Texture progress

Alrighty....here is the crossbow with its diffuse texture. Its amazing what a few tricks that photoshop can do that i was not aware of. Also finally starting to use reference when modeling and texturing and I'm starting to see a lot of improvement on both fronts. I'm still working on the normal map, so there isnt one applied yet. Also here is another weapon, a Merf (Nerf, lol) small pistol for my prototyping class..I didnt model it, but I did the texture, and its lookin way better than the way I was texturing it before I was taught a few new tricks with photoshop. I'm p'roud of my progress. It should be noted as well that a fellow classmate of mine designed the "Merf" logo. I just slapped it on my textures for our class. He did a good job on it.

Decided to try another weapon for fun..

So here is a desert eagle I started yesterday after I did the bow. I decided to try a real weapon. Its pretty fun modeling this stuff, and pretty challenging. This is about halfway done, but I made some mistakes in its earlier stages that I didnt catch until now. If I was to start over, which I will, it will be even better. Each new model I do from now on is gonna be a learning process. I'm pretty excited about my skills getting better. So, not sure if I'll try and finish this and make a new one, or just make a new one. Either way, its pretty cool.

Update...

Here is the bow with a few minor updates I was told by a few classmates. Scale in the polys under the trigger, use the actual bows that another classmate model for consistency, and round off the edges. The reaction to the gun was very good from classmates despite having to make these minor changes.

I had to redo a nerf crossbow for prototyping..

I thought I would post this just because I've never really posted objects here before. Someone from last quarters prototyping class made one, but they didn't like it to well so I was asked to redo it. Its not approved, or even finished yet, they haven't seen it yet. But I sort of like where its going. I used the real Nerf cross bow pictures that I found. They were very hard to come by. I'll post the finished product when its done.