Normal scaling not working right

[Firedune]

Hey, i'm new to blender so i thought i'd start with a tutorials. I've found a decent one that covers how to make a simple sword.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBqYTgaFDxU

Now, i've got most of the actual stuff up until 27:00, the part that covers normal scaling. I'm attempting to follow the instructions, however when i do the same thing as in the video . the outer edge i'm trying to scale does not behave anything like in the video. Following are pictures explaining the issue in better detail.

https://imgur.com/3CQ01Vp - this is what it should look like. note it working right with no wierdness

https://imgur.com/RcMybCF - This is what it looks like on my version. Note the highlighted areas. I've restarted from scratch several times to make sure it's not me missing something.

https://imgur.com/RqgwkQl - this is with the offset-even option ticked- something that is not covered in the video.

The tutorial is several months old however, so is it possible that the method has chanced with a more recent video? If so, how can i fix this so it doesn't cause issues later?

I'd appreciate any insight here, i'm really stumped!

[still__alive]

Okay, I'm about to hit the road here, so this is going to be quick and I can't follow up right away.

I have a suspicion that you didn't catch the part where he duplicated (shift+d) his outside edge before he started extruding and scaling off that new geometry.

I think you must've just started extruding and scaling without duplicating the edge of the blade. So those verts (on your model) would still be connected to the wide face of the blade, which I'm pretty sure would mean that the normals are going different than they would be if you had duplicated the edge such that they were not connected to the wide face. And when you scale along normals (alt+s), if the normals are different, then the stuff will scale differently.

Key point in the video I'm figuring you missed is a couple seconds where he says he hits shift+d (duplicates selected faces) and then he moves them around real quick for a couple seconds: Edit: Steam doesn't want to paste the time stamped link properly. The part i think you missed is 27:55 - 27:56.

Like I said, I'm rushing a little bit here, so apologies if I've misunderstood something somewhere here. I think I might have it right though, hence posting this quick.

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