Maya: Assault Rifle Railing

To create the railing on the gun, I created a new cube and scaled it to the correct length and width. By using the Insert Edge Loop I was able to input the positioning of where I would need to extrude, in order to replicate the connection between the railing and the rest of the gun.



The pieces that run along the top of the railing are more or less the same in shape, except for the first two and the last one. Therefore, I created those three first, then duplicated the rest using Ctrl + D and simply used the move tool to move it only on the X axis to ensure they are all in line with each other

Based on the issues I encountered before with moving/smoothing parts of the weapon, I have begun to create new aspects of the gun with new objects if it seems reasonable. In this case, the railing consists of a series of cubes, which are child objects of the main block of the railing as seen in the image above.