Posted July 19, 2022 by utas-llf
This first self study was a crash course in blender!
First the barrel. No too crazy, but felt the tutorial could have explained the importance of normal facing direction.
Rather simple and a bit off scale, but most of surface shapes are there. Offered work with array and boolean modifiers, and plenty of use of the extrusion, inset, and bevel tools.
If I was to do it again, I'd model directly on top of a front-facing image to ensure all the proportions were correct.