2nd weapon model attempt: Winchester .308

[Shinobi]

I gave this model an attempt at skinning, as you can see the skin bites ass, a skinner I was talking to told me that when it comes to gun models, photo always looks like crap,, so maybe I'll try doing a skin by hand

 

[Jeremy]

I hate photoskins

 

[Shinobi]

I feel that,, here's just the model

 

[Jeremy]

model looks pretty good, the photoskin sucks though

 

[Shinobi]

noted,, no more photoskins

 

[mindless_moder]

its not all that bad just for a preview ..but id think twice before putting it anywhere near a game engine

 

[Shinobi]

what would you suggest I change/improve?

 

[Shinobi]

I took a shot at skinning it by hand.. and meh... I think I need to start learning how to make custom brushes for photoshop.....

 

[L337_Haxs]

actually that looks real nice for a photoshop job on a skin!

 

[Shinobi]

I'm not sure exactly it was in the reference pic,, seems to be some sort of stock guard

I tried adding some dirt and scratches to the skin to make it look a little more worn

 

[IonGorilla]

Looks quite nice except for the grey metal parts, they look wrong somehow

 

[Ti133700N]

Maybe you could shade it a bit more, like under that metal part there will always be some shadows so you could use the burn tool to make some shadows there. The "render to texture" option in Max is a good guideline to know where those dark/lights areas are.