Author Topic: sizing of a bolter (Read 2681 times)

junkie_fisken · « **on:** April 24, 2012, 01:46:00 PM »

Hey guys!
Slowly but steady i am planing to make a bolter, but i am struggling with getting the right size of it.

Gaukr Stronghawk made this lovely picture:

But i am finding this to be a bit small.

How big are your bolters?

Greetings!

diehard · « **Reply #1 on:** April 24, 2012, 02:38:00 PM »

For the one I have been working on the overall length is coming in at 27 in. This is based on the scale of the bolt pistol I did, which came in at 15 in. In both cases I used a 3 in barrel diameter to get the length.

wookieegunner · « **Reply #2 on:** April 24, 2012, 03:01:00 PM »

First question, are you building it human sized or marine sized?

Typically on a gun build I decide how big of a hand I am building it for and scale the grip to that. Once I have the grip the right size I scale everything else to match.

junkie_fisken · « **Reply #3 on:** April 24, 2012, 03:34:00 PM »

Hopefully a will get me a marine suit someday, So i am heading in that direction [img]http://i6.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />
and 27" seems more right in my opinion ^^

Erus · « **Reply #4 on:** April 24, 2012, 04:46:00 PM »

Roughly 3" wide btw.

NortyNorth · « **Reply #5 on:** April 24, 2012, 06:02:00 PM »

Here's one i finished last week.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24271466@N07/

I used a scale of 5.5 and it came out at 570mm long and 70mm wide.

giedrius · « **Reply #6 on:** April 24, 2012, 07:50:00 PM »

whell mine is about 60 cm long (without muzle)

junkie_fisken · « **Reply #7 on:** April 24, 2012, 08:06:00 PM »

@Giedrius
I really like that size!
Then this might be a bit big xD

giedrius · « **Reply #8 on:** April 24, 2012, 08:30:00 PM »

whell it realy depends on how tall you are and how bulky your armour is. also if your bolter is realy big it will be a problem to grip it properly

junkie_fisken · « **Reply #9 on:** April 24, 2012, 08:57:00 PM »

Well i'm 190cm, but slim build, so the armor wont be super bulky.
I'm considering making it 10 cm smaller in the length.

Also sorry for the hugemongus picture xD

now with resized bolter

CLOTHAR · « **Reply #10 on:** April 24, 2012, 11:09:00 PM »

As a few of the other guys have mentioned, 3 inches is a good barrel size. If you scale everything to that you get a nicely proportioned bolter.

Erus · « **Reply #11 on:** April 24, 2012, 11:12:00 PM »

Wow, talk about ultra detailed. I am very appreciative for that man. It should help very much for the overly retentive on measurement and proportion types like myself.

junkie_fisken · « **Reply #12 on:** April 25, 2012, 09:36:00 AM »

so a 3" barrel length ? Or diameter? [img]http://i6.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

I'm glad someone finds this useful xD To be honest i too am a number person, that's why i put a couple of hours in making this [img]http://i6.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

CLOTHAR · « **Reply #13 on:** April 25, 2012, 11:06:00 PM »

I did 3" diameter.

It looks like this:

junkie_fisken · « **Reply #14 on:** April 26, 2012, 08:35:00 AM »

Nice build, Clothar.

I think, with my re scaled drawing i'm gonna hit an outer diameter of the barrel at 3"

Further on to next step! Find materials xD