ATTN: M1913 RAILS - Do it right, use refs

Please take a good, hard look at these before you try and model Picatinny rails on anything, or you will be told to go back and do it again. There is one way and one way only to model the 1913 rail. It has a very distinctive cross-section and there are reasons for this.

http://www.biggerhammer.net/picatinny/rail_profile.gif
http://www.biggerhammer.net/picatinny/recoilgroove.gif

Thanks to Snaf for the links, might be an idea to sticky this or something so people don't have to be told constantly. It seems rails are the worst-done thing when it comes to modelling modern weapons, I don't see why we shouldn't have good refs readily available for people to look at before they get halfway through their models and are told they're wrong.

Stickied.

Now people such as myself don't have to make fools of themselves posting inferior ref :mech:

The weapon I am modeling uses those rails.. but I have to actually follow that stuff? D:

Same design.. eh, I guess I do. :(

Maybe post a 3d representation of the rails?

You have enough info there to model them correctly.

pardon the huegpic

Here, I'll post more refs from my library.

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3271/picatinny.jpg
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/2662/...nnydrawing.gif
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/2949/...nysideview.gif

this is the rail cover that is put over rails to aid in grip. this is a cross section.

good thread. Usually when I see rails on weapon models, I think that theres no way it could physically hold an attachment on. This makes much more sense though.

http://files.filefront.com/Rail+Ref3.../fileinfo.html

Hope its all correct. I guess this can also be used for modeling rails for ref? :o

Why make a new thread when we have a thread for modeling resources already. Just stick it in there.