How are Quake models made?

[Thorogrimm]

I've recently been entertaining the thought of giving low poly Quake-style modeling a try and I was wondering how it's achieved? Could you simply use something like Blender or is there something more specific that needs to be used?

 

Thanks!

[vyruss]

For the base model you can use blender (tutorial link, albeit a bit wordy and doesn't explain the hotkeys being used generally from what I scanned through it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljl_QFs9xhE ) 

 

A tool for using blender to import / export Quake .mdl files is here https://bitbucket.org/khreathor/mdl-for-blender/wiki/Home .

 

Lastly, another brief (text) tutorial on similar concept: https://pnahratow.github.io/creating-models-for-quake-1.html