Counter-Strike: PGL Antwerp Case
In recent years I've enjoyed learning about prop and model making - largely thanks to the contagious enthusiasm Adam Savage shows on his YouTube channel.
I finally found an excuse to get my hands(and flat) dirty - A group of us who regularly played CS:GO together decided to come together from around the world to attend a CS:GO tournament in Antwerp.
One of the guys generously hosted 10 of us for the week and I wanted to thank him for bringing us all together. So I built him a unique commemorative case as a gift to remember the event by.
Valve do not make physical merchandise and there was no PGL case released in-game so this case is unique in it's design - especially as it has the Steam IDs of the guys who attended written on the sides.
Preparation
I found the model in the game files using modding tools, extracted it and bought it into Blender to get measurements and scale.
I worked with what I had and some of the measurements are close to the original but rounded up to the nearest styrene sheet thickness or tube diameter.
The idea being that I was working with material properties instead of against them in the pursuit of exact extreme precision.