PC-CSGO | M4A4 - Galactic Patrol

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So I will be kicking off with an M4 today, it will be my first entry for the contest.

The name "Galactic Patrol" is something I came up with right now, but I can't tell if it will be final as it's pretty hard to come up with a name in an early stage, but I feel like it's fitting atleast in the moment.

As for the skin itself I want to start off with a gradient, I have made some prototypes as seen below. Personally I like nr. 2 the most, but we'll see how it goes.
That's all for today, hopefully I can start adding details to the gun tomorrow ! 

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Next step, color some parts I want to differentiate from the gradient.

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Added a texture to the weapon and stars to the darker parts of the gradient.

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Added some details to the body and mag and did first ingame testings

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Changed up some things and added more details

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Testing some text on the gun and added some arcade inspired details

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The front grip text is probably too much so I will most likely end up not having it, but it looks pretty good without it aswell (it was black before, but I added a gradient to it aswell).

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Latest improvement, I will aslo be uploading ingame previews later as I am testing it ingame right now.

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Some ingame shots of the 2 colorways I will be most likely publishing it in, so far looks pretty good

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So the skin is starting too look like it will be finished soon(giving my best to finish it by the weekend), latest details I added can be seen here, I presonally really like the 2-colored stripes, gives on a nice retro feel, any feedback at this point would really be welcomed as I haven't had much up to this point except from a few friends.

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Added some green detailing which looks pretty dope, probably will drop the green from the front grip tho as it doesn't blend too well with the gradient, but the mid-body parts look very good. Also made the mounting rail red and dropped the little screen that was above the HI-SCORE text as I didn't like it that much, now the gun looks pretty classified and it's very close to finishing.

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So the skin is finished at this point, decided to add back the little screen and tweakid just a little. Right now I'm moving on with the presentation.

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So I have finished and published my skin to the workshop, it can be seen here.
The objective was to creat a 70s/80s sci-fi skin and here is my vision of it, I gathered inspiration from arcades and diffrent landscapes/space art etc., I wanted to have an overall "mysterious feel", I didn't have one/many specific place(s) for inspiration for it as I wanted to keep my skin distinct from others, I hope you like it !