Please, check the barrel!

[Mikademius]

rocket:thx. I'll have to finish it sometime though
Twinke: No need to own one to be able to see...

 

[Recoil]

Actually, it is an XD in .40 S&W. You want a picture of it field stripped?

I checked it and just realized that there's actually a real version of that .... thing; you're right. Due to its glock-like looks I thought it was just a bad airsoft-copy ...

 

[he4d_hunter]

I agree, detail is really important when modeling and animating. Even though I'm pretty new at it and aren't so good But what I want to know is how and where you guys find the mechanisms of the guns unless you own some? Cuz I don't own any and sometimes when I'm modeling them and animating them I feel like I'm doing everything randomely Any help? Thanks

 

[Phisionary]

lots of references is good. spend an half-hour with a google image search. if you want to see them in person, go to a gun store and have them take them out of the case. Pay close attention to the operation, and field strip it if they don't mind you doing it (You could say you are looking for one for protection if you're old enough to buy one maybe). Some gun ranges will rent you guns for a few bucks, so you could even shoot them yourself. Read about guns and learn what the parts are and what they do. If you know someone who has guns (and is responsible, safe, and knowledgeable about them), ask to go out shooting some time. If you don't mind being covered in the smell of gun cleaner (nasty smelling stuff imho) then offer to help clean the gun and take it as an oppertunity to look at the gun inside and out.

Dunno. I'm not a modeller, just some ideas. I've never done most of this. Some family owns guns, and I've spent some time checking them out fairly well.
Probably, doing an image search and finding some good schematics of guns parts and operations would be easier, if you're just trying to learn more on gun operations in general. Trying to find out what angle the barrel of a sig-sauer p226 protrudes at when the slide is in the locked back postion (or other such model-dependant specifics)... That's tougher.

 

[Mikademius]

Google is a good starting point. Half hour of image research is nothing. A couple of days-better. Also as Phisionary said. Get the real thing somehow. If you live in america this should be easy. (you guys are nuts ) And shooting and stripping is a very good way to learn the behaviour of the gun.

whatever phisio said actually without the "half an hour part"