alrighty, i take no responsibilities if you screw up your xbox painting it or even dropping it or something when drawing your gear, blah blah blah.

heres a tutorial for those of you perfectionists that are thinking about doing a gears of war xbox, and dont want to eyeball everything.
if some simple tools that almost everyone has laying in their junk-drawer.

sorry for the big pictures but its hard to see because you need to draw lightly with your pencile

lets start with the supplies, you need

~xbox 360
~ruler
~PENCILE
~some way to erase the pencil
~a compass
~a protractor

now draw your circle with your compass, mine has a radius of 7cm, so that means the diameter is 14cm
first put some scotch tape down so you dont make a small hole in your case. i chose my middle to be the middle of the second x in xbox, but you can make it anywhere you like

now we look at our gear picture, and we see it has 8 teeth. so if we need to skip a line for every gear thats 8X2 which is 16. 360 degrees divided by 16 is 22.5 degrees. take your protractor, start with a starter line and measure 22.5 degrees

now measure that length around the outside with your compass, and SWOOP it around like so, to make another mark the equal distance, and do that the entire way around the circle. at the end you should have 16 marks and they should all be equal distance



now we take our ruler and connect all the points to the center point

now erase the extra lines and outline your outer lines using your straight egde you make them straight. do it like line-skip-line-skip-line-skip. you should have 8 lines. now connect the lines to thier opposites and it should look like the kikos symbol or w/e lol

now connect the lines to thier opposites and it should look like the kikos symbol or w/e lol. after you have that make another smaller circle with your compass. just eyeball the distance, this will be how long your teeth will end up on your gear



connect and outline the curved lines to make them straight as showed in the picture.

it will look like this

erase all the other lines and you have yourself a gear


now you can add your effects to the gears, and make them look as though in the picture, but at least you know you will have an exact expert copy of the gear!
p.s. your on your own with the skull!

mabey you guys could add this to the tuts list?
also...
not practacle exactly, but if you have some extra time or just want it to look the way it should, its a good idea

andddd. sorry for my horrible punctuation, grammar, and spelling. but remember guys, th1s i5 th3 1nt3rn3t, nothing has to be perfect.
usually!

holy shit great job!

the guy that tought me all i know is totaly kicckin it LOVE IT

these are the things i think about when im bored in geometry class.

lol

...Or you could just print out the gear and skull and then cut it out and trace it onto the case like this...

great job

I like 360guru's idea better

Nice use of geometry skillz though...

good job. takes 2 much time. gotta find simple way.

print out + trace = easy.

A+ on both ways. great work.

i did that.

both great ideas

Who'd have thought geometry sets are actually useful!?

lol right!

O.o lol Well I thought that more people used geometry in case mods but I guess not... Any ways that is looking amazing so far! Can't wait to see the end of it

heh funny story. the xbox in the pictures wont be cut like that, i just erased it all. im supposed to do a few other gears of war xboxs and such though, and for customers i dont put wips up and i dont usually take the time to take a good picture. but after christmas ill start posting my wip. its gonna be blue and white, the two colors you cant go wrong with

Very nice.

BOOOOO Geometry

Thats a cool way of doing it

I rather like geometry, its like the only class im doing good in