～みる

I feel really stupid for asking this because I'm sure I knew it at one point, but what is the technical translation of ~みる at the end of verbs?
Is it something like, 'try to..." or am I completely confused?

example:
半分のサイズのボディを使い、原型のいれなシルエット をベースにする方法をとってみた。

I think it's "to try to"

これを見てみて！ Have a look at this!

それを食べてみて Try to eat that.

It's just my point of view.

I can't figure out what that sentence mean exactly.

You are both correct, but it has a meaning of "and see how it goes" as well, as opposed to 〜（よ）うとする which means to just try to do something. The difference is really clear when speaking about past events: 寿司を食べてみた is "I tried sushi (to see how it tasted/how I liked it)," whereas 寿司を食べようとした is more like "I tried eating sushi (but I couldn't/I threw it up)."