anyone have a tutorial on how to make a pickaxe in blender

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with out it being one from mind craft.
if you do could you please share the link.
Thanks :slight_smile:

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I don’t think there’s a specific one for pickaxes but http://cgcookie.com/blender/lessons/1-creating-an-axe/ should adapt just fine for the purpose

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Let’s make one up :wink:

http://www.pasteall.org/pic/54335

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There are so many ways to model this. Look at this method; this is how I model it.

First get a good image for you to follow in modeling; note axe have is built with tapered base and oval form. This is the key form you need to create:

http://img.b2bage.com/photo/product12/1377413/big-railroad-pickaxe-5lb.jpg

Here are the steps:

http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m626/cabby24/Blender%20Pics%202013/pickax_zps360afd0c.png

Pic A: start form 8-sided cylinder with triangular fan cap.
Pic B: make a loop cut around the cylinder, and select bottom features and scale it down.
Pic C: add loop cut by the top.
Pic D: extrude faces out as shown. You can scale the extruded face down as a point or blade. Select the all vertex [A], and then scale it down in Y-axis to make axe head oval.
Pic E: add loop cuts midway pick point extrusion and move them up a little to create curvature. Also add loop cut by pick point extrusion by the body.
Pic F: add subdivision modifier to round it off. You can create the shaft object from new 8-sided cylinder.

Finally, one can add more cuts and refinements to make it more accurate.

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I made my owe pickaxe in blender since i could not find a tutorial about making one
I have to add color to it but i think it looks pretty good for my first time learning Blender

Pickaxe.blend (433 KB)