Evangelion Small Arms - HK USP .45

Premise

I am a big fan of Evangelion, some time ago I decided to do a series of fanarts in this direction. As the topic I chose small personal weapons of characters (although I had to search the Internet for references, it was a lot). Each of the scenes I wanted to relate to a particular moment in the series, showing all the drama with which the whole story of Eva is.

Story NR-01

HK USP .45 - NERV Edition - Katsuragi Misato

This weapon saved Shinji, but he did (not) save the world.

Katsuragi Misato (NERV Headquarters Tactical Operations Department Operations Bureau 1st Section Manager ) is one of the main characters in the series and plays a key role in it. Her weapon is HK USP (in my execution .45 AUTO). She sacrificed herself for Shinji, gave him a chance to choose what the end of the world would be like.

As a character, she can be described as an ambitious young woman with a lot of life experience. Pretty open to other characters, but what's going on in her head is completely different than what's for show. Her cross (received from her father as a memory of the second impact) symbolically given on to Shinji (after her father had given it to her in Antacritica). The cross here is probably a symbol of sacrifice and memory as well as an unauthorized way of choose (outside of the SEELE scenario).

3D Sketchfab Model

I tried to insert the Sketchfab player here in Hive, but it couldn't, which surprised me a bit, but here's a link to Skechfab

Here you can view and rotate model in 3d on Sketchfab

WIP

I started as standard by inserting the best possible reference into Blender as a blueprint and setting the appropriate size of the base model solids.

Then using the Boolean technique (which is great until it stops working and then you have to combine with micro-offsets of the cut shapes so that all cuts are visible and working) I made some basic detail sculptures of the model.