Blender Shenanigans: episode 1

So I've been using Blender more lately. I still don't really know what I'm doing but I've made a fair amount of progress during this time.

It started with the modeling of this gun I had drawn a while ago and liked the idea of. It's called the thundergun and it goes zap.

Doing this introduced me to modifiers and materials and rendering, which I either didn't know about or could barely use.