Doom Replicas - The Plasma Gun / Rifle
This is an accurate 3D recreation of the Rambo M-60 barrel attachment that ID software used to create the original plasma gun (aka plasma rifle) sprites in Doom (1993).
I tracked down the original Rambo M-60 toy on ebay and created this model with a variety of techniques including photogrammetry (3D Scanning), 2D Scanning, measuring with calipers, subdivision modeling, and retopology to ensure accuracy of the original toy gun to about 1/32nd of an inch. Materials were created procedurally in Blender to try to find a balance between the simple look of the toy and a little bit of realism of the metal that a real gun would have.
Rendered glamor shot of the Plasma Gun.
Side view of the Plasma Gun showing most of the familiar details from the sprite.
Close up of the original toy's barrel. This part of the toy was not used as part of the sprite in Doom, but I modeled it anyway for authenticity, and I think it looks cool.
Game-res version of the Rambo M-60 toy model
The original Rambo M-60 toy that I used to create the 3D model.
Close up of the barrel attachment part of the toy that was used to create the original Doom Plasma Gun sprite.
A direct comparison of the original toy and a render of the 3D model.
High res model created with subdivision surface modeling VS the game res model.