG.
Once traced onto paper, I carefully cut it out with a spent (but still plenty sharp to cut paper) X-acto knife blade, and then traced AGAIN onto some foam, and then cut a single 3/8 thick foam tracing out.
Looks proper sized, so now I'm going to cut out a reverse duplicate so I can double it up to thicken the base, and hide the textured side of the foam. Updated when more progress happens.
It involves a lot of zooming my Preview of the blueprint in and out on my laptop, before flipping it screen up and using it as a quick tracing screen. Then I took a number of handle tracings, until I found one nicely sized to my hand that also looked about right, noted the level of zoom, then traced out the entire SMG.
Once traced onto paper, I carefully cut it out with a spent (but still plenty sharp to cut paper) X-acto knife blade, and then traced AGAIN onto some foam, and then cut a single 3/8 thick foam tracing out.
Looks proper sized, so now I'm going to cut out a reverse duplicate so I can double it up to thicken the base, and hide the textured side of the foam. Updated when more progress happens.