{"id":251,"date":"2011-03-12T21:39:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T21:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2011-03-14T07:09:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T07:09:50","slug":"wep-final-base-mesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wep-final-base-mesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Wep final base mesh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finished the base model of the weapon that Mardonier is holding. This will be sculpted at a later time. This is closely based on the Croatian HS2000<\/a> (marketed in the U.S.A. as Springfield Armory XD).<\/p>\n

I discovered<\/em> this pistol through researching point-and-shoot methods, which originated from my reading of Ghost Force<\/a> by Ken Connors, who briefly wrote about SAS shooting – how SAS men shot intuitively rather than using the sight. The HS2000 was purportedly a pistol designed with point-and-shoot in mind. And it looked cool.<\/p>\n

It was also in that book that inspired the removal of front and rear sights (seen below); the reason for their removal, as explained by Connors, is to facilitate quick draw – by removing the sights the chance of snagging at the holster is reduced. (Clarification: Connors did not mention, let alone endorse the HS2000, in the book)<\/p>\n

I removed some elements from the HS2000, such as the accessory rail, and trigger safeties, because I thought of making it more old-school<\/em>.<\/p>\n