Hi Everyone,

In an effort to try & teach myself more on "how to do modelling" with MoI, I made this 1-1 scale Tattoo Machine.
(For what it's worth, within the Tattoo Trade these are called "Machines" & not "guns" as most usually refer)
Mostly all of this was to get a better grasp & understanding of how to use all the different tools in MoI.

The reason I chose a Tattoo Machine is that I used to be a Professional Tattoo Artist for about 20yrs after I first did my apprenticeship as a Jeweller.
Having hand made many of these Machines over those years, I thought it'd be a reasonably good challenge to do one of them in CAD.
Besides that, I've never seen one done as a model before, so figured that also was a good enough reason to try!! : )

One thing I couldn't quite get my head around was making screw threads using the Helix tool.
So of course none of my bolts have any screw threads on them! : (
If someone would like to offer up a basic Tutorial on how to go about producing a threaded bolt, I'd be very grateful.

regards Colin